Practice IT Book 1 (3rd Edition)
Teacher Support Files CD

The Teacher Support Files CD provides more detailed tutorials and worksheetson in PDF format for the activities in the Practice IT Book 1 (third edition) text book published by Cambridge University Press

The tutorials provide teachers with the choice of teaching from the book or giving the more detailed tutorials to students to work through at their own rate (or use a combination of the two approaches).

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Learning Adobe Photoshop CS3

Module 1: Introduces the Adobe Photoshop CS3 basics such as the use of layers, drawing tools, selection techniques, modifying images, combining shapes and photographs, adding text to designs, adjusting photographs, using masks and saving files in different formats.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Adobe Photoshop CS3 features including cloning images, applying filters to images, Fill and Adjustment layers, improving photos of faces, the History palette, working with perspective, adjusting the colour, creating animations, the Magnetic Lasso tool and replacing colours in images.

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Learning Adobe Photoshop CS3

Module 1: Introduces the Adobe Photoshop CS3 basics such as the use of layers, drawing tools, selection techniques, modifying images, combining shapes and photographs, adding text to designs, adjusting photographs, using masks and saving files in different formats.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Adobe Photoshop CS3 features including cloning images, applying filters to images, Fill and Adjustment layers, improving photos of faces, the History palette, working with perspective, adjusting the colour, creating animations, the Magnetic Lasso tool and replacing colours in images.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Applications

A collection of 10 extension exercises for students who have developed skill with Adobe Photoshop CS3. The exercises cover the use of reflection, creating three-dimensional objects such as spheres and boxes, creating and saving 3-D styles, creating graffiti on a brick wall and on a building, creating artistic sketches using Photoshop's filters and animations using frames and the timeline.

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Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

Module 1: Introduces the Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 basics such as the use of layers, drawing tools, selection techniques, modifying images, combining shapes and photographs, adding text to designs, adjusting the look of photographs, using masks and saving files in different formats.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 features including cloning parts of images, applying filters to images, using artistic filters, Adjustment layers, improving photographs of faces, using the History palette, lens correction, enhanced text effects, adjusting the colour in photographs, the Magnetic Lasso tool, the Magic Extractor Tool, colours in replacement and using grids and rulers.

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Learning Adobe Flash CS3

Module 1: Introductory exercises including the Flash CS3 drawing tools, using symbols, tween animations, shape animations, fixed-point animations, motion guide animations, keyframe animations and Flash buttons.

Module 2: Extended Flash CS3 exercises including the use of movie clips, text effects, masks, adding and editing sounds, timeline effects, behaviours, animating still photos, video clips and scenes.

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Available in PDF and Podcast versions.

Module 1: Introductory exercises including the Flash 8 drawing tools, using symbols, tween animations, shape animations, fixed-point animations, motion guide animations, keyframe animations and Flash buttons.

Module 2: Extended Flash 8 exercises including the use of movie clips, text effects, masks, adding and editing sounds, timeline effects, behaviours, animating still photos, video clips and scenes.

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Learning Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Module 1: Introductory exercises including the Flash MX 2004 drawing tools, using symbols, tween animations, shape animations, fixed-point animations, motion guide animations, keyframe animations and Flash buttons.

Module 2: Extended Flash MX 2004 exercises including the use of movie clips, text effects, masks, adding and editing sounds, timeline effects, behaviours, animating still photos, video clips and scenes.

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Learning Flash MX

Covers the use of scenes, the Flash MX drawing tools, using symbols, creating buttons, tween, shape and keyframe animations, using motion guides, use of movie clips, text effects, masks, adding and editing sounds.

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Learning Adobe DreamWeaver CS3

Module 1: Introduces the DreamWeaver cs3 basics including how to set up a site, insert images, use tables, create links, anchor points and hotspots, manage assets, use AP Elements, create templates and forms, use Layout Mode, import Word and Excel files and upload files to a remote server.

Module 2: Advanced DreamWeaver cs3 exercises including using CSS styles, creating CSS based page layouts, formatting CSS based pages, using behaviours to validate forms and create help messages, inserting timeline animations, inserting Flash Media, Flash Text, Flash Buttons, Flash Animations, Flash Video and using commands, snippets and spry pop-up menus.

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Learning Macromedia DreamWeaver 8

Available in PDF and Podcast versions.

Module 1: Introduces the DreamWeaver 8 basics including how to set up a site, insert images, use tables, create links, anchor points and hotspots, manage assets, use layers, create templates and forms, import Word and Excel files and upload files to a remote server.

Module 2: Advanced DreamWeaver 8 exercises including using CSS styles, creating CSS based page layouts, formatting CSS based pages, using behaviours to create popup menus, validate forms and create help messages, inserting timeline animations, inserting Flash Media (Flash Text, Flash Buttons, Flash Animations, Flash Video) and using commands and snippets.

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Learning DreamWeaver MX 2004

Module 1: Introduces the DreamWeaver MX 2004 basics including how to set up a site, insert images, use tables and forms, create links, manage assets and use frames.

