ICT

The term began with the Year 7 students exploring what makes websites successful, focusing in on aspects of their favourite sites such as logos, fonts, colours, links and structure. After reviewing a range of websites, students were given an opportunity to create their own visual website, while explaining their choices and the rationale behind them. The term ended with the students investigating different research techniques and eventually creating their own survey, with the digital technology focus being how to visualise data on tools like Microsoft Excel.

Mr Antonios Pagonis, Mr Abdullah Trad and Ms Dosina Hasin

The year 8 students began the term focusing on how technology is designed to ease the interaction between user and device. After reviewing and correcting bad designs, students moved on to learning, researching and explaining the different user interfaces they encounter in their everyday lives. In the second half of the term, students learned how to code using HTML, after co-constructing a basic website as a class, students were given the opportunity to convert a word document assignment to a HTML file so it could be operated like a website.

Mr Antonios Pagonis, Mr Abdullah Trad and Ms Dosina Hasin

The year 9 students were given an introduction to the real threats of the cyberworld and the malware that can infect their technology at any time. They were taught what to look out for along with preventative methods and solutions if a device got infected. They put that learning into practice in an interactive game which put them in charge of a multimillion-dollar corporation that was under attach, with their choices affecting the privacy of their customers. After completing an investigation on the subject, the students had a refresher about data collection and how it can be represented online. Students were given examples of how data can be misrepresented, the danger signs to look out for and how to fix misrepresented data using Microsoft Excel.

Mr Antonios Pagonis and Mr Abdullah Trad