[Year 12 SofDev] Please thank Mark Kelly for all he has done for us

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Mark,

 

I put together a Python and Raspberry Pi student workbook comprising some 10
learning activities plus assessments ( lest we stray from teaching ,
learning and assessing ) for my Cert IV students last year. 

To begin the cycle of "Thank You Mark" it is coming your way in a special
gift wrapped package J

 

 

Speak soon

 

Kevork Krozian

Edulists Creator Administrator

www.edulists.com.au

tel: 0419 356 034

 

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Sunday, 3 February 2013 1:15 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Cc: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT
Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Please thank Mark Kelly for all he has done
for us

 

Golly.  This is like watching one's own funeral ceremony, with special
interest from those at the back who turned up just to make sure I was really
dead.  :-)

 

Yes, folks, at 55 I have had enough of ethos, powerful learning, E5, VELS,
Australian Curriculum, immersion, curriculum review, "making a profound
difference in the precious lives of each and every student we have the
honour to teach", being accountable, jumping at the sound of bells like a
champion Pavlovian stunt dog, attending hour-long meetings that could have
been replaced by a one-paragraph email, dealing with adolescent bush-lawyers
who know only their rights and not their responsibilities, settling disputes
about which year 7 took something from another year 7's pencil case, marking
endless SACs, and driving to and from work with the headlights on during
cold, wet winters .

 

Ah, the memories.

 

I will now have time to do stuff like writing "Buckets of Knowledge" for ITA
and SD (focusing on the tricky bits that everyone gets confused about), and
a Jumbo Collection of multchoice questions, perhaps as an app.

And for years I've been planning on converting vceit.com from static HTML to
CMS... now I have time to choose a platform (perhaps Joomla or Wordpress -
whichever is easier to convert to.)  And learn MySQL.

And I want to play with Python on my Raspberry Pi... which sounds pretty
odd, if you don't know them both.

 

And if, on a Wednesday night at 10pm I suddenly get a craving to re-watch an
entire season of 'Breaking Bad' just so I can work out if Walter actually
poisoned Brock with ricin - I WILL. 'Cos I CAN.  The thrill may wear off
after a while, so then I'll satisfy my lifetime desire to get a part-time
job at a hardware store selling hammers.  Nothing else: just hammers.
Sweet.

 

But most of all while in my Gentleman Of Leisure mode, I will be strolling
down the sand at Bonbeach in the sun thinking kindly of you all sculling
your coffee, grabbing your laptops and whiteboard markers and running off to
double year 10 while you KNOW that it's a beautiful day outside and that at
least one person is CERTAINLY strolling down the sand at Bonbeach thinking
of you.

 

I do thank Kevork for his gracious message and noble sentiments.  He really
is one of the nicest people in The Real World (TM) as well as the IT
community.

 

Have a rich and rewarding year, everyone!

 

Regards,

Mark K

 

On 3 February 2013 09:33, Kevork Krozian <kevork at edulists.com.au> wrote:

Hi folks,

 

  It may or may not be entirely in the public sphere that our very special
colleague Mark Kelly has decided to retire from the day to day pleasures of
teaching teenagers in the school system.  He stresses this is retirement
from the Department and not from our community for which we are grateful.

 

It would fill many pages to itemise all that Mark has done for us to help
with our VCE IT teaching, assessment and exam preparation. 

So how do we do justice to all this selfless giving, hundreds and hundreds
of hours of preparation to make available web content that we can just lift
and use in class ?  We certainly cannot repay Mark for all he has done but
in our own way express our thanks for his assistance, moral support and ever
present community contribution to support everyone in their day to day
challenges of delivering a fast changing IT curriculum.

 

Please feel free to express your thanks here and also detail how Mark's help
has influenced and supported your work as a teacher. 

 

 

Kind Regards

 

Kevork Krozian

Edulists Creator Administrator

www.edulists.com.au

tel: 0419 356 034

 

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Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com

http://vceit.com

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