[Yr11 Information Technology] Unit 2 Outcome 1: Programming

[Andrew Grimshaw]

hey

as a teacher who is new to programming i'd be most interested to see ur list 
of activities mark

andrew grimshaw
colac college


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kelly" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Unit 2 Outcome 1: Programming


>I see nothing in the study design to suggest a single assessable task like 
>a SAC is required.  I read it as "a series of exercises/tasks of increasing 
>skill".
>
> I plan to make/find/steal some VB exercises that take them from knowing 
> nothing through the basic skills required - a bit like Greg Bowden's Excel 
> / Access / Filemaker guided activities.  They have teaching, exercises 
> where kids are held by the hand, and finishing each chapter with a 
> semi-challenging activity to test their understanding.
>
> Hopefully they'll get to being able to create a simple application that 
> uses text boxes, maybe listboxes, some arithmetic, buttons, checkboxes. 
> Would be good if they get to using FOR..NEXT and true arrays.  We'll see 
> how we go.
>
> Would be good a warm up for kids progressing to SD in '08.
>
> asiara at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I am currently trying to organise this outcome for my Year 11 class. I 
>> have plenty of exercises for students to complete in VB6. My question is: 
>> Are students expected to complete a SAC in a given time frame where they 
>> are given a problem statement etc and create a solution?? OR Are the 
>> folios/exercises enough for this outcome???
>> If others could share how they are tackling this outcome I would be great 
>> grateful!!
>> Thank you
>> Antoinette
>> :-)
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