January 30

Year 11 - The Investigate was due yesterday, but the class was granted a small extention. If you have not handed your Investigate in today, you will have the opportunity to complete it during detention (extension detention) on Monday, February 2.

Criterion B: Design

Maxium 6

Students are expected to generate several feasible designs that meet the design specification and to evaluate these against the design specification.

Students are then expected to select one design, justify their choice and evaluate this in detail against the design specification.

January 29

Year 11 - Investigation due today at the end of class. Please print and submit.

Remember: Investigate has 3 sections: identify the problem, develop a design brief, formulate a design specification

Look at the Assessment Rubric (located in sidebar). Make sure your Investigation includes all the pertinent information.

January 22, 23

DEADLINES: (n: the point in time at which something must be completed)
-Investigate - January 29
-Design - February 6
-Plan - February 19
-Create - March 12
-Evaluate - March 19

* Remember - February 13 is Activity Day - no IT classes
- February 23-27 is Half Term Break - no IT classes

Year 11 - now that we have a proper schedule for deadlines it will be easier for you to organize your time.

Please continue working on your Investigations.

Please be advised that there is no "1st Draft" policy. I will be happy to help monitor your work OR you can make an appt with me to review your work with you. (I can be available to you on breaks, during lunch, or after school.)

January 15, 16

Year 11 - How far did you get on Friday?

Have you spoken with a teacher and have a project in mind?

Let's continue with the Investigate.

possible products

One of the main goals of the MYP is for students to work on "real" projects that are meaningful.

The Teaching Aid Project is just that. You are working to create a tool that will help other students here at SDIS learn.

Teaching aids can be used with any discipline.

Remember that your teaching aid should be able to be used alone by a student, and interactive. If it is linear, it will not be give top marks.

Some possible tools are: Webquest, Tutorial, How-to, Gantt Chart (using Excel), Vocabulary Review, Quiz, Grammar, Math explanations, Science experiments, etc.

Check out this video tutorial:
http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtips/ss/wt061105.htm

January 8, 9

Year 11 - Welcome to Information Technology (Term 2)

Our project this term will be a completely independent work! You have a lot of Computer Technology under your belt and you are up to the task.

You are to create a "teaching aid" for a teacher at SDIS.

Your guiding question: How can technology aid learning at St. Dominic's?

Let's look in the sidebar at the documents which will help you be successful in this project.

One of the first tasks is for you to contact a teacher and ask if he/she would like to participate in this project.