Term 2 - Week 5,6,7: 11 ITGS ( 17th Nov to 5th Dec)

Planning for the week Seven: Semester exams
Planning for the week five, Six - revision

Planning for the week four:

Reminder - Separate Google doc to be maintained for class and home work. Should be shared with me.

P1- Fundamentals 

          

• Features of a website: for example, hyperlinks, navigation, metatags, tags, forms
• Features of a browser: for example, bookmarks, visited links, tabs
• Web-based languages: for example, hypertext markup language (HTML), JavaScript
• Adding functionality to a browser (for example, plug-ins)
• Data-driven websites: for example, active server page extended (ASPX), personal home page (PHP)
• Site management: for example, web hosting, uploading
• Other site use: for example, bounce rate, click-through rate (CTR), avatar, profile 

P2 - Tools

    

• Search engines, web crawler/spider, search directories, search techniques, filtering, keyword density, keyword prominence, ranking of sites 
• Social networking: for example, newsgroups, message boards, chat rooms, forums, instant messaging 
• Email, email server, list server 
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and beyond, collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, micro-blogs, RDF (resource description framework) site summary feeds, RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, mashups, forums, social bookmarking, online collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social networking sites, templates, tagging, viral marketing, webcasts, widgets, virtual worlds and learning environments 
• Web databases, encyclopedias

P3 & P4 -  Services
      

• Online advertising and marketing technologies: for example, banners, pop-ups, cookies 
• Push–pull technologies: for example, email newsletters 
• Content management systems: for example, Moodle, Blackboard 
• E-commerce technology: for example, business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), payment services, secure transactions 
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

P5 - Internet threats and security

       

• Internet security: for example, firewall, proxy server, SSL (secure sockets layer), encryption, public and private keys, digital signatures
• Internet threats: for example, global viruses, hackers, spam, phishing, pharming, spyware, adware 

P6 - Practical techniques

        Collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, mashups, forums, social bookmarking, online      collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social networking sites, templates, virtual worlds and virtual learning environments 

Resources -

www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com

www.itgstextbook.com

www.bbc.com

Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for the week three:

Reminder - Separate Google doc to be maintained for class and home work. Should be shared with me.

P1- Fundamentals 

            

• WWW (World Wide Web), URL (uniform resource locator), internet, intranet, extranet
• Internet protocols: for example, HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol secure), FTP (file transfer protocol), TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol)
• IP address
• Modem, browser, internet service provider (ISP), bandwidth, download, upload, streaming audio/ video, compression, decompression, cache
• Domain names, domain name system (DNS)
• Features of a website: for example, hyperlinks, navigation, metatags, tags, forms
• Features of a browser: for example, bookmarks, visited links, tabs
• Web-based languages: for example, hypertext markup language (HTML), JavaScript
• Adding functionality to a browser (for example, plug-ins)
• Data-driven websites: for example, active server page extended (ASPX), personal home page (PHP)
• Site management: for example, web hosting, uploading
• Other site use: for example, bounce rate, click-through rate (CTR), avatar, profile 

P2 - Tools

    

• Search engines, web crawler/spider, search directories, search techniques, filtering, keyword density, keyword prominence, ranking of sites
  
• Social networking: for example, newsgroups, message boards, chat rooms, forums, instant messaging
  
• Email, email server, list server
  
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and beyond, collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, micro-blogs, RDF (resource description framework) site summary feeds, RSS (really simple syndication) feeds, mashups, forums, social bookmarking, online collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social networking sites, templates, tagging, viral marketing, webcasts, widgets, virtual worlds and learning environments
  
• Web databases, encyclopedias
  

P3 & P4 -  Services
      

• Online advertising and marketing technologies: for example, banners, pop-ups, cookies
  
• Push–pull technologies: for example, email newsletters
  
• Content management systems: for example, Moodle, Blackboard
  
• E-commerce technology: for example, business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer (C2C), payment services, secure transactions
  
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  

P5 - Internet threats and security

       

• Internet security: for example, firewall, proxy server, SSL (secure sockets layer), encryption, public and private keys, digital signatures
• Internet threats: for example, global viruses, hackers, spam, phishing, pharming, spyware, adware 

P6 - Practical techniques

        Collaborative online tools: for example, wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, mashups, forums, social bookmarking, online      collaborative applications, podcasts, photocasts, vidcasts, social networking sites, templates, virtual worlds and virtual learning environments 

Assessment - Orientation of Paper two

Resources -

www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com

www.itgstextbook.com

www.bbc.com

Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for the week two:

Reminder - Separate Google doc to be maintained for class and home work. Should be shared with me.

