[Year 12 SofDev] [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software

[Mark]

(Apologies for crossposts, but this may affect everyone.)

An old study design did include Agile, but it disappeared. (This is more of
an SD issue rather than ITA, but it's still relevant.)
The old design had different flavours of the SDLC for SD/IS, ITA/IPM, Units
1/2... an awful mess. But at least it recognised that different models
existed, and had merit.

I'm glad the current study design listened to reason and devised a single,
coherent PSM, but to ignore Agile and other models is - as you say - odd
since Agile is a major player in The Real World.

I guess VCAA has to balance realism against practicality : it would be
impossible to include *everything* involved in real-life IT in a course
consisting of around 130 hours of class time per year.  The question is -
what is so important that it can't be left out? And if new content is
added, what should be removed to make room for it?

Since Paula recently announced that the new study design is in preparation,
this is the time to pull out our blue pencils, judge the current contents
and give our feedback.

Regards
Mark


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Savage, John L <
savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

>  Roland,
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> The mismatch was never so clear as on a recent industry visit we made.
> Increasingly software is being developed for early and rapid release/update
> cycles. The software houses we visited all used the AGILE model, one in
> particular used a very formal Agile approach with an Agile Coach and
> regular morning sessions that sounded like they were based on AA meetings
> (hello, I’m Larry and I’m a Ruby developer, and yesterday I wrote 500 lines
> of code, today I will write another 500). Our mandated PSM is looking long
> in the tooth, great for shrink-wrapped software with infrequent updates,
> not so useful for rapidly evolving web-based solutions.
>
>
>
> Laurie Savage
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>
>
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Thursday, 28 November 2013 3:25 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software
>
>
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> We need to be clear and align with the skills that are being asked.
> Increasingly my friends in ye' olde big world build and publish using
> content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, wikis etc.) My school continues
> to use Dream Weaver.
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>
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> Google Sites may be an interesting way forward, especially if we consider
> how to best manage and assess the work of a team who are working online
> together. I'd agree with Jarrod that it is very easy to open and close
> access to a site and authenticate usage.
>
>
>
> Timely discussion. There is a trend and interest with device such as
> Chromebooks. Whilst they may not suit everybodies ICT taste or VCEIT needs,
> I also notice that we seem to have a doubling of what can be done online
> every two years. Four years ago we were just editing basic word docs, then
> came spreadsheets .. then more. I can see cracks starting to happen with
> our VCE IT subject that is firmly anchored in desktop solutions and like
> others on this list. We can expect more of this to happen over the next
> decade, just check out the horizon report:
> http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf
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>
>
> Regards Roland
>
> *Roland GESTHUIZEN*
> http://about.me/rgesthuizen
>
>
>
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
> can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
> --Margaret Mead
>
>
>
> On 27 Nov 2013, at 2:09 pm, Savage, John L <
> savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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>   I’m not too comfortable with the fit between sites.google.com and CSS
> from a skills perspective. While an author can select attributes:values for
> tags, I’m not convinced that that demonstrates the skills to edit the html
> or a style sheet, or maybe I’m making it too difficult. As far as the key
> skills for AOS1 go “Sites” looks OK. But if I remember, this was discussed
> last year and online web-creation software was ruled out. Maybe Paula could
> clarify this.
>
>
>
> Laurie Savage
>
> Pascoe Vale Girls College
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>
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [
> mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>] *On
> Behalf Of *Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 November 2013 9:22 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am looking at the options for web authoring software to use in unit 1
> and unit 3 next year and would like any feedback about using Google Sites.
> I’ve used Expression Web and DreamWeaver over the last couple of years but
> a number of students this year asked whether they could have used Google
> Sites. As far as I can see from the VCAA site the software needs to
> incorporate the following items:
>
> *Web authoring software*
>
>    - cascading style sheet
>    - edit and format content
>    - links (relative and absolute links, internal and external links)
>    - navigation
>    - buttons
>    - screen layout
>    - tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)
>    - forms
>    - incorporate images/sound
>
>  As far as I can see from this list Google Sites would meet the
> requirements and want to offer this an another alternative. Has anyone gone
> down this path before? I’d appreciate any feedback.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> *Eugene Van der Westhuizen*
>
> *Gleneagles Secondary College*
>
> *Reema Boulevard*
>
> *Endeavour Hills, 3802*
>
> *phone: 9708 1319*
>
> *fax: 9708 1324*
>
>
>
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