[Year 12 IT Apps] Are digital textbooks likely?

[Russo, Frank R]

Nice one Mark seems retirement is agreeing with you now back to your glass of red wine with cheese and crackers !!

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2015 3:52 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Are digital textbooks likely?

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<mailto: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?

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Michael Torsello
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[St Francis Xavier College]
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