[Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012

[Judy Zuccon]

Hi everyone,
Aquinas College has 2 large ITA classes and one large SD class.
Thanks
Judy Zuccon



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JUDY ZUCCON
VET & VASS Coordinator

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Margaret Iaquinto
Sent: Thursday, 20 October 2011 10:30 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012

St Leonards has too few enrolments in ITA to run a class but SD is still OK for 2012. But also year 10 programming has trebled in enrolments.

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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