[Year 12 IT Apps] Coding VCE Computing on a 2016 school timetable

[Fox, Richard R]

I'm scratching my head here looking at Position of Responsibility statements for next year and the explosion of titles and names that the new courses have created.

Currently, the IT Domain (which isn't a real domain, no time allowance, but technically we belong to the Technology Domain which is all that other stuff to do with cooking, wood, metal and sewing) teaches Information Technolology U1 & 2, IT Applications 3 & 4, and Information Technology subjects at Year 7, 9 and 10.

So what do I call the domain now that we teach Digital Technologies at Year 7-10 and Computing at VCE? I think we're still going to be just 'IT' even if our subjects aren't called that.

The draft for what used to be the eLearning Coodinator role has been renamed as Digital Technologies but that is part of the curriculum, rather than a label for a whole-school approach to eLearning.

Meanwhile I'm still pointing out to people that the study of Information Technology (by whatever name) as a subject is not the same as ICT capabilities under AusVELS!

Richard
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Richard Fox
Teacher of IT and Science
eLearning Coordinator
Learning Technologies and ICT Infrastructure
Diamond Valley College
9438 1411

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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Coding VCE Computing on a 2016 school timetable

New subject names are always a pain to code on timetables. Decades ago, I was asked to pick something different from IT as it was also the code for Italian So in 2016:

        11IT or Year 11 Information Technology becomes a subject called Computing
        12ITA or Year 12 Information Technology Applications becomes a subject called Informatics

Pain for us here is that INF looks like investigate (although I think it is a cute coding reference)
and COM is the same as commerce (although I could get them to board the Business Studies BUS)

I noticed that a colleague was using something akin to

        11ITC for year 11 Computing
        12ITI for year 12 Informatics.

Would it be better to enter recommend this or avoid the IT reference from here on?

Interested to know what other schools are considering.

Regards Roland
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