[Year 12 IT Apps] VCE study design - a different topic - I promise!

Mon Mar 29 15:12:21 EST 2010

We need a metawiki to aggregate posts into a megawiki, use artificial
intelligence to summarise them to a miniwiki, use artificial humour-defence
to strip out my sarcasm into a sickiwiki, and deliver the main points to a
trickywiki, which is full of concentrated wisdom and knowledge.

I'll get right onto it.  Now  - where's my FORTRAN compiler got to?

;-)

Oh, Robert.  About the previous thread about RI.  I take your point.  I was
being rather slack with the difference between the *state* of RI and the *
enforcement* of RI.  Quite different matters.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Timmer-Arends <timmer at melbpc.org.au>wrote:

>  Both are fair points although I prefer the immediacy of email (open,
> read, react, click reply, type, click send - all over inside 30 seconds...
> hmmm ,,, could lead to some problems I suppose...).
>
> In doing some virtual team research last year I did come across an
> evaluation of various techniques. To get the most out of email lists, it was
> suggested that periodically for each thread someone (always the mysterious
> 'someone') needs to do a summary of what has been said so far, thus pulling
> all the different elements of the discussion together and so helping to
> reach a consensus conclusion. I think the idea has merit but getting a
> 'someone' or even several of them would be a big problem.
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<itapps at edulists.com.au>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2010 4:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCE study design - a different topic - I
> promise!
>
> A wiki's an interesting idea, Margaret, but I wonder whether - in this case
> - it would thrive.  Wikis are valuable for consolidating and aggregating
> disparate information sources, but in this case is it possible that a wiki
> could actually do the opposite: split an existing and authoritative
> information nexus (this list) into two competing sources?
>
> People would either post their thoughts to the list, or the wiki but I
> doubt many of those people would have the time or inclination to post to
> both.
>
> I realise that a mailing list like this is a very different animal to a
> wiki - each tool has its strengths and weaknesses. The success of the wiki
> would depend on what it was primarily intended to achieve... discussion or
> collaborative resource development.  Its charter would need to be carefully
> thought out to avoid a possible identity crisis.
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Margaret Lawson <
> margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net> wrote:
>
>> It would be great if we could get a wiki started for this Study Design.
>>
>> Rather than each one of us building our own resource list and breaking
>> down the knowledge and skills for the study design independently, a wiki
>> would be great!
>>
>> Any chance we could hang it off the VITTA server Adrian?
>>
>> Margaret
>>
>> Janson, Adrian A wrote:
>>
>>> OK.  Nuff said!  Everyone regrets at least one of their posts and the
>>> rest of you have deleted them all anyway!
>>>  What I would like to do is to encourage a discussion about the study
>>> design here so that as you are reading through it, you can get suscinct
>>> answers to your questions - or raise topics that would be ones that would be
>>> good for resource development or PD.  There are a number of experts that
>>> subscribe to these lists, such as the examiners, members of the study design
>>> writing team, text book writers, PD presenters, VCAA employees (and of
>>> course, Paula Christophersen).  We are all willing and eager to answer your
>>> questions!
>>>  Bring on the discussion,
>>> Adrian Janson
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