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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hey Kim, VCAA doesn</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">t do a list of suggested software any more,
just suggested features. What follows is the interpretation I</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ve gathered from various resources; happy to be corrected by the wiser. I based my SAC
on the one in the DLTV resource kit, double-checked against the study design and the digipubs website (<a href="http://www.digipubs.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce-computing/vce-computing-unit-1-learning">http://www.digipubs.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce-computing/vce-computing-unit-1-learning</a>
) .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Study design says:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Bold",sans-serif">Software tools<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif">The following table indicates the software tools that students are required to both study and use in this unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif">Area of Study 3 Web authoring software, visualising thinking tool/s, tool for planning a project</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The term
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">study and use</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">”</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
means you have to teach it somewhere in the course of the outcome. So, you must teach some visualising thinking tools (I</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ll
use Inspiration for brainstorming/concept mapping), some project planning tool (I use GanttProject) and some web authoring software (I use Notepad and DreamWeaver). For the actual SAC, the students can choose to use these tools.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Study design says:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Bold",sans-serif;color:black">Key skills<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:#949699">•
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">select and apply appropriate methods and techniques to acquire and reference data and information<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">use digital systems to document and monitor project plans when creating team solutions<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">analyse the causes and effects of issues using visualising thinking tools<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">synthesise viewpoints to formulate a team’s point of view<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">evaluate cloud computing as a data storage solution<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">select and use digital system components appropriate to a team’s needs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:#949699">•
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">select appropriate design tools and represent the appearance and functionality of solutions, taking into account<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">user interactions<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:#949699">•
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">recommend online techniques for encouraging end-users’ support of published viewpoints<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">use web authoring software and select and apply functions and techniques to manipulate data and create<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT-Light",sans-serif;color:black">solutions.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The project plan must be done digitally by my reading (no hand-drawn Gantt chart) but I</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">d
accept an Excel spreadsheet or a GanttProject chart or anything else that I knew I could authenticate as theirs. The concepts are what you mark on, so if the kids want to use Excel and get full marks I</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">d
expect them to put in tasks and resources, dependency arrows and milestone diamonds as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">evaluate cloud computing</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">”</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">,
this is the group choosing to use an online tool (such as Wix or Weebly or whatever) or not (local site using DreamWeaver or Notepad or whatever). I</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">d
expect some pros and cons and then a decision from the group (table and/or paragraph of writing). Optimising for mobile viewing (user interaction) is something the team has to do in appearance and functionality of solutions
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">–</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> again, some pros and cons and then a final decision.
Make sure you teach every option, but the group chooses which option they are using for their SAC.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hope that helps, it</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">’</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">s
my interpretation anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Darren<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kim Hewlett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 29, 2017 8:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> yr11it@edulists.com.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Yr11 Information Technology] Software for Unit 1 Outcome 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm teaching the new study design for first time this year and I can't seem to find a list of suggested software that we could use for this Outcome. Just wondering what others are using.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are we able to use online tools such as Wix to create websites? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also does the website need to be viewed on a mobile device as this is not stated in the study design but appears in the Nelson textbook. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd really appreciate some help with this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br>
Kim Hewlett<br>
Wheelers Hill Secondary College<o:p></o:p></p>
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