Marking of matric exams

I was involved with marking the WCED matric exam papers where many of the markers came from places as far away as Knysna, Mossel Bay and Hei...

Digital story of the Nativity

This digital version of the Xmas story may be of interest -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvM-I0j5emA I think it is lovely!  Merry Xmas!

Multiple choice questions - Solution to marking?

During the course of 2010 I became very tired of marking the never ending amount to work in CAT. During the year I completed the Get Smarter...

Browsers and the web

A must-read link for all CAT teachers and their learners - "All about browsers and the web" - a Google e-book publication.   http:...

Grade 11 Theory Memo

Grade 11 Theory Memo English , Afrikaans

Great excitement

I took part in my first online auction and my bid of R110 was the highest!   They are tickets to attend a symphony concert valued at R330.  ...

Gr 10 Theory Memo

Grade 10 Theory Memo English Memo , Afrikaans Memo Errata - 6.2.4 Cell reference should be B4, not B5

Errata: Gr 11 Theory paper

There are 11 pages not 12 3.10.2 Change to 'Why'. 4.5 unwanted software 5.5 Add the word 'to' before 'locate'.

Gr 11 November Theory 2010

Gr 11 November Theory 2010 Questions papers - English , Afrikaans

Gr 10 November Theory Exam paper

Gr 10 Paper 2 Theory November 2010 Question paper - English , Afrikaans

Emotional consequences of communication technology

Technological communication has such a impact on our lives. Being on email/Facebook/chat,cell phone, etc. makes one so much more available t...

Gr 11 November Practical Exam Solutions

Paper 1 Solutions English Marksheet , Afrikaans Marksheet

Gr 10 November Practical Exam Solutions

Solutions Q1 Eng & Afr Marksheet , SolutionsQ2_6 Merkblad , OplossingsV2_6

Problem solving

There has been a lot of talk on the Comp-Studies mailing list about including problem solving questions in the Computer Applications Technol...

Gr 11 November Practical Exam

Paper 1 Question paper - English , Afrikaans Data files To the teacher

Gr 11 or 10 PAT PPTs

The Gr 11s are producing the best PPTs ever for their PATs.   I gave them a PPT with the following slides:   Title slide, Habits/Uses, Solut...

Gr 10 November Practical Exam

Paper 1 Question papers - English , Afrikaans Data - English , Afrikaans For the teacher

Gr 10 Revision

During the course of the year the Gr 10 learners have worked with many files which form a good set of notes.   Mine will be collecting these...

Revision for the Gr 12 Practical examination

Go over the OAO questions as they are good revision questions. Look at the question paper, answer sheet and how to solve, with the data file...

Gr 12 Revision

Next on Gr 12 revision is Waiter evaluation on page 226 in the section Module 6.3: Practice makes perfect.  Important areas are: Question 1 ...

Digital natives and digital immigrants

Digital natives and digital immigrants - Read the article by Masha du Toit, the opening speaker at a conference recently held in Cape Town -...

Gr 10 PAT and hoaxes

Grade 10 learners are doing their PAT about computer ethics which include hoaxes.  Look at the article published today at   http://www.times...

Connections

It is a very small world! Although I teach CAT I had the pleasure of attending the prize giving of the Computer Olympiad (IT) at Kelvin Grov...

Practical Revision for Gr 12

We have 2 weeks before the final Gr 12 Practical examination. I recommend doing the activities in the back of the Gr 12 textbook Module 6.3....

Gr 10 PAT

I am getting my PAT right with my Gr 10s. For the moment I have ignored the printed instructions and rubric. I am teaching and guiding. I r...

Twitter - new ideas

Holidays are a great time for attending conferences and playing with new software. I would appreciate it if this was tested for glitches a...

PAT Phase 2

Twitter and Delicious

I believe that all Grade 11 learners should be able to use Twitter , Facebook and Delicious . Twitter is wonderful. Here is a PowerPoint in...

Online safety

CAT teachers should make use of the opportunity and download the guide to Online safety from getsmarter.co.za  It is very clear and compreh...

Google map

Recently I had a small class and was able to do things I could not normally do with a large class. I showed the learners Google map using th...

Cost of teaching CAT

Computer Applications Technology must be the most expensive subject for a teacher to teach, with respect to personal expenses. You have to h...

Musings on the PAT

Met with a teacher last week who mentioned that she is getting better at the PAT as she is working individually with each learner. I am now ...

Google CV, Facebook and Twitter

We had very few learners at school today as many are away celebrating Eid Mubarak . The matrics are writing exams, and in one of the periods...

Gr 12 September exams 2010

Theory Memo English , Afrikaans

Keeping up to date

We must all use whatever opportunities to keep abreast in our field. Earlier this year, when the grade 10s were doing an activity on inter...

Gr 12 Theory paper

Grade 12 Paper 2 - To the teacher , English question paper , Afrikaans question paper

Problem solving

I have an M.Ed. student doing some work on problem solving in Computer Applications Technology. The work in Excel Gr 10 page 243 at the end ...

