<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>My students were never able to come to terms with some of the basic concepts of a database.</div><div>So following lots of winges I moved to Spreadsheets for 401. They all said they had done lots of them in year 11 and understood them.</div><div>They hadn't and didn't :-(</div><div><br></div><div>I still think that persisting with A DB so that they would be able to grasp some important fundamental concepts in ICT would be better.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>Royce Williams<div>Sent from my AppleBerry</div></div><div><br>On 05/12/2011, at 11:42 AM, Mark KELLY <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The morale of my students was far better after getting away from databases and into easier spreadsheets.<br><br>They <b>loathed</b> databases...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 December 2011 10:28, Mark Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msc@luther.vic.edu.au"><a href="mailto:msc@luther.vic.edu.au">msc@luther.vic.edu.au</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear all<br>
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I am considering a move away from Spreadsheets for U4O1.<br>
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It just seemed that the 2011 exam might have favoured those students who did Databases instead.<br>
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What do people think?<br>
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thanks<br>
Mark Scott<br>
Luther College<br>
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"The busier you get, the slower you walk" anon<br>
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