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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The mismatch was never so clear as on a recent industry visit we made. Increasingly software is being developed for early and rapid release/update cycles. The
software houses we visited all used the AGILE model, one in particular used a very formal Agile approach with an Agile Coach and regular morning sessions that sounded like they were based on AA meetings (hello, I’m Larry and I’m a Ruby developer, and yesterday
I wrote 500 lines of code, today I will write another 500). Our mandated PSM is looking long in the tooth, great for shrink-wrapped software with infrequent updates, not so useful for rapidly evolving web-based solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Laurie Savage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 28 November 2013 3:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We need to be clear and align with the skills that are being asked. Increasingly my friends in ye' olde big world build and publish using content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, wikis etc.) My school continues to use Dream Weaver.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Google Sites may be an interesting way forward, especially if we consider how to best manage and assess the work of a team who are working online together. I'd agree with Jarrod that it is very easy to open and close access to a site and
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<p class="MsoNormal">Timely discussion. There is a trend and interest with device such as Chromebooks. Whilst they may not suit everybodies ICT taste or VCEIT needs, I also notice that we seem to have a doubling of what can be done online every two years. Four
years ago we were just editing basic word docs, then came spreadsheets .. then more. I can see cracks starting to happen with our VCE IT subject that is firmly anchored in desktop solutions and like others on this list. We can expect more of this to happen
over the next decade, just check out the horizon report: <a href="http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf">
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Roland GESTHUIZEN</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 27 Nov 2013, at 2:09 pm, Savage, John L <<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m not too comfortable with the fit between<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://sites.google.com/"><span style="color:purple">sites.google.com</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
CSS from a skills perspective. While an author can select attributes:values for tags, I’m not convinced that that demonstrates the skills to edit the html or a style sheet, or maybe I’m making it too difficult. As far as the key skills for AOS1 go “Sites”
looks OK. But if I remember, this was discussed last year and online web-creation software was ruled out. Maybe Paula could clarify this.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, 26 November 2013 9:22 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>[Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I am looking at the options for web authoring software to use in unit 1 and unit 3 next year and would like any feedback about using Google Sites. I’ve used
Expression Web and DreamWeaver over the last couple of years but a number of students this year asked whether they could have used Google Sites. As far as I can see from the VCAA site the software needs to incorporate the following items:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As far as I can see from this list Google Sites would meet the requirements and want to offer this an another alternative. Has anyone gone down this path before?
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