[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA U4O1 task 1 weighting

[Andrew Shortell]

Hey Mark
At a personal level I do not believe a single PDF is adequate if it is
merely a print document such as a text document (NOT necessarily a word doc
from microsloth (attribution to Mike B))

However I believe that as part of doing the preparation for creating User
Documentation that we create a specification set / design brief. This brief
contains all the things that will help them to achieve high in each criteria
on the marking scheme.

Thus they know exactly what they need to put in and so the students who are
interested in attaining good results put it in.
I consider it no reflection upon myself if they deliberately choose not to
put in things that we have discussed and added to the specifications of
which they have a copy.  !!

Interactivity is important for user doc; searchability; and lots of other
things. Given that you are marking the sacs you need to set the specs. If
the students know the specs then they have the best chance of meeting them!

(I think I am missing teaching vce!! And the intellectual challenges
therein! As I sit in a year 7 art class.)

Andrew


On 25/07/11 1:30 PM, "Mark KELLY" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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 ³Senior² 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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Andrew Shortell

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