Transcript VCE ICT - St Marys Newry

GCE in Applied ICT (CCEA)
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What is Applied GCE ICT?
A hands on course
Portfolio based with ONE
exam in each year
Work completed provides
you with skills that will
benefit other subjects
What do you do?
Learn to use industry standard
software
 Office suite
 Photoshop & Fireworks
 Specialist software –
networking, communications
(FTP), programming (HTML,
Java)
To create
 Web sites
 Presentations
 Databases
 Multimedia products
 Artwork
 Documents
 Spreadsheets
 User interfaces
 On-line documents
The AS units
 Information and
communication
 Software tools and
applications – practical
exam based on case
study
 Organisations and
information systems –
based on case study
Each unit counts as 1/3 of the AS award
The full A level course (A2)
 Systems analysis
 Web site design
 Database development
What do I need to do this?
An interest in using computers and keen to
learn new software
However……………….
You DO NOT need to have taken ICT at
GCSE but the half or full GCSE is a great
start!