Thanks for the heads up Adrian.<div><br></div><div>Regards Roland<br><br><div name="sig_a61e4e7c09" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; "></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2011 16:02, Adrian Janson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to write a response to some of the emails and
suggestions that we have been receiving about the VCE resource. We have
heard all of this feedback and are acting on it!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many of you have said that you feel that the resource is light-on
and I understand this completely. At this stage in its development
it is and we had hoped to have much more material in the resource for
you at this stage. We have teachers working on resources which will be
added shortly and in a continual fashion over the year (and for the life of the
study). The previous study design resource kit had a large amount of
general theory content and we had decided not to replicate this for this new
resource but we have had a lot of feedback from those wanting
this. We will examine the content that we have in the previous resource,
update and refresh it and add it to the new resource. We have always seen
exams and the VCE resource as being two separate products
and this will continue to be the case however, in response to some of
your suggestions, we are working on creating a resource out of the previous 4
years worth of exam papers for this new resource which will be
added shortly.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the problems that we encountered with the previous
VCE IT resource kit, was that it was a CD based product produced in advance of
the advice to teachers which VCAA felt was not ideal. This time
around, we have been very careful to have materials proofed (both by teachers
of the subject and by VCAA) to ensure that this was not the case.
However, it has certainly slowed us down and for this we apologise.
As many of you would be acutely aware, this study design is quite different to
the last one (and the last one was quite similar to the one before it)
which has meant it has taken us much more time to get our heads around the best
ways to present the material and more time in the proofing process.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yours sincerely,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Adrian</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#002060">Adrian Janson </span></b><b><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#002060">B.Sc, Dip.Ed, M.Ed<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#002060">VITTA Vice-President</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#002060">Director of ICT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Victoria 3141
Australia.<br>
Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711<br>
Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767<br>
E-mail: <a href="http://janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Website: <a href="http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au</span></a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#244061">Blog: <a href="http://jansona.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://jansona.edublogs.org</span></a></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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