INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology at McKinnon is currently taught at years 7,9,10,11 and 12.

Year 7 students take one semester of IT.
Year 9 students may choose IT and/or Control Technology as electives.
Year 10 students may choose from Information Management and Information Systems electives.
Year 11 students may undertake VCE IT Units 1 and 2 (or Unit 3/4 subjects under acceleration)
Year 12 students may undertake IT Applications and/or Software Development

 

Year 7 IT covers touch-typing skills, Microworlds (multimedia, programming), Hyperstudio (database), Excel spreadsheets, word processing, desktop publishing and digital camera work.

Year 9 IT covers Desktop publishing, Word processing, Spreadsheets and databasing using Filemaker Pro.

Year 9 Control Technology concentrates on robotics and computer controlled devices

Year 10 IT covers Desktop publishing, Word processing, Spreadsheets.

Year 10 Info Management covers advanced spreadsheeting, databases (Access), and programming.

VCE IT subjects (units 1-4) follow the VCE IT study design.

 

 

Learning Technology Facilities at McKinnon

We have 6 networked computer rooms for classes, all PC-compatible, with a herd of Macs for art, media and BYTES. All students have email and internet accounts and are subject to McKinnon's Acceptable Use Policy. We also have 20 PCs in the library, a computerised library catalogue that is available to every computer in the college, and PCs in the VCE centre.

All computer rooms and the library have laser printers and flatbed scanners. Many classrooms have interactive whiteboards. We own many digital cameras, and portable or fixed data projectors for presentations.

Our internet connection is 4Mbps ADSL.

Nearly all staff have laptops and they can connect them to the network in any classroom by cable or wireless.

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