[Year 12 IT Apps] Text Books for Units 1- 4

Thu Sep 11 11:04:58 EST 2014

Hi all.  Nelson is currently producing new texts for the new study design -
Units 1-4, but - sadly - not for SD.

On 11 September 2014 10:52, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net> wrote:

> given the number of students it is really not worthwhile for authors to
> write for this subject any more
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> (said sadly as an ex-authour)
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> Nelson supports the text but paper based texts are very expensive to
> actually produce, ship , handle, retail, count, etc etc
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> On 11 Sep 2014, at 10:38 am, Victoria Farrell <
> FarrellV at humegrammar.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> Of which text ? The Nelson?
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> Im going with a class set of second hand. I only use the text for Unit 3
> Outcome 1 and Unit 4 Outcome 2 anyway…
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> *From: *Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net>
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> *Date: *Thursday, 11 September 2014 8:24 am
> *To: *Year List <itapps at edulists.com.au>
> *Subject: *Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Text Books for Units 1- 4
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> Remember the new study design comes in for  2016
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> If you go with paper text there will be no second hand market for it....
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> If you have smaller numbers you might look at sourcing class set of second
> hand books?
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> If this is first time teaching subject, some sort of text is very
> reassuring for teacher....
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> You also really need other resources. The archives of this list have a lot
> of stuff - and resources !
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> Andrew
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> On 11 Sep 2014, at 8:17 am, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> Unless they update it, I wouldn’t recommend it.
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> Behalf Of *Victoria Farrell
> *Sent:* Thursday, 11 September 2014 8:01 AM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Text Books for Units 1- 4
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> Hi, I’ve been teaching ITA Units one and Two using the Text by Keane et.al.
> published on Nelson.
> Are there any other texts available, or is it the best?
> I’ll be teaching ITA Units 3 and 4 for the first time next year and need
> to confirm our Text book – I’m assuming the Nelson publication will be the
> best option…. Any other suggestions?
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> Cheers,
> Vic
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