<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello Janet,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Thank-you for your input. I don't think I can add anything else, as you have put it perfectly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We have declined numbers for the past few years and I'm really grateful that leadership at my school allows Y11 and Y12 classes to run with about 10 students, on average.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As technology makes its way in and out of everything we do, everyone seems to be an expert and feels they don't need any formal education around it.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Since more subjects were introduced at my school, the students have more options and naturally are stretched over more domains.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I agree, let's ask them what they expect IT to be these days and what they want to learn. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Litsa <img src="cid:softbank_ne_jp.03D@goomoji.gmail" goomoji="softbank_ne_jp.03D" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;"></div>
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<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Bane, Janet A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bane.janet.a@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">bane.janet.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Like everyone else, I have noticed a steady decline in the number of students choosing IT, especially girls. It concerns me that girls don't see IT as a possible
career or something that they would enjoy or be good at (even though they have a female IT teacher and a female IT technician working on the network). I am not teaching year 12 this year, but my Year 11 class only had 1 girl last year, and 21 boys. Now we
have "stepped up" to 2014, we have about 36 Year 11 IT students, but only two girls. Year 10 classes have shown the same trend.<br>
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I think its time that IT had a "makeover", in terms of finding out what things would appeal to girls. From my experience they tend to enjoy projects where they can explore their creativity, rather than being overly technical. I think its time to acknowledge
that some aspects of the current course are turning students off (male and female) as VCE numbers are in decline. Our digital natives are using ICT every day in many different ways and they aren’t making spreadsheets and databases! <br>
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We need to have a serious think about how we can attract students back to IT, in particular girls who make up 50% of the VCE cohort otherwise we will all eventually be out of a job. One good way to find out what kids want to study in IT is to ASK them. Maybe
we could set up a SURVEY on google docs and ask teachers to do it with their Year 10 or 11 students so we get a wide cross section of opinions. We shouldn’t be starting the process of writing the new study design until we get some GOOD data. Isn’t that what
IT is all about? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">What do others think????<u></u><u></u></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""> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christophersen, Paula P<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 2 December 2013 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [Year 12 SofDev] Web authoring software<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi George<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">At the moment no – we have had several meetings and we now have a set of Aims and a lot of other material that has resulted from our analysis. We are having
an all day meeting next week at which we aim to have a broad overview (or skeleton plan) of all units so we should be heading in the right direction. We’ve been doing quite a bit analysis of assessment results and looking at alternative assessment modes for
units 3 and 4. All interesting! Do you have any suggestions as to our direction?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ciotti, George W<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 2 December 2013 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [Year 12 SofDev] Web authoring software<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Reply-To: </b>Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 02:52:56 +0000<br>
<b>To: </b>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>>, Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:itapps@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps@edulists.com.au</a>>, Year 11
Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [Year 12 SofDev] Web authoring software<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">All comments about the strengths and weaknesses of the current study, and opportunities for inclusion would be appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] on behalf of Mark [<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 29 November 2013 1:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>(Apologies for crossposts, but this may affect everyone.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>An old study design did include Agile, but it disappeared. (This is more of an SD issue rather than ITA, but it's still relevant.)<br>
The old design had different flavours of the SDLC for SD/IS, ITA/IPM, Units 1/2... an awful mess. But at least it recognised that different models existed, and had merit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>I'm glad the current study design listened to reason and devised a single, coherent PSM, but to ignore Agile and other models is - as you say - odd since Agile is a major player in The Real World.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>I guess VCAA has to balance realism against practicality : it would be impossible to include *everything* involved in real-life IT in a course consisting of around 130 hours of class time per year. The question
is - what is so important that it can't be left out? And if new content is added, what should be removed to make room for it?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Since Paula recently announced that the new study design is in preparation, this is the time to pull out our blue pencils, judge the current contents and give our feedback.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Savage, John L <<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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.</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Laurie Savage</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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 authenticate usage.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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" target="_blank">http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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><span style><u></u><u></u></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""> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</span></a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</span></a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 26 November 2013 9:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></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><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Web authoring software</span></b><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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an another alternative. Has anyone gone down this path before? I’d appreciate any feedback.</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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