G040 Feedback 2010

1. G040 Feedback 2010 Mr C Johnston ICT Teacher www.computechedu.co.uk

2. G040 on the Positive…… • Most people managed to have 6 communications • A few excellent communications seen which potentially worth 10 / 10 for task bii, • Lots of software features and media used appropriately, • Commentaries not to bad, • Bibliographies were included.

3. Task A Feedback • Reread and marked as to new national standards, • Most were descriptive but not very analytical as required for band 3, • Improvements were not linked to purpose and comparison lacked so most awarded band 2 • Few people couldn’t be bothered to hand it in so have lost marks. I WILL NOT BE REMARKING THIS TASK

4. Task Bi • This task requires you to plan and draft your documents and list the sources used, • Plan should either be on paper or computer. It should show the layout or elements – content should not be included and plans need to be annotated with proposed fonts, etc. • Drafts should be natural and show the development. Need to be extensively annotated showing SPAG errors, required movement of objects, font changes, additions, deletions etc • Use a draft evaluation form to get marks for task biv • Bibliographies in most lacked the required document – use this help sheet to assist with the layout.

5. Task Bii and Biii • These tasks assess the quality of your communications and the tools used to make them • For high marks communications must have the wow factor – look at existing examples and use them for inspiration • A wide range of graphics and other media should be used – borders / shading often not used when could be, • House style needs to be reflected across all documents, • Automation: letter template – band 2!!! Need: mail merge, use of styles, macro buttons, master pages, master slides, • Screen shots showing less obvious features need to be included.

6. Task Biv • Evaluation of the communications produced and your performance whilst creating them. For higher marks your commentaries need to: • Reflect on each draft and how they have been refined to meet the purpose more clearly, • Identity strengths and weaknesses of the final product and suggest how it can be improved, • Analyse the experience of creating the communication (what did, what went well, what didn’t go well) and suggest how should work differently next time.

7. Task Bv • Need to write in depth about different communication methods and the technologies which support them, • A load of methods of communication then a load of technologies is not correct need to be linked, • Content should include: • Method description, how can be used, relative +ve’s, -ve’s, technologies which support and how these work. Need 6 for band 3 • Remember the presentation is one of the 6 communications and can let the whole set down.

8. ONE MAJOR RULE… NEVER UNDERLINE ANYTHING

9. Letter and Template • Templates are shocking – what is a template??? • A writing frame which can be used by employee to write a letter to anybody about anything!!! • No detail other than common elements (name address etc…) • Use of empty macros to insert placeholders • Mail merge fields in template - get them out • Letters – so so • Spelling mistakes, • Poor layout – mail merge?? – perhaps redo it…. • Fit on one page • Yours sincerely with a capital S….

10. Memo • Memo either too small underlined or both • Spacing, • Spelling mistakes / doesn’t read write • Tabs not used for top part • Decimal tabs not use to space out the numbers

11. Booking Form • Dreadful – most people need a rethink • Boxes for letters • Fit to 2 sides of A4 • Think about what asking for • Space it out neatly – use different sized fonts • Borders, shading are good – see passport app form

12. Webpage • Some are very good – others are KS3 standard!! • Design your homepage first gaining inspiration from existing sites would help a lot, • Make remember drafts and annotation as go along, • Preview in browser and take screen shots and paste them together so can see whole page – for drafts and final versions, • Don’t want a story of what done – a few screen shots of less obvious feature (rollovers, flash, hyperlinks) is all that is required.

13. Brochure • Double page spread for one destination showing some thing about it and a few hotels and there prices, • Should make me want to go on holiday – get some examples for inspiration and plan first!!! • Remove hyphens from blocks of text and fully justify, • Pictures the same size, • Watch that bullets are not miles from text, • Include – graphs and tables of data neatly laid out - map about the place…. Not just a load of pictures

14. Presentation • Needs to be set out like a presentation – left align text, bullets, all text at same level same size, • Capital letters for titles – people forgot, • Draft versions print in handout mode and annotate, • Final version should be with speaker notes – formatted properly • DO NOT copy and paste chunks from wikipedia as I can tell, • Cover the points in depth if not enough room in speaker notes do them in word as additional sheet.

15. Improvement Instructions • I only mark work once - you must tell me what you have improved…I’m not looking for it • Do not re-page number work – add it in-between existing pages using a/b/c etc • Between 50 and 51 = 50a, 50b 50c etc • If you have no page numbers add work and page number properly – your work must have had a fault and I could not mark DUE DATE THURSDAY 1st APRIL – NOT JOKING EITHER