P1- Web design to continue..
                        •HTML ( Read more)

•Data driven websites

•Interactive websites

•Web page compatibility ( Read More)

•Wes site features

P2 - Web design to continue..

•Web standards

•Cookies

•How do cookies works?

•Designing for accessibility

•WebCMS

•Publishing a website

   P3 & P4 -  E- marketing

•Email

•Search engine optimization

•How search engine works?

•Online advertising

•Blocking Adverts

•Social media

•Measuring marketing success

•Search engine and privacy

P5 - Social and ethical issues of Business and Employment.
                     Transportation business - Travel sites, body scanners, Vehicle tracking
P6 - Business and Employment. Orientation of Paper 2.
                      Package tracking, Smart cars


Resources -
www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com
www.itgstextbook.com
www.bbc.com
Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for the week one:

Reminder - Separate Google doc to be maintained for class and home work. Should be shared with me.

P1 - Business and Employment.
                  Traditional Business - Employee monitoring,
                  Teleworking ( Article to read, one more),
                  Mail merge and Macros
                  The Internet, intranets, and extranets
                                                     
P2 - Business and Employment.
                   Traditional Business -
                   Spreadsheets, banking and digital money
                   IT in supermarkets - Read Article 1, Article 2 ( Ways to use IT)
P3 - Activity based on period 1 and 2.
P4 - Business and Employment.
                    Online Business - E - Commerce,
                    Web design,
                    E- marketing
P5 - Social and ethical issues of Business and Employment.
                     Transportation business - Travel sites, body scanners, Vehicle tracking
P6 - Business and Employment. Orientation of Paper 2.
                      Package tracking, Smart cars

Assessment - Orientation of Paper two

Resources -
www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com
www.itgstextbook.com
www.bbc.com
Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Term 2: Week 5,6,7,8 - 12 ITGS( 17th Nov to 12th Dec)

Planning for the week four: Semester exams

Planning for the week Five, Six: Revision, IA

Planning for the week four:

Reminder : 

                            Research work

                   

P1- Political processes  &  Military Research

                   1. Online campaigning, voting, lobbying, fund-raising and advertising.

               2. Cyberwarfare, smart weapons, espionage (more 1, 2), battlefield technology.  

P2 - Discussion based on period one.

P3 & P4 -  Government information sites

  

           For example, 

                                      travel warnings, 

                                      tourist information, 

                                      environmental information and warnings, 

                                      government policies, 

                                      city government websites.

P5 -   Law and order

        

                                       Police surveillance, 

                               Terrorist monitoring, 

                                DNA data.

   

P6 -   Quizlet on topic discussed

Resources -

www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com

www.itgstextbook.com

www.bbc.com

Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for the week three:

Reminder : 

                            Research work

                   Quizlet practice

P1- Political processes  &  Military Research

                   1. Online campaigning, voting, lobbying, fund-raising and advertising.

               2. Cyberwarfare, smart weapons, espionage (more 1, 2), battlefield technology.  

P2 - Discussion based on period one.

P3 & P4 -  Government information sites

    

           For example, 

                                      travel warnings, 

                                      tourist information, 

                                      environmental information and warnings, 

                                      government policies, 

                                      city government websites.

P5 -   Law and order

        

                                       Police surveillance, 

                               Terrorist monitoring, 

                                DNA data.

   

P6 -   Quizlet on topic discussed

Resources -

www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com

www.itgstextbook.com

www.bbc.com

Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for the week two:

Reminder : 
                            24th Oct - Submission of product draft (Past)
                   Last Class of this week - Assessment Paper 2

P1- Web design to continue..
                        •HTML ( Read more)

•Data driven websites

•Interactive websites

•Web page compatibility

•Wes site features

P2 - Web design to continue..

•Web standards

•Cookies

•How do cookies works?

•Designing for accessibility

•WebCMS

•Publishing a website

   P3 & P4 -  E- marketing

•Email

•Search engine optimization

•How search engine works?

