Edexcel DiDA

[Xarea]

I wanted to know if anyone has done the course here?

[Judge Judy]

yes and it's rubbish except designing the eportfolio which i found good.

[Xarea]

yes and it's rubbish except designing the eportfolio which i found good.

Did you do the Danceometer thing?

[Stephen08]

I finished the danceometer one but I failed badly at it cos I missed about 100 lessons I just finished the graphics one

[edgates]

I've just started it this year. I don't think it'll be that bad. We're doing the Danceometer as a practice.

[iaint]

I have just started it and im doing that danceometer thing now.

[Xarea]

I want to see someone elses Danceometer, lol!

[Judge Judy]

oh no not yet haha

im starting graphics :P

i did 5 a day and thts why me and our year find it rubbish but hel itll be worth 2 gcses

[Stephen08]

Graphics crap where you have to make these stupid characters aimed at children and ****

[Judge Judy]

Thanks for making it worse for me :D

What I also hate about this graphics thing is that we have to do it in Fireworks not Photoshop :(:(

[Stephen08]

Yip ino

[Tintinnabulate]

oh no not yet haha

im starting graphics :P

i did 5 a day and thts why me and our year find it rubbish but hel itll be worth 2 gcses

Cide = 2 Gcses
Dida = 4

And DiDA is fun if you work at it. I did it in the second year it came out and got 4 A* at it :D
The school say its impossible to get it, but obviously not ...
Edexcel will be using mine and my mates Unit 4 (combined project), to distribute to all schools with example materials :) as we got full marks on it, and they have only distributed Grade C work so far.

[JackBuddy]

It's boring and worthless.

It might be worth 4 GCSEs but alot of institutions don't count the course as them.

[joshuar]

I did the Make Space one and got a Pass in it. Our school did miserably bad at the whole thing and they have since dropped it.

[Immenseman]

I did it for 1 gcse and did 5 a day thing. Only GCSE I failed.

[Stacker]

I'm doing tell me a story for dida! I'm guessing your like year nine because danceometer is new and I didn't do it.

[Xarea]

I'm doing tell me a story for dida! I'm guessing your like year nine because danceometer is new and I didn't do it.

I'm Y11, lol.

[Tintinnabulate]

It's boring and worthless.

It might be worth 4 GCSEs but alot of institutions don't count the course as them.

Most colleges and universities do recognise it now as most schools do DiDA instead of normal ICT.

[JackBuddy]

Most colleges and universities do recognise it now as most schools do DiDA instead of normal ICT.
The only reason so many schools do it is so the pupils can get the equivalent to '4 GCSEs' in a short amount of time and increase the % that get 5 A*-Cs. (which increases the school's position on the leage tables)

It is worthless, the university I am considering applying to said it is, and my college didn't even bother entering it when I said i passed it.

[Judge Judy]

Cide = 2 Gcses
Dida = 4


Well I'm doing DiDA as the SPB clearly marks it as DiDA and it's two GCSEs :S

The Years 9s now do it for 4 GCSEs

[chloes]

im doing this :)
well its called this
but im actually doing
CiDA
well easy :)
x

[Tintinnabulate]

Well I'm doing DiDA as the SPB clearly marks it as DiDA and it's two GCSEs :S

The Years 9s now do it for 4 GCSEs

They mark it as DiDA, but if you are doing 2 SPB's, its then classed as CiDA.


The only reason so many schools do it is so the pupils can get the equivalent to '4 GCSEs' in a short amount of time and increase the % that get 5 A*-Cs. (which increases the school's position on the leage tables)

It is worthless, the university I am considering applying to said it is, and my college didn't even bother entering it when I said i passed it.

Universities do class it as 4 GCSE's e.g. Manchester, York, Edinburgh. I emailed them last month and they do recognise it as 4.

[Judge Judy]

In my eyes and everyone in the school's eyes, it's DiDA :P

but oh well either way it's still the same :)

[Tintinnabulate]

In my eyes and everyone in the school's eyes, it's DiDA :P

but oh well either way it's still the same :)

But when you apply to universities, you have to enter it as CiDA ;)

[JackBuddy]

They might recognise it as 4 GCSEs but it doesn't count for much.

