[Year 12 IT Apps] Positions of Leadership/Responsibility

Thu Nov 5 14:56:01 AEDT 2015

Hi James,

Thanks for your comments. I'm not saying IT isn't a real domain, and it is just a matter of organisation here. We have a Technologies Domain Leader but IT has always operated independently. We're in a different building, we meet independently but IT is an unofficial Domain Leader role. I'm really glad to see Digital Technologies finally get introduced as it justifies us keeping our subjects in the timetable. At the beginning of the year it was looking like we were going to lose the Year 7 subject.

And I agree totally about the difference between Digital Technologies and eLearning, I didn't produce the draft position description, it has always been eLearning in the past, and I've amended this in my corrections.

'Digital Technologies & Computing Department', that's quite a mouthful ;-)

At least the VCE subject names have become shorter.

Cheers,
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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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Vella, James [jvella at mackillop.vic.edu.au]
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Positions of Leadership/Responsibility

Calling IT not a real domain is a bit of a stretch. Many people across the years have worked very hard in establishing that we are deserving of our own discipline based curriculum. The Australian and Victorian Curriculum documents have validated this point that we are a valid participant within curriculum by moving us across to a discipline based strand from the general capabilities.

No time allowance would be a local school decision. Here we have the Technologies leadership split between two people. One for Digital Technologies & Computing, while the other is for Design & Technologies. We operate very independently of each other most of the time.

eLearning is very different from Digital Technologies...unless your school plans to incorporate all of the different aspects of Digital Technologies into every subject.

You could look at calling it the Digital Technologies & Computing Department - removes the ambiguity quite easily enough.

Just my two cents though.

JV

James Vella
Digital Technologies Learning Area Leader eLearning Leader
MacKillop College
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Coding VCE Computing on a 2016 school timetable

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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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen [rgesthuizen at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2015 9:44 AM
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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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