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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The fact that there is no wood products or folios in Top Designs is totally disappointing, it is obvious to all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I thought twice about taking students (wood focused) but will be taking a group as I want them to see quality folios that address all the criteria in the new study design.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My students have little appreciation for how the folio links together and why they have to do a 4 part evaluation criteria for the finished product and then a 3 part for the Product design process. They think I am a pain for insisting that they identify, using colour, the Product design factors in their design briefs etc. These are all significant changes that could also come up in the exam so I want them to understand this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My students need to see how other students have done this work and how the new parts of the folio look – and it is different to previous years – in some cases significantly different. What I don’t want them to see are folios that use the previous study design or folios that don’t cover all the criteria as that would just confuse them and as a teacher I then worry about them making mistakes on the exam because of the confusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All the work is textiles except for a delicate set of silver jewellery but the value to the wood students is the folio this year. There is nothing we can do about the 2013 exhibition so I am hoping for a wood dominated exhibition next year ! Let’s hope it works that way and more wood teachers put forward their students folios and products for selection. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Robin Panousieris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Assumption College Kilmore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> destech-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lorraine Tran<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 26 April 2013 9:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> Design and Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Design and Technology] Top Designs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Colleagues,</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>Perhaps discussion regarding the lack of representation of products that are constructed mainly from wood in 2013 Top Designs could revisit the criteria used by the Product Design and Technology Selection Panel (comprising Product Design and Technology teachers) and how the situation can be addressed during this year as students are working on their SATs to ensure the 2014 Top Designs exhibition will include wood products. </strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><strong>CRITERIA</strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><p><strong>Product Design and Technology, Food and Technology and Systems Engineering</strong> <br>Works are selected that<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>achieve an A+ or A.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>meet the assessment criteria at a very high standard and in innovative, individual ways<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>are accompanied by an exemplary folio that meets the assessment criteria and demonstrates research and thorough development of ideas<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>present a range of materials and creative uses of those materials<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>demonstrate sound workshop practices<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>are suitable for public exhibition and will fit exhibition constraints including space and safe weight restrictions.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/excellenceawards/seasonofexcellence/index.aspx">http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/excellenceawards/seasonofexcellence/index.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Paul <<a href="mailto:docca1@hotmail.com" target="_blank">docca1@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well said Steve, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The expectations of our students has clouded intelligent judgement.... Most of us would still go to see work of a B or C standard...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 26/04/2013, at 9:48, Steve Catanzariti <<a href="mailto:stevec@sjc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">stevec@sjc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>It is an absolute disgrace that there are no Product Design and Technology (wood) students work on display in 2013. It is a slap in the face to all high achieving students and their teachers who put in an extraordinary amount of time and effort only to be told that some aspects of the study design were not covered perfectly. In the Top designs application process, the work only needed to be of A+ standard. Nowhere does it say that all aspects of the work needed to be perfect. Many students who applied and then subsequently rejected, were devastated to be told that from the 80 plus pages that they produced, there was 1 or 2 pages that weren’t perfect. Is this the path PDT wood is taking? There should have been a showcase of work from all areas of the PDT domain or a least a better excuse to totally disregard work from our area. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:currentColor currentColor'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">destech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jon Hubbard<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 23 April 2013 3:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:destech@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">destech@edulists.com.au</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Design and Technology] Top Designs</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Colleagues </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I took my Year 11 & 12 design tech wood students to top designs yesterday. Spent a lesson beforehand explaining to the students, what to look for etc. especially the year 11’s, only to find that there were no wood folios. Have I been out of the country the last 12 months, not knowing that Product Design Technology Wood would not be represented? I know there were six textiles displays and loved the display of past students work and if you read their crits many of them explained the influence top design has had on their career and subject choices. Really the effort these students go to in producing a folio is remarkable and Top Designs is a fitting reward for them, even to enter. This was really disappointing, can anyone explain? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jon Hubbard Product Design & Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Trinity College, Colac </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;min-width:730px'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0C2D6A'>Jon Hubbard</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0095C9'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6D6E;text-transform:uppercase'>Teacher</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div style='border:none;border-top:dotted windowtext 1.0pt;padding:10.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;border-color:currentColor currentColor;min-height:62px;min-width:730px'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=630 style='width:472.5pt'><tr><td width=106 style='width:79.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.tcc.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><~WRD000.jpg></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=530 style='width:397.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Trinity College Colac,<span style='color:#6C6D6E'> </span>PO Box 23<span style='color:#6C6D6E'>, </span>Colac<span style='color:#6C6D6E'> </span>Vic 3250<span style='color:#3C3C3D'><br></span>Phone:<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span>(03) 5233 9200<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span>|<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span>Direct:<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span>(03) 5233 9263<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span>|<span style='color:#3C3C3D'> </span> Fax<span style='color:#6C6D6E'>:</span> (03) 5232 1447<br>Email: <a href="mailto:JHubbard@tcc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">JHubbard@tcc.vic.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=751 style='width:563.25pt'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='margin-bottom:4.0pt;line-height:13.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#004DBB'>The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged material. 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