<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That is great news Paula, I will share this with our senior school coordinators as it bodes well for all students to consider this as a new and relevant course to try. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At my school IT enrolments have been gradually increasing, especially in my classes involving more girls. Looking over the numbers, we have been picking up students that have in the past elected to do geography.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Jun 2015, at 5:10 pm, Christophersen, Paula P <<a href="mailto:christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au" class="">christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class="">An interesting observation - 33% of enrolments in VCE Algorithmics this year is female. IT apps and Software development were no where near this rate last year (approx 18% and 7% respectively). One could speculate that the name Algorithmics did not turn off girls, so maybe Informatics will also be positively greeted.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Paula<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" class=""><div id="divRpF577647" style="direction: ltr;" class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" class="">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" class="">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen [<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" class="">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>]<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, 22 June 2015 4:53 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] <a href="http://VCEIT.com" class="">VCEIT.com</a> - IT or Computing<br class=""></font><br class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class="">My thinking was that we keep the VCE subject code as IT for convenience and familiarity with the new course descriptions but only for the next few months whilst course selections are cranking through, then it must be allowed to naturally expire. I will insist that we use the proper extended name directly after that. I am quite ready for the name changes come December and open to what other schools are using as codes. Crikey, it was a tough battle to overtake Italian with IT, we can do it again .. so lets all sit around that virtual campfire and DIG DIG DIG, DOB DOB DOB (<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1016630/Dyb-dyb-dyb-Baden-Powell-got-right.html" class="" target="_blank">do our best</a>)<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">—</div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b class="">Roland GESTHUIZEN<br class=""></b><a href="http://about.me/rgesthuizen" class="" target="_blank">http://about.me/rgesthuizen</a><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">PS: my kids are performing in The 63rd Melbourne Scout Gang show. Its a totally awesome event with just 5 shows left this week. Check it out if you have never been to one before <a href="http://gangshow.org/" class="" target="_blank">http://gangshow.org</a> </div></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Jun 2015, at 3:26 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">On 22 June 2015 at 15:06, Christophersen, Paula P<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au" class="" target="_blank">christophersen.paula.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Hmm!<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Golly. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Was that an official, canonical VCAA "Hmm"?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Only two "m"s in it - could be either a supportive or derisive "hmm"? Three "m"s would definitely be unfriendly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But the exclamation mark tends to indicate displeasure in females. </div><div class="">It's like when they squint and say "Fine..." </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will "Hmm" be added to the 2016 Computing study design glossary?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this examinable?</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br class="">Sent from my iPhone<br class=""><br class="">> On 22 Jun 2015, at 3:03 pm, "Garth, Lucas A" <<a href="mailto:garth.lucas.a@edumail.vic.gov.au" class="" target="_blank">garth.lucas.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br class="">><br class="">> Hi Paula-<br class="">><br class="">> So will we need to tell the Daily Organisers to choose "DIG" as the acronym to use for the subject on the timetables instead of DT which is already taken by Tech subjects?<br class="">><br class="">> I'm with Mark - most schools will keep calling the subject IT for familiarity for students.<br class="">><br class="">> LG<br class="">><br class="">> Today's Topics:<br class="">><br class="">> 1. Re:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://vceit.com/" class="" target="_blank">VCEIT.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- IT or Computing? 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