Cover lesson · Art · Year 11 · Advanced
DCF: Producing → Evaluating and improving digital content
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What this is: practice for WJEC GCSE Art and Design (Made for Wales), Unit 1: Portfolio and Unit 2: Externally Set Assignment. Both units can be presented as a digital portfolio or digital presentation. It practises subject content 1.2.7, conveying intentions to an audience through presentation, and 1.2.8 and 1.2.10, reflecting on, refining and evaluating work, across all four assessment objectives.
Practice only, not NEA work. The presentation belongs to an invented pupil, and cynefin is used only because it is an example big idea in the specification. This is not your school’s Externally Set Assignment. Pupils must not open, edit or add to their own portfolio or assignment work in this lesson.
Print: this sheet, one per pupil. Print the stimulus sheet “Nia’s practice presentation”, one between two, in colour if possible. Calculators help in Step 3. No computers are needed.
Run: 10 min pupils read the stimulus in pairs · 12 min Step 2, the evaluation grid · 8 min Step 3, the image check · 15 min Step 4, redesigning slide 4, alone · 10 min Step 5, the note to the teacher, in silence. Total 55 minutes.
Collect: this sheet.
Nia’s practical work is good, but her digital presentation hides it. A moderator who has never met her will only see the slides. You are going to evaluate the layout and content of her presentation against the four assessment objectives, check her image files, redesign one slide, and then justify your changes to a critical reader.
Read all five sections. Underline every problem and circle every strength. Key words:
For each slide, find one strength (or write “none”) and the biggest problem. Say whether the problem is about layout or content, and which assessment objective it hides. Then rank the three slides that most need fixing: 1 is the most urgent.
| Slide | Strength | Biggest problem (layout or content?) | AO it hides | Rank |
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Use section 3 of the stimulus. Scale factor = size shown ÷ file size. Work it out for the width and for the height, to 2 decimal places. A scale factor above 1 means the image has been enlarged. Two different scale factors mean it has been distorted.
| Image | Width scale factor | Height scale factor | Blurred? (Yes or no) | Distorted? (Yes or no) | How to fix it |
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Photograph 9 should keep the same shape as the other photographs. If it stays 240 pixels wide, how tall should it be? Show your working.
(a) Sketch a new layout for slide 4 in the frame. Label where each image goes, its size, the heading, and the annotation. Show which experiment Nia chose to take forward, and make sure the eye goes to it first.
(b) Rewrite Nia’s annotation, 50 to 70 words. Keep it true to what is on the slide. Say what each edit did, which one best fits her intention and why, and what she will do next. Use the language of art.
Write a note of 120 to 150 words to Nia’s teacher, who will check the new version before it goes to a moderator. Explain your three most important changes across the whole presentation. For each: what you changed, why it matters to someone who has never met Nia, and which assessment objective it helps. Include one change about crediting a source.