Research – ITGS Project

September 11, 2015

Students generally have some experience in using the various IT tools, applications and online services that may be needed to make an IT product: experience in creating and editing sounds, images, video and other components access to applications for creating...

Drones Overhead

September 9, 2015

Two recent articles relating to the use of drones to collect information indicate new levels of inter-connectivity of IT systems. Summaries of the articles are provided below. Drones detect IoT devices over Texas The drone used for the detection over Austin, Texas, is...

Resources-2016 Case Study Smart Homes

September 7, 2015

Many HL ITGS students are now returning after the summer holidays and their attention is turning towards the 2016 Case Study focused on Smart Homes for their May 2016 Paper 3 examination. Over the summer a wealth of resources have been emerging to support the...

Creating Silence-Spaces in Schools

September 4, 2015

I just recently purchased good noise-cancelling headphones to block the roar of motors and the general noise whenever traveling on planes. The headphones are simply brilliant because, not only do they block in-coming noise so that the sound from on-board systems can...

How BIG is Facebook?

June 24, 2015

How BIG is Facebook? not only presents mind-bloggling statistics about the users and usage of Facebook and how it came into being, but also takes us behind the scenes to look at the Facebook data center complex which is the size of three football fields. Facebook is...

Lifetime of a Script?

May 31, 2015

From the time that an exam script is written in May until it is retired on the 15 September, it passes through many readings along the way. Preparation for Marking After the students take an examination, the script seems  to vanish into the ‘unknown’ until...