[Year 12 IT Apps] VCEIT.com - IT or Computing

Mon Jun 22 17:29:12 AEST 2015

That is great news Paula, I will share this with our senior school coordinators as it bodes well for all students to consider this as a new and relevant course to try. 

At my school IT enrolments have been gradually increasing, especially in my classes involving more girls. Looking over the numbers, we have been picking up students that have in the past elected to do geography.

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Roland GESTHUIZEN
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> On 22 Jun 2015, at 5:10 pm, Christophersen, Paula P <christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> An interesting observation - 33% of enrolments in VCE Algorithmics this year is female. IT apps and Software development were no where near this rate last year (approx 18% and 7% respectively). One could speculate that the name Algorithmics did not turn off girls, so maybe Informatics will also be positively greeted.
> 
> Regards
> Paula
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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen [rgesthuizen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 22 June 2015 4:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCEIT.com - IT or Computing
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> My thinking was that we keep the VCE subject code as IT for convenience and familiarity with the new course descriptions but only for the next few months whilst course selections are cranking through, then it must be allowed to naturally expire. I will insist that we use the proper extended name directly after that. I am quite ready for the name changes come December and open to what other schools are using as codes. Crikey, it was a tough battle to overtake Italian with IT, we can do it again .. so lets all sit around that virtual campfire and DIG DIG DIG, DOB DOB DOB (do our best <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1016630/Dyb-dyb-dyb-Baden-Powell-got-right.html>)
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> Roland GESTHUIZEN
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>> On 22 Jun 2015, at 3:26 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
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>> On 22 June 2015 at 15:06, Christophersen, Paula P <christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
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>> Hmm!
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>> Golly. 
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>> Was that an official, canonical VCAA "Hmm"?
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>> Only two "m"s in it - could be either a supportive or derisive "hmm"? Three "m"s would definitely be unfriendly.
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>> But the exclamation mark tends to indicate displeasure in females. 
>> It's like when they squint and say "Fine..." 
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>> Will "Hmm" be added to the 2016 Computing study design glossary?
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>> Is this examinable?
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> > On 22 Jun 2015, at 3:03 pm, "Garth, Lucas A" <garth.lucas.a at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:garth.lucas.a at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
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>> > Hi Paula-
>> >
>> > So will we need to tell the Daily Organisers to choose "DIG" as the acronym to use for the subject on the timetables instead of DT which is already taken by Tech subjects?
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>> > I'm with Mark - most schools will keep calling the subject IT for familiarity for students.
>> >
>> > LG
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>> > Today's Topics:
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>> >   1. Re: VCEIT.com <http://vceit.com/> - IT or Computing? (Christophersen, Paula P)
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>> > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 04:54:00 +0000
>> > From: "Christophersen, Paula P"
>> >    <christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:christophersen.paula.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>>
>> > Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCEIT.com <http://vceit.com/> - IT or Computing?
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>> > Digi Tech is what I call Digital Technologies.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Paula
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