[Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012

[Howard, David]

Hi Mark,

We have an ITA class but no SD as we robbed Peter to pay Paul this year by having some Year 11s in the SD class.

We do however have 2, yes 2 Unit 1&2 classes next year so IT in 2013 looks promising for Units ¾!!! Scary to be thinking that far off.

My kids this year did enjoy SD more than ITA and I can say that as I had a student do both!

Cheers

David Howard
Acting Head of IT & Online Learning

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Thursday, 20 October 2011 9:30 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012

Hi all.

As I feared, ITA didn't get enough enrolments to run in 2012 - for the first time in about 15 years.

Strangely enough, Software Development *is* running - and before this year it hasn't run for 3 years.

Actually, I'm kind of relieved since SD is more interesting anyway, and ITA seems old, dry and tired. Perhaps it's just because I've been teaching it since forever, or it may be that the new study design is partly to blame - and yes! normal forms, I AM looking at you.  And I'd also put some blame on the freakishly large and long U4O1 - my kids were exhausted at the end of that.

After a hiatus this year, Units 1&2 return to McKinnon in 2012, and since I have barely looked at them it will be another fun year compiling resources for those units.
If the ITA embargo continues and SD continues to run, I may craft units 1&2 to be heavy on programming to better funnel kids into SD in the following year.

Do you guys know what units will run at your places next year?

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Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
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