Code: BIT001
Title: Open 4 Business
Pre-requisites: Nil
Outcome levels: 5/6
Coordinator: Ms M Murray

This unit offers Year 8 students an opportunity to experience both Business and Information Technology. Students will engage in practical and theoretical aspects, which will provide them with a pathway towards future careers in the Business and IT world.

Topics

• Developing a suite of business stationery
• Business simulation — ‘Operating a lemonade stand’
• Marketing
• File handling procedures
• Internet
• Email

Assessment

• Folio of work (end of term 1)
• Oral presentation (end of semester)

At completion students should know

• Principles of good design
• Basic financial operations of a small business venture
• Profit and loss analysis
• Marketing principles
• File handling conventions
• Email etiquette
• Internet search techniques

At completion students should be able to

• Confidently manipulate the software to create stationery and other items as required
• Use a constructive criticism approach to determine design effectiveness
• Select appropriate fonts, sizes, colours for stationery items
• Manipulate an on-line simulator to analyse the operations of a small business activity, eg ‘lemonade stand’
• Analyse profits/losses, and present actions which may improve business operations
• Present marketing materials that aim to sell a product
• Use email with efficiency, organise the address book, set up folders
• File handling procedures – set up an efficient file management system, with folders named accordingly, and documents stored correctly
• Access the vast array of internet-based resources
• Work independently and as part of a team
• Apply problem-solving skills
• Analyse and interpret complex information
• Make comparisons and draw contrasts
• Draw conclusions and justify these conclusions with evidence

Literacy elements

• Oral, print and multimedia literacy
• Focus on subject specific words and their definitions
• Focus on subject specific spelling
• Paralinguistic features (spatial arrangements, tables, illustrations)
• Use of generic task sheets

Integrated technology

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Publisher
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Digital Camera
• Scanner
• Internet
  Data Projector

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.  

Resources

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