By Tuesday 7th October

Please bring in your:
Initial designs for the dvd cover (at least 6) ANNOTATED
Developments for the dvd cover (at least 4) ANNOTATED
Initial designs for the Clock (at least 6) ANNOTATED
Developments for the clock (at least 4) ANNOTATED

A "Development" is where you take your chosen Initial Design and investigate different aspects of it, such as:

How it is going to be fixed together ANNOTATED
Possible colour schemes ANNOTATED
Different fonts for the numbers, etc ANNOTATED

For Monday 29th September

Make sure you have research from at least three different sources... see the front page of www.yr11.info for information.
You could be research...

materials they are made from
how they are printed
examples form 'the real world'
what the legal requirement is for labeling... that is, what has to be mentioned by law
what the environmental considerations are

Mr. Bower

Homework for Wednesday, 24th September

Do a Design Brief and Specification for the Major Project .... if you haven't done so already, that is..... See yr11.info for information (the front page).

Mr. Bower

Tuesday, 16th September, 2008

Please make sure that you have ALL your work for the major Project printed off and handed in; make sure you hand in all the work for the Major Project you have done by hand, as well. If it is not printed off, I am afraid I will have to consider it as not done.

This gives you ample warning and gives you a whole week to do it. If the work is not done, I shall be sending out more letters for catch-up sessions.

I will be around Wednesday 10th of September after school to help anyone who requires it... I will try and remind you of that during the lesson that morning!

Mr. Bower

Welcome back!

Two pieces of news...

Firstly, I have persuaded the Powers That Be that surely we only need to do two products and could they please be the dvd case and the clock.... which are the two we are working on. Basically, this gives you a brilliant start to the year if you are falling behind a little and means things are totally solvable at this stage.

Secondly, I am putting all our bits and pieces in one place so that we don't have to scrabble around the main tech website. I have got some of it (the main parts) transferred over already. The homework blog is a bright red link, so you can't miss it!

I have also added something else; you can now see your individual profile online (it is passworded, the current password being the word brill. This will change once we have information about your work up there). Comments on your work will be available to look at as soon as it is written and this gets over the problem of both you and myself having the same notes about your work.
The place to look for all this is http://yr11.info .

Mr. Bower

PS: if you haven't quite finished it yet, the homework for the summer holiday is, of course, still here... just below here if you scroll down a little!