Communication: text and graphics

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Communication text and graphics

• Session 4
• Planning and presenting information on paper

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Objectives

• To identify the ways in which the application of
  pupils understanding of common forms and
  conventions contributes to their ICT capability
• To evaluate different approaches to teaching
  software techniques and skills
• To reflect on features of good teaching

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Exchanging and sharing information (Year 7)

• Fitness for purpose
• Recognise common forms and conventions used in
  communications and how these address audience
  needs (e.g. columns of text in newspapers,
  graphics and enlarged print in posters,
  hyperlinks on websites)
• Apply understanding of common forms and
  conventions to own ICT work

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Good design

• Consider
• Contrast Font Closeness
• Graphics Colour
• Photographs Content Logos

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Common forms and conventions corporate image
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Exchanging and sharing information (Year 7)

• Fitness for Purpose
• Apply understanding of common forms and
  conventions to own ICT work

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ICT capability

• Identified the problem create a logo
• Identified the key features of a logo by
  comparing existing logos
• Created the criteria to judge the finished logo
• Analysed the logo to identify the component parts
• Used a range of techniques to construct the logo
• Applied understanding of font, image and colour
  to define the logo
• Reviewed and revised the logo

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Teaching ICT capability

• Explicit reference to the teaching objective
• Display of finished product to clarify what is
  required
• Reduction of image into component parts
• Techniques demonstrated gradually and supported
  by handout
• Choices were discussed, made and justified at
  each stage
• Finished image reviewed and revised

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Next steps

• For your next lesson or unit
• identify the ICT capability required for the
  activity
• prepare handouts to support a specific technique
• prepare key questions which will encourage pupils
  to justify their choices

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Objectives

• To identify the ways in which the application of
  pupils understanding of common forms and
  conventions contributes to their ICT capability
• To evaluate different approaches to teaching
  software techniques and skills
• To reflect on features of good teaching