Further to a request on the forum, here's a quick video of how to create a running total of sales on a spreadsheet without having to keep a record of all the actual sales data too. It's very useful for those of you doing the WJEC AS spreadsheet section!!!

Selection of videos my students found one lesson that relate to the WJEC AS level specification. Hope you find them useful to drop into your VLEs.

I had a bad throat so decided to ask my students to do a trawl of youtube to find various videos that mirrored the contents of the specification. We have dropped them into file format so you can easily embed them in your VLEs. Hope they are of use

A few resources to finish off the other resource file on here, there is a max of 20 uploads per resource!!! You need to search for 'OCR Nationals French trip scenario resources' to find the bulk of this

A bunch of films, screencasts and weblinks that you could use to help support the delivery of the French trip model assignment. Some of it is geared to my school, for example we use open source email rather than outlook, but the principles of all the resources can be used by anyone. Please find the second part of this resource in the resource bank to finish off the database videos

Nice little lesson to show you how to use a photo merge to make some id cards and it fits in nicely with my other exercises on here with Mafia Zoo in the title. Anyway you will need Serif PagePlus, some photos and a spreadsheet data source.....

Yes that is an odd title. Anyway I use this as an end of year 8 exam to test simple spreadsheet techniques, mail merging and a bit of graphics. Guess you would have to customise the instructions as they are geared to my school but it won't take much editing. Still kids enjoyed it last year and it was an exam!!

Set of 4 videos to cover creating and reusing movie clips, tweening, easing, opacity and the use of actions on buttons. Ideal for unit 20 of the Nationals but let's be honest most of your year 7s could handle this. Not a criticism of Nationals as I like the course, but it's just fun, a decent standard and kids will want to do it of any age.....

I don't claim to be a programmer, but these videos do let kids get a handle on some simple programming techniques to bring databases to life a little. Will turn into a series of tutorials once I get the kids at my school to explain to me how the hell it all works. Ideal for those students doing the WJEC course to chase down the few marks available, vid2 is the key one for that as it shows how to VB a login routine!!

A short series of videos to show kids how to get to grips with the basics of dance ejay 5. Quality of vid2 is a little sub par due to recording issues but is easily still fine to use. Only funky fresh partaaay people need download and av'it large!!

A series of mind maps suitable for the A level course by WJEC and based around the Doyle text. These could of course be used by students doing other specs where there is some overlap. Lots more to follow

I use these files as an end of year test for our year 8s. Combines some basic graphic work, with a few formula in a spreadsheet to create a graph that is then used in a mail merge task. It's a bit 'leftfield' in content and would need a few changes to the word docs to make it specific to your school, however it is a lot of fun, assesses useful skills and the kids enjoy doing it.

Cracking little sets of videos that shows how to construct comics in comic life but also working with drawplus to rip characters from one cartoon and embedding them in the other. All neatly wrapped up in a cyber bullying theme for a token nod to e-safety. This task kills a flock of birds with one stone and your kids will love it. This exercise sees Homer Simpson being bullied by Bender from Futurama...

You will need to download the resources from the exercise http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Mafia-Zoo-spreadsheet-exercises-and-videos-6070807/ first if you want this to make complete sense. However if you just want to teach kids to mail merge from web based generated data then it could work as a standlalone lesson. Anyway one set of instructions and some videos to show how to generate data and mail merge it. Great exercise for KS3 kids and a very useful skill

Thought I would create a series of mind maps to help my own students revise for this course. I have tried to embed key terms that seem to appear on the mark schemes from the board. Hopefully they may help a few of your students too!! I am going to add lots of these over the next couple of weeks, we find they work very well in moodle within a lightbox gallery

after a thread appeared on the forums I knocked this up to explain a very simple relational database for keeping recipes and ingredients. It's not a full dbase build but it illustrates the use of joining tables and sub forms pretty well. Certainly a very good first lesson to introduce the principle a seperate tables and looking things up

This is a sample chalkboard that I created for use with my AS level students on the WJEC course. You can find more of these on Teach-ICT, but they are not free. They are however my best work to date.

A selection of short videos that are relevant to the WJEC AS level specification

6 videos and 3 worksheets that I use with my year 8 students to introduce them to some basic spreadsheet techniques. Hope the file names above make sense for you to work out how to run with it. Not a rip form Teach-ICT, it was my idea that I let them use!!!

3 videos and some images that will enable your students to take their first steps with Serif Pageplus and realsie that creating something like the front cover of a national newspaper is not beyond them