{"id":551,"date":"2010-07-29T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2010\/07\/29\/links-with-ciw\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:03:00","slug":"links-with-ciw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/links-with-ciw\/","title":{"rendered":"Links with CIW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We met with Loraine Johnston, of James Watt College, this morning to discuss a new PDA linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciwcertified.com\/\">CIW<\/a>. We currently have a PDA that links to CIW&#8217;s <i>Foundations <\/i>curriculum but we have been planning on extending links to include the CIW <i>Site Designer <\/i>award for some time.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Lorraine to do a mapping of existing units to the <i>Site Designer <\/i>course a few months ago. The results were mixed &#8212; some coverage but not 100%. So we decided to revise an old unit (Internet: Web Development) to cover the missing bits. The result will be a new PDA entitled <i>Website Designer<\/i> at SCQF Level 7, which will fully cover the Site Designer curriculum. This might consist of three units:<\/p>\n<p>1. Web Development Essential Content (existing)<br \/>2. Web Development Complex Content (existing)<br \/>3. Internet: Web Development (revised)<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Site Designer <\/i>course will not cover all of these units, but we will produce guidance on what extra needs to be done to pick up these units.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we have to consult on all of this but we know from centre feedback that there is a demand for this award. We hope to have the new PDA available to centres from <b>January 2011<\/b>. The new PDA (and the associated units) would sit inside <i>HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">Contact Caroline<\/a> for more information about the links between SQA and CIW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met with Loraine Johnston, of James Watt College, this morning to discuss a new PDA linked to CIW. We currently have a PDA that links to CIW&#8217;s Foundations curriculum but we have been planning on extending links to include the CIW Site Designer award for some time. We asked Lorraine to do a mapping of existing units to the Site Designer course a few months ago. The results were mixed &#8212; some coverage but not 100%. So we decided&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}