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DiDA your ideal ICT course?

• No exam
• Work completed using ICT
• Modern, up to date course
• Real-life ICT skills for your future
• Paperless assessment
• You submit an electronic portfolio of work

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AiDA
DiDA your ideal ICT course?

• You are going to study AiDA, the first part of
  DiDA.
• Called D201 AiDA is unit 1 of the DiDA course.
• Stands forAward in Digital Applications
• Equivalent to one full GCSE

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AiDA

• A Summative Project Brief (SPB) is released by
  the exam board
• This gives you a series of tasks to complete

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AiDA

• You have to research, analyse and present
  information
• Create paper and screen publications to present
  in an e-Porfolio
• You will learn to plan your project, and then
  review and evaluate it.

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AiDA

• The unit requires you to develop practical
  computing skills in

• Word processing and DTP
• Spreadsheets
• Databases
• Presentation software
• Website software
• Artwork and imaging software

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CiDA

• If you are doing 2 units your teacher will give
  you a choice for the second unit.
• These 2 units will be worth 2 GCSEs
• You might do the MULTIMEDIA unit.
• You will develop skills in
• digital imaging
• movie making
• presentations
• Flash
• Fireworks

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CiDA

• You might do the GRAPHICS unit
• You will develop skills in
• Design and Development
• Vector images
• Bitmap images
• Web design

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Varndean Advantage Dida Software

• This is a true E-Learning course
• Ella is an AVATAR who will guide you through
  the learning materials.
• Sometimes you will learn by playing games!