Resources

  • External Resource
    Pathways from school to qualifications and careers in Technology, Engineering and Applied Sciences

    The latest poster from futureintech.org.nz, this is a rather good poster to have up in your classrooms as well as the careers office to offer a suggested plan of study for students at years 12 and 13, this was released at the latest TENZ conference and has now been made available for schools/teachers/students.

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  • External Resource
    Techlink calendar

    We thought about creating a calendar of events on the nzacditt site, but it would just replace something that already existed.


    All NZACDITT region based events and possible national based technology events will be made available at this link.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Aoteatech Digital Technologies Wiki

    A wiki where all the information on assessment and learning in Digital Technologies is gathered together. It's freely editably by anyone, so add your links and lets help each other to unstand the fast changes in our subject.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    The Teacher's Lounge

    The Teacher's Lounge is a 'one-stop-shop' for all the key links we use every day, all in one place. Check it out, add it to your bookmarks and feed back. I hope you find it useful.

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  • External Resource
    Developing Assessment for Unit Standards

    Part of the NZQA website this is a section to provide help and guidance when developing assessments for unit standards.

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  • External Resource
    Open Standards and Web Pages Curriculum

    By Opera and it is really extensive. Well worth a look.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    A huge selection of cheat sheets and posters

    A great collection of posters, brochures and cheat sheets for a huge range of topics.

    According to its blurb: 'All cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference
    cards, quick reference guides and quick reference sheets in one page.
    The only one you need.'

    Thanks Peter Sim.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Month of Unit Standards January 2010

    During the month of January 2010 NZACDITT members put together a resource a day for the revised unit standards. These are listed in the Unit Standards Project. However you will need to be a member of NZACDITT and log into  the website to view them.

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  • External Resource
    Programming Course Notes

    Pointed out by Graeme Junge.

    Includes some information on desk checking.

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  • External Resource
    Junior ICT scheme of work

    Pointed out by Irena Holland:

    "For those people who are struggling to find ideas... But actually often we have too many. This website has some excellent ideas for junior students, includes unit outlines, resources, slideshows, vocab lists etc."

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  • External Resource
    eBoy Pixel Art Resources and Posters

    Members of NZACDITT have been given permission to use the pixel art at this site for classroom resources, posters, examples and anything else that is non-commercial use. Warning: Some posters contain pixel nudity!

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  • External Resource
    How to attribute Creative Commons licensed materials for Teachers and Students

    Thanks Gerard.

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  • External Resource
    Database dataset - Police NZ Stolen Vehicles Dataset

    Stolen vehicle information listed here is a snapshot of data taken from the Police Vehicle of Interest database and is updated three times per day.

    CSV File

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Library Books as suggested by our members.

    Recently on the NZACDITT list serve there has been a discussion about books to recommend to the school library.

    Here is a summary of that discussion.

    Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is a fiction tale with lots of cool things about computers in it. Available as a free download here. Recommended by Max.

    The Sams Teach Yourself in 24 hours series as recommended by Vanessa

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  • External Resource
    Gimp Users

    News, views and information. Includes some great tutorials. As recommended by Josh.

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  • External Resource
    Body of Knowledge for Digital Technologies and the process to get here

    This Body of Knowledge forms the basis on which the Achievement Standards and the Teacher Guides will be produced. It provides the strands and the content for each level of what will be the Digital Technology Curriculum.

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  • External Resource
    Hardware Cheat Sheet

    A poster showing all the different types of hardware.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Previous Versions of the Unit Standards

    When the unit standards were updated NZQA removed all the links to the old versions of the standards. However they can be taught up to and including 2012. They have been compiled into a zip file for our members and made available here. Thanks Nigel Rankin.

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  • External Resource
    DTG Learning Plans

    Are finally up!

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  • External Resource
    Information Management

    From the Moderator and NZQA.

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  • External Resource
    Digital Citizenship

    Microsoft have updated the curriculum and the supplemental resources on the Digital Citizenship site at http://www.digitalcitizenshiped.com/ to reflect this change so please be sure to download the free revised curriculum at http://www.digitalcitizenshiped.com/Curriculum.aspx.

    Helpful Digital Citizenship Links

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    All the Digital Technology Achievement Standards in one file. And renamed.

    This zip file contains all the Digital Technologies Achievement Standards in one file.

    They are currently draft version (although apparently this is only so that people don't start using them this year).

    The files in the archive are...

    DT1_40_3cred_ext_understanding_basic_concepts_of_im.doc

    DT1_41_4cred_int_Imp_basic_proc_produce_specified_di_outcome.doc

    DT1_42_3cred_int_demonstrate_understanding_basic_concepts_digital_media .doc

    DT1_43_4cred_int_impl_basic_proc_produce_specified_dm_outcome.doc

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  • External Resource
    Computer Security in New Zealand Schools

    There is growing concern that our teachers are being left vulnerable to online threats which have the potential to threaten their professional reputation and even their very livelihood. One recent case saw a well respected New Zealand head teacher falsely accused of accessing inappropriate material on his computer. Despite his innocence, he lost his job, his home and has since moved abroad. There was also reputational damage to the school.

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  • External Resource
    Guide to the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act

    Pointed out by Gerard MacManus is this guide to the mentioned act.

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  • External Resource
    Adobe resources

    Pointed out to us by Gerard MacManus. These require you to create an Adobe id but then are free to download.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Teaching Guides

    Along with the Achievement Standards in Digital Technology, we plan on writing teaching guides

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  • External Resource
    Wired Shire.

    More content for the Junior to middle school. Pointed out by Christine.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Open Source Software

    Many schools are actively engaged in promoting and teaching using open source software. Here are some resources on this collected on our listserv.

    Screen reader alternatives. Josh suggested...

    For Windows there is: http://www.nvda-project.org/
    For Linux there is: http://live.gnome.org/Orca

    Dreamweaver alternatives. There was lively discussion about these. Here is a summary.

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  • NZACDITT Resource
    Resources for Junior Computing Classes

    As suggested by a number of contributors to NZACDITT google group.

    An incredible site and heaps of thanks for www.teach-ict.com that contains beautiful lesson plans, activities and feedback triggers. Above all most of the stuff is free for teachers and educational institutions.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/ has games that encourage them to learn as they play.

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  • External Resource
    Digital Technologies Guidelines

    NZACDITT believes that the DTG is a great place to start. We like the different areas of computing and the body of knowledge information assembled here.

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