[Year 12 SofDev] Networking content in SD

[Kent Beveridge]

I took a left turn with this topic and we used our school network and infrastructure drawings as a teaching tool. The techie gave us a great chat with the drawings at hand and sat with my boys for a good 40mins chatting with a hardware tour of our system back-end. Very valuable too!
The text is useful but lots of online infrastructure data is out there too. I encourage teachers to use their search skills to see what's out there...
For those wanting to take the next level....try some sample professional tests from Cisco, Microsoft, Novell, or other vendors of a technical nature.
Oh, and Apple too.
Kent.

Kent Beveridge
ICT Coordinator & Maths teacher

On 13/09/2013, at 8:43 AM, "Langham, Peter P" <langham.peter.p at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:langham.peter.p at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:

Good morning,

I'm interested in peoples thoughts on the networking content that needs to be covered in SD, it's my first year teaching SD and my class and I have made use of Adrian Janson's textbook.

In chapter 2 there is quite a lot of Networking theory, and in many of the SACs that I've looked at from the Edulist resources there's a strong focus on networking theory.

The study design references are:
- technical underpinnings of intranets, the Internet and virtual private networks
- characteristics of wired and wireless networks

Technical underpinnings of intranets, the Internet and virtual private networks appears to focus mostly on the telecommunications infrastructure and how it's used to support intranets, the Internet and VPNs

Characteristics of wired and wireless networks appears to focus mostly on the characteristics such as bandwidth, cost, mobility, ease of installation and security.

So, as far as covering LANs/WANs, Network hardware and transmission media, am I right in thinking that they're not assessable content in the SD exam?

Most of my students are covering that content in IT Applications, so they have an understanding of this already.

Thanks for your help,

Peter Langham
Narre Warren South P-12 College

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