PAT based on Xmas shopping, or very similar to a PAT

Before you turn immediately to Amazon, or your favorite online shopping source, think briefly about your gift giving goals and prepare to ma...

Qualifications for a teacher or subject advisor

The 2008 Matric results will be released soon. I have no idea what they will be like but may I propose the following qualification for every...

Examination dates

The Grade 12 dates for the final CAT examinations in 2009 have been announced: Wednesday 07/10 - Speed Test (Optional) 8h00 Thursday 08/10 -...

Examinations

Marking of the Gr 12 CAT examinations is taking place around the country. I am part of a group marking the Theory paper. What a wonderful ex...

Gr 10 and 11 examinations - Results

The CAT November examination results at my school: Gr 10 - Theory 60% and Practical 66% Gr 11 - Theory 42% and Practical 43% In general one ...

Gr 10 Written examination

Poorly answered questions 4.8 The question asks for Function but very few learners gave the function of the different kinds of memory. 7.1.a...

Gr 11 Theory examination memo

Gr 11 Theory examination memos - Afrikaans and English

Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teachers Awards 2008 - Hong Kong

Congratulations to Sarietjie Musgrave of Eunice High School: Free State for her project Spread the Sunshine which gained her runner up posit...

Gr 10 Theory examination papers

Gr 10 November theory memos - Afrikaans and English

Gr 11 Theory examination

Theory papers - Afrikaans and English

Gr 10 Examinations

Gr 10 November Written - Afrikaans and English

Gr 11 Practical examinations

COMMENT from CAT teacher in Gauteng about Gr 11 Practical Paper from Study Opportunities: I think the paper was: “doable”, Balanced, Differe...

Gr 11 Practical examinations

English marksheet and solutions Afrikaans marksheet and solutions Addendum for question 3.4

Examination papers

There have been repeated requests to get the password for the exam papers. There is only one way to get them. You must have completed the ...

Gr 10 November Practical examinations

English marksheet and solutions Afrikaans marksheets and solutions

Gr 10 and 11 Written papers

Length of Written papers – next week: We decided to stick to the SAG which specifies: Gr 10: 100 marks, 2 hours Gr 11: 150 marks, 3 hours. E...

Gr 11 Practical Errata

Slegs AFRIKAANSE vraestel - Vraag 4, eerste bullet moet wees (R0-00 vir lede en R20-00 vir nie-lede). Please open and fix the data files 6An...

Gr 11 Practical Exam Papers

The Grade 11 Practical examination paper in English with its data , and Afrikaans with its data files is now available.

Gr 10 Revision or Disaster

Did you do the Pug Dog Club set in 2006 question paper ( data files and memo ) as revision with your Gr 10 learners? Did you see the fat ...

Gr 10 PAT

I have just finished marking the Gr 10 PATs. I believe we have left out an important point, or we did not leave it out but we did not alloc...

Gr 10 November Practical examinations

The Gr 10 Study Opportunities Practical examination papers are now available in English and Afrikaans . The data files are available - Eng...

Gr 11 PAT Phases 5 and 6

I have just finished marking the Gr 11 PAT Phases 5 and 6 and certain aspects are common to most of the learner's work - in the handout ...

Gr 12 Learners

Here are pictures of some of the Gr 12 learners whose work has been available on this blog in 2008 - Galer, Justus, Hobbs, Machado, W...

Gr 10 PAT

Final report Headings need similar styles, i.e. font sizes and fonts Readable font, i.e. Arial or Comic Sans used Same font used for all the...

Gr 10 PAT

A strange thing is happening in the Gr 10 PAT final report: The learners are copying the data/advertisements for hardware/software they fin...

Gr 10 and 11 Nov exam papers

Some one asked about the Gr 10 and 11 Nov exam papers from Study Opportunities. Look at the posting on 15 June .

Gr 10 Nov Exam

TIP from Sandra for Gr 10 Final Prac Exam from Study Opportunities .

Gr 11 PAT - Phases 3 and 4

Here are examples of the different kinds of databases - one is on general social networking sites and others on Mxit in the media - Erasmus ...

Gr 10 PAT

My Gr 10s are working so hard on their PAT about computers and the disabled. They had problems getting their questions correct but that h...

Gr 11 PAT - Phases 3 and 4

Into Week 2 I am still walking the room watching and giving help where it is needed. Learners are busy creating the database, Word planning ...

