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 =Welcome to year 10 multimedia= Teacher: Mr Horwill horwill.kane.r@edumail.vic.gov.au (Note: horwill.kane.r )

**What you will get out this subject** 1) To consistently use a graphic organiser e.g. Freemind to plan.

2) To use a graphic organiser e.g. Freemind to compare how you would have achieved this same task using a pen, paper and books.

3) For you to become familiar with the curriculum that guides your learning (See VELS Level 6 (9-10) page of this WIKI.

4) To create real life information products that solve real life problems e.g. An advertisement on the effects of drink/drug driving.

5) You will investigate threats to data security, such as accidental loss (failure to follow file management procedures), stealing (files from a network), and data corruption by viruses and hackers. This investigation could focus on the preventative actions taken by businesses within the local community to protect their data and information. They apply ICT techniques and privacy law principles to protect individual and team files from unauthorised access and accidental damage.6) You will perform a [|SWOT] analysis of information products you choose to work with. 7) Students, individually and in teams (including virtual teams), use ICT to make detailed project plans that sequence tasks to be done, resources needed and timelines for completion. They annotate these plans to explain changes made during the execution of tasks. 8) When selecting hardware and software for each task, students consider the capabilities and limitations of these tools and recognise that their choice is influenced by the characteristics of the data to be manipulated. Students consider new or emerging ICT used in workplaces, and how their new capabilities would change the way students process data and information when developing information products. 9) To become more efficient you will work towards using templates,macros and keyboard shortcuts reduce the time taken to process data and increase the accuracy of creating solutions and products. Also, using checklists helps confirm the completeness of products and proofreading assists in detecting typographical and readability errors. 10) You will work towards accepting and respecting differences in others’ approaches to using ICT for solving problems and designing products, and respect cultural diversity among users of ICT; for example, using icons on a website to indicate functions such as print and mail, which are universally recognised, and using symbols that are not offensive to different cultures. Students use ICT techniques to make their information products accessible to a wide audience, taking into account special needs. For example, providing options to view a website in different font sizes assists visually impaired people, and transcripts of audio material assist the hearing impaired. 11) You will develop criteria (as part of your planning) to evaluate their own and others’ work and use them to assess quality and the extent to which the purpose is fulfilled. For example, students compare the quality of their website with a commercial one, taking into account the knowledge and skills typical of professional website designers.

12) You will work towards building on skills developed in previous levels to share ideas with the teacher and others through a range of electronic communication means such as email, contributing to forums, instant messaging, and interacting with websites such as Wikipedia, which allow viewers to make modifications to the content. Students expand their skills in locating information on websites by using general and specialised directories. They refine their searching techniques to get more precise results by using within suitable search engines, proximity operators, which specify where one term in a document must appear in relation to another term. They develop knowledge and understanding about the ethical use of ICT through practical experience, observation of their own and others’ behaviour, and by researching strategies for protecting vulnerable users from accessing or receiving unwanted information from the Internet. 13) An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin.

14) Take time to enjoy what you do!    = =