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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello fellow educators,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been on the "teacher lists" since they first
started with Kevork, and the only "active" list then was the former Info Systems
teachers group. I have only contributed comments very occasionally (maybe once
or twice a year at most) but have enjoyed "eavesdropping" from the sidelines,
even during my various periods of long-service leave. Anyway, after 33 years in
the classroom at 3 schools, I have decided to take the "54-11" option and have
resigned as a government secondary teacher.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I first taught computers as a part of the old
"General Maths Computing Option" at Karingal High School, then later as the new
HSC "Computer Science" subject at Wellington High School. I still have
memories of using 5.25-inch floppies and even 8-inch floppies on an old TurboDos
CP/M system with DBase and Wordstar, of trying to learn assembly language and
understand logic circuits, and of trying to teach a whole class with ONE
Apple II computer and ONE card reader - happy days! Now, after 20 years at
Patterson River SC (formerly Seaford-Carrum) taking all the various incarnations
of the VCE computer offerings, I would like to acknowledge the wonderful support
which I have enjoyed from the teaching community.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to thank Kevork and Adrian and VITTA
and Keith Richardson and Don Morelli and all the other wonderful people that
have helped me through my transformation from a maths teacher to an ICT
educator, with a special thank you to Janet Bane at my own school. I hope to
teach a 0.6 reduced load as a contract teacher in 2008, and then hang up my
chalk, textas, and laptop for good. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to
all of you hardworking educators!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>best regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Robinson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patterson River Secondary
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