Set of 4 videos to cover creating and reusing movie clips, tweening, easing, opacity and the use of actions on buttons. Ideal for unit 20 of the Nationals but let's be honest most of your year 7s could handle this. Not a criticism of Nationals as I like the course, but it's just fun, a decent standard and kids will want to do it of any age.....

Sorry about the lack of controls on the videos but I can't find the original recordings to rerender. Anyway nice set of tutorials to show kids how to make a two player racing game in scratch. Have to admit there are a few mistakes later on, but kids will be able to work out how to amend!!

The following videos explain how you can integrate monkeyjam, audacity and a graphics program of your choice (I use fireworks) to create something a little more advanced than the standard 'lego youtube' efforts that we have all seen.

A few videos to get you going with drawplus, nothing fancy but enough techniques to keep most KS3 kids busy for a few hours.

I use these files as an end of year test for our year 8s. Combines some basic graphic work, with a few formula in a spreadsheet to create a graph that is then used in a mail merge task. It's a bit 'leftfield' in content and would need a few changes to the word docs to make it specific to your school, however it is a lot of fun, assesses useful skills and the kids enjoy doing it.

Thought I would create a series of mind maps to help my own students revise for this course. I have tried to embed key terms that seem to appear on the mark schemes from the board. Hopefully they may help a few of your students too!! I am going to add lots of these over the next couple of weeks, we find they work very well in moodle within a lightbox gallery

It's a series of camtasia tutorials (vid files) and video footage taken with a camcorder (film files) that explain how to construct a database suitable for a video store. Tables, forms, reports and queries are all covered and some 'advanced' features like combo boxes and report calculations. Please check the document 'order of videos' to get everything in the right way!!

We use this exam with our year 7's as their end of year exam. The mark scheme is a simple tick sheet exercise that enables you to grade the work created very quickly. Sorry about all the separate photos but you can't use a zip file here.

I can't draw, dropped art in year 9 when I was at school, but drawing cartoon animals with serif drawplus is a doodle. This video will show you how you can turn your KS3 kids into fine computer based artists

Podcast covering health and safety issues that are traditionally covered on GCSE or AS level ICT papers

If you have ever used my previous top down racer videos then I would suggest you move on to these ones as they are superior. Loads of skills to create a 2 player racing game like micro machines, lap counters, oil slicks, speed ups, and showing how to stop any cheats. Will keep kids busy for about 2-3 hours in general.

A bunch of films, screencasts and weblinks that you could use to help support the delivery of the French trip model assignment. Some of it is geared to my school, for example we use open source email rather than outlook, but the principles of all the resources can be used by anyone. Please find the second part of this resource in the resource bank to finish off the database videos

These videos show you how you can genuinely use a Nintendo Wii combined with a copy of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games in the classroom to inject a bit of fun into a relational database build.

Useful for unit 20 of the OCR Nationals course. A set of short videos about how to create a simple banner advert in Flash. If you don't like cartoon violence then a penguin being hit by a car may not be for you. Once again sorry about the lack of controls but I have lost the original screencasts.

Series of tutorials using Impress (sorry for wrongly labelling this as Powerpoint previously) to create a quiz that uses triggered animations and sounds recorded by students. Ideal exercise for combining ICT with Languages. I must apologise to any French teachers in advance for me poor attempts at speaking the language!!

I had a bad throat so decided to ask my students to do a trawl of youtube to find various videos that mirrored the contents of the specification. We have dropped them into file format so you can easily embed them in your VLEs. Hope they are of use

A short series of videos to show kids how to get to grips with the basics of dance ejay 5. Quality of vid2 is a little sub par due to recording issues but is easily still fine to use. Only funky fresh partaaay people need download and av'it large!!

Podcast covering network security issues that are traditionally covered on GCSE or AS level ICT papers

We have had a few posts on the ICT forum in the past about how to mail merge a picture. Seem to get lots of long winded answers so I thoguht I would create this video to show you how it is done. I have used this video with my own AS level students who are doing the WJEC course.

I use this as a mock exam for my year 8 students. It's a mail merged letter to apply for premiership football manager&'s jobs. Bit of a spoof one that requires kids to make a logo and create a graph too. I based it around where I work in Sittingbourne, but you could easily adjust the text in the letter and instructions to work for where you live.