[Year 12 IT Apps] For Paula Christopherson...

Thu Nov 15 17:01:23 EST 2007

Hi Paula,
Just a thought, following your comments to me about the audit outcome for my tasks, perhaps we 'listers' could benefit from a summary of shortcomings and strengths as highlighted by the panel looking at the tasks done/submitted for audit, during this year. I know I gained some handy ideas from our phone conversation, maybe if permissable, you could share some of the key features we discussed on the phone. I personally, have no probs  if it means we can all make better our tasks for next year and after..
Feel free to contact my email below with a follow up if you like. 
Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you if it would be possible for you to email me anyway with a summary of the points we discussed over the phone wrt my submitted materials so I wouldn't forget any of the key points. I made some notes but my memory has never been one of my strengths.
Again, thanks for the feedback, it created a good level of thought on my tasks for me.
I am glad that I wasnt 'too far' off the mark generally. The winners will definitely be my pupils next year!
(Hey, they are winners this year too!  They all hung in there to the end...)
KB.

Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Geoff Moss
Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 2:34 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Qu A 15 - Litsa

Fully agree Stephen

The exercise was done due to a query whether we could create numbers with zero at the front of a phone number using the number data type format.

It does have its limitations as you point out and one would have to seriously consider how the data would be used in the future before "building them into the file formatting".

It also supports our original argument for MC q15 that the data type must be text for phone numbers AND for postcodes if we are to include ALL Australian postcodes (considering NT postcodes begin with zero).

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Postcodes are used by Australia Post to identify postal districts in Australia.  The NT system is organised such that:
The numbering follows a broadly north-south pattern;
Except in Darwin's suburban area, the final digit indicates:
0 - major centre (Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy)
1 - PO box
2 - region surrounding major centre
3-9 - other towns in district
Historically NT codes were in the 5750-5799 range, with a similar organisation except that it followed a south-north pattern, with Darwin being 5790, now it is 0800. The move to the new range occurred in the early 1990s.
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Thanks for bringing the limitations to all our attention.

Regards
Geoff Moss

> Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Yes .... BUT
> You are actually removing some characters from the phone number data and
> building them into the file formatting.
> When you exported the data for use in another application, OR needed to
> utilise a different starting digit at some future date, then
> all previously entered data would then be revealed to be incomplete in
> terms of their ability to connect to the correct phone.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Geoff Moss
> Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:08 PM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Qu A 15 - Litsa
>
> Hi Litsa
>
> I have attached a Word document showing the input masks as well as
> another copy of the Access File: db11.mdb to demonstrate what I
> did to enter phone numbers using both text and number data types.
>
> Additionally, I created 2 extra fields to enable entry of an area code
> as well as a phone number.
>
> Using the input mask forces the "0" at the start of the the area code. 
> This could also be used for mobile phone numbers.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff Moss
> RMIT
>
>
>
> > Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.melb.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > hi geoff,
> > thank-you but i can't access it - don't worry i'll work it out.
> > thanks just the same - have a good day, litsa :)
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Geoff Moss
> >   To: Year12 MailingList
> >   Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:18 PM
> >   Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Qu A 15 - Litsa
> >
> >
> >   Hi Litsa
> >
> >   Just in case you have a high security setting I have zipped the file
>
> > so you can receive the file.
> >
> >   Regards
> >
> >   Geoff Moss
> >   RMIT
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