[Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi All,

 This was the first year I did not take a VCE/HSC IT class since 1988.

But, next year I am likely to have a SD class of around 12 students.
The really exciting aspect to this is that these students are mostly also
in my other classes in Cisco and Certificates III and IV in IT Networking
with a few keen to do either a partial or full Diploma in IT Networking by
the time they finish Year 12 or to come back for a number of months before
commencing tertiary studies of work.

 This makes teaching the Networking part of SD almost a no effort as it is
covered in Cisco and the Certificates.

Kind Regards
Kevork


> Hi all,
>
> At Christian College Geelong, I did a proposal to start SD here next year
> and managed to get it up. In fact more are doing it than ITA...
>
> All three are running here too. One class of each.
>
> I'm so happy I get to run SD for the first time, Programming is definitely
> more my thing than ITA.
>
> Ta
>
>
> [cid:image001.png at 01CC8F11.86F15280]
> Mr Ben Hines
>
> Maths/ICT Teacher
> Senior School Campus - Christian College Geelong
> *(03) 52411577 (ext. 212)
>
>
>
> 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
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> 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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> McKinnon Secondary College
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