Daniel, <br><br>Kevork has a good php mysql book that you should perhaps consider (and runs a swell course) .. contact the VITTA office for details.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/11 Daniel Stanley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Daniel.Stanley@flinders.vic.edu.au">Daniel.Stanley@flinders.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I have developed a unit to learn the basics of
PHP. Not that far removed from HTML which we visit in U1O1 and probably
more friendly to the girls as you can do some nice design sort of
stuff.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">PHP also strikes me as being a skill that can be used out
there in the real world and gets away from those geeky programming
languages.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Daniel</font></span></div>
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<p align="left"><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: Arial;">Daniel
Stanley<br></span></font><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: maroon; font-family: Arial;">IT
Co-ordinator<b><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;">
|</span></font></b></b> Carrum Downs
Campus<br></span></font><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: maroon; font-family: Arial;">Flinders</span></font><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: maroon; font-family: Arial;"> Christian Community
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Branson, Steven
S<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 3 June 2009 9:57 AM<div class="im"><br><b>To:</b> Year 11
Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br></div><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr11
Information Technology] Unit 2 O1<br></font><br></div><div class="im">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I have
the same problem with my students. The solution we have used is to give
students a set of self paced exercises, attached, and they are given a period
of time to complete as many of them as possible. We do no formal assessment of
the tasks for grading but use the fact that they have gained skills and shown
improvement, even if it is only basic, for satisfying the programming
requirement.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Steve
Branson</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">
<a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Daniela Mariani<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 2 June 2009 7:22
PM<br><b>To:</b> Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing
List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Yr11 Information Technology] Unit 2
O1</span></p></div></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi List, I was
wondering if anyone has any ideas for U2 O1??? </span></p></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have a very weak
class of gilrs and all SACs I have found focus on VB programming. My girls
will all leave the class in droves if I taught them VB!
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I was wanting to
create a SAC using Flash and teaching them basic Actionscript through gaming
or movie clip animation to make it more interesting. Does anyone have any
ideas??</span></p></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">daniela</span></p></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Marian
College</span></p></div></div>
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