Close message Scootle will stop supporting resources that use the Adobe Flash plug-in from 18 Dec 2020. Learning paths that include these resources will have alerts to notify teachers and students that one or more of the resources will be unavailable. Click here for more info.

Search results

Refine results by

Year level
Resource type
Learning area

Refine by source


Refine by topic

Main topic Specific topic Related topic

Your search returned 1004 results

Listed under:  Technologies  >  Information and communication technologies
Teacher resource

Digital Technologies Hub

  • TLF-IDM020779

The Digital Technologies Hub is a website that supports Australian primary teachers, secondary teachers, students, school leaders and school communities in engaging with the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies. The hub provides scaffolded support for teachers and many of the resources will assist those getting started ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Apple Macintosh software game - 'Tetris', 3 1/2-inch floppy disk, 1987

  • TLF-IDM001966

Tetris is a falling-blocks puzzle video game that was designed and programmed in Moscow in 1984. Its developer has said that he was inspired by pentominoes. The name is derived from the Greek 'tetra' meaning 'four'. This game 'Tetris - The Soviet Challenge - 1987 and 1988' was collected because it was one of the first games ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Apple Macintosh software game - 'Warlords II', 1994

  • TLF-IDM001961

This is the cover of 'Warlords II', a fantasy strategy game. It came on four floppy disks with two booklets, a map and two marketing cards in a cardboard box in a sleeve, and was introduced in 1994. This fantasy game allowed up to eight players to participate. It features castles, monsters, heroes and armies. The game had ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Apple Macintosh software game - 'Panzer Battles', 1990

  • TLF-IDM001960

This is the cover of a computer game 'Panzer Battles'. It came on two floppy disks with two booklets, a supplement and two cards in a box, and dealt with the Eastern Front during the Second World War. It is one in a series of games in which software micromanaged the actions of individual units, for example battalions or ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Mark Zuckerberg teaches Repeat Loops

  • TLF-IDM018934

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this instructional video, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg explains what a Repeat Loop is and how to use the repeat block. This is the second of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. To ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Bill Gates explains If statements

  • TLF-IDM018942

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft introduces the If statement. He explains that the If statement is a fundamental concept in computer programming. By demonstrating the use ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Saloni teaches If/Else statements with Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age

  • TLF-IDM018943

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Saloni explains what an If/Else statement is. With the help of Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age, she goes on to demonstrate how If/Else blocks can be used to program characters' ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Saloni on the If/Else block

  • TLF-IDM018927

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, Saloni explains what an If/Else statement is and looks at how If/Else blocks can be used to program the movement of a zombie character. This is the fifth of seven clips in ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Introduction

  • TLF-IDM018931

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.  This video explains what computer science is and what a computer programmer does. This is the first of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. To try your hand at coding visit learn.code.org

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Hour of Code: Chris Bosh teaches Repeat Until statements

  • TLF-IDM018932

The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. In this video, basketball star Chris Bosh explains the difference between a Repeat Until command and a Repeat Loop command. This is the third of seven clips in the Hour of Code tutorial. ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Unplugged Activity: Graph Paper Programming

  • TLF-IDM018930

This video introduces one of code.org's unplugged activities and provides an introduction to programming without the use of computers. One student takes on the role of "programmer", drawing arrows and scribbles on paper to guide the other student to re-create a particular picture. For more information on the activities ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Telling robots what to do

  • TLF-IDM020266

If you were programming a robot to play a competitive game of soccer, what are some of the things you would consider? Think about some of the most basic functions of a robot, like walking, stopping and turning, to more complicated functions like recognising objects and reacting to them in a specific way.

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Imagining other uses for robotics technology

  • TLF-IDM020269

It's cool to program robots to play football, but there are many more useful applications for programming robots to react to what they are seeing. What are some of the examples David McKinnon gives? Can you think of some more examples?

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Unplugged Activity: Computational Thinking

  • TLF-IDM018928

This video introduces one of code.org's unplugged activities. It discusses a lesson on Computational Thinking, designed to show you how to take a big difficult problem and turn it into several simpler problems. The goal of the lesson is for a group of students to write a set of instructions for another group of students ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Unplugged Activity: My Robotic Friends

  • TLF-IDM018929

This video introduces one of code.org's unplugged activities and provides an introduction to programming without the use of computers. One group of students take on the role of "programmer", drawing arrows on paper to guide the other group of students, the "robots" to build a stack of cups in a particular configuration. ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Apple II software program - VisiCalc, 5 1/4-inch floppy disk, 1981

  • TLF-IDM001939

This is the cover of a folder containing VisiCalc, the world's first electronic spreadsheet program for personal computers. Text on the cover reads: 'VISICALC / INSTANTLY CALCULATING "ELECTRONIC" WORKSHEET' at the top and 'VISICORP / PERSONAL SOFTWARE' at the bottom. There are also examples of calculations the program could ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Apple Macintosh software package - MacWrite and MacPaint, 3 1/2-inch floppy disks, c1985

  • TLF-IDM001938

This is a moulded plastic box containing the Apple Macintosh software products MacWrite and MacPaint. There are also system disks, manuals and other items. 'Macintosh' is printed on some of the objects in the box. The packaging is attractive, protects the items inside and is portable.

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Operating console of CSIRAC, 1955-64

  • TLF-IDM002011

This is a 1964 photograph showing maintenance engineer Jurij Semkiw at the operating console of CSIRAC, Australia's first digital computer. CSIRAC, or 'Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer' was one of the world's first electronic digital stored program computers. It is the last of the first ...

View detailsView resource
StillImage

Dorothy Howard Collection in the Australian Children's Folklore archive, 1954-55

  • TLF-IDM001984

This item is a box of index cards arranged alphabetically, with two shown prominently - one handwritten, one typed on a typewriter. It is an example of items from the Dorothy Howard Collection, part of the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC) archive, ACFC Series 3. Dr Dorothy Howard came to Australia in 1954-55 ...

View detailsView resource
Moving Image

Learning about computer languages

  • TLF-IDM020594

What happens when you type a web address or url into your computer and press enter? Watch this clip to find out! Computers and servers talk to each other in a language called HTTP. What are the messages they send and recieve mostly about? HTML is another language, one that tells a web browser how to make a web page look. ...

View detailsView resource