Module 2: Introduces advanced DreamWeaver MX 2004 features including the use of layers, templates, CSS styles, behaviours, snippets import Word and Excel files and uploading files to a remote server.

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Learning DreamWeaver MX

Module 1: Introduces the DreamWeaver MX basics including how to set up a site, insert images, use tables and forms, create links, manage assets and use frames.

Module 2: Introduces advanced DreamWeaver MX features including the use of layers, templates, CSS styles, behaviours, timeline animations and uploading files to a remote server.

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Learning DreamWeaver 4.0

Introduces the DreamWeaver 4.0 basics including how to set up a site, insert images, use tables and forms, create links and manage assets and using frames. It then extends to the advanced DreamWeaver features including the use of layers, templates, CSS styles, behaviours, timeline animations and uploading files to a remote server.

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Learning Microsoft Word 2007

Module 1: Introduces the Word 2007 screen then covers the word processing basics including entering and formatting documents, spell and grammar checking, aligning text, find and replace, indents and margins, bullets and numbering, headers, footers, footnotes and title pages, page borders, using columns, using the drawing tools and adding images to documents.

Module 2: Advanced Word 2007 exercises including using tab stops, table tools, sections, styles, table of contents, publishing tasks, inserting charts and smartart, mail-merging, mailing labels and envelopes,

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Learning Microsoft Word 2003

Module 1: Introduces the Microsoft Word 2003 basics including entering and formatting documents, spell and grammar checking, aligning text, find and replace, indents and margins, bullets and numbering, using columns, using the drawing tools and adding images to documents.

Module 2: Advanced Microsoft Word 2003 exercises including using tab stops, table tools, sections, styles, table of contents, publishing tasks, inserting charts, mail-merging, mailing labels and envelopes, outline view, save as web page, autosummarise and save options.

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Learning Microsoft Word 2004

Module 1: Introduces the Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) basics including entering and formatting documents, spell and grammar checking, aligning text, find and replace, indents and margins, bullets and numbering, using columns, using the drawing tools and adding images to documents.

Module 2: Advanced Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) exercises including using tab stops, table tools, sections, styles, table of contents, publishing tasks, inserting charts, mail-merging, mailing labels and envelopes, outline view, autosummarise and save options.

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Learning Microsoft Excel 2007

Module 1: Introduces the Excel basics of entering labels, values and formulas, formatting cells and worksheets, copying cell data, creating charts and using the drawing tools.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Excel features including IF statements, Lookup Commands, creating sales invoices, payroll/payslip systems, macros, and financial and date calculations.

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Learning Microsoft Excel 2008 (mac)

Module 1: Introduces the Excel basics of entering labels, values and formulas, formatting cells and worksheets, copying cell data, creating charts and using the drawing tools.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Excel features including IF statements, Lookup Commands, creating sales invoices, payroll/payslip systems and financial and date calculations.

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Microsoft Excel Activities 2003/2004

Available in PDF and Podcast versions.

Module 1: Introduces the Excel basics of entering labels, values and formulas, formatting cells and worksheets, copying cell data, creating charts and using the drawing tools.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Excel features including IF statements, Lookup Commands, creating sales invoices, payroll/payslip systems, macros, and financial and date calculations.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Activities

A presentation for the mythical Wattle Valley Animal Park is progressively built throughout the chapters. Students learn to add different content to slide layouts including titles, text, clip art, photos, movie clips, tables, SmartArt diagrams and charts.

The activities also include the use of animation effects, transitions, action buttons, text formatting, slide masters, self-running shows, custom shows, slide show delivery techniques and adding sound tracks.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 Activities

A presentation for the mythical Wattle Valley Animal Park is progressively built throughout the chapters. Students learn to add different content to slide layouts including titles, text, clip art, photos, movie clips, tables, SmartArt diagrams and charts.

The activities also include the use of animation effects, transitions, action buttons, text formatting, slide masters, self-running shows, custom shows, slide show delivery techniques and adding sound tracks.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 Activities

A presentation for the mythical Wattle Valley Animal Park is progressively built throughout the book. Students learn to use title, text, clip art, photo, movie clip, table and chart slides, as well as the use of animation effects, buttons, text formatting, slide masters and delivery techniques.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 Activities

A presentation for the mythical Wattle Valley Animal Park is progressively built throughout the book. Students learn to use title, text, clip art, photo, movie clip, table and chart slides, as well as the use of animation effects, buttons, text formatting, slide masters and delivery techniques.

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Learning Microsoft Access 2007

Module 1: Introduces the Access basics including starting a database, finding and sorting data, the use of tables, queries, forms and reports, then linking these together through the use of switchboard forms.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Access functions including the use of macros, switchboards, reports with totals and sub-totals, creating relationships between tables, the use of sub-forms, building an invoice system, reporting sales data from an invoice, using form tabs and creating find duplicates queries.

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Learning Microsoft Access 2003

Available in PDF and Podcast versions.

Module 1: Introduces the Access basics including the use of tables, queries, forms and reports, data-entry screens and buttons.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Access functions including the use of macros, switchboards, creating relationships between files and business invoicing systems.

