[Year 12 IT Apps] Dear lurkers, newbies and tender souls... please phone home.

[Mark]

You know that we - the usual suspects - have been predictably bellowing,
stamping and raising dust during the annual post-exam mania.

But every so often I hear cheeps (usually off-list) from tentative
newcomers with very real and valuable contributions to the debates that we
thick-skinned bulls are thrashing out noisily on the savanna.

[Analogy dying, the author struggles on through the tall, dry metaphorical
grasses of the Serengeti...]

We here at the ITA Edulist would be delighted if more lurkers and sensitive
souls with creative insight would contribute to this exam thread, or other
ITA discussions in the future.

We promise we won't laugh at you or make you embarrassed. We have a
rigorous "Rainbows and Unicorns" protocol that makes all contributions
welcome and supported.

So please gird the loins, draft and craft your posts (I spend anywhere from
30 to 60 minutes editing a particularly dumb post; much less time on a good
one) and send them in.

As we old bulls die off...

[ I know *I* don't have much time left, what with heart surgery, a love of
red wine and bacon, a curious need to win Russian Roulette contests in the
smoky back rooms of post-war Asian bars, and occasional difficulties
differentiating left from right when travelling at high speed on freeways.
But then, doesn't everyone? I know my old mum was just the same...]

(cough)

Sorry. Where was I? Right... as we old bulls fade away, we need fresh young
contributors who have something new to say to get us out of our well-worn
and dusty cognitive and pegagogical ruts.

Please: *somebody* stop me going on about evaluation criteria being
developed during the design stage of the PSM. I bore MYSELF to death going
on about that.

If you don't speak up on this list, here's what will happen... we'll just
keep moaning about the same old things until someone does something we'll
*all* regret.

I'm not talking about a rifle in a clock tower. I mean something *far*
worse ... there might be *another* debate about the misuse of Boolean
fields for binary data.

O, the humanity. Please save yourselves. Save us all. Post soon.

Already, I feel the stirrings of a rant coming on about VCAA ERDs that lack
cardinality...
Must resist. Must...

-- 

Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com
Immoderate moderator - ITA Edulist.

*I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.*

I, Mark Kelly, am entirely responsible for the offensive verbiage I spew
forth.
Have I offended anyone with this post?  I would not be surprised.
If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above.
Please leave poor Kevork alone.  It is not his fault.
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