The OCR National Certificate in ICT is an exciting alternative to the GNVQ course. With its increased emphasis on creativity and graphic communication Serif software becomes an ideal tool to deliver the key creative units.
Serif products will fulfil the key creative elements of the OCR Nationals. The Serif Design Suite offers bitmap and vector tools, digital video editing, dtp and web publishing all supported by substantial resource materials and schemes of work focussed on course assessment objectives. Serif’s accessible and inclusive software allows students of all abilities to produce high quality work that is fit for the purpose and presented in the appropriate format.
- An accessible and affordable suite of integrated graphics products which
- can aid confident delivery of the creative units of the course.
- Software is easy to use and students can achieve high quality project work
- FREE Serif Teacher Resources are provided with the software to offer
- complete direction and assist effective course delivery
- The Teacher Resources are endorsed by OCR for use with the OCR Nationals
- Level 2 Unit 2 (Web Creation), Unit 3 (Digital Imaging) and Unit 23 (Digital Video) specifications. Teacher Resources for other Units are currently going through the
- OCR endorsement process
The course is flexible in structure and this means
that the Serif Design Suite can apply to a large range of course units. You can find out more by downloading this document.
Serif’s Teacher Resources for the OCR Nationals
are endorsed by OCR for use with the OCR Nationals Level 2
Unit 2 (Web Creation), Unit 3 ( Digital Imaging ), Unit 20 (Animation), Unit 21
(Computer Graphics) and Unit 23 (Digital Video) specifications. Other Units
are currently going through the OCR endorsement process. Endorsement of
resources requires a rigorous assessment and quality assurance process
to ensure the materials support the specification and the sample exercises
and exemplar activities provide the appropriate direction and formative
assessment to assist course delivery.
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Fact file
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Manageable chunks of information help students acquire the necessary
knowledge and understanding for each assessment objective. |
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Activity
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Each fact file is followed by a short practical activity that
applies or tests students’ understanding of it. |
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How to
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Step-by-step guides help students acquire new skills. |
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Assignment
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The scenario for the model assignment is used to set a series
of contextualised tasks that test each assessment objective by means
of linked mini briefs. |
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Mini brief
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Each section of the scheme of work concludes with a small task
related to the assignment scenario, which embeds and reinforces new
skills in context. The briefs build sequentially into the complete
guided model assignment. |
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Review
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Students are encouraged to seek regular feedback about their work
and to make modifications in response as well as to evaluate their
own work |
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Resources
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Each section concludes with a skills check to help students measure
progress and identify areas for further development
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Skills
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Each section concludes with a skills check to help students measure
progress and identify areas for further development. |
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The Serif Teacher Resource for Digital Imaging (Unit 3) is completed, freely available and ready to download. Serif Teacher
Resource Packs for Web Design (Unit 2), Animation (Unit 20), Computer Graphics (Unit 21) and Digital Video (Unit 23) are now
available, are endorsed by OCR for the OCR Nationals in ICT Level 2 specification, and will be provided free with the purchase
of Serif Licence Packs. Further creative units are in production and will be available shortly.
To download the OCR Nationals Digital Imaging Unit click
here or contact ocr@serif.com for more information and a CD based version.
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