•Online advertising

•Blocking Adverts

•Social media

•Measuring marketing success

•Search engine and privacy

P5 - Social and ethical issues of Business and Employment.
                     Transportation business - 
                                         Travel sites, 
                                         body scanners - Read article 1, 2, 3 
                                         Vehicle tracking
P6 - Business and Employment. Orientation of Paper 2.
                      Package tracking, Smart cars

Assessment - Orientation of Paper two

Resources -
www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com
www.itgstextbook.com
www.bbc.com
Text - ITGS by Oliver Kim

Planning for week 1:

Reminder : 21st Oct - Submission of EE draft
                   24th Oct - Submission of product draft
                   23rd Oct - Practice paper 3


P1 - Business and Employment
              Traditional Business - Employee monitoring, Teleworking, Mail merge and Macros
                                                  The Internet, intranets, and extranets
                                                  Spreadsheets, banking and digital money
                                                  IT in supermarkets
P2 - Practice paper 3 ( Only HL)
            Written test - HL, SL will work on IA.
P3 - Business and Employment
            Online Business - E-commerce, Web design, E- marketing
P4 - Business and Employment
           Transportation business - travel sites, Body scanners, Vehicle tracking
                                                     Smart cars
P5 - Education and Training
           IT in teaching and learning
P6 - Education and Training
           Hardware technologies

Assessment - Paper 3 - Written
                      Paper 2 - Practice via discussion

Resource used : www.itgsopedia.wikispaces.com
                          www.itgstextbook.com
                          www.bbc.com
                          ITGS text book by Oliver Kim


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Week 9: 11 ITGS ( 6th Oct to 10 Oct)

Planning for the week 9:

0. Network administration

P1: 

• Electronic security: for example, authorized access, levels of access, biometrics, login, password, firewalls, proxy server, encryption, secure socket layer (SSL), audit trails

P2: 

• Licences: single-user, multi-user, concurrent, network, site
• Physical security: for example, locks

P3: 

• Monitoring: for example, keystroke monitoring, system performance, surveillance
• Network policies: for example, backup, archiving, disaster recovery, usage, redundancy, failover

P4: 

• Codes of ethics and professional conduct: for example, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Data centres
• Energy usage, uninterruptable power supply (UPS) 

P5  & P6: Revision of network and house event.

Week 8: 11 ITGS( 29th sep to 3rd Oct)

Planning for week 8:

P1 & P2:  

• Routers, switches, hubs
• Connection types: optical fibre, cable, wireless technologies such as wireless fidelity (WiFi), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMax), Bluetooth, microwave

P3: 

• Network operating systems and utility software
• Cloud computing
• Storage technologies: for example, SAN (storage area network), RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks)

P4: 

• Protocols
• Synchronous, asynchronous
• Remote access
  
  
  • Bandwidth, broadband
  • Bit rates 

P5: 

• Research work of network and peer assessment.

P6:  ITGS trip to server room

Week 9: 12 ITGS ( 6th Oct to 10th Oct)

Planning for week 9:


p1: 

• SSADM (structured systems analysis and design method), PMBoK (project management body of knowledge), CMMI (capability maturity model integration) 
  

P2: 

• Time constraints, tasks, resources and milestones; Gantt and Pert charts 
  

P3: 

• Modelling systems: for example, entities, entity relationship diagrams (ERD), data flow diagrams 
  

P4:  Case study - practice test ( HL paper 3)
P5: 

• Maintenance of legacy systems
  
• System support: for example, internal support, maintenance contract 
  

P6: 

• Incident management and escalation,  Activity based on the unit.
  
  

Week 8: 12 ITGS (29th Sep to 3rd Oct)

Planning for Week 8:


P1:

0. The system development life cycle (SDLC)Analysis of current situation
• Organizational requirements
• Methods of data collection: questionnaires, interviews, observation, literature searches
• Feasibility study

P2:

• Identification of possible IT solutions
• Requirements specification
• Justification of preferred IT solution
  
  
  • Project plan (who, why, what, when and how part of the project)
  • Project goals, scope and constraints, such as financial, time, technical, human-resource-related, risks, communication, procurement, quality

P3 & P4: Paper 2 practice test
P5:

• Project initiation document
• Design considerations
• Inputs, data structure, processes, outputs, user interface
• Prototyping
• Development of the IT solution
• Initial testing, alpha testing
• Quality assurance and quality control
• Implementation
• Training and support of staff, documentation to support the new IT system
• Changeover methods: direct, phased and parallel running
• Beta testing
• Maintenance
• Phase out

p6:

0. Project management issues
   
• Need for project management
  
• Development methodologies: agile development and waterfall development
  
• Project management methodologies: for example, PRINCE2 (projects in controlled environments 2), 
  

Week 7: 11 ITGS ( 22nd Sep to 26th Sep

Planning for the week 7:

P1: Computer Networks : Introduction to computer network.

