Practice IT for the Australian Curriculum is designed to keep students in step with the ever changing world of IT with easy to follow modules, engaging activities and a flexible structure.

Written to suit both the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies syllabus and the general ICT capability, Practice IT for the Australian Curriculum works both for stand-alone IT courses or for use across the curriculum.

What’s new:

• Updated content covering new key technologies used in the classroom along with theoretical explanations, step-by-step instructions and activities.
• Significant coverage of the Australian Curriculum, including the Digital Technologies syllabus and General Capabilities such as the ICT literacy and numeracy capabilities.
• Introductory chapters that explore the ethical use of IT and other relevant computer awareness topics, such as cyberbullying.
• Interactive Textbooks that include exercises for each module to cover alternative software programs, digital comprehension activities, supporting data files, videos and other rich interactive content.
   

What you already love:

• A practical approach to IT with easy-to-follow modules full of engaging exercises and structured projects allowing students to practice and develop their IT skills.
• The flexible structure that allows teachers to use the modules to form a complete IT course or as discrete units to meet the ICT requirements of any course across the curriculum.
   

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Module projects, additional and alternative exercises are available in the Interactive Textbook.

Now available

1 September 2017

p. 123: Step 3 - 'Move the mouse over' changed to 'Click'

p. 135: Exercise 19, step 5 - first sentence of step 7 placed after the existing step 5 line

p. 135: Exercise 19, step 6 and 11 - 'custom' removed

p. 151: Step 2 - text changed to 'Display the FILTER menu and click on LIQUIFY. The image opens in a separate window.'

p. 152: Step 3 - text changed to 'Select the ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE TOOL from the Tools panel. It is within the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL.'

p. 153: Step 6 - text changed to 'Set the STYLE to PILLOW EMBOSS, the DEPTH to 250, the SIZE to 10, the SOFTEN to 5 and select OK.'

p. 154: Step 1 - text changed to 'Start a NEW photoshop file and name it: Text. Set the WIDTH to 800 pixels, the HEIGHT to 600 pixels, the RESOLUTION to 72 pixels per inch and the BACKGROUND CONTENTS to WHITE.'

p. 154: Image replaced with:

p. 164: Exercise 3, step 1 - text changed to 'In Excel or Google Sheets...'

p. 176: Exercise 11, step 4 - 'In the FORMAT DATA LABELS tab, in this case ensure that the box named VALUES is unchecked' added after the existing instruction

Adobe is updating their CC software usually twice a year at the moment. Some of these updates could affect the way the activities operate in the Practice IT textbooks, so this section will highlight any software changes.

The changes below are based on the 2016 updates to the Adobe CC software.

Module 7: Computer Graphics (when using Adobe Photoshop CC)

Computer Graphics Exercise 6

The Liquify option has been moved from the Distort section of the Filter menu to the Filter menu directly, so Point 2 on page 151 should now read:  

2   Display the FILTER menu and click on LIQUIFY. The image opens in a separate window.