[Tintinnabulate]

They might recognise it as 4 GCSEs but it doesn't count for much.

That is true.

[.:.:jjm261:.:.]

We did it in year 9, ours included making a eportfolio for a healthy eating thing called 5 a day, we had to make loads of crap stuff like database, and a gantt chart?

[Zuar]

We did DiDa for the 5 a day fruity friends thing - it's so annoying.
But I got a C (highest you could get) - so was all good.

Now we're doing OCR...

[Sam-VisualVPS]

OMG please someone give me the danceometer.. Im in yr 11 and only did the danceometer quiz...


I got 2 things to give in 6months..

Im dead?

I'll pay aswell :)

[Josh-H]

I've done it. Was really boring and a lot of time spent reviewing with only a few marks for the actual quality of work. More marks for saying WHY you made it blue than actually making the presentation or whatever.

[Tintinnabulate]

We did it in year 9, ours included making a eportfolio for a healthy eating thing called 5 a day, we had to make loads of crap stuff like database, and a gantt chart?

Gantt charts are optional.

[.:.:jjm261:.:.]

Gantt charts are optional.
Oh really? we got told that it was necessary,

Also, you have to do a hell of a lot of evidence, as somebody said above its bloody annoying.

[dbgtz]

My school changed my course and removed all the decent stuff

[Tintinnabulate]

Oh really? we got told that it was necessary,

Also, you have to do a hell of a lot of evidence, as somebody said above its bloody annoying.

DiDA is there to give the students a taste of how it would be like for working for a developer maybe. So if a company wanted something for their students to make lessons more interesting, you would need to do questionnaires, research etc. While GCSE AQA IT, which is worth 1 GCSE, is simple and easy and just about computers in general.
I spent most of my time doing the "fun" stuff, which was basically Unit 2 and Unit 4. For the rest, I just made up the results, feedback etc.

Gantt charts are optional. As long as you produce a time chart, its fine. My teacher disliked Gantt charts so we did it for the first few lessons, and then had the option to make our own time chart. All of us made our own. Its easier and you can add a comments column.

[Sam-VisualVPS]

Anyone around to help me with the coursework the first unit?

I got money.. LOL

[AshDonson]

I tried it for a few months and it just stressed me out big time (did the 5-a-day one). Everyone was just rebelling in lesson because it was so bad, so the teachers just let us do our European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) which is the equivilant of a B at GCSE. It was good because I'd already done 6 of the 8 modules a few years before.

My advice, stay away from DiDA, it WILL haunt you.:eusa_wall

[awelsh]

ahh god not this stupid Dida thing. I satill havent been awarded mine to me, did the whole first unit and as much of the second as we could, followed it all right but mots of our class got a a FAIL, our teacher was utter rubbish, waste of a GCSE

[OmgitsAmanda]

I did DiDA last year, did the Fruity Habits unit. I absolutely hated it :| I do OCR now, and it's tonnes better.

[alexxxxx]

DiDA isn't even a GCSE. It's just a certificate. You can't use it to get into college i don't think.

[mat64]

;5141149']DiDA isn't even a GCSE. It's just a certificate. You can't use it to get into college i don't think.
It's used in replacement of your ICT GCSE, atleast it was at my school. So it must have some weight behind it otherwise schools wouldn't bother with it if college's didn't recognise it as a qualification. I did DiDA for 2 years, ended up with 3 b's.

[JackBuddy]

The only reason schools do it is so they can get more pupils with more GCSE passes so they can shoot up the school's league table.

[Tintinnabulate]

It's used in replacement of your ICT GCSE, atleast it was at my school. So it must have some weight behind it otherwise schools wouldn't bother with it if college's didn't recognise it as a qualification. I did DiDA for 2 years, ended up with 3 b's.

My school did that and my sixth form has done that too in their high school section.
QCA have forced Edexcel to make DiDA equivalent of 4 GCSE's by making it extremely strict. Hence if you make spelling mistakes etc, you lose marks.
Hence not many students achieve 4 A*'s.