Network technologies:

What is network?

Advantages and disadvantages of networks

What are clients, servers and hosts?

Network topologies - Ring, Star, Bus, Redundant topology ( ADV)

Mainframe and Supercomputers - Grid computing and distributed processing.

P2 & P3: Basics of network types, network terms and tools.

What is Ethernet, peer to peer, client server networks? ( ADV)

LAN and WAN ( Why)

Virtual LAN

Internet and intranet

Extranet

VPN

Router, Switch, and hubs

Connect to internet - TV cable, ADSL ( Asynchronous DSL), Analog dial-up, Glass fiber, Wire less, Mobile phone network,

P4: Paper two orientation

P5: Paper two discussion example

P6:

LAN - Ethernet, WLAN, Bluetooth

NOS, Cloud computing

RAID ( redundant array of inexpensive disks)

Storage area network.

Week 7 : 12 ITGS ( 22nd Sep to 26th Sep)

Planning for the week 7:

P1: Orientation of paper 2  - HL and SL

P2: Sample discussion for paper 2 - HL and SL

P3 : Design, Development and testing

P4: IA work in computer Lab

P5: Installation, Maintenance

P6: Recap of SDLC and Project development methodologies

Note: SL students will be working on IA during HL topics progress in the class.

Week 6 : 12 ITGS ( 15th Sep to 19th Sep)

Planning for the week 6:

P1, P2, P3 : Completion of case study research by all students. discuss about the answers and keep soft copy for later use to prepare Paper 3 ( HL). SL students will work on their IA during this time.

P4: IA work in computer Lab

Criteria D and Product

P5: People and team involved in software

 a. Manager, Programmer, Analyst, Project manager
     b.  System administrator, Network manager, database administrator, Information system manager, Support staff.

P6: SDLC

Requirement analysis

Design - Project and product

Week 6: 11 ITGS ( 15th Sep to 19th Sep

Planning for the week 6:

P1: Malware, BSA, Piracy, web based software, User interfaces, licenses

P2: Check the syllabus terminology for software for completeness.

P3: Completing students doubts and discussing software ethics and issues.

P4: Computer Networks : Introduction to computer network.

Network technologies:

What is network?

Advantages and disadvantages of networks

What are clients, servers and hosts?

Network topologies - Ring, Star, Bus, Redundant topology ( ADV)

Mainframe and Supercomputers - Grid computing and distributed processing.

P5: Basics of network types, network terms and tools.

What is Ethernet, peer to peer, client server networks? ( ADV)

LAN and WAN ( Why)

Virtual LAN

Internet and intranet

Extranet

VPN

Router, Switch, and hubs

Connect to internet - TV cable, ADSL ( Asynchronous DSL), Analog dial-up, Glass fiber, Wire less, Mobile phone network,

P6: Assignment on software on ManageBac and Network continue...

LAN - Ethernet, WLAN, Bluetooth

NOS, Cloud computing

RAID ( redundant array of inexpensive disks)

Storage area network.

Week 5 : 11 ITGS - 8th Sep to 12th Sep.

Planning for the week :

P1: System utilities in detailed : Malware
P2 & P3 :- Assessment ( Summative test )
P4 : Keyboard and monitor settings.
           Read : 

P5 : Revision of software and activity.
P6 : Computer Networks -Network technologies

Note : keep revising software unit. we will have one activity on it.

Week 5: 12 ITGS - 8th to 12th Sep

Planning for the week :

P1: Revision of database, Social and ethical issues.
 

• Creating and editing simple macros
  
• Mail merge
  

P2 & P3 :- Assessment ( Summative test )
P4 : Introduction to HL topic - 3.10 IT systems in organizations

• Information systems, people and teams 
• Activity - Database

P5 : The system development life cycle (SDLC) P6 : Activity based on SDLC

Note: Case study research should be done regularly which is due on 17th, Sep 14.

