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Recent Updates and Announcements

March 2021	UPDATED : Year 8 Logic Gates project, including new practical tasks, online assessments, revision games and lesson quizzes. BUG FIXES : Mini website questions so answers no longer need to be case sensitive.
February 2021	NEW : Cambridge Nationals mini websites for LO6 Understanding Different Methods of Processing Data and Presenting Information.  Take a look here. NEW : Cambridge Nationals mini website for LO7 : Be able to Select and Present Information in the Development of a Solution to meet an Identified Need using Presentation Software.  Take a look here. UPDATED : Year 8 project IT's Logical including an introduction to logic gates, logic circuits and truth tables.  Take a look here. UPDATED : Year 7 project on How the Internet Works.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : Year 7 project on how the Internet and the World Wide Web Work, including new lesson activities and lesson PowerPoints UPDATED : Year 8 project on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, including new lesson activities on Moore's Law and the Turing Test NEW : Revision game modules added for word searches, crosswords, Millionaire, Snakes and Ladders and Space Invaders NEW : Revision quiz module added NEW : Year 9 project on Binary Logic and Logic Circuits.  Take a look here.
January 2021	UPDATED : Year 7 e-safety unit on Mobile Apps.  New unplugged activities added, plus lessons on managing mobile phone safety and using social media apps.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : Year 7 E-Safety unit on Mobile Apps.  New revision activities added on age and content ratings for apps.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : Site services and plugins for Microsoft 365 Integration, user authentication, course enrollment without a user name, text filters, exam style questions module, code runner plugin and course games NEW : New course revision game Stash added
December 2020	NEW : New and updated revision notes on Threats to Data and Freedom of Information Act for Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies.  Click here to take a look.  UPDATED : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies LO1 revision notes.  Click here to take a look.
November 2020	NEW : Cambridge Nationals database software tutorials using MS Access.  Click here to take a look. NEW : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies database tutorials and activities for LO5 using MS Access UPDATED : Year 8 networking added video from RaspberryPi about everyday networks.
October 2020	UPDATED : Year 9 Pseudocode lessons, including new practical activities to convert flow charts to pseudocode and pseudocode into Python code NEW : Updated Python TryIT editor for practical coding activities NEW : 19 new homework tasks based on exam questions for Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies (teacher access only) UPDATED : Year 7 encryption project now has a new video on how Alan Turing's Bombe Machine worked
August 2020	UPDATED : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies LO7.  New Tutorials and practical activities covering page breaks, section breaks, heading styles, content pages and front cover pages.  Click here to take a look.
September 2020	UPDATED : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technology LO7.  New tutorials and online practical activities for comments and tracking changes in documents.  Click here to take a look.
April 2020	NEW : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies Spreadsheet tutorials on importing data, exporting data and external links NEW : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies spreadsheet tutorials on Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
May 2020	UPDATED : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies - new spreadsheet and data modelling tutorials covering PivotTables, PivotCharts, Dynamic Charts and What-If Scenarios UPDATED : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies - new spreadsheet and data modelling tutorial on Scenario Summary Reports NEW : Over 40 HTML and CSS tutorials and interactive activities added to Year 8.  Take a look here. NEW : Teaching resources and ideas for HTML and CSS
June 2020	NEW : Word Processing tutorials and activities added to Year 9.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : 20 new tutorials and practical activities for MS Word covering paragraph formatting and page setup.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : 27 new MS Word tutorials and practical activities focusing on adding and formatting images and shapes.  Click here to take a look.  NEW : Cambridge Nationals in Information Technologies.  New tutorials and practical activities for LO4 using word processors, including importing text, text to tables, footnotes, endnotes, indexes, mail merge and mail merge rules.  Click here to take a look.
July 2020	UPDATED : The Year 8 Data Representation unit has been updated to include new paper based activities and online activities with instant feedback.  A new lesson on resolution, color depth and pixel density has also been added.  Click here to take a look. NEW : Embedding and linking tutorials and practical activities added to Cambridge Nationals LO7 section.  Click here to take a look. UPDATED : Year 7 Scratch programming Alien Splat Game.  Click here to take a look.