Simple, yet stylish, flash animation to show the baseic concept of how computer control in a fish tank works. Taken from the now defunct www.ictgcse.com website.

Simple, yet stylish, flash animation to show the baseic concept of data logging.

Lovely interactive crossword on hardware theory taken form the now defunct www.ictgcse.com site. You might want to press F11 on your keyboard to make it more visible in your browser.

Simple tutorial but highly effective and engaging for students of all ages. Using just 2 layers in Flash and a few tools you can create a piece of art work in the style of Julian Opie. You will be surprised at just how good your students will get with this one, we have some amazing work on the walls at school that Mr Opie himself would have been proud of....

Cracking little sets of videos that shows how to construct comics in comic life but also working with drawplus to rip characters from one cartoon and embedding them in the other. All neatly wrapped up in a cyber bullying theme for a token nod to e-safety. This task kills a flock of birds with one stone and your kids will love it. This exercise sees Homer Simpson being bullied by Bender from Futurama...

Set of 4 videos to cover creating and reusing movie clips, tweening, easing, opacity and the use of actions on buttons. Ideal for unit 20 of the Nationals but let's be honest most of your year 7s could handle this. Not a criticism of Nationals as I like the course, but it's just fun, a decent standard and kids will want to do it of any age.....

A series of mind maps suitable for the A level course by WJEC and based around the Doyle text. These could of course be used by students doing other specs where there is some overlap. Lots more to follow

Sorry about the lack of controls on the videos but I can't find the original recordings to rerender. Anyway nice set of tutorials to show kids how to make a two player racing game in scratch. Have to admit there are a few mistakes later on, but kids will be able to work out how to amend!!

A few videos to get you going with drawplus, nothing fancy but enough techniques to keep most KS3 kids busy for a few hours.

The following videos explain how you can integrate monkeyjam, audacity and a graphics program of your choice (I use fireworks) to create something a little more advanced than the standard 'lego youtube' efforts that we have all seen.

I use these files as an end of year test for our year 8s. Combines some basic graphic work, with a few formula in a spreadsheet to create a graph that is then used in a mail merge task. It's a bit 'leftfield' in content and would need a few changes to the word docs to make it specific to your school, however it is a lot of fun, assesses useful skills and the kids enjoy doing it.

Thought I would create a series of mind maps to help my own students revise for this course. I have tried to embed key terms that seem to appear on the mark schemes from the board. Hopefully they may help a few of your students too!! I am going to add lots of these over the next couple of weeks, we find they work very well in moodle within a lightbox gallery

Fabulous penalty shootout game to test GCSE ICT students on theory. Taken from the old www.ictgcse.com website and made in conjunction with our friends at content generator.

It's a series of camtasia tutorials (vid files) and video footage taken with a camcorder (film files) that explain how to construct a database suitable for a video store. Tables, forms, reports and queries are all covered and some 'advanced' features like combo boxes and report calculations. Please check the document 'order of videos' to get everything in the right way!!

We use this exam with our year 7's as their end of year exam. The mark scheme is a simple tick sheet exercise that enables you to grade the work created very quickly. Sorry about all the separate photos but you can't use a zip file here.

I can't draw, dropped art in year 9 when I was at school, but drawing cartoon animals with serif drawplus is a doodle. This video will show you how you can turn your KS3 kids into fine computer based artists

Podcast covering health and safety issues that are traditionally covered on GCSE or AS level ICT papers

Lovely interactive crossword on Internet theory taken form the now defunct www.ictgcse.com site. You might want to press F11 on your keyboard to make it more visible in your browser.

If you have ever used my previous top down racer videos then I would suggest you move on to these ones as they are superior. Loads of skills to create a 2 player racing game like micro machines, lap counters, oil slicks, speed ups, and showing how to stop any cheats. Will keep kids busy for about 2-3 hours in general.

A bunch of films, screencasts and weblinks that you could use to help support the delivery of the French trip model assignment. Some of it is geared to my school, for example we use open source email rather than outlook, but the principles of all the resources can be used by anyone. Please find the second part of this resource in the resource bank to finish off the database videos