Alan Turing

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Alan Turing

• The father of modern Computer Science

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Lesson Aims

• To develop research skills using the Internet
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• To create an interactive poster celebrating the
  life of a famous LGBT person

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Starter
What is this a picture of?
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• You will be producing a digital, interactive
• poster about Alan Turing for 8 year olds.
• You need to consider
• Audience 8 year olds
• Information Alan Turings involvement in
  computers. Use the question sheet to guide you in
  your research.
• Media How will you present research to target
  audience using ICT e.g. what software? What tools?

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You may need to use these skills

• How to insert images/rotate/crop/resize etc
• How to insert text
• How to create links to other documents/slides
  within your user area
• How to create links to external websites
• How to use sound and video in PowerPoint/Publisher
  
• Ask for a demonstration, if unsure.

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Plenary

• Look at the digital posters
• What is positive about the examples you are
  seeing?
• What have you learnt about ICT?
• What have you learnt about the experience of some
  LGBT people like Alan Turing before the
  legalisation of homosexuality in 1967?