Shun Tak Fraternal AssociationLeungKauKuiCollege
Information Technology
Proposed Teaching Schedule in Form One (Revised 2007)
Cycle 1 – 2(4 lessons)
Introduction of IT applications in everyday life
Information is data which has been given specific meaning.
Information in the real world: text, graphics, image, sound, animation and video.
The range of applications in home, school, office, bank, entertainment, etc.
Different IT tools that would be used to accomplish a particular task.
Concept of computer
Input units, storage units, central processing unit & output units
Bit & Bytes; the relationship between kB, MB, GB and etc.
Hardware & software
Supercomputer, mainframe computer, minicomputer & microcomputer
Operating a computer
Basic Windows operations.
Login & logout in Windows NT/2000 Environment.
The use of menus, icons and shortcuts.
File management:
different types of files with different extensions
approximate file size for different types of files
save, retrieve, copy and delete files.
the use of folders.
Saving and retrieving files in the network drives
Cycle 3(2 lessons)
School Intranet system (IT-School)
Basic skills
Email operations
Web based email system
Sign in & sign out
Reading & writing mails
File attachments
Delete useless mails
Notice boards
Discussion forums
Web-based test and exam
Personal homepage and information
Cycle 4(2 lessons)
Use of Digital Camera
Take a photograph by a digital camera
The concept of pixels (像素)
Transfer the photographs to the computer
Revision of using image viewing tools (e.g. PhotoImpact)
Scanner Application
Preview and scan a picture
Select useful area to be saved
The relationship between dpi (dots per inch), the number of pixels and the file size
Color, gray scale or black and white pictures
Different file formats of pictures (bmp, jpg, gif and etc.)
Cycle 5 – 11(14 lessons)
PhotoImpact
Photo Retouching Basics
PhotoImpact Basic Operations
Modifying Colour and Selecting Tool
Merging Image
Text Design
Special Effects and Filters
Web Page Application
Vector Drawing and 3-D Design
Photo Management
Project Learning
Project 1 - Creating Illustration for Poster
Drawing graphics and setting colours
Using advanced drawing techniques
Combining graphics, adjusting image effects and adding text
Project 2 - Producing Eye Catching Web Pages
Producing web page backgrounds
Producing web page headers
Inserting text and images to web pages
Saving files in HTML format
Project 3 - Producing Creative Web Page Components
Producing animated banner advertisements
Producing graphical headers
Creating button sets with hyperlink
Creating self-defined buttons with hyperlink
Cycle 12– 13(4 lessons)
Chinese input methods
倉頡
速成 / 簡易
Cycle 14– 15(4 lessons)
Utilities and tools –I
Multimedia player (e.g. Media Player, Real Player)
ETV online
RTHK
Compression tools (e.g. WinZip)
Online document reader (e.g. Acrobat Reader)
Photo enhancement tools (e.g. brief introduction to PhotoImpact)
Sound recording and editing tools (e.g. Goldwave)
Offline browsing tools (e.g. Webstripper)
Download managers (e.g. FlashGet)
Cycle 16 –20(10 lessons)
Dreamweaver– I
A Web Page Editing Tool ---
Formatting and Editing Web Text
Working with Tables and Layout tables
Integrating with Images
Linking and navigation
Cutting the Window with Frames
Project Learning
Activity 1 - My Class Web page
Create frames and a navigation bar
Insert anchors and apply CSS Selector
Create a CSS style
Cycle 21
Homework submission, revision and examination
Remarks
Reference books / materials
《Photo Retouching Applied to School Work》by Digital Vision
《Building Web Site with Dreamweaver 4》by Digital Vision
Notes supplied by IT teachers
F.1 IT Syllabus(Revised 2007)Page 1