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Grade 11's - well the year is winding up quicker than expected. So here is a list of deadlines and also some interesting articles to read about the recent spread of crime based information and tools and finally some things to do over summer - aarrgghh!

Deadlines

• Tomorrow e.g. Tuesday final draft of second Internal Assessment - this should be complete, presented correctly and checked thoroughly against the criteria.
• Thursday end of lesson - Database emailed to me, and database screencast either mailed to me or uploaded and embedded on weblog. Note the screencast should show a user how to open the database, add a record, run a specific query and then print a report.

Exams and Revision

• I will be running a revision lesson on Monday June 8th - which will go through preparation for the exams and specifically examination technique for Paper 1 and Paper 2
• I would suggest that you go over all past mini-tests - check through all notes related to each chapter of Computer Confluence (if you did not make any that is your look out not mine!) and of course check through the examination syllabus and specifics like the 11 social and ethical issues.
• The examination could be on any of the IT systems you have covered either practically or theoretically this year - with an initial seed and IT System questions leading through to the longer 12 mark questions on social and ethical issues. THOUGH please note for a good grade the marking scheme is looking for use of the correct IT terminology throughout whether that is absolute and relative cell referencing, flat vs relational databases, compression algorithms, RFID tags, Google maps and Latitude and GPS, dynamic databases....and the list goes on and on and on.

Semester grades will be based on a combination of your final exam grades, your final IA2 grade and other assessments and mini-tests in general!

Crime and Data Mining

Have you checked the amazing recent websites in which actual criminals information is not only published but you can find out where they live etc - by using police dynamic databases. Have a look through these sites and see what you think:-

1. Pick the Perp - With True Criminals - can this be legal let alone ethical?
2. Crime Mapper - Find out statistics related to crime within your area of the UK - should we be able to compare?
3. Family Watchdog - Site no 2 has nothing on this site - which enables you to track down whether offenders of serious crime are living near you in the US. Is this ethical?

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In case you are unsure of how to screencast here are some links that might help you out. Remember a screencast should be short and to the point - otherwise simply viewers get bored and stop watching!

• Jon Udell explains the basics of professional screencasting over at O'reilly.
• I knew it existed Screen-Castomatic allows you to record screencasting on the fly through the use of a Web 2.0 tool - of course it has its limitations but might be worth a try.
• Mashable's - How to Master series continues with their views on screencasting.
• NEW - Check this website out for a some alternatives to the screencasting tools I have mentioned  - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/05/four-free-tools-for-creating.html

And below an example maybe of not how to do it - but shows you how easy it is now to hack WEP encryption - some major social and ethical issues there I believe!

 

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For any Open Office users out there... I found using a set of consistent video tutorials (from this sight) for creating a database on Open Office's Base application to be a far more effective method of learning about databases in general and how to use them.

I've gone all the way through to the 9th video tutorial so far.  See if you can go through each of the 15 videos starting from the first and look for any flaws or difficulties you encounter along the way.  There were a few times I got stuck but I managed to get around most of them.

For those of you who haven't yet downloaded Open Office (free), visit the sight and click download now! - the whole suite will dowload which means you can also access many Open Office's wonderful applications aside from just Base.

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