Week 4: 12 ITGS ( 1st Sep to 5th Sep) - Database, IA and case study

Planning for the week 4:


P1. Cover from previous week -

• Queries: for example, searching, sorting, filtering, use of Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR) 
• Data entry form 
• Report generation 
• Macros 
• Transfer of data between databases and other application.

P2: Data Storage and access
P3: Practical understanding of database.
P4: Social and ethical /ToK for Database.
P5: IA - work on product in computer lab.
P6: Case study - research data for question bank provided to you.

One assessment on database will be given on google docs at the end of this week.

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Week 4: 11 ITGS - Software & assessment ( 1st to 5th September)

Planning for the week 4:


P1: Announcement of assessment, Introduction of software, Fundamental of softwares.
P2: System utilities
P3: Malware and Utility softwares
P4: Assessment period
P5: Social and Ethical /TOK - software
P5: Link with all three strands for softwares.

Keep checking ManageBac and this blog for other updates.

Keep learning...
Tajvir Singh

Week 3: 12 ITGS ( 21st to 29th August)

Teaching Plan:

P1.  &  P2. Database organization : Terms to be discussed

• TableField, data types, key field/primary key, secondary keyRecordFlat-file database, relational database, normalizationDatabase management systemSpecialized databases: for example, web databases, online encyclopedias 
  

P3. Database function

• Data validation: data types, range check, check digit, field size, input mask, drop-down list
  
• Queries: for example, searching, sorting, filtering, use of Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR)
  
• Data entry form
  
• Report generation
  
• Macros
  
• Transfer of data between databases and other applications
  

P4. Case study - Forming of questions to be completed
P5. IA - Criteria A & B to be submitted ( Final)
P6. Assignment & doubts in case study


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Week 3 : 11 ITGS (25th to 29th August)

Topics to be covered:

Hardware to continue...

P1. MAC address and CPU clock speed & video
P2. Motherboard & research
P3. Secondary Memory - & PowerPoint presentation
p4. & P5. Input and Output devices - Class discussion
P6. ITGS triangle inclusion, doubts, Assignment on ManageBac.

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11 ITGS week 2 - Strand 3 ( Hardware)

Dear all,

Following is the break up for this week.

Objective : We need to understand the meaning of the terms, concepts and in some cases how they work.

Inclusion - Strand 2 - Environment ( E- waste, Resource deplition)
                   Strand 1 - Globalization, Reliability, Security etc

P1 - Introduction to Hardware - primary memory, secondary memory
P2 -  ASCII code, ports
P3 - Memory unit and processing speed
P4 - MAC address
P5 - Motherboard
P6 - Revision and reflection form week 2.







Keep learning...
Tajvir Singh

12 ITGS week 2 - Website development and case study

Dear All,

Below is the break up for this week.


P1 - Introduction to HTML
P2 - Tags and Webpages
P3 - Linking of webpages and forming a website
P4 - Compiling keywords and question from case study
P5 - Lab period of IA.
P6 - Database concepts

Keep learning...
Tajvir Singh

ITGS Year One: Tuesday 4,5 period

Outline for today:

P4- Assessment in ITGS
P5- Strand 1

ITGS Year Two : day Tuesday -1,2,8 period

Dear All,

Below is the outline for today.

P1 - Recap of stands
Revision of Social and ethical aspects of ITGS
P2 - IAs updates
P3 - Case  study

ITGS Year One

Period 6 & 7:

Class introduction
IB Philosophy
School & IB - Vision.
IB Learner profile attributes.

Question and answers based on ITGS.

Go to : Course outline and subject guide link

Note: It is compulsory to check this website daily for  classroom teaching.
ManageBac will be used for assignment, resources and dates.

Keep learning...
Tajvir Singh

ITGS Year Two : Day One

Period 5 & 8


Introduction to class
What is ITGS?
ITGS triangle
Internal Assessment - Update on IAs
External Assessment
Case study
EE update
Strand One Recap
Strand Two  Recap
Strand Three Recap

Go to link : Course outline for ITGS and Subject Guide

Students are expected to check this blog every day for class room teaching.
ManageBac will be used for all assignment, resources, assignment dates etc.

Keep learning...
Tajvir Singh

IB CS Class test Unit 3

Complete this during evening prep only,