Gr 11 PAT Phases 3 and 4

Thursday Day 4 Work is going well - Putting data into spreadsheet and database. The Countif function is being used to analyse the data in t...

Gr 11 PAT

The latest You magazine has a good article on Cyberbullying. Most useful for the PAT. I suggest learners buy it now.

Gr 11 PAT Phases 3 and 4

Wednesday, Day 3 Reminded the learners what had to handed in on Friday next week. - Spreadsheet with all the data from the survey. Inf...

Gr 11 PAT Phases 3 and 4

Day 2 The learners are busy filling in survey forms. A few learners have started putting the information from the forms into Excel. A few ...

Gr 10 Pages 231-243

My Grade 10 learners are currently busy with templates, pages 231-243. They made a letterhead for their homes. Their homework this week is...

Gr 12 PAT Phase 6

Here are some examples of Phase 6 of the Grade 12 PAT done by learners at my school. The files are large - Casswell , Kolbe , Marankey and...

Gr 10 PAT

The Gr 10 PAT is now available in English and Afrikaans . I believe that many teachers and learners are really going to enjoy doing this PAT.

Teaching of CAT

How do schools with economically disadvantaged learners cope with CAT? Those learners have probably not used the computer before starti...

Delicious social networking

Delicious is a collection of favourites - yours and everyone else’s. To learn how to use it view this video and or listen to my comments...

Gr 11 PAT - Phases 1 and 2

Here are examples of my Gr 11 PAT Phases 1 and 2 - Krause and Peterson . We have struggled with this as the learners had difficulty readi...

Gr 12 PAT Phase 6

Phase 6 - it really is a sales pitch about how wonderful the Office suite is to solve a specific problem. You show, demonstrate and convinc...

Gr 12 September Written Paper Memo

The Memo for the Gr 12 Written paper - English and Afrikaans .

Grade 11 PAT - Phases 1 and 2

I have just marked Phases 1 and 2 of the Grade 11 PAT. The first challenge, and this part of the PAT is deciding on what is required! My le...

Gr 12 Written paper

Grade 12 September written paper Afrikaans and English .

Problems

Week with service providers, power and computer problems. Friday – No Gmail or Google access from home computer. Links on blog not working ...

Disaster

Server where links are stored is down. My school internet is down. Disaster all round. Thank goodness 4 cellphones.

Internet access

This weekend I have just been forced to use an Internet cafe although I have ADSL at home. My service provider, Internet Solutions, has pro...

Gr 12 CAT Practical paper

Please check the following amendments to CAT Practical marksheet. 2.2.3-Gender and Amount attached: These are Check box Form Fields, not Tex...

Gr 12 Practical Paper

Memo and solutions - Afrikaans and English

Grade 12 September Practical Paper Errata

Errata on the Gr 12 Practical English paper. SORRY.

Grade 12 September Practical exam papers

Grade 12 September CAT Practical exam papers English question paper and data files Errata on English paper Afri...

Saving and using files from the web site

When you wish to use exam files from the web site or blog follow the points below: Right-click on the file name and SAVE it on your hard ...

Gr 12 PAT Phase 5

Here are some examples of my learners Phase 5 - Meiring and Woollgar . They did not get full marks! They should have if they had followe...

AIDS lessons

I would like to collect lessons on AIDS which fall into the skills taught in CAT and make a repository of them. I recently made a call for ...

Gr 11 PAT

The Gr 11 PAT is now available - so nice! English instructions and Read more Afrikaans instructions and Read more

Gr 11 Access

My learners have just begun with Access. We started off using the video on What is a database which helped. Have a look at the quiz whi...

Gr 12 PAT - Phase 5

These PPTs may help you help Phase 5 of the Grade 12 PAT. Thanks to Peter Davidson.

Gr 10 Activity 11

The Hoaxes activity on page 292 has caused such interest in my Grade 10 class! Nice activity. I wonder how other teachers found it.

Selection of learners for CAT

CAT is one of the most important subjects for academic and economic success when a learner leaves school. We must give as many learners as ...

Gr 12 Revision

At school we have been told to prepare a revision schedule for the learners. Many of my colleagues will be doing revision in the holidays a...

Gr 12 PAT - Phase 4

Here are two examples of my learners's Phase 4 - Abrahams and Kolbe . They both achieved 37/40. They both lost marks where they were ...

