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

Sat Sep 13 22:39:36 EST 2014

(ahem)

There is a text for SD  (published by the author as a self published)

Not from Nelson 

It is available for iPad as interactive, as an e-book (pdf)  or even on paper (so last century)

It has been out for two years.

We would have to check with the author if it will be updated for the new study design ....

I use the text, last year 6 of them even purchased the paper version and the iPad version (Discount for combined purchase)
They liked the feel of paper and the weight in their bag made them feel studious

--> Roland , I know you know the author  

Andrew

Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton

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On 13 Sep 2014, at 5:35 pm, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there something that the DLTV can do to help SD teachers with the new study design? 
> 
> Is it an opportunity to be innovative and facilitate collaboration on an open eBook for SD?
> 
> —
> Roland GESTHUIZEN
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> On 11 Sep 2014, at 11:04 am, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> (said sadly as an ex-authour)
>> 
>> Nelson supports the text but paper based texts are very expensive to actually produce, ship , handle, retail, count, etc etc
>> 
>> 
>> Andrew Shortell
>> Educator
>> CRC Melton
>> 
>> 
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>> On 11 Sep 2014, at 10:38 am, Victoria Farrell <FarrellV at humegrammar.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Of which text ? The Nelson?
>>>  
>>> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Howard, David
>>> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2014 8:35 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Text Books for Units 1- 4
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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
>>>  
>>> Remember the new study design comes in for  2016
>>>  
>>> If you go with paper text there will be no second hand market for it....
>>>  
>>> If you have smaller numbers you might look at sourcing class set of second hand books?
>>> 
>>> If this is first time teaching subject, some sort of text is very reassuring for teacher....
>>>  
>>> You also really need other resources. The archives of this list have a lot of stuff - and resources !
>>>  
>>> Andrew
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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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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>>> From:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On 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
>>>  
>>> 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?
>>>  
>>> Cheers,
>>> Vic
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