[Year 12 IT Apps] Time Allowance Unit 3 OC 2

Thu May 10 10:56:37 EST 2007

Hi Fiona

There are no fixed times - it just should be 'reasonable' based on the 
size and difficulty and weighting of the task, your kids' skill levels, 
the phase of the moon etc.

It's one of those 'professional calls'.  Allow too little time and you 
disadvantage the kids.  Too much time and it gets hard to differentiate 
the levels of achievement your kids attain 'cos the best kids finish 
with time to spare and just twiddle their thumbs while the lesser 
students have bonus time to catch up.

When allocating times, I do a mental simulation of how long a particular 
average-skilled kid in my class would take to (for example) answer 5 
analysis questions of about 5 lines of writing per question; or how long 
it would take (based on previous practice sessions) to (for example) 
create a Gantt chart.

The first time I use a new task I watch kids' progress and sometimes 
tweak the timings for the next time I use the same task.  Sometimes I 
time myself doing the task and double that time for the kids.  Sometimes 
I guess wildly.

HTH

Mark

Fiona Orr wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> How long are you giving students to complete Unit 3 SAC 2?  I have
> looked a few people's resources.  One says 540 mins, the other says 375
> mins.  I have looked in the VCE handbooks but can't find what I am
> looking for.
> Thanks
> Fiona
> 
> Fiona Orr
> Senior School Learning Technology Co ordinator
> St Kilda Road Campus
> Wesley College Melbourne
> Tel:  + 61 3 8102 6493
> fiona.orr at wesleycollege.net 
> 
> 
>>>> VAUGHAN.Scott at BSSC.EDU.AU 8/05/2007 1:52:07 pm >>>
> Hi Jason,
>  
> I posted this earlier on the list but this is my version 2.  
>  
> If anyone was using my previous version this one explains the final
> pages better
>  
> Regards
>  
> Scott
> 
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> Hi List
> As a first year ICT teacher I have found this list to be a terrific
> forum to share resources, it is great that the "ICT family" is so
> generous with regards to their own hard work.
> I am using frontpage for U3O2, is there anyone out there who has some
> frontpage activities for my students to do, when I came into the
> school
> I could not find any resources to do with frontpage. I really need
> some
> help so if there is anyone out there who has some frontpage activities
> then I would be very, very appreciative.
> Cheers
> Jason Lappin
> VCE ICT Teacher
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> I know that Moodle is a widely used content management system, but we
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