Word formatting

I am busy marking some tests. The test asks for the text to be justified. Some of the pages looked most strange. Some of learners used ve...

Gr 12 Practical exam

This is an analysis to the Practical paper showing how many marks were allocated to the different applications. Use the same password as th...

Passwords

When you have to use a long and complicated password to unzip a file, do the following: Type the password in Notepad – while taking note o...

Gr 12 September exams 2010

Marksheet English , Afrikaans and Completed questions (English and Afrikaans)

Africa Geographic digimag

Wonderful link to an African Geographic digimag.  Suitable for sciences and geography teachers.   http://www.africageographicdigital.com/

Warning to all CAT teachers

Realise that one day, soon, your computer's hard drive will crash and you will need to recover everything!   So save your bookmarks (exp...

Gr 12 September exams 2010

Paper 1 - To the teacher Paper 1 Practical - English question paper , Afrikaans question paper , Data Paper 1 Practical - English marksheet ...

Gr 12 Exam Paper 1

You can download the exam paper from  www.studyopportunities.co.za ; FET:CAT; Grade 12 page   OR from    http://limpopo.100webcustom...

Marking - Virtual Assessor

I think we pay R500 per month which covers bandwidth.  We are a trial school.  The software is used in the corporate world a great deal - I ...

Marking work

The most interesting thing I learned in the UCT Internet Super-user course http://www.getsmarter.co.za/uct-internet-super-user was the use ...

Wikipedia for Schools

Do you know that you can download an Encyclopedia for free for our schools?   Instructions here The full download of Wikipedia...

Free webinars - In service training

Have you ever wanted to listen to experts in their field discussing a topic?  This week I have attended two presentations in the US where th...

Gr 12 PAT

I have marked many PATs and feel irritated.   All reports are marked and I am just finishing off a few PPTs.   We must check that the lear...

Preparing for Grade 12 exams

The September exams are coming soon.   To prepare I am going over old exam papers.   I am horrified at how much my learners have forgotten. ...

Access problem

This is for all those good at Access.   I formatted text in a database table with an input mask.   When I did a mail merge, that text displa...

In service training

I had a wonderful Friday evening and Saturday morning teaching the CAT students doing an advanced certificate in education (ACE) at Cape Pen...

PowerPoint 2007 SmartArt

My Matrics are finishing off their Phase 3 PPTs and a few are using PPT 2007s SmartArt.  Wow!  Never again will I make PPTs in the way I did...

Digital Divide

Look at this new definition of the Digital Divide by Helene Blowers

Graphs

Chapter 3.2 in the Grade 11 book is such an important chapter and the work so challenging. Graphs really require understand and thought. N...

Report writing

There seem to have been problems downloading the Report Writing PPT. I thought it was because there was a space between words in the file n...

Office 2007 training

During the holidays I had the pleasure of helping presenting an Office 2007 training course. Here are copies of the Excel manual , PowerPoi...

Exam papers 2010

Place your order for CAT exam papers. Quality papers and low prices. Click here , download and follow instructions.

PAT and report writing

I have marked many PAT reports and ACE student reports. Here is a PPT (in 2007) of points that are badly done in both. Please feel free t...

Clean up

This winter weather and soccer on TV is a wonderful time to clean up one's computer and get ready for the tax man. I cannot spend hour...

Office 2007

Between watching soccer I have been spending these holidays preparing to give a training session on new features of Microsoft Office 2007. ...

Internet course

I have just completed the GetSmarter Internet SuperUser course http://www.getsmarter.co.za/uct-internet-super-user . This course has been ...

Twitter

http://edudemic.com/2010/06/twitter-launches-official-guide-to-tweeting-videos/ Guide to Twitter - but do not try and have a whole class ...

Facebook

The CAT teacher is the expert ICT teacher at most schools. Please share this article with your fellow teachers. http://edudemic.com/2010/0...

Email addresses from Excel to Gmail

Teachers may find this useful - How to use a group to send email, and then how to import email addresses from Excel into Gmail http://www.c...

Technology for tourism

Google street view is here! A Google street view vehicle has probably been in most urban areas in South Africa and taken street views. Tod...

Social networking and the World Cup

Have a look at the links, share with learners. Who/what matters on Twitter - http://listorious.com/WorldCupCNN/world-cup World Cup to drive...

PPT on Basic Computer Devices Gr 11

Exploring the application is essential in teaching the computer. Have a look at this PPT made in two periods by a gr 11 learner who had nev...

Gr 10 Page - Page 86 - Activity 2 - Important words

CAP – amount of data (text, pictures, animations, video, sound, etc.) transferred (downloaded and uploaded) Line rental – to Telkom ADSL – t...

Google search criteria

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html Essential information on doing searches on Google.

Way of teaching

When we teach CAT we have to be very careful to teach the learners to explore the applications.   We should not give too explicit instructio...

Page numbering - Odd and Even, and other things in Word 2007

If you do NOT want page numbers on page 1, then be ON page 2 or higher and insert page numbers. In Table Design check on Different First P...

