[vet-mm] re: 2006 exam

[Ana Tuckerman]

Hi Daylan,
Im interested to know what school you are at? I find that although i would love to go that deep with my students in scripting, realisticaly i only get about 6 weeks to cover it (three hours a week). How do you combine your competencies? do you spent any out of school time with the students? Do you do scripting by its self? do you get both year 11s and 12s doing the cert 3? are they also doing IT? do you recomend they also do IT? 
Would love your feedback on how best to cover it?
Thanks Ana



Ana Tuckerman
Multimedia and Media Department
ELTHAM College of Education



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From: vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Daylan
Sent: Wed 11/15/2006 4:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [vet-mm] re: 2006 exam
 
Agreed, but year 12 students are finishing up at school and will be  
venturing out into the workplace, whether or not they choose to  
undertake further training in multimedia. And i felt the exam's  
scripting questions were of a standard of understanding that students  
finishing a certificate 3 should have.

On 15/11/2006, at 4:35 PM, Susan Bell wrote:

> I think the issue here was about programming in the exam - not whether
> you need programming when  students venture into the job market. No one
> is denying that programming is important - but the exam was biased
> towards scripting which is simply not fair in a year 12 exam.
> Sue
>>>> daylan at impactcreativity.com.au 11/15/06 04:28pm >>>
> Hi all,
>           I've been training Cert 2, 3 and diploma level multimedia for
>
> the past 3 years and working in the industry (clients etc) for 4 years.
>
> This is my final year of training students however as i will be
> venturing of into that big, murderous multimedia world to work for MYOB
>
> but i thought i might add my 2 cents too.
>   I felt that there wasn't enough emphasis on programming in the exam
> or
> in the course in general. I personally tried to train my students in a
>
> way that would give them actual skills that are relevant for industry,
>
> as well of course, as meeting competencies. And while i agree design is
>
> important, i fell that its only about 20% of most jobs.
> You just need to look at it.seek.com etc to see that 98% of jobs in the
>
> industry require more than awesome photoshop and design skills. In fact
>
> i'd say 80% don't even care if you are good at design, they want you to
>
> be a programmer.
> Its extremely hard in the industry to find a job that is purely design
>
> and even if you do they are usually the lowest paying jobs.
> Design is the fun stuff and it's a lot easier to keep students
> attention with fun things, but as far as vocational training goes, i
> feel programming is a much more important skill for students to walk
> away with.
>
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