so your teaching them marketing aswell.. :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Diane Peat <<a href="mailto:dpeat@firbank.vic.edu.au">dpeat@firbank.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Actually
I think the main reason why 96 out of 104 girls in Year 9 have chosen it, is
because I told them I rarely give homework!!!<br>
<br>
Diane Peat</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Firbank
Grammar School</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BRIGHTON
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Christopher
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 17 March 2008 9:22 AM<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Thats sounds like a fantastic
subject. I would take that!!! <br>
:)</p>
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<p>On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, lisa.field <<a href="mailto:lisa.field@overnewton.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">lisa.field@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks Diane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">This gives me some great ideas!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Lisa Field</span></i></b></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Diane Peat<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 14 March 2008 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hello Lisa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We run Year 9 Media at our school – girls
only independent. It's called Media to distinguish it from Year 11 Multimedia.
We look at the main types of media – newspapers and magazines, television, film
and radio, and now the internet as well. To start the semester, I get them to
use Photoshop to adjust pictures and photos ready for use in their films or
magazines, so they have a couple of weeks on that. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The major assessment tasks are </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1. Newspaper/magazine – using Adobe InDesign<br>
We start with some discussion on types of newspapers (tabloid, broadsheet,
gutter press) then we look at parts of newspapers – obituary, classified,
features, sport, etc, what impact the newspapers have on people these days,
particularly compared to the use of the internet by teenagers. We look at
magazines and the impact of advertising and pictures on teenagers and the
general public. The girls are then asked to create four pages (they usually run
out of time and create two!) of a magazine. Magazines are much easier for the
girls because they can relate to them more readily than a newspaper! The idea
is that they all use the same master document to create their pages, so that
someone (usually me) can put them together into a book with page numbers and a
table of contents at the front. I get them to write the stories themselves
which means that some may write very short articles and create a big
advertisement. Or I might get the girls who really struggle with words to
create front and back cover and the table of contents. I get them to bring in
magazines – they love that! – to look at for their ideas but the content must
be their own. Being girls, they usually opt for stories about clothes, makeup
and music. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2. They write, film and edit a five minute
documentary – we enter these into the Bayside Youth Documentary Film Festival
and have terrific support from the film maker who comes in for about six
workshops during this period. We also had a full day on Tuesday at Sandringham
Secondary College where they looked at how to film, use of lighting, shadow,
etc, as well as watch previous docos from winners in the festival. We use Adobe
Premiere Pro for editing but there are other software programs out there that
are less expensive. </span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">3.
We use Audacity (free download) to create an advertisement for their films
which (hopefully) we play in time to generate interest in the students to come
along at lunch time to view the "World Premiere" of their films. This
is usually at the end of semester when we are all stressed and worn out!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Added to that, we do tasks in class –
Photoshop, Illustrator (for advertising poster) and, if time – which there
usually isn't – we also watch an older film or television show, so the girls
can do a film review. <br>
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I hope that gives you some ideas – please feel free to contact me off list if
you want more info.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Stay out of the heat today!<br>
<br>
Regards</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Diane Peat</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Firbank Grammar School</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BRIGHTON</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>lisa.field<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 14 March 2008 8:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi all, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I have started teaching this
year and have only recently joined this list. Thanks for all the emails thus
far. They have been very useful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I mainly teach Year 9
Multimedia- which is a stand alone subject. Classes have 100 minutes of
Multimedia per week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Students have their own
notebooks and currently the program looks at giving them the skills so they can
utilise their notebooks adequately in other subject areas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I would, however, be very
interested as well to hear what other schools are doing at Year 9. We have
recently had a change of curriculum and are still looking at developing this
program further. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If anyone has any
ideas/suggestions for me as well, it'd be greatly appreciated. So far we have
looked at Microsoft Outlook and Word and are due to complete a unit of
Cybersafety at the end of term. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Lisa Field</span></i></b></p>
<p><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">9 Yellow Pastoral Care</span></u></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>James GIBNEY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 March 2008 10:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> James GIBNEY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wed 3/12/2008 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Hi all,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">this year I have been fortunate enough to be
on a Teacher Professional Leave program with three other staff members looking
at reworking our year 9 program. We get one day off a week. As ICT coordinator
I am interested in how schools incorporate ICT into their Year 9 program. For
ICT we currently have a standalone program for each year 9 class which runs for
one semester of 2 periods a week. The software covered is PowerPoint and Access
with some Dreamweaver/Flash if we get through all the work.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am interested in how other schools have
structured their year 9 ICT program and the following questions:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- the value of ICT as a standalone subject or
taught within other faculties</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- use of EWBs, gaming consoles, tablets and
other hardware/software in the classrom</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- class sets of laptops and managing them</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- other ideas</span></p>
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<p> </p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Any information on or off list would be
appreciated as would any discussion or opinions. If you have a particularly
impressive program and you are amenable I would like to come along and have a
look.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I look forward to the flood of ideas and
suggestions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Regards</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">James Gibney</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">St Helena Secondary College</span></p>
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