[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA U4O1 task 1 weighting

[Mark KELLY]

Hi Andrew.  While I acknowledge that PDF has one or two distinctively
onscreen features, it lacks most of them.  If I let my kids use PDF as a
format, they'd type up a normal Word document and just save it as PDF
without exploiting the features they were meant to use.

On 25 July 2011 10:22, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net> wrote:

>  Hi John and Mark
>
> PDF is no longer merely meant to be printed. It is a simple way to keep
> everything looking like you meant it to look.
>
> PDF docs can contain links etc so they are not merely printed pages
>
> A lot of user doc that one receives nowadays comes as pdf. 100s of pages of
> it. When was the last time that you printed a pdf manual????????
>
> E.g. Last night I installed a big pond usb modem for a “Senior” couple. The
> suer doc was a series of pdfs. Telstra is moderately up to date with
> things......
>
> Back off my soap box and on to teaching and learning
>
> Andrew
>
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> On 25/07/11 9:07 AM, "Mark KELLY" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi John
>
> I don't include PDF in the class "onscreen documentation."
>
> PDF is usually static and meant to be printed. It usually lacks many of the
> active features of onscreen user documentation such as animation, video,
> colour, sound, hyperlinks, menus, search facilities: the things we normally
> associate with websites and multimedia products.
>
> On 25 July 2011 08:53, John Bellavance <
> John.Bellavance at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I am also planning 10 marks for the user doc.
> Can a PDF count as on screen documentation?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [
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> Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Monday, 25 July 2011 8:43 AM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA U4O1 task 1 weighting
>
>
> Hi all.  I'm curious how you are weighting the parts of task 1 of U4O1 :
> the SS/dB component versus the onscreen user documentation.  I'm planning
> 40/50 for the solution and 10 for the user doc.
>
> Neither the study design nor the the assessment handbook allocates or
> suggests marks for each component.  What are you doing?
>
>
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