<div dir="ltr">Girls... in IT? Are you sure?<div><br><div>I haven't seen one in the wild for years.</div><div>Just the occasional documentary that suggested they might not be completely extinct.</div><div>There was a rumour of some girls in an IT class in either Tibet or Manangatang. Can't remember which.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried laying traps - like Scratch, and social website construction - but they're too wily to take that bait. </div><div><br></div><div><div>But wow. </div><div>First, the Higgs boson. <br></div></div><div>Now, actual sightings of girls in IT.</div><div><br></div><div>What a world we live in.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2014 at 10:30, Savage, John L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Benjamin,<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">It’s funny you should mention Notepad++. We love it. My girls were sold on it for two reasons – Block Selection and Themes! Once they discovered Hello Kitty
and the dark, brooding Twilight-ish themes that was it. Some of them even went so far as to turn off colour coding/matching just because they could. And the appalling fonts they chose! I have never seen HTML coded in 18pt Segoe Handwriting before; all in all
it was a lovely way to lure them into coding, and quite unintentional.<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<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>Savage, John L<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 27 November 2014 8:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?<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">If we could use a CMS it’s not far from building the site in Google Sites is it?<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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Baas, Benjamin B<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 27 November 2014 7:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?<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">It would be nice to be able to use a CMS, there are some good free ones available. At the moment I have limited software choice and
most of students will be making sites using only notepad++.<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">Ben.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">An interesting question indeed. A decade ago, knowledge of HTML would have been required. Times change, CMS and click/drag site builders are now the norm. VCAA's list of required skills for websites may need a face lift, because its age
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On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Bill Oldham <<a href="mailto:0woldham8@gmail.com" target="_blank">0woldham8@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Just home from an Adobe presentation of Adobe Muse for website creation on a visual basis. No knowledge of HTML, CSS seems to be needed.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could a software program like this be used to meet the Year 12 ITA course requirements?
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It is able to create a website. But little more than point and click appears to be needed to create an online community.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I enjoy non-sequiturs because... cows.</i></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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