[Yr7-10it] [Informatics] Digital Technologies F-10 Course Semester 1 and Essential Learnings documents

Tue Mar 1 12:06:45 AEDT 2016

Hi All,

I'm also on the list, however, currently I'm working on the Y11 Computing
and not teaching 7-10.
Although I have previously; most of the courses I put together were aimed
at 5 x 42 minutes per week. Around the subject areas of 3D Animation, Flash
Games, Web Design, Multimedia, CAD for Year 10s. And 2 x 42 minutes per
week for Year 9s.

Although Game Maker, Game Salad, and the like convey the ideas around
computing, they do not catch the student's interest. I've had some success
with Adobe Flash, however, it looks like it is finally dying off. So what
would be a suitable replacement?
Switch to Adobe Animator or try one of the game engines like Unity, or
Unreal Tournament?

Regards,
Jamie

On 1 March 2016 at 11:36, Victoria Farrell <FarrellV at humegrammar.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> I'm keen for posts to continue.
>
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> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Jolly, Michael D
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> Semester 1 and Essential Learnings documents
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> I read this, is the post with attachments not in the archive?
>
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> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ciotti, George W
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> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] [Informatics] Digital Technologies F-10 Course
> Semester 1 and Essential Learnings documents
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> Does anyone read this list anymore?
> See below.
>
> Cheers
>
> George
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> On 23/02/2016 9:37 am, "George Ciotti"
> <ciotti.george.w at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >
> >I missed that post. Are the attachments still available?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >George
> >
> >UHS Website Manager
> >IT/Arts/Design/Tech Domain
> >University High School
> >77 Story St
> >Parkville 3052
> >mobile: 0412 934 782
> >phone: 9347 2022
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 22/02/2016 10:02 pm, "Lisa Haranas"
> ><lisa.haranas at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Kim,
> >>
> >>Thank you so much for sharing this information. It is great to see what
> >>someone else has been planning from a P - 10 level.
> >>
> >>I am interested to know how many minutes per week are allocated to
> >>DigiTech at each year level?
> >>
> >>I look after DigiTech at Year 9 at my school and have been working on
> >>meeting the needs of the curriculum through 2 electives, Game Development
> >>and Event Management. I¹m happy to share some planning resources as I
> >>continue to develop these programs. I also also keen to see how you will
> >>include the Digital Technologies content descriptors in your program. At
> >>this stage, are you just covering Electronics? If so, how do you plan on
> >>linking this?
> >>
> >>Kind Regards,
> >>
> >>Lisa Haranas
> >>Deputy Head of Canowindra (Teaching & Learning)
> >>Year 9 Digital Technologies Coordinator
> >>
> >>On 17 Feb 2016, at 3:09 PM, Gration, Shannon K
> >><gration.shannon.k at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:
> gration.shannon.k at edumail.vi
> >>c
> >>.gov.au>> wrote:
> >>
> >>Hi there all fellow list subscribers,
> >>
> >>At the tail end of last year I requested any samples of course outlines
> >>etc. that anyone had developed around the new F-10 Digital Technologies
> >>Victorian Curriculum.
> >>
> >>Like many schools, IT in our school had almost gone the way of the
> >>dinosaur until the decision was made to take on the VC from day one this
> >>year, thereby requiring the instant introduction of Digital Technologies
> >>F-10 and virtually zero current documentation to rehash it from.
> >>
> >>Starting with virtually nothing, I have developed the attached outline
> >>for Semester 1 and am keen to share it with the Year 7-10 IT list as it
> >>seems little seems to happen on that list (at least compared to the
> >>Informatics list).
> >>
> >>For those of you who are in schools who are using the PLC (Professional
> >>Learning Communities) model I have also attached an Essential Learnings
> >>spreadsheet for Digital Technologies F-10 that may be useful to you as
> >>well.
> >>
> >>Both of these documents are my best attempts and are subject to revision,
> >>especially the Essential Learnings one. It was incredibly difficult to
> >>tell what was essential and what was not, as there were little if any
> >>current documents on the ground to base decisions around.
> >>
> >>Hope they're helpful to someone else out there - there's 2 week's of
> >>holiday work in them.
> >>
> >>Feel free to have a gander and let me know what you think. Positive
> >>comments are especially welcome.
> >>
> >>Enjoy.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Kim Gration
> >>Prep-10 Digital Technologies/Robotics/Electronics/Year 9 Program/VCAL
> >>Numeracy Teacher
> >>Camperdown College
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