Page numbering - Odd and Even in Word 2007

There has just been a query about odd and even page numbering - Look at this solution. Move cursor to first page. Insert, Page Number, Botto...

Grade 12 PAT

I have worked hard on getting my grade 12 PAT correct. We are now working on Phase 3. Here is a link to that PPT that I am using. I am t...

Passwords

Here is a very good article on how to create and manage passwords, must reading for every CAT teacher and learner. http://www.fastcompany.co...

Microsoft Office

Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web For the first time, Microsoft will provide a free online version of Office that lets peop...

Excel 2007

I keep discovering new things with Excel 2007. In the past to change the format of a cell you had to go to Format … or right click Format c...

Wonder wheel in Google

I am doing a wonderful course to become an Internet Superuser at http://www.getsmarter.co.za/ and learning so much! To find the wonder whe...

Exam timetables

In the old days we made an ordinary table in Word with exam days.   We also made it fancy! Take the next step and make it with Gmail Calen...

Great kids google competition for World Cup

Look at this great competition brought to my attention from the Infolink mailing list - good work with shapes, printing, Google, etc. ...

Soccer T shirts and software

With the soccer getting our attention these days many people are now buying Bafana Bafana T shirts to wear on Fridays, and at the games. I b...

Use the Internet in a fun way

If you have time in the busy schedule of teaching CAT you may want to enter, with your learners, the competition to help name the fossil of...

Internet course

I am looking forward to the UCT Internet Super-User Course http://www.getsmarter.co.za/uct-internet-super-user which starts on 12 April.   ...

Setting exam papers

I am really enjoying setting my exam papers for June.  For a long time I have used those set by Sandra and Co, but now am doing my own.  Ins...

PAT

I have had a problem brought to my attention about the PAT: Schools which do not have Internet access. First a school should not be offering...

Flash drives

On an average day I pick up at least 2 flash drives left behind by careless learners in my computer lab. One learner has devised her own way...

Wonders at the hairdresser

After having my hair washed at the hairdresser, like a robot, I walked over and sat down at a computer and logged onto the Internet. I only ...

Grade 11 PAT Phase 1

My Grade 11s are working so well on their PAT phase 1.   Why?   Because I taught them well last year, they have the long document on the PAT...

Office 2007

Have you tried mail merge in Office 2007 Word?   What a dream!  My Grade 12 learners did mail merge today - wonderful.  Even labels were eas...

In-service training

How to keep up with technology in the field of CAT– I was asked that recently in an interview.  Well I paid, in dollars, to study online in ...

Office 2007

Many people are moving to 2007.  Have a look at the 2008 matric paper on Birds where there is a PPT to support the paper, based on 2007. It ...

Gr 12 Survey - Extracting data from forms

Email from a teacher - Sorry to bother, but I have done some surveys with my grade 12's. Do you know how to export the "results...

Internet security quiz

Have a look at the Excel spreadsheet quiz on Internet security. This quiz fits in well with the work at Gr 11 Pg 22 Activity 1. The main ...

Office 2007

I do not believe the Department of Education requires us to move over to 2007 or 2010.  Their papers are even set so that one can use Open O...

Competition and Online safety

Learners are invited to vote for the name of a recently discovered asteroid.  One of the learners at my school submitted a name.  Please go ...

Gr 10 – Page 117 Activity 5 and 6 - Text effects in Office 2007 and Format Painter

Text effects in 2007 In Word 2003 if you go to Format, Font, Text effects you have the option of Shimmer, Marching Black Ants and other fu...

Effective learners

A deputy at our school, Jeremy Gibbon , gave a wonderful PowerPoint presentation at assembly at the beginning of the term on 'The 7 habi...

Gr 11 and 2007 - Chapter 1.1

Study Opportunities kindly made notes for the packages where people may struggle when they use the Gr 11 and 12 textbooks with Office 2007. ...

Soccer

On the weekend I bought tickets for the soccer world cup, for a match in Cape Town. There was a wonderful article in Friday's The Time...

PAT 2010

I am rather excited about the PATs this year. They are all on Thutong at http://www.thutong.doe.gov.za/computerapplicationtechnology/Home/...

Mindsports

Invitation to CAT teachers: Mindsports is a new sport to the school arena and very few schools know that structures are already in place to ...

Grade 11 PAT in 2010

• I n order to work meaningfully with the PAT I believe the Gr 11 learners must have experienced Social Networking applications.  So my ...

Grade 10 Input Output Storage Processing - Page 19

My Grade 10s all have to have someone take a photo of them using computer technology using a digital camera or cell phone. (The picture must...

Changes in ...

Essential reading for all teachers!   Curriculum Newsletter http://www.education.gov.za/Content/documents/curriculum%20news%20newsletter.pdf...

Greetings

May all CAT teachers have a wonderful 2010.

Value of CAT

What is CAT? Where does the PAT fit in? As I stood looking at the Library of Alexandria in the developing ancient country of Egypt, I ...