IT Diploma - Level 2 resources
Unit 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKCehTzU7M Details of new developments in
input devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1VKJUrxi4 RFID: The future begins now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmZmk73RPY Thumbs up for Biometrics
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/1 how pizza chain Uno use
3/225541/videoconferencing-tool-gives-uno-an- videoconferencing to beat the
edge.htm competition
• Multimedia presentation, briefing sheets and Use of technology by the South
activities from West Ambulance Service
http://tlp.excellencegateway.org.uk/tlp/it/resource/e • Activity 1 Which technologies?
mployerchallen/usingitandtelec/thesouthwestern/in • Activity 2: Initial research
dex.html • Activity 3: Resolve IT: Emergency
scenarios
• Activity 4: Going deeper
• Activity 5: Team research projects
• Multimedia presentation, briefing sheets and Using IT to develop a farm
activities from enterprise
http://tlp.excellencegateway.org.uk/tlp/it/resource/e • Activity 1: Where should we plant
mployerchallen/usingittodevelo/index.html carrots?
• Activity 2: Grading and selecting
carrots
• Activity 3: How can the business
reduce food miles and delivery
costs?
• Activity 4: Sharing information
http://video.e- A case study from Cisco about the
skills.com/frontend/?video=61&categories=6 content distribution system it
created for Hard Rock Café’s
music videos
http://www.intermec.com/learning/content_library/c Video for download (23 Mb) about
ase_studies/csOwensMinor.aspx a distribution company, Owens
and Minor, including tracking
technologies, voice technology
and wireless – increased
productivity
http://www.globalservices.bt.com/LeafAction.do?R PDF document of case studies on
ecord=nhs_n3_sustainability_casestudy_all_en- the use of the broadband
gb&chapterKey=5
Unit 2
http://www.simventure.co.uk SimVenture - business
simulation software. Not
free but highly
recommended
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/ Information about the TV
programme that looks a
business ideas
http://staffroom.e-skills.com/ e-skills website and
http://staffroom.e- ‘staffroom’
skills.com/Library/Club/?JourneyId=41671 (You must register to
http://staffroom.e- access the staffroom – a
skills.com/Library/Club/?JourneyId=586443 library of materials and
activities. This is free but
can take a few days to be
active.)
A huge amount of
multimedia materials for
Exploring Organisations.
http://www.theorangegroup.com/sesamee.html Business simulation
http://www.theenterprisegame.com/ Business simulation
http://www.footballmanager.net A game but also a
business simulation
http://www.realgame.co.uk/ Business simulation
http://www.action-enterprise.co.uk/ Business simulation
http://www.bized.co.uk/compfact/business_profiles.htm Business profiles of 19
companies
http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/vla/farm/index.htm Can you run a virtual farm?
http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/business/accounting/cashflo Cash flow simulation game
w/simulation/game.htm
Unit 3
http://www.globalservices.bt.com/LeafAction.d Video on How Tommy Hilfiger use
o?Record=Unified_Communications_Video_pr Video conferencing (telepresence)
oducts_uk_en-
gb&Context=Products&icid=gshome_spot_spo
ttxt1_Unified_Communications_Video_product
s_uk_en-gb&fromPage=Furl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXILI9Q1jI How not to give a presentation - how
w many errors can you find?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI14eaLjpE PowerPoint Presentation Tips
E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwQUd8q Effective Presentation Skills
kMM&feature=related
There are several good videos on
communication skills on YouTube
Unit 4
http://www.teach- Free Excel videos/tutorials
ict.net/software/excel/excel.htm
http://www.teach-ict.net/videohome.htm Site includes video tutorials for :
• Adobe Dreamweaver 8
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Photoshop
• Audacity
• Microsoft Access 2003
• Microsoft Access 2007
• Microsoft Excel 2003
• Microsoft Excel 2007
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
• Microsoft Publisher 2003
• Microsoft Word 2003
• Microsoft Word 2007
http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/ Site includes Excel 2003, web design with
Excel2007.html HTML, CSS and JavaScript
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel- A demonstration of creating charts in
help/demo-create-charts-in-excel-2007- Excel. There are lots more
HA010200499.aspx. demonstrations on
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel-
help/CH010074079.aspx
Legal and ethical
http://www.out-law.com/page-330 Accessibility - Disabled access to
websites under UK law
Outlaw is a very useful site explaining lots
of legal stuff in a simple way
http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/Inf WEEE
ormationSheets/ElectricalElectronic.htm
http://www.icthub.org.uk/managing_ICT/hea Health and safety
lth_safety_policies.html
http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/what_we_cove Data Protection Act
r/data_protection.aspx
http://www.out-law.com/page-5633 Copyright
Multimedia presentation, briefing sheets, Using IT to develop a farm enterprise
activities and spreadsheet exercise from • Activity 1: Where should we plant carrots?
http://tlp.excellencegateway.org.uk/tlp/it/res • Activity 2: Grading and selecting carrots
ource/employerchallen/usingittodevelo/inde • Activity 3: How can the business reduce
x.html food miles and delivery costs?
