[Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ...

Fri Nov 12 10:45:40 EST 2010

Thanks, everyone.  I'm convinced the question is broken and should be
stricken from the record.

I'll formally complain to VCAA.

More importantly, I'm awarding it a Dog's Breakfast Award.

On 12 November 2010 10:15, Ben Hines <b.hines at ccg.vic.edu.au> wrote:

>  It seems that the bulk of my mid range ITA students choose A to Q3 on the
> basis that they didn’t know what a keyboard swipe was.
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> My best student did choose antivirus as his answer though (which is the
> only reasonable response if the question ends up being worth anything...)
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark Scott
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 November 2010 9:57 AM
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> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ...
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> One definition of “access” is: *An outburst or onset: an access of rage.*
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> Would seem appropriate in this case.
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> "The busier you get, the slower you walk" anon
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 November 2010 9:38 AM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ...
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> Having just spend ten minutes working on an increasingly incoherent
> analysis of the issue (that exam question is like Alice in Wonderland if you
> think about it too much), I had to stop when considering what "file access"
> actually *means*.  Google doesn't find a reasonable definition.
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> Does 'file access' mean opening a file (and then maybe viewing/editing its
> contents) or can it also mean *copying* a file (without opening it)?
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> As for the antivirus event logger, I bet it would only log infection
> detection events, not all system file events.  Can you imagine what would
> happen to system performance if *every* file opening were logged by
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> An audit trail, however *would* log every system file event.  It's the
> only answer that makes sense to me, but it wasn't one of the options.
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> This question is really bugging me, and I suspect it's destined to become a
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>  On 12 November 2010 08:46, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> Anyway Event Logging software does exist. The question was does anybody
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Brendyn Hancock
> *Sent:* Friday, 12 November 2010 8:32 AM
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> This is wonderful!
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> This thread could be used by a hardware production company as a ‘think
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark Scott
> *Sent:* Thursday, 11 November 2010 5:47 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ...
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> The techs at work laughed and said there is no answer.
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> They said that CCTV does not "detect" only records.
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> One of my students suggested that there is virus protection software that
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Mark KELLY [kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:02 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ....
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> IT Swipe Cards
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>  - The focus of unit 3 will be on keyboard swipes
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>  - The focus of unit 4 will be on swiping techniques.
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> The problem will be packing all the key knowledge into a single year of
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Mark Kelly
Manager Information Systems
Reporting Manager
IT Learning Area Manager

McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204
Victoria, Australia
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