<div dir="ltr"><div>Indeed!</div><div><br></div><div>We have been developing new courses at Years 7 and 8 Digital Technology to encourage more students to take Technology based classes in Years 9 and 10.</div><div><br></div><div>In recent years we have run a Semester long mini-version of Informatics and Software Development courses at Year 10 that provided a pathway for excellent students directly into the Unit 3/4 programs. The Informatics course has stopped running due to a lack of interest. We haven;t run 3/4 Informatics for three years now.</div><div><br></div><div>I started a new Year 10 course called "E - Commerce" and we got a full house this year. I have set it up to include data collection & analysis, web development and infographics in the context of developing a business plan. I incorporated programming into the web development with PHP and MySQL. Students can use the E Commerce course as a stepping stone into Data Analytics or Software Development in 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>It's running for the first time this semester so I'll let you know how it goes.</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4CjWh8BUhIbVjFjVmZSeUFIRGc&revid=0B4CjWh8BUhIbUkNaS2VNTVpNYW9SS2J3MFBSUmtkbkl6U1JJPQ"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>Victoria Farrell</b><br>Head of Technology Department </span></i></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">St Kevin's College</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><br><i>P 03 9832 4980</i></span></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>E <a href="mailto:farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au</a></i></span></font></p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><i><a href="https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/3594" target="_blank">Tennis 6th Blue</a></i></span></font></div><div><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/12642" target="_blank"><i>Computer Club</i></a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:15 PM Adrian Janson <<a href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@gmail.com">janson.adrian.a@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The enrolments are definitely concerning. While there are many things that can be said about the VCE curriculum, our students generally are making up their minds before they reach VCE. The scaling doesn't help (and this is something students almost always ask). However, at the end of the day, 'we' all need to be looking at what we are doing in the middle years. <div><br></div><div>IMO of course!</div><div>Cheers,<br>Adrian </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:06 PM Victoria Farrell <<a href="mailto:farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm not sure if "Data Analytics" is going to set the world on fire. <div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_4204546866923312049gmail-m_-8780262612332702517m_-7980384020109574272gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4CjWh8BUhIbVjFjVmZSeUFIRGc&revid=0B4CjWh8BUhIbUkNaS2VNTVpNYW9SS2J3MFBSUmtkbkl6U1JJPQ"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><b>Victoria Farrell</b><br>Head of Technology Department </span></i></p><p style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">St Kevin's College</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif"><br><i>P 03 9832 4980</i></span></p><p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><i>E <a href="mailto:farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">farrellv@stkevins.vic.edu.au</a></i></span></font></p><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><i><a href="https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/3594" target="_blank">Tennis 6th Blue</a></i></span></font></div><div><font face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="https://skcportal.stkevins.vic.edu.au/homepage/12642" target="_blank"><i>Computer Club</i></a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Mark</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:11 PM<br>Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Enrolments 2016-2017<br>To: <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>>, <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>>, <<a href="mailto:informatics@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">informatics@edulists.com.au</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi all.<div><br></div><div>I was browsing VCAA's data on enrolments in Computing for 2016 and 2017 - as one does in retirement.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a distillation of the results:</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_jsl2oju10" alt="computing 2016-2017.jpg" width="425" height="96"><br></div><div><br></div>Maybe this is why Informatics - along with its hypothesis and MMOS - got the boot in the 2020 draft design.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>Maybe...</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_4204546866923312049gmail-m_-8780262612332702517m_-7980384020109574272m_-1480513740345636367gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div>Mark Kelly<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fvceit.com%2Fwp%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw®ion=follow_link&screen_name=vceitcom&tw_p=followbutton" target="_blank">Twitter @vceitcom</a></div><div><br></div><div>Powered by <b>data</b>.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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