[Year 12 SofDev] RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCE & VET IT U3O2 samplesite

[Mark Kelly]

Be not afraid to add your 2.2c worth here.  All contributions are valued.

If you subscribe to the Software Development mailing list, you'll notice 
that one of the questions we face here is how closely the VCE IT study 
design matches practices in The Real World.

And yes - the students' websites should be at least partially 
functional.  The bits they simulate are those things they can't 
reasonably produce in class within the constraints of the time and 
technology they have available.

Cheers
Mark

Emily Coldwell wrote:
> My understanding of a prototype is complete mock-up, with one or two 
> fully functional parts - to be shown to the client to receive feedback, 
> etc. So part of it needs to work - it can't be all screenshots.
> 
> But this is coming from my knowledge as an IT uni student, not an IT 
> teacher! Please tell me if I am out of place adding my own two cents!
> 
> 
> Emily Coldwell
> Deakin Uni (Waurn Ponds)
> Grad Dip of Ed (Applied Learning) student
> (Will be "real" teacher next year, but I am currently on placement at 
> Belmont High, Geelong)
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:58 PM
> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List" 
> <sofdev at edulists.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCE & VET IT U3O2 
> samplesite
> 
>> Yep.  "Prototype" can mean it's a mockup of the real thing.  Look & 
>> feel without full functionality.
>>
>> My kids doctor images of impossible-to-create features such as wikis, 
>> blogs, forums so it _looks_ like a virtual team's site but does not 
>> all work.
>>
>> The way I see the task, the main idea is that kids show you they know 
>> what tools are relevant to a VT, what they would look like in use, how 
>> a team could use them to aid decision-making and knowledge sharing.
>>
>> They do not have to make fully functional sites with PHP scripts and 
>> MySQL databases :-)
>>
>> WEIR Andrew wrote:
>>> I think the key word was Prototype. Had to show ideas not necessarily
>>> functional.
>>> I remember some people talking about students getting screen shots of
>>> forums and blogs and editing them with Photoshop to look like the
>>> company in question.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Andrew Weir
>>> Thomas Carr College -----Original Message-----
>>> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
>>> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
>>> Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:39 AM
>>> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List;
>>> vet-it at edulists.com.au; Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing
>>> List
>>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VCE & VET IT U3O2 sample site
>>>
>>> I've been looking through the ITApps U3, Outcome 2 outline and it still
>>> looks to me as if to properly carry out the project requires PHP or Java
>>> to meet an "organisation's needs of sharing knowledge and collaborative
>>> problem solving within a virtual team environment". Otherwise we end up
>>> with a static, non-collaborative site. Has anybody put a sample 
>>> solution on the web?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Laurie Savage
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>>> Markbook/Moodle Coordinator::Pascoe Vale Girls College::03 9306 2544
>>>
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>>
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