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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Maggie,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2> ta for the heads up. The definition published</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the VCAA glossary was not that informative. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">"A small self-contained program that <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">carries </SPAN>out a <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">clearly </SPAN>defined </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">task and is intended to operate within a larger program suite."</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fortunately I have </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>found out from another who had already travelled</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>that road. I just thought the VCAA might want to do a better job</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>since it is obvious that the current definition is not sufficient.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Russell Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mailto: <A href="mailto:qn@boxhillhs.vic.edu.au" target=_blank>qn@boxhillhs.vic.edu.au</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:41:59 +1000
From: "Maggie Iaquinto" <IAQUIM@bialik.vic.edu.au>
Subject: RE: [Year 12 SofDev] RE: What is considered to be a module?
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Russell
Have a look at sample Outcomes from Adrian Janson and Kevork Krozian.
They come with assessment sheets and there are items there which you
could borrow. Check the VITTA site and edulists for them.
HTH
Maggie
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] RE: What is considered to be a module?
Hi Andrew,
I had the same problem last year.
Sadly I also found the VCAA and other resources
remarkably unhelpful. In the end I waited and used
a sac that had been created by someone else.
Basically it is one form with controls sufficient to
allow the user to interact with data in a file.
The SAC I eventually used was produced by
the SD teacher at Belmont High (ta very much).
I modified it slightly and changed the assessment
criteria a bit but I include the original and my
solution to my version.
Btw, I found some were not very good due to
the lack of time available for cutting code in
semester 1 - a problem with the course.
Hope this helps.
Russell Quinn
Mailto: qn@boxhillhs.vic.edu.au
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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:01:44 +1000
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Take lots of photos!
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And give us a link to them all :-)
Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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> Have a safe and fantastic trip - take lots of photos!
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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:41:56 +1000
From: "andrew wenn" <andrew.wenn@gippslandgs.vic.edu.au>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] What is considered to be a module?
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Hi,
This is my first time ever teaching VCE Software Development.
The IT study design asks that the software development 3 students
develop a software module as part of Outcome 2 but is strangely silent
on what a module is.
The text Dawson and Janson is not helpful here either.
If I use the example assessment task from the study design that involves
the quotes for painting. Then from my point of view I see this as being
broken into an number of modules, two of which may be a module to gather
customer details and another to do the actual costing. But as a
programming task these seem to be rather small. Am I on the wrong track
here?
Any clarification/suggestions gratefully received.
Dr Andrew Wenn
Head of IT
Gippsland Grammar
Sale, Victoria
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Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 16:38:59 +1000
From: "Robert Mercer" <rmercer@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Excel Assessment Mark Book
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Hello Everyone
Here is an Excel workbook I made a little while ago to help me mark
SACs. Basically it makes new assessment sheets based on template and
keeps track of all the students marks from those sheets on a summary
sheet and makes it a bit easier to navigate to different student's
assessment sheets too. Anyhow have a play, it saved me a bit of time
and effort, hopefully someone else finds it useful too. I included a
little instruction sheet too.
Cheers,
Rob Mercer
ICT Outreach - Project Officer
Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
PH: +61 3 9214 8768
FAX :+61 3 9214 5320
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