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

A few resources to finish off the other resource file on here, there is a max of 20 uploads per resource!!! You need to search for 'OCR Nationals French trip scenario resources' to find the bulk of this

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/scratch-kids-lite/id957195511?mt=8 'Scratch Kids Lite' brings you 3 sets of video tutorials to get you going making your very first activity and game in the new version of Scratch 2. However, these are not the sort of standard tutorials that you find on the web. During the videos you will be set tasks to do in scratch and hopefully you will be able to complete them on your own. However don't worry the next video in each project will show you how to complete the task!! These videos are really targeted at KS2 students although the content of the full app will go on to stretch and challenge even the most able of them with variables, cloning, broadcasting and many other features of Scratch. There's even a quiz in the app so you can test your scratch knowledge too!!

Wow a stack of free videos that you can use to drop onto your VLE, for a cover lesson or for some flipped learning. What's not to like? Hours of material covering the entire spec.

Hours of free videos that cover the entire course.

This is a really cool task to get kids moving with graphics software. I use fireworks but I guess it's easy enough to adapt for say photoshop. Anyway take two animals, rip the head off one, add it to the other and use rubber stamps, opacity, magic wand, hue/saturation to make it look like a 'cloned&' or &';morphed' animal. you might be surprised by what kids can create!!

Very useful for Cam Nats R002 as kids can count it as 'item of publicity' in task 2 of this unit. After all everyone loves a PowerPoint but this one shows you how to do it properly!!

Further to a request on the ICT forum about how to make a custom toolbar in Word 2010, the video below shows you how to do it. It is part of a series of videos available via teach-ict.com shop to cover the entire WJEC AS coursework project

In this video you can show students how to make a set of business cards that mail merge in both images and text. Using spreadsheets and publisher they end up with a set of individual business cards for a group of individuals at their organisation. This is a logical progression step if you have used the Mafia Zoo (gangsta zoo on teach-ict) scenario.

First of all the javascript menu files is a zip and not a doc, you wil need to download it, rename and the extract. The videos have no controls as they are swf files. Does not sound like a good start does it!! Trust me you will have kids making very fancy drop down menus with this and it's a nailed on distinction for unit 21 of Nationals if you follow that course.

Yes that is an odd title. Anyway I use this as an end of year 8 exam to test simple spreadsheet techniques, mail merging and a bit of graphics. Guess you would have to customise the instructions as they are geared to my school but it won't take much editing. Still kids enjoyed it last year and it was an exam!!

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/appinventor2-free/id958514716?mt=8 Want to give your students loads of activities to do with MIT's appinventor 2? Then here's the solution for you. Now first of all whilst these are screencasts, they are not the standard sort of activity that you would find on the likes of YouTube. What happens is that there is a screencast that gives the students a task to work out and if they are unable to solve the problem then there is a solution video to accompany the task set. This way your students have to think about how to solve the problem, rather than simply following a 'how to' style tutorial. So what's in the set of tutorials? Well there are 5 app builds, the first 2 are simple little ones to get your students familiar with the interface and show them how to make a 'soundboard' and a variation of the magic 8 ball. The other 3 app builds have far more detail.

This is a 2 video sample of the 31 video paid for version that you can find. I didn't pick the best 2 and the rest are worse, that would involve wading through them all and I haven't got time for that. It's just a random sample. Please don't put these videos into the public domain, on a VLE or shared area at school is fine though. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cambridge-nationals-r001-complete-video-tutorial-set-for-all-theory-11363773

Dataset and question paper very suitable for level 3 BTEC Unit 2 ICT controlled assessement. Not complex one at all and gentle introduction to the sorts of questions that you will see in the real exam.

Series of multiple choice questions used in the ECDL exam. Files are to be used in conjunction with Promethenan activote systems

Some basic graphics work to get kids to make fabulous artwork to adorn your classroom walls with. All using the free browser based graphics editor called Pixlr so everyone can access this lesson. Jolly good fun that will keep the kids busy for a couple of hours at least. First video is aimed at kids from a school in China, where I am teaching, and they would not have known the British people in the picture, doesn’t make any difference to the skills being taught though.

Series of videos to show kids how to make an insert for a video game case. The example uses a well known series of football games and will keep your students busy for many hours and they will learn some really good graphics skills along the way. It’s a really good project that your students will enjoy. I made the videos a few years ago now but it all still works today.

Quite simply there is nothing out there better than this set of tutorials to get your students’ heads around scratch. Most teachers will use YouTube videos or paid for resources and frankly the kids learn very little by just repeating what they see on the video or printed in front of them. Why is this app different? Because each video sets a task for the student to do and eventually it builds into a playable game. If your students struggle with a with a task then there is also a solution video and there is always a final video to identify extension tasks to stretch and challenge the most able. I promise you that you will change what you currently use and have your students use these videos on your tablets at school. Best of all the apps are completely free. Apple/iOS - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scratch-tutorials/id1546971406 Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.popseven.scratchtutorials We have dropped a couple of files as examples of how the videos, in the app itself there are around 70 video files though!

Very simple it’s a complete set of videos to show you how to solve every part of the Beaches SAM.

Here’s a nice simple exercise to keep kids busy for an hour or so. Follow the video then go and “fix” the 3 images. Top skills using Photopea, really useful for KS3 or iMedia students