ICT and Digital Technologies Education, Business Analysis
I wrote these planning overview documents while at Cooloongup Primary School and working as the Digital Technologies specialist. I am posting these in case they are useful to somebody else. It covers PP to Year 6 and combines DT with the ICT capabilities and also the recommended ICT skills to prepare students for NAPLAN Online.
Original post from here http://www.riptidehosting.com/blog/extending-volume-size-in-windows-2012-r2-error-the-parameter-is-incorrect/ Extending volume size in Windows 2012 R2 error “the parameter is incorrect” Recently while expanding the disk size on a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM, we received an error message pop-up saying “the parameter is incorrect”. We noticed that Disk Management was now showing the correct updated disk size but…
Western Australia to delay NAPLAN Online to 2018 I am reposting this on behalf of my colleagues as an FYI. Originally from https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2017/04/Western-Australia-to-delay-NAPLAN-Online-to-2018.aspx Wednesday, 19 April 2017 NAPLAN Online to be delayed by one year 99 schools participating in the online trial will now be undertaking paper tests NAPLAN is a national assessment of all students…
Picture from https://www.globalstudentnetwork.com/steam-ideas-homeschool/ I first came across STEM in 2014 as the word started to appear here in Western Australia as well as other parts of the world via education and politics. Referring to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, it is an attempt at an a combined philosophy, emphasis and focus in keeping with the overall…
ICT Capabilities Skills P-6 Document in PDF format I have taken the approach that I need to cover the ICT Capabilities in the curriculum first and then move into Digital Technologies after giving the students the basic skills to operate the technology they are learning about. This document is part of that philosophy. I am…
If you have to send a hard drive somewhere for repair or dispose of it and you can still access it is sometimes needed to quickly clear off the data on the drive. One way to do this is format a drive and writing zeroes to it. In Vista or Windows 7 this is now…
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who donated I raised over $450.00 for the cause! Very pleased with for a first time round. So I am doing the whole movember thing to raise money for good causes like cancer research and men’s health. Here’s a photo at the end of week one. If you would like…
This problem hit me today on my main working database after upgrading to Office 2010 SP1. To help out others I have post the text of a solution below as well as the link. Access 2010 SP1 – You receive random crashes in certain database or when opening the VBA window in those databases after…
Youtube has implemented an option to opt in to a Safety Mode which should make it a bit easier to use in a school environment. See more details here: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/02/safety-mode-giving-you-more-control-on.html
My wife has a original 4Gb Asus EEEPC. It has an issue periodically where it refuses to connect to our wireless network. It is an EEPC 701 running the original software and operating system. Its symptoms are not being able to do anything especially connect to a ethernet or wireless connection. It comes up with…