Difficulty

Scout Help recommends this badge Scouts and Explorers

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

How to run the evening

This badge is best done by people who want to do it and at home due to the ammount of internet access that may be needed.

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.

1. Design an integrated system using a number of pieces of software that, for example, a small company would need, such as a database, letters, invoices etc.
2. Design a website that has a series of pages and which includes links to other sites of a similar nature.
3. Reflect critically on the impact of IT on their own life and that of others - consider political, social, ethical, economic, moral and legal issues.
4. Produce an 'Internet Guide' for the Beavers and Cubs which could even be used on there ICT evening.
5. Produce a list of websites that would interest other Members of The Scout Association in the same Section as themselves.

Other ICT Stage Badges

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