<div dir="ltr">Hi David. Regarding the working at home, basically the answer is no. You need to be able to authenticate their work, and you can't do that if you don't know how it's produced, or by whom. I used to let my kids gather information/pictures at home, and create time-consuming but peripheral things like graphical logos etc - but that's it.<div>
<br></div><div>It's hard to advise timing for you. My tradition was to spend some lead-up class time covering relevant theory and interspersing that with some practical practice tasks. They'd have a date when the task would begin in earnest, and their job was to be skilled up by then. The task itself would then take about 7 periods (about 350 minutes) of classtime. Kids would not be allowed to work on the SAC out of that time.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2014 21:52, David B. Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.b.thomas@rmit.edu.au" target="_blank">david.b.thomas@rmit.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I have just started at a particular school and they have switched Unit 3 Outcome 1 with Unit 3 Outcome 2. This is fine by me and means that I am now asking the students to produce a web site.</div>
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<br></div><div>I haven't taught ITApps before but have an IT industry background.</div><div><br></div><div>I have got some great resources for the SAC but was wondering about timing and location. Is it OK if I start them on the SAC immediately and get them to hand in some draft problem solving documents so that they are not burdened with everything later in the term?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is it OK if they work on the web site at home?</div><div><br></div><div>I think the answer to the above questions is yes but wanted to double check as I am the only IT teacher in my school which is actually a TAFE.</div>
<div>Regards,</div><div>David.</div></div>
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