Digital Technologies WA Curriculum / ICT Curriculum documents

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.

Resize drives repost

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…

NAPLAN Online delayed for this year in WA

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…

ICT Capabilities – Skills and Terminology

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…

Movember

  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…