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Accommodation - a suite of four custom built rooms.
Hardware - each room has 20 Dell PCs plus a teacher machine, laser printer, scanner, television, CD/DVD player, 2 shared colour printers.
Software - all PCs - Microsoft Office suite, MSWorks, Microsoft Encarta,
Visual Basic 6, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash.
Filtered broadband Internet access available on all school computers.
Each pupil has Email access using Schoolmaster filtered system.
Courses
S1/S2 - Computing Course based on the 5 to 14 National Guidelines.
S3/S3 - Access 3, Intermediate 1 and 2
S5/S6 - National Qualifications - Computing is offered at Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher and ECDL.
Activities
Access to the computing facilities is available at lunchtime for project work and subject assignments.
Annual DARE Macromedia Flash competition (Abertay University) for S5/S6 Computing/Art pupils.
Links
Email : ddfchristie351@ea.dundeecity.sch.uk
scholar login
computing dictionary
Council Acceptable Use Policy
pctechguide
BCS careers information
PlanIt Plus Career Information
ReviseComputing
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Morna Findlay from Edinburgh University visited the school for the fourth year running on the 13th of January to talk to our S2 and S3 pupils about career opportunities in Computing and the exciting work the University does in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Among other things pupils got to play against a robot called Mary at Connect 4. For the first time at Braeview one of our pupils beat the robot. Congratulations to Sean Colvin who remained calm under pressure and beat Mary at her own game! For his efforts Sean won a T-Shirt and his name goes on to the University Connect 4 hall of fame, well done Sean. As usual, the star of the visit was the Sony AIBO robotic dog pictured below.
RRP £2000!
Teams of four representing 17 schools took part in the event run by Dundee University School of Computing, which this year asked entrants to create a virtual tour of the institute's Queen Mother Building by blogging about each room.
The S1-S3 students set up sites displaying the information just hours after being briefed.
A number of creations impressed the judges but Braeview Academy's team GPS scooped the top prize — winning the trophy as well as £100 for their school.
Well done to Amy Burnett, Alister Watson and Paul Rutherford they were a credit to the school and beat stiff competition from schools
including Dundee High and Dollar Academy.
Stephen Brooks, the head of IT at The Courier's publisher DC Thomson, presented them with the prize.
Two Advanced Higher Computing pupils Fraser Watson and John Mconnachie attended and intensive Computer Games design competition hosted by Abertay University and organised by Dundee City Council Economic Development department. This competition runs every year and is open to all Dundee schools. Pupils are split up into teams of 4 and over the period of a week they work together to devise and create a new computer game, interspersed with talks from lecturers and industry representatives. For more detail click here.
This year we have set up Glow Groups for each of our year groups and exam levels:
- S2
- Intermediate 1
- Intermediate 2
- Higher
- Advanced Higher
The glow groups are areas which pupils can access in school and from home using the internet, and they contain links to useful webistes, news items and course documents to help pupils with homework and revision.
Recently we took delivery of an Ardunio board on loan from Learning and Teaching Scotland. An Arduino is a single-board microcontroller and a software suite for programming it. Using a little programming and some electronics knowledge one of our S2 pupils Paul Rutherford has been working on getting the kit up and running with some fantastic results. The board can be fitted with lights, speakers and other devices and can then be controlled by programs written by the user.
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Dundee Science Festival 2011
As part of this years Science Festival Chris Martin from Dundee University School of Computing, kindly visited us with his
Arduino robot kits. Groups of S3,4 and S5/6 pupils were given the opportunity to program them and make them dance.
Dr Natalie Coull from Abertay University kindly visited us and delivered a workshop to our Higher and Advanced Higher pupils on the Ethical Hacking and Digital Forensics courses they offer at the university. Natalie was accompanied by two students from the course and together the visitors gave staff and pupils a great insight into these exciting fields within Computing. For more information click here .
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