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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have to add my voice to the chorus of appreciation! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For every topic there was always a “Mark Kelly PowerPoint”.<br>Whenever I was feeling uninspired or ran out of time, there was always a MK PowerPoint. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And every PowerPoint added a little humour to (or extracted a groan from) the class!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I, too, am deeply indebted, Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you SO much! Enjoy your retirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><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"'> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kent Beveridge<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 4 February 2013 11:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Please thank Mark Kelly for all he has done for us<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>WHAT.? NO surfing!! (No,not the Internet type!)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for all the excellent materials you have built over the years mate...enjoy, kick back and have a coffee or stronger or two!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Kent...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Kent Beveridge</b> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>ICT Coordinator & Maths teacher<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 03/02/2013, at 1:22 PM, "Mark" <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Golly. This is like watching one's own funeral ceremony, with special interest from those at the back who turned up just to make sure I was really dead. :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yes, folks, at 55 I have had enough of ethos, powerful learning, E5, VELS, Australian Curriculum, immersion, curriculum review, "making a profound difference in the precious lives of each and every student we have the honour to teach", being accountable, jumping at the sound of bells like a champion Pavlovian stunt dog, attending hour-long meetings that could have been replaced by a one-paragraph email, dealing with adolescent bush-lawyers who know only their rights and not their responsibilities, settling disputes about which year 7 took something from another year 7's pencil case, marking endless SACs, and driving to and from work with the headlights on during cold, wet winters .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ah, the memories.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I will now have time to do stuff like writing "Buckets of Knowledge" for ITA and SD (focusing on the tricky bits that everyone gets confused about), and a Jumbo Collection of multchoice questions, perhaps as an app.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And for years I've been planning on converting <a href="http://vceit.com">vceit.com</a> from static HTML to CMS... now I have time to choose a platform (perhaps Joomla or Wordpress - whichever is easier to convert to.) And learn MySQL.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And I want to play with Python on my Raspberry Pi... which sounds pretty odd, if you don't know them both.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And if, on a Wednesday night at 10pm I suddenly get a craving to re-watch an entire season of 'Breaking Bad' just so I can work out if Walter actually poisoned Brock with ricin - I WILL. 'Cos I CAN. The thrill may wear off after a while, so then I'll satisfy my lifetime desire to get a part-time job at a hardware store selling hammers. Nothing else: just hammers. Sweet.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But most of all while in my Gentleman Of Leisure mode, I will be strolling down the sand at Bonbeach in the sun thinking kindly of you all sculling your coffee, grabbing your laptops and whiteboard markers and running off to double year 10 while you KNOW that it's a beautiful day outside and that at least one person is CERTAINLY strolling down the sand at Bonbeach thinking of you.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I do thank Kevork for his gracious message and noble sentiments. He really is one of the nicest people in The Real World (TM) as well as the IT community. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Have a rich and rewarding year, everyone!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark K<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3 February 2013 09:33, Kevork Krozian <<a href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">kevork@edulists.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> It may or may not be entirely in the public sphere that our very special colleague Mark Kelly has decided to retire from the day to day pleasures of teaching teenagers in the school system. He stresses this is retirement from the Department and not from our community for which we are grateful.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>It would fill many pages to itemise all that Mark has done for us to help with our VCE IT teaching, assessment and exam preparation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>So how do we do justice to all this selfless giving, hundreds and hundreds of hours of preparation to make available web content that we can just lift and use in class ? We certainly cannot repay Mark for all he has done but in our own way express our thanks for his assistance, moral support and ever present community contribution to support everyone in their day to day challenges of delivering a fast changing IT curriculum.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Please feel free to express your thanks here and also detail how Mark’s help has influenced and supported your work as a teacher. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Kevork Krozian<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Edulists Creator Administrator<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://www.edulists.com.au" target="_blank">www.edulists.com.au</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>tel: 0419 356 034<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark Kelly<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='background:white'>Click <a href="https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==">here</a> to report this email as spam.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br><a href="http://www.edulists.com.au">http://www.edulists.com.au</a> - 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