Excel quizzes

Here is a link to a collection of Excel quizzes I made. Please feel free to use them. I am just sorry that they cannot be downloaded and ...

Access switchboard

Phase 5 of the PAT mentions a Switchboard in Access. You may want to use my video for help. I suggest you download it, open with a browse...

Examination question papers

Have a look at the wonderful information re availability of examination papers!

Gr 11 - Third term assessment task

In the third term Grade 11 have a task, Item 5 in SAG : Assignment using additional package . It is based on using PowerPoint or FrontPage ...

Videos for learning

I had a wonderful time during the holidays training CAT teachers. I was asked to create some videos. Here are some new videos. Working wit...

Excel functions videos

Some Excel functions videos to download - Sumif , Countif / Count and Round . Other videos can be found on my tips page .

Access quiz

This Access quiz may be of use.

Word - Working with long documents

Have a look at some videos I made to teach aspects of working with long documents. You can download them and then view them off line in a cl...

Grade 12 PAT

My Grade 12 learners are just finishing off Phase 4 of their PAT. A problem has become apparent. Although they are showing what they int...

Keyboarding

End of year examinations are coming up and on reflection I realise that I have neglected to test my learners on their keyboarding skills. ...

Instructional videos

Look at these instructional videos created by the first ever CAT Hons students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology - the Round f...

Competition for schools in the Western Cape

Schools in the Western Cape have an opportunity of entering a competition to create an anti xenophobia screensaver with some nice prizes....

Biblionef

When my Gr 11 learners did the Theme 1 activity on page S9, they just did it. I never really thought about it. I have changed my thinkin...

Gr 12 Practical

Many teachers said that their learners did not finish the practical. Die feit is: 200 punte se werk moet in 3 ure afgehandel kan word. Dit g...

CAT Exam Papers from Study Opportunities

We are planning to provide the following (at no cost) to everyone who purchased our CAT Grade 12 June Papers: Grade 12 Prelim Papers Grade 1...

Gr 12 PAT - Phase 3

Have a look at 3 examples of Phase 3 of the PAT - the works of Caswell , Meiring and Miller . They received marks of 37, 39 and 33 out of 4...

Gr 12 Exam papers

The results of my 55 learners for the Gr 12 paper are: Theory 58% and Practical 63% - Pam Miller at Pinelands High School . (Just thought ...

Gr 12 Exams

Message from Teacher in Gauteng: My CAT kids of all grades finish far too early for every paper if I stick to the mark allocation in the SAG...

Gr 12 Theory Exam Memo

The Memo for the Theory and Teorie is now available. The password will be SMSed on Friday.

Gr 12 Practical Exam paper

The Solutions and Oplossings to the Gr 12 CAT practical are available. Please use the PRACMEMO password that you have used for the marksh...

Marking Computer Applications Technology practical papers

I print a memo sheet / marksheet for every learner and then sit at the computer marking each learner's work. The benefits are that you ...

Gr 12 June Exams

How did it go?? E-mail me ( docpam@gmail.com ) or Sandra ( study.opp@mweb.co.za ) and we can upload everybody’s messages on the blog. (Indic...

Gr 12 June Prac Memo

There seems to be a problem with the PRACMEMO password. It seems as if some cell phones cannot receive an underscore '_' You should ...

Gr 12 June Exam Papers

The marksheet for Paper 1 in English and Afrikaans is now available. You have to know the password to be able to open them. It would be a...

Gr 12 Practical Paper

ERRATA Please change 1.3 as below. “last week of February” to “end of May” Please extract the data files from the ZIP file by using your pas...

Gr 12 June Papers from Study Opportunities

THEORY PAPER Paper 2 Theory / Vraestel 2 Teorie

Gr 12 Practical Data

Please check the dates of your data files. If all the dates are the same, such as the following: change question 1.3

Gr 12 June Papers from Study Opportunities

Information and Entry Form Breakdown Instructions PRACTICAL PAPER and DATA Right-click and use Save As to save the zip files. The password w...

Gr 10 and 11 June exam papers

Many people have just realized that I made an offer of my Grade 10 June exam papers. To test that email to all the prospective recipients o...

Gr 12 June CAT paper from Study Opportunities

You want to know what the paper will look like? You want to know the breakdown of the Practical and the Written paper? Have a look - the b...

