Paula would be the ultimate authority on the acceptability of CMS for outcomes, but the study design does not constrain web development tool choices (it just says "use web authoring software"), and CMS is rapidly becoming the norm for website creation.<br>
<br>The <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_study.html#H2N1000B">VCAA bulletin</a> (July 2010) defined the web authoring software capabilities as:<br>
<ul><li><i>cascading style sheet</i></li><li><i>edit and format content</i></li><li><i>links (relative and absolute links, internal and external links)</i></li><li><i>navigation</i></li><li><i>buttons</i></li><li><i>screen layout</i></li>
<li><i>tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)</i></li><li><i>forms</i></li><li><i>incorporate images/sound</i></li></ul>
CMS can manage all of these things.<br><br>My view is that kids and teachers can use anything from notepad to Dreamweaver to Joomla depending on their local conditions and preferences - so long as they generate a prototype website that will satisfy the needs of an online community. <br>
<br>Of course using a CMS will mean there will need to be far less need to <i>simulate</i> working features, as we've become used to in the past: a CMS will let you drop in the tool in an instant.<br><br>The main thing about U3O1 is that students show their understanding of the needs of online communities and the tools (wikis, blogs etc) that can meet those needs... the software they use to show that understanding is not nearly as important.<br>
<br>That must be 6c worth. Pensioner discounts available.<br><br>Cheers<br>Mark<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 February 2011 14:41, ken price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Are you intending to use Joomla to have students create websites and web applications as part of their assessment, or are you planning to use it to help you manage other assessment tasks that you develop for students to complete?</div>
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<div>If the former, it's got a lot of capability and would do pretty much anything a student would want, but I can't comment on whether it meets curriculum requirements (I'm sure others here wil know this though)</div>
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<div>If the latter, it's probably not the tool to use, you'd be better with an LMS. Though it could be made to achieve something useful.</div>
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<div>On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Royce Personal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roycew@netspace.net.au" target="_blank">roycew@netspace.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Hi<br>As I am back teaching again and at new school and a new course I have work to do :-(<br>
<br>This college has Joomla installed.<br>
Now I am playing with this for my outside interests. So using it would be good.<br>Has anyone used it for assessment tasks at yr 12 . Is it acceptable.<br><br><br>Royce Williams<br>Sent from my AppleBerry<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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