ICT

The clothing retailer Next has reported on-target pre-Christmas sales despite a 2.7% fall in high-street store sales, due to online sales.

Welcome to the magic of online business!

We’ve produced a free presentation to get your students thinking about how using ICT can benefit businesses. It includes information and interactive activities covering:
- EPOS and building customer profiles
- The different stages of an online transaction
- How ICT can help a business perform more efficiently.

The resources cover the GCSE AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CCEA and Cambridge IGCSE specifications.

To download the free resources, click the button below.

We’re currently looking for ICT and Computer Science teachers to write lesson plans and product content for Boardworks ICT resources. If you’re interested in writing for us, please visit our authors page to find out more.

If you're not interested, but know someone who might be, why not forward them the link or Tweet about it?

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Below is an archive of our most popular free ICT resources. To download this content all you need to do is click on the links below and you will be prompted to register some additional details with us.

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Following our lesson plan vote last term, you can now download the winning lesson plan on ‘Evaluating Your Creative Product’, written by ICT teacher Sam Guineas.

Ready to use with your KS4 students this spring term,  Sam's lesson encourages students to think objectively about their creative products. Using role-play, students must try and pitch their products at different audiences, anticipating criticism and trying to think which features of their products will appeal to different audiences.

To download the lesson plan and the Boardworks slides, click the buttons below.

With podcasts on sorting data, researching the internet, online safety and many more besides, Boardworks KS4 ICT supports aural learners whilst adding variety to your lessons. To find out more, why not order your free sample disc today?

And to keep up-to-date with news of free resources, lesson plans and other subject news, you can now follow us on Twitter @BoardworksLtd.

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‘Students often find the Data Protection Act rather a dry topic. Most students are able to remember some of the principles and some of the exemptions, but others […] may not be able to apply these principles when asked about them within a given context.’

To help your students understand how to apply the Data Protection Act, ICT teacher Gordon Neighbour has produced a practical, kinaesthetic lesson plan for use with KS4 ICT students.

Through a variety of activities, students learn to distinguish between sensitive and non-sensitive data, applying this knowledge to practical situations and ensuring that they are able to apply the principles of the act to a variety of different situations.

To download the lesson plan and the Boardworks slides, click the buttons below.

To help students understand the practical application of ICT, Boardworks KS4 ICT resources are mapped to all Functional Skills standards. To find out more, order your free sample disc!

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‘Online Safety can seem terribly dry to students. Operating safely frequently means limiting rather than extending what they do online which can seem very killjoy at a risk-taking age… It is, therefore, important to find interesting and varied ways of educating about safe practice that do not seem merely worthy or well-intentioned. The challenge is to turn “important” into “interesting”.’

To help you make this transition from ‘important’ to ‘interesting’ when teaching online safety, Sam Guineas has written an activity-packed lesson plan for you to use with your KS4 ICT students.

To download the lesson plan and the Boardworks slides, click on the buttons below.

Sam Guineas was one of the authors of the KS4 ICT product from which these sample slides are taken. To try out more KS4 activities visit our online sample or order your free sample disc.

Sam also helped author MyWorks KS4 ICT. To find out more about this innovative homework solution, visit: www.myworks.co.uk/ict.

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According to a recent study, 88% of UK 13–16 year olds have a social networking profile.

Whilst social networking is fast becoming an integral part of students’ lives, what students often lack is practical advice on how to stay safe online.

Taken from our ‘Online Safety’ presentation, this slide offers students a realistic scenario about unsolicited attention online. Not only do students learn how to deal with such situations in real life, but this activity also provokes discussion about the safe communication of information which is covered in the new GCSE specifications.

Click on the image below to try out the activity.