Fuse Creator

Want to create high-quality, interactive activities for your students, but don't have a degree in computer programming? Well, now you don't need one.
Fuse Creator will help you to create engaging interactive content, quickly and easily, which you can use over and over on your school or personal computers, websites and VLEs.

Game Maker

Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code.
Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. There is a built-in programming language, for more experienced users, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. Game Maker is available free of charge. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun.

KS3 ICT Pilot test preparation - starters

A link to some good resources for preparing pupils for the forthcoming KS3 ICT pilot tests. Yes, online assessment remains an education agenda for the future, the pilot is still very important and will be going ahead.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/index.cfm?s=1&m=1488&p=995,index

These resources have been developed by the Birmingham Grid for Learning.

YacaPaca

Chalkface provide a wide range of assessment tools for KS3 and KS4. Click on the "Yacapaka" link to create an account.

Revise ICT

This link is to a very useful site for everything ICT. It contains excellent resources for preparing pupils for the new ICT KS3 tests, DiDA, revised KS3 STUs and a range of application tutorials. A real one-stop shop for ICT teachers.

KS3 ICT Test Preparation

The new KS3 ICT tests require pupils to work with unfamiliar application environments. To help them prepare there are a few on-line (free) spreadsheets, wordprocessors and database applications they can use:

Zoho Creator - On-line database application

Google Spreadsheets and Docs - On-line spreadsheet and wordprocessor applications (Formerly Writely)

All the above allow users to upload existing files and edit them within the new environment.