<html><head><base href="x-msg://3/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">it was basically an invite only event<div><br></div><div>as I wrote to Geoff off list, VITTA made an error in sending that out about the CS4HS.</div><div><br></div><div>Steven Bird runs it. He invites people. </div><div>Let's all get over it and move on</div><div><br></div><div>The NCSS stuff - go and have a look at it and think about it</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Chalkboard">Andrew Shortell</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">CRC Melton</span></font></div></div></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On 12/07/2012, at 2:37 PM, Robert Hind wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-AU" bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div><font size="2" face="Arial">C'mon David!</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">One email from Steven Bird on 2 July followed by Fay's yesterday is hardly an avalanche of information :-)</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Robert Hind (Semi-retired) OOF, GOM, COF<br>Ashwood and Traralgon<br><a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">robert@yinnar.com</a></font></div><div> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="dhoward@stmichaels.vic.edu.au" href="mailto:dhoward@stmichaels.vic.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Howard, David</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="itapps@edulists.com.au" href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:42 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge</div><div><br></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; ">Nope, emails have been around for a while about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; ">David<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; ">St Michaels Grammar School<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></a></div><div><div style="border-bottom-width: medium; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-width: medium; border-left-style: none; border-left-color: initial; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-style: solid; border-right-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-color: initial; padding-top: 3pt; "><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Hutchison, Geoffrey G<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:00 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] CS4HS Workshop and NCSS Challenge<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Am I missing something? Is this the first time this workshop has been flagged? On the day?<br><br>Geoff<br>McGuire College<br><br><br>On 11/07/12 11:38 AM, "Fay Richardson" <<a href="fay@vitta.org.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">fay@vitta.org.au</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; "><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); font-size: 10pt; ">1. For Victorian secondary IT teachers who would like to develop Computer Science modules and to contribute to the development of a new VCE CS subject, this workshop could be for you.<br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; "><br></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">CS4HS workshop<br></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">University of Melbourne, 11-12 July 2012<br> <br> <br>Organised by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Steven Bird (Melbourne),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Bernd Meyer (Monash),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Paula Christophersen (VCAA)<br><br>CS4HS is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational Thinking in the secondary curriculum.<br><br>The goals of this workshop are:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>(i) to update Victorian secondary IT teachers on current developments in the field of Computer Science;<br>(ii) to develop Computer Science modules that can be used in the secondary curriculum;<br>(iii) to contribute to the development of a new Computer Science subject in the Victorian Certificate of Education; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>(iv) to raise awareness of secondary educators about how computational thinking underpins the overall secondary curriculum.<br><br>You are invited to participate in the 2012 CS4HS workshop at the University of Melbourne. This invitation is extended to the participants of the 2011 workshop, plus other interested secondary educators, subject to our limit of 25 participants. The workshop is fully catered. Participants from outside Melbourne can apply for travel subsidies and accommodation, subject to the limits of our budget.<br><br>For more information go here <<a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/teachers/asset_id/69/cid/5/parent/0/t/teachers/title/cs4hs-workshop" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.vitta.org.au/teachers/asset_id/69/cid/5/parent/0/t/teachers/title/cs4hs-workshop</a>> .<br> <br><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); font-size: 10pt; ">2. For your students<br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; "><br></span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">NCSS Challenge<br></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">The Challenge is unlike any other programming competition because we will teach you how to program as we go along rather than expecting you to be an expert coder already. However, if you are a seasoned coder, we have something for you too because the problems will range from relatively simple through to mind-bendingly hard.<br>For 5 weeks starting on Monday 6th August, 2012 and running until Sunday 9th September, 2012, we will release a set of notes containing the information you will need to complete the week's programming challenges. In 2012, there are three streams to the Challenge:<br></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">the beginner's stream, which doesn't assume any knowledge of programming and introduces the Python programming language;<br></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">the intermediate stream, for students who have either have some prior programming experience or have some prior experience with the Python programming language; and<br></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">·<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">the advanced stream, for students who know Python and want harder problems.<br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; "><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; ">For more information go here. <<a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/students/asset_id/48/cid/9/parent/0/t/students/title/ncss-challenge" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.vitta.org.au/students/asset_id/48/cid/9/parent/0/t/students/title/ncss-challenge</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><br> <br><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><br> <br></span>Fay Richardson<br> <br>Fay Richardson<br>Senior Project Manager<br>VITTA<br>T: +61 3 9495 6836<br>F: +61 3 9495 6834<br>M: +61(0)488 545 995<br>E:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="fay@vitta.org.au" style="color: blue; 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