Scotch College

A number of computer applications are used to assist in the development of these skills and include stand-alone software packages as well as software suites or integrated packages, such as Microsoft Office. The software used includes word processing, spreadsheeting, drawing and painting applications. We also make full use of multimedia applications, such as Inspiration, Powerpoint and Kahootz. The iLife software also adds an exciting dimenstion to the boys work on the computers. CD-ROMs and the Internet are used for the research of topics. Boys also learn file manipulation using the Junior School network storage areas, hard drives and individual memory sticks.

Learning Point (Intranet)
Scotch College makes full use of an Intranet system, known as Learning Point. Learning Point ties together the use of information technology in both the home and the school. Each boy has a username and password that gives them access from an icon on the home page. Boys from Year 2 to Year 6 are taught how to utilitise this educational resource during ICT sessions.

All boys in the Junior School will be using their ICT sessions to compliment the current classroom curriculum being studied each term. Many different software applications will be used. ICT sessions allow the opportunity for purposeful work to be completed whilst honing valuable computing skills. These sessions also provide the links and skills necessary to complete homework using Learning Point, the school's intranet, and the internet.

Each term a number of sessions will be required to help the boys develop valuable file organisation skills as they create, fill and clean out their network storage areas, including the student side of Learning Point, where all students have been encouraged to set up folders. Each student from Year 1 has a Scotch College email account, the boys are shown how to use this account when demand requires it. Some classes use email to communicate with students from other classes, schools and countries. They are also used by the students to communicate with parents and to transfer files to and from home.

Prep

During Term Two the Prep boys will be studying the unit 'I Am A Scientist'. The boys will continue to develop their understanding of this topic in ICT through the manipulation of images and text. The graphics programs of Kidspiration and 2Paint will all be used. The boys will produce documents with both graphics and an increasing amount of text as their knowlege of the keyboard develops.

Year 2

Year 4

Year 6

The Year 6 boys will commence their work in ICT in Term Two continuing to explore the features of iMovie. The students will use this software to incorporate images they have located on the Internet into a short presentation. In addition to the images the boys will also incorporate original text (their poetry) and music created in GarageBand. Following this, the boys will be introduced to the Web authoring software, iWeb. They will use this application to create a web page based on their studies of 'Natural Disasters'. They will be incorporating their own research into these web pages along with original animated gifs.