Contents 1 Difficulty 2 Equipment Needed 3 How to run the evening 4 Home work 5 Other ICT Stage Badges

Difficulty

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Equipment Needed

There is certain ICT equipment that will be needed to run a successful ICT badge evening. This is:

• Laptops or PCs (Enough so there are groups of no more than 5/6)
• If laptops external mice
• ICT Literate instructors (1 per group)
• Badge Requirement print outs for all the instructors and scouters.
• Enough power in the hut to safely power the machines
• Digital Camera

How to run the evening

Start off by splitting up into groups of about 4/5 around a machine.

Once everyone has settled down and got over the can I touch it stage in the group discuss:

1. Rules for using the Internet safely.
2. What is the:
   1. Modem
   2. Browser
   3. Search Engine
   4. Digital Camera
   5. Clip Art
   6. Scanner
   7. Menu

The next step is to show that they can save a file and open that file at a later date, we can do this by getting them to start a word document put some text in about Scouting then save it. Before you then finish the session you then get them to open there document.

Home work

To prove that they understand the badge we recommend these parts of the badge as homework, although they can be done on the evening.

The last bit of the badge left is the choose an additional four activities we have picked:

• Access the Internet safely, to find out as much as they can about a topic of their choice.
• Use a digital camera to take some digital photographs and use a piece of software to enhance or alter the original photographs.
• Use a piece of software of their choice to produce a set of matching stationery for an event, e.g. birthday - place cards, invitations, posters etc.
• Produce a simple pictogram or graph of something of interest to them or their Section.

Because we can get them to take a picture using the digital camera at the hut and then they can download them from the group website if you have one, if not please contact us on support@scouthelp.co.uk as we will try to help you by providing you some web-space.

With the picture they then have to edit it and put it into a poster about scouting that includes a pictogram about how many activities they have done and how many times or something similar.

Other ICT Stage Badges

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