Teach Computing
Revision notes, activities, lesson plans, teaching ideas, and other resources for GCSE, A-Level, and IB Computer Science teachers and students.
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UK Computing Laws
This video from Computer Science Tutor covers the main UK computing laws re...
Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi, Security, and Hardware)
This video about wireless networking includes everything that is needed for...
Network topology videos
These four excellent videos from Computer Science tutor cover the four ma...
Network protocols
These four videos explain the main networking protocols that students are l...
Embedded Systems video
This short video is a good over of embedded systems, covering the main poin...
Representing Text in Binary
This video clearly explains the two main ways of representing text in binar...
Types of Malware
This video explains the various types of malware including viruses and troj...
Protecting against Malware
Following on from the Types of Malware video, this video explains technique...
Video: Network Security #1
This video gives an overview of the threats to networked computer systems, ...
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4.9.3.1 The Internet and how it works
An animation showing how DNS works when you type the URL of a website into your web browser. This video goes into more detail than some of the others here, showing how a computer locates nameservers before finding the IP address of a domain name. Useful for older students.
Updated: 2015-06-03
This video goes into a LOT of detail about DNS and the different types of nameservers: the root nameservers, the TLD nameservers, and authoriative name servers. This is probably more detail than most students will need, but it can help understand the bigger picture, so is included here.
Updated: 2015-06-03
Computer Networks: Crash Course Computer Science
This 12 minute video gives a rapid overview of computer networks. Despite its short running time, a lot of topics are covered, including MAC addresses, ethernet cables, and networking hardware. Some of the concepts (e.g. collisions) may not be relevant to all Computer Science courses, but their explanations are often linked to other related concepts (for example, collisions is linked to bandwidth which in turn is linked to switches).
Updated: 2018-01-25
Video: There and Back Again: A Packet's Tale. How Does the Internet Work?
A really accessible overview of packet switching, using the example of accessing a web page. The steps are broken down and explained with real life examples, as a web page hosted in the US is fetched by a computer in the UK.
Updated: 2018-01-25
Video: How does the internet work? - James May's Q&A
This video with James May takes a while to get going, but about half way through it starts to put concepts together and make it clear how the Internet works. Everything is explained clearly and in easy to understand language.
Updated: 2018-01-25
4.9.3.2 Internet security