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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This year is even worse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I can’t/don’t/won’t
accept that he can study for yr 12 exams effectively while playing a DVD
through his PC which is less than two feet from his nose and directly behind
his books/notes he is “studying” from. (and on a 19inch LCD with a
5.2 sound system in his bedroom)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>and most frustrating is that he is likely
to do well enough to be able to tell me that he was right.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Mark Scott<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Murray O.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 2 November 2006
10:06 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Year 12 Information Technology
Processing and Management Teachers'MailingList<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Year 12 IPM] IPM
Exam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Scott<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 2 November 2006
9:46 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Year 12 Information Technology
Processing and Management Teachers'MailingList<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Year 12 IPM] IPM
Exam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>IPM last year, he got 38 which he was
happy with. (not sure I was)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>I had the same problem as you, he refused
to talk to me about it all year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Mark Scott<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=3
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Luther</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Meadows, Roslyn M<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 2 November 2006
9:24 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Year 12 Information Technology
Processing and Management Teachers'MailingList<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Year 12 IPM] IPM
Exam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#800040" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#800040'>Good luck to your son Mark, did he do
IPM or IS?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Ros Meadows</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Lauriston</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 color=maroon><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Girls</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="mailto:meadowsro@lauriston.vic.edu.au"><font size=2><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>meadowsro@lauriston.vic.edu.au</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><a href="mailto:meadows.roslyn.m@edumail.vic.gov.au">meadows.roslyn.m@edumail.vic.gov.au</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=huge><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Home
computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the
consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.</span></font></span><font
size=2 color=maroon><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'> <br>
<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Doug Larson</font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark Scott<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thu 11/2/2006 6:07 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Year 12 Information Technology
Processing and Management Teachers'MailingList<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Year 12 IPM] IPM
Exam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ros</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a son doing Yr 12 as well this year (at a different
school) and the conversation below sounds exactly like the one I have been
having with him all year.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A couple of weeks and it will be all over.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mark Scott</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Luther</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
ipm-bounces@edulists.com.au on behalf of Meadows, Roslyn M<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thu 2/11/2006 12:25 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Year
12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Year 12 IPM] IPM
Exam</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Mark - if the son does well it will all
be to your credit - the only discussions I have had with him all year re:
computers and IT have gone along the lines of ...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Me: Stop playing that damn game and do
some homework</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Him: I'm quite capable of playing the game,
chatting and doing my homework at the same time - it's called
multitasking ... duh!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>He refused to discuss any of his answers
to the IPM exam - just looking towards the next one.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Also to your credit is that he wants to
do a degree in IT (but I don't know which one cos that's something else we
don't discuss!)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Ros Meadows</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Lauriston</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
size=2 color=maroon><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Girls</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><a href="mailto:meadows.roslyn.m@edumail.vic.gov.au">meadows.roslyn.m@edumail.vic.gov.au</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'>Where a calculator on the ENIAC is
equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future
may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><font size=2 color=maroon
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon;font-style:
italic'>Popular Mechanics, March 1949</span></font></i><font size=2
color=maroon><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:maroon'><br>
You'd have to tow your laptop to school everyday!!!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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