Word – Inserting page numbers

The following is found on the Grade 12 Exemplar: Insert page number fields in the format of ‘Page X of Y’ in the footer so that the page num...

Gr 10 Activity 6 on Page 200

My Grade 10 learners have been learning about their own country in Activity 6 on page 200. Many did not know all the provinces in South Afr...

Gr 10 Activity 6 on Page 200

My Grade 10 learners have been learning about their own country in Activity 6 on page 200. Many did not know all the provinces in South Afr...

Gr 11 Pages 140-144

My learners have been doing the chapter Working with paragraphs which includes tabs, columns and various paragraph features. They are comp...

Gr 10 Activity 6 on Page 200

The map of South Africa needed on page 200 Activity 6, when opened in Paint, only shows the colours of black and shades of grey. In order t...

Eskom

Dear Eskom Boss I have to set a 3 hour practical paper for CAT for grade 11. My school has made the timetable and will not change the days....

Knowledge of input devices

In the Practical work for CAT in Gr 10 the LPG (page 28) indicates that the learner should have knowledge of input devices such as scanner a...

Gr 10 May examination

A number of people have indicated they wish to use my Grade 10 June exam papers. The paper will be available on the blog, freely available a...

Searching for old material

To search for old material use the Search button at the top of the screen. Also look at a posting of 18 Feb 2008.

June Gr 12 Examination Paper

This is the form needed to complete for the June CAT Gr 12 Examination Paper from Study Opportunities.

Gr 12 PAT Phase 3

I had a brainwave for Phase 3. The learners have all the information / evidence they have found in their LONG document arranged in a sui...

Gr 10 May examination

I have set a nice Grade 10 theory paper and will make it available on 22 May if anyone wishes to use it. It will also be available in Afrik...

Gr 12 PAT Phase 2

Here is a copy of my best Phase 2 of the PAT, not full marks but the best in the class. She lost marks in her Search words / strategies and...

Gr 12 Exam Papers from Study Opportunities

Study Opportunities has drawn up Grade 12 question papers (Paper 1 and 2) and memoranda for the June exams. While it is aimed at schools who...

Gr 12 Februarie toets

My Februarie toets is vertaal. Hier is the vraestel en die Appendix Dankie Judy Louw wat al die vertaal werk gedoen het.

Gr 12 PAT - Phase 2

I have almost finished marking Phase 2 of the PAT. I would say 3/4 of my learners have not shown or indicated how they can use Word, Acc...

Gr 11 Projects - Activity 1 on page 309

- The Gr 10 learners used the program Inspiration to create mindmaps to assist the Gr 8 learners in doing their projects in steps. I intend...

Front covers of textbook

In the past photographs of my learners were used on the front covers of the CAT textbooks. They were so thrilled and even now they ‘look’ at...

Gr 11 Integrated task 1

The learners need to be taught the difference between an Agenda and Minutes! In the Paired Reading task they cannot seem to get the differen...

Gr 12 February test

Have a look at my Gr 12 February written test on Hardware, software and networks including trouble shooting with the Appendix . I set the t...

Appropriate dress for teaching CAT

When we teach CAT we have to be so careful with respect to our dress. We teach young men and women with bouncing hormones! I have noticed s...

Gr 10 Theme 1 test

Here is the test I did this week where I focused on Theme 1. I tried to set it within a scenario and where ICT skills are applied. Use if y...

Gr 11 February test

Here is the test I did this week where I focused on Networking. I tried to set it within a scenario and where ICT skills are applied. Use...

Gr 10 Theory

Some of the Gr 10 learners had time for extension in the hardware section. These are a few of the videos they created on Storage devices. ...

Tests and exam papers

We must be sure to set tests and exam paper in a scenario where the learners apply their knowledge. For many teachers this is quite a jum...

Excel - Vlookup

This Vlookup function may be of use. Download it and save to your network. To open it, right click on the file and open it with Internet E...

PAT

Have a look at all postings from last year on the PAT. In the place where it says Search type in the words PAT. Click SEARCH BLOG and see ...

Gr 12 PAT

Please read this message aloud! How do we do a PAT? First we read the instructions aloud to ourselves, once, twice, three and even four ti...

Understanding and connecting

We adults are so distanced from young people. I was teaching adult Computer Literacy teachers this week about creating movies with Windows ...