Shun Tak Fraternal Association Leung Kau Kui College

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

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