[Year 12 IT Apps] Are digital textbooks likely?

[Bill Oldham]

Great balls of fire, Mark.

Good to see you creating such good deals in retirement.

Cheers,
Bill Oldham (retired from RMIT since 2013)

On 21 July 2015 at 15:52, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> Hi, Michael.
>
> The printed books will come with an ebook.
> You can also just buy an access code to the ebook if you want digital only.
>
> The spin-off movies will be released in October 2016.
>
> I play a cameo as "Informatics U3O2 key knowledge dotpoint 3".
> Nicole Kidman appears as the glossary, and Hugh Jackman is the
> problem-solving methodology.
> It's rated PG due to the nudity, drug use and language.
>
> Talks are underway with Cirque du Soleil about a trapeze/high wire version
> of the study design called "The Dangerous Magic of Informatics." VCAA is
> insisting that Paula plays the lead.
>
> I think Stan Lee is interested in licensing a comic strip version of units
> 1 and 2 (excluding the more raunchy key knowledge dotpoints, of course.)
>
> I am looking forward to the mime version that will premiere in London in
> August.
>
> Of course there will be a ballet adaptation, featuring the VCAA Symphony
> Orchestra.
> "Informatics U4O2 KK3" is especially moving. I don't mind admitting that
> the scene about "key legislation that affects how organisations control the
> storage and disposal of their data and information" brings me to tears
> every time, in spite of its neoclassical tendencies.
>
> Mark
>
> On 21 July 2015 at 11:34, Michael Torsello <mtorsello at sfx.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>>  Sorry I lost the original thread about textbooks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Did anyone who has spoken to publishers about textbooks for VCE Computing
>> happen to ask about digital versions of the books?
>>
>> Is this a possibility?
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>
>> With thanks,
>>
>> *Michael Torsello*
>>
>> Director of Innovation (eLearning)
>>
>> [image: St Francis Xavier College]
>>
>> *PO Box 85, Beaconsfield, VIC 3807*
>>
>> Telephone *+61 3 9707 3111 <%2B61%203%209707%203111>*
>>
>> Facsimile *+61 3 9707 3601 <%2B61%203%209707%203601>*
>>
>> [image: St Francis Xavier College] <http://www.sfx.vic.edu.au/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>
> >> Witty sig goes HERE <<
>
> Mark Kelly
>
>
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Bill
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