• Activity 4: Sharing information
Unit 5
http://www.teach-ict.net/videohome.htm Database tutorial
Reminder of how to use the
chosen software. Fields,
records, sorting, searching,
interface.
http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/default.asp y Vbscript tutorial
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/maintenance. Routine PC maintenance
mspx
http://lelancallaway.com/computersecurity.html Lelan Callaway's
Computer Security Tips
http://www.practicalpc.co.uk/computing/comms/tempfiles.h Maintenance of Temporary
tm internet files
http://www.jrwhipple.com/sup_underhood.html Routine PC maintenance
starter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIivnnQki9k How to Connect a Wireless
Router – pronounced rout - er
There are many useful
videos on YouTube.
http://www.ebuyer.com Example of an on-line
database
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk Example of a price-
comparison website
http://www.f-secure.com Anti-virus companies
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_mobile_security
http://www.macafee.com
• http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,3928 Read all about it – stories
7654,00.htm of computer outage
• http://www.itdr.info/downtime-blog/corporate/new-
years-eve-computer-outage-affects-visa-credit-
cards.html
• http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,392
59270,00.htm
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7158688.stm Read all about it – stories
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104368.stm of lost data
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7147715.stm
• http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2213673/hsb
c-loses-customer
Unit 6
http://diploma.e-skills.com/ ‘The Agency’
Welcome to The Agency -
• http://diploma.e-skills.com/projects/project1/the- Real world work experience
brief/ on the web. (No need to
• http://diploma.e-skills.com/projects/project2/the- register. Can be used by
brief/ learners.)
Possible multimedia
assessment activities – two
possible scenarios.
http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp Flash tutorial
http://www.tutorpipe.com/home.php?sub=16# Flash tutorial
http://www.w3schools.com/media/default.asp Multimedia tutorial -excellent
introduction to the different
types of multimedia, different
formats and when and how to
use them.
http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm How to create your own
podcast - A step-by-
step tutorial
http://www.updatexp.com/windows-movie-maker- Free Windows Movie Maker
videos.html Training Videos
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/ Links to over 180 tutorials
covering not only Windows
Movie Maker, but also other
digital media software.
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Online-Tutorials.html Online Windows Movie maker
tutorial
Learn what not to do at: Good and bad web pages
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
Sources: websites containing animations, video, sound, animated gifs
• www.yahoo.co.uk often has an advertisement that it is a Flash movie.
• www.youtube.com has millions of examples of video, including commercial
advertisements
• similarly you can search for images and video at http://video.google.com/
• to see some example of simple animated gifs and how to create/edit tem simply
Google simple animated gifs
• superb animation at
http://interactiveoverview.volvotrucks.com/fhfm_io/index.html?lama=en-uk
Downloadable multimedia software
• Audacity - Free Audio Editor and Recorder software. Download from:
http://audacity.softwaredl.net/
• GIMP – free image manipulation software. Download from:
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
• Picasa - free image manipulation software package from Google
• KompoZer – free web creation software. Download from:
http://www.kompozer.net/download.php
• Swish Max – free demo of animation software. Download from:
http://swishmax.en.softonic.com/download
Online tutorials
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
• http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
• http://gimp.org/tutorials/
• http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/
• http://www.webthang.co.uk/goto/tutorials/tutorials.asp?cat=4
• http://www.fairwaycug.com/pdfs/Windows%20Moviemaker%20May09.pdf
Testing link
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/checklist.html
Storyboard links
• http://www.cyber-sierra.com/workshops/web101/prepare.htm y
• http://animation.about.com/od/recommendedreading/qt/storyboarding.htm y
Creating and editing images links
• http://www.good-tutorials.com/
• http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Paint-Shop-Pro/1
• http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/digital-photography-guide.html
Unit 7
Software
Download from: OpenProj. Free project management software.
http://openproj.org/
http://www.ganttproject.biz Gantt Project - Free project scheduling and
management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX,
it is free and its code is open source.
www.microsoft.com/project or use Microsoft Project
QIA resources
http://teachingandlearning.qia. Worksheet and Activity. ‘How the LSO team co-
org.uk/tlp/it/resource/assets/do operates to deliver a video conference’
cuments/team_videoconf_lso.
pdf
http://teachingandlearning.qia. Worksheet and Activity. ‘Planning and delivering an
org.uk/tlp/it/resource/assets/do event’
cuments/planning_event_lso.p
df
http://tlp.excellencegateway.or Worksheets and activities: ‘IT solutions for a music events
g.uk/tlp/it/resource/employerch organisation’’
allen/itsolutionsfora/index.html
http://tlp.excellencegateway.or The SuccessPlanner tool mentioned in the QIA
g.uk/tlp/pedagogy/tools/planni documents, and links to other resources:
ngtoolkit2/successplannerl/the
successplann/index.html
http://diploma.e-skills.com/ ‘The Agency’
Link tasks to project in Unit 6.
Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management#The_traditional_triple_constrai
nts
• http://www.umsl.edu/~sauterv/analysis/6840_f03_papers/frese/
• http://www.lifecyclestep.com/open/407.0LifecycleRoles.htm
This site has quite a good description of the roles and responsibilities of people
involved with a project
Project Steps
• http://projectsteps.blogspot.com/2007/01/project-roles-and-responsibilities.html A
Blog site that has some useful role descriptions.
Success criteria
• http://www.watermarklearning.com/Critical_PM_Factors.htm
Project Perfect
• Very informative page on project initiation, with some good, real life examples.
http://www.projectperfect.com.au/info_start_project.php y
Spotty Dog
A good site with lots of project details
• http://www.spottydog.u-net.com/guides/faq/frameset.html
Mind tools
• http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_PPM.htm
Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
• http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/creating-a-gantt-chart-using-excel.html (video: How to
Create a Gantt Chart Using Microsoft Excel)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERT_Chart
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
General
Past papers, preliminary material and mark schemes are available at
www.diplomainfo.org.uk
Together with schemes of work, sample assessment materials and sample work.
http://www.speakeasy4schools.com/diploma/ Programmes and resources to
support both you and your students
throughout your Diploma journey
http://www.boardworks.co.uk/information- Video clips, dynamic case studies
technology_491/ interactive activities and simulations
Still useful:
http://www.teach-ict.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/ BBC Bitesize. It has been around a long
time but still useful for many topics.