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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1 September 2017

p. 54: Exercise 7, step 1 - 'open the WP Exercise 8' changed to 'open the WP Exercise 7'

p.62: Text added: 'Adobe Flash is a popular program for creating animation that can be used in computer games, online displays or websites. Recently its name was changed to Adobe Animate and the instructions in this module can be used with either Adobe Flash or Adobe Animate. There are also exercises available online that refer specifically to Adobe Animate.' and image shrunk to fit new text

p. 63: Step 1 - 'Load Flash (or Animate)...' added

p. 70: Step 1 - 'Create a new Flash (or Animate)...' added

p. 74: Step 1 - 'Create a new Flash (or Animate)...' added

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p. 88: Exercise 1 - existing text replaced with 'A cone shape will be created using the drawing tools.
Setting the Grid
Most vector-based drawing programs provide a grid to make accurate drawings easier to do. 
1. Load Adobe Illustrator and, in the Welcome screen, click on NEW to open the NEW DOCUMENT dialogue box.
2. Open the PRINT category and select the A4 preset (or use the default settings). Check that the UNITS are set to MILLIMETRES, the ORIENTATION is set to PORTRAIT and select CREATE.'

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p. 108: Step 1 - text replaced with 'Click on the SELECT AND MASK button in the OPTIONS BAR and set the VIEW box in the Select and Mask dialogue box to ON WHITE with a 100% OPACITY.'

p. 110: Exercise 3, step 3: 'The FILE SIZE of the image is displayed under the image' changed to 'The FILE SIZE of the image is displayed in the FILE name at the left of the dialogue box.'

p. 126: Exercise 3, step 4: 'SORT ASCENDING' changed to 'SORT A TO Z'

p. 133: Exercise 7, step 6: After 'sum', '(total)' added

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p. 140: Exercise 13, step 12: text changed to 'Check that cell G4 will display the number of scoops entered as set up on the previous page.'

p. 170: Exercise 1, step 2: text changed to 'Load Adobe DreamWeaver and create a NEW HTML DOCUMENT. If the FRAMEWORK option is visible, it should be set to NONE.'

p. 171: Exercise 2, step 2: text changed to 'Display the TOOLS menu, highlight CSS and select CONVERT INLINE CSS TO RULE.'

p. 172: Exercise 2, step 5: text changed to 'Display the TOOLS menu, highlight CSS and select CONVERT INLINE CSS TO RULE.'

p. 173: Exercise 2, step 4: text changed to: 'You can click on the REAL-TIME PREVIEW icon in the STATUS BAR at the base of the page and select a browser to see how the page looks.'

p. 175: Exercise 3, steps 3 and 6: text changed to 'Display the TOOLS menu, highlight CSS and select CONVERT INLINE CSS TO RULE.'

p. 177: Exercise 4, step 4: text changed to 'Highlight the top row cells by dragging across them then display the EDIT menu, highlight TABLE and select MERGE CELLS so that there is just one cell across the top of the table.'

p. 183: Exercise 7, step 7: text changed to 'Open the index.html page and preview it in a browser by clicking on the REAL-TIME PREVIEW icon in the STATUS BAR. Check that the links work correctly then close the browser.'

p. 189: Exercise 9, step 2: text changed to 'Display the EDIT menu, highlight TABLE and select INSERT ROWS AND COLUMNS.'

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p. 199: Exercise 1, steps 1-4: text replaced with
1. Load Adobe InDesign and click on the NEW button in the Welcome screen.
2. In the NEW DOCUMENT dialogue box select the PRINT category and select the A4 Preset.
3. Check that the UNITS are set to MILLIMETRES, turn off FACING PAGES and leave the MARGINS at their default settings (12.7 mm). These setting can be changed when needed.
4. Select CREATE to start the document.

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p. 205: Exercise 2, steps 1-2: text replaced with
1. Start a NEW document and, in the PRINT category of the NEW DOCUMENT dialogue box, select the A4 preset and set the UNITS to MILLIMETRES.
2. Turn off FACING PAGES and set the COLUMNS to 2 with a 20 mm GUTTER. In the MARGINS section set the four margins to 20 mm and select CREATE.

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p. 211: Exercise 3, steps 1-2: text replaced with
1. Start a NEW document and, in the PRINT category of the NEW DOCUMENT dialogue box, select the A4 preset and set the UNITS to MILLIMETRES.
2. Turn off FACING PAGES and set the COLUMNS to 3 with a 5 mm GUTTER. In the MARGINS section set the four margins to 20 mm and select CREATE.

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Module 7: Exercise 15a: Support file updated

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 6: Photo Editing (when using Adobe Photoshop CC)

Photo Editing Exercise 1

Adobe have changes the Refine Edge dialogue box to the Select and Mask dialogue box, so point 1 under Refining the Edges on page 108 should now read:  

1   Click on the SELECT AND MASK button in the OPTIONS BAR and set the VIEW box in the Select and Mask dialogue box to ON WHITE with a 100% OPACITY.

Photo Editing Exercise 3

In Point 3 on page 110, the file size is now only displayed in the FILE name at the left of the dialogue box.