fsanta wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement. It's hard working in isolation here in Spain as there is no one to compare notes with and rumours about us changing os get the better of us at times. Still, it would be good to see how an extended piece of coursework looks on microsoft. Cheers. Steve.
I also thought you read a little much into the response :-) although exam boards should really provide examples across software suites rather than one (especially as choice justification gets points!) If you want to see the things being done using MS then get hold of ICT projects for GCSE which is reasonable (actually essential) and the only book available of this type for this course. You can look at the book and download examples at http://www.payne-gallway.co.uk/ If you want to see more examples of the actual projects (eg an excel spreadsheet) then email me off the list and I will send some to you next week (with documentation if you like). Which type of software / projects are you (thinking of) using for the 4? I don't want to flood everyones inbox but I am curious as to how many people out there are teaching gcse edexcel and using either linux / openopffice.org? If we have a reasonable number it could be worth our while us getting together to produce implemenation examples using such software. Darren