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Learning Microsoft Access 97

Introduces the Access 97 basics including the use of tables, queries, forms and reports with clear easy to follow examples. It then proceeds to the advanced Access functions including the use of macros, switchboards, creating relationships between files and business invoicing systems.

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Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0

Covers selecting parts of photos, modifying images, adding effects to images, repairing photos, the editing tools, text effects, creating designs, layer techniques, cropping photos, mask techniques, cloning parts of images, photo-merging and photo galleries.

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Learning Adobe InDesign CS3

Module 1: Introduces the Adobe InDesign CS3 basics such as laying out pages, setting text and graphics frames, controlling graphics, formatting text and creating styles to produce publications including flyers, greeting cards, restaurant menus, newsletters and multi-page documents.

Module 2: Introduces advanced Adobe InDesign CS3 features including the creating pamphlets, magazines and interactive products, the use of tables, master pages, creating PDF documents, the Book feature, creating Library items, using the EyeDropper tool and entering text along a path.

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Learning Adobe InDesign cs

Module 1: Introduces the InDesign cs basics including how to layout pages and use the layout tools to produce flyers, greeting cards, restaurant menus and newsletters.

Module 2: Introduces advanced InDesign cs features including the use of styles, multiple page documents, creating interactive products, the use of tables, master pages and the Book feature.

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Learning Adobe PageMaker 7.0

Introduces the PageMaker 7.0 basics including the use of tabs, indents and frames to produce flyers, greeting cards, restaurant menus and newsletters. It then covers advanced PageMaker features including the use of styles, multiple page documents and the Build Book feature.

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Learning Kahootz 3

Covers selecting, moving and animating worlds, moving, cloning and animating objects, adding objects to worlds, 3D and 2D text, creating scenes, linking scenes, using the notepad, moving worlds and objects together, changing the appearance of worlds, adding sound, using the timeline, exporting Xpressions as movies and using actions.

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Learning Kahootz 2.0

Covers selecting, moving and animating worlds, moving, cloning and animating objects, adding objects to worlds, 3-D text, creating scenes, linking scenes, using the notepad, moving worlds and objects together and changing the appearance of worlds.

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Learning iMovie HD 5.0

A movie based on the Victorian Surf Coast is progressively developed throughout the book. Students learn to insert and combine movie clips, edit movie clips, add motion and video effects, insert transitions, add titles, add sound tracks, export movies to QuickTime and iDVD, and use photos within movies.

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Learning iPhoto 5.0

Covers organising and editing photos. creating photo slideshows, creating photo books, importing and exporting photos.

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Learning FileMaker Pro 8

Module 1: Introduces the FileMaker Pro 8 basics including finding and sorting data, creating a database, Standard Form layouts, Columnar Report layouts, creating data-entry screens,using the Drawing Tools, using pop-up menus, radio buttons and drop-down menus, using buttons, using the Tab Control tool to produce tabbed interfaces, data searching techniques and using calculation fields.

Module 2: Introduces advanced FileMaker Pro 8 features including using scripts, totals and sub-totals, looking up data from external files, looking up data from internal files, creating relationships between tables (files), the portal tool, developing sales invoice systems, reporting on invoice systems, importing data, mailing labels, passwords, access privileges and accounts, and displaying data graphically.

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Learning FileMaker Pro 7

Module 1: Introduces the FileMaker Pro 8 basics including finding and sorting data, creating a database, Standard Form layouts, Columnar Report layouts, creating data-entry screens,using the Drawing Tools, using pop-up menus, radio buttons and drop-down menus, using buttons, using the Tab Control tool to produce tabbed interfaces, data searching techniques and using calculation fields.

Module 2: Introduces advanced FileMaker Pro 8 features including using scripts, totals and sub-totals, looking up data from external files, looking up data from internal files, creating relationships between tables (files), the portal tool, developing sales invoice systems, reporting on invoice systems, importing data, mailing labels, passwords, access privileges and accounts, and displaying data graphically.

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Learning FileMaker Pro 6.0

Module 1: Introduces the FileMaker Pro 6 basics including creating databases, columnar reports and tables, sorting and finding information, data-entry techniques, buttons and scripts, and totalling items.

Module 2: Introduces advanced FileMaker Pro 6 features including creating relationships between files, developing business invoicing systems, mailing labels and access privileges.

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Learning VectorWorks 9.0

Covers using the Drawing Tools, grids and scales, the Wall Tool and floor plans, Library symbols, dimensions, using layers, working with 3-D objects, creating roofs, edits and attributes, and creating detailed designs.

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Sample IT Projects

A collection of over 40 projects that can be used in stand-alone IT classes or as ICT projects within other subjects. The projects are provided as a PDF file and as individual Word documents which can be modified to suit school needs. Planning diagram suggestions are included within the instructions for each software type.

The projects cover Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Databases, Web Page Authoring, Publishing, Flash, Photoshop, Kahootz, Movie Production and Computer Aided Design, ranging from years 7 to 12.

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