[Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing acarait.com (Mark KELLY)

Tue Apr 10 21:00:41 EST 2012

Well done

Andrew

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On 10/04/2012, at 7:34 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Try visiting acara.it (ciao, bella!)
> 
> Getting any 4-letter top-level domain name is nearly impossible these days unless you're willing to spend big money.
> 
> On 10 April 2012 12:12, Lee, James q <lee.james.q at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> Some musings:
> 
> Is it just me, or does acarait.com sound like a-carrot.com? ;)
> 
> If you are or want to pretend to be an Italian national (shhh), you could register a name with a .IT suffix (you don't even need the com).
> So Mark could register VCE.IT or ACE.IT?  or MARK.IT for his own personal use? ;)
> 
> James Lee
> http://www.mrlee.it
> VCE VET Printing & Graphic Arts (Desktop Publishing)
> Mill Park Secondary College MIddle Years ICT, Web Design & Game Programming
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>   1. Announcing icarait.com (Mark KELLY)
>   2. Re: Announcing icarait.com (Mark KELLY)
>   3. Re: [Year 12 SofDev and itapps] Announcing        icarait.com
>      (Andrew Shortell)
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> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:11:21 +1000
> From: Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing icarait.com
> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"
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> Hi all*
> 
> Please ignore this post - it may only become relevant in about 3 years, if federal government national curriculum IT plans continue unabated.
> 
> Realising that I was lucky to grab the domain name vceit.com before it was registered by a cunning oriental numerologist, I decided to future-proof myself against the Australian Curriculum before it dumps itself on us all with its full pedagogical majesty.
> 
> So, I took advantage of holiday lethargy to register *acarait.com* before the only remaining choice was * AustralianCurriculumAssessmentandReportingAuthorityInformationTechnology.com.
> *
> 
> So, soon you will be able to visit the ACARA-enabled vceit.com site by typing *acarait.com*.
> 
> Your first visit to acarait.com might seem *remarkably* similar to your previous visits to vceit.com... changes may occur as soon as I find out what ACARA is, exactly.
> 
> Actually, I don't really care too much about what ACARA IT includes, as long as it has a *glossary.*
> 
> And there's not too much databasing.
> 
> And there's some 21st century content such as media editing.
> 
> Come to think of it, I *do* care about what ACARA IT includes. You might want to get your sixpence worth of input in while they're still listening.
> 
> Keep enjoying the sunny days while they're here
> 
> Mark
> --
> 
> * Especially *you*, the cute, shy lurker at the back - yes *you*, the one with good ideas who has always *meant* to start posting here, but has so far been too scared to do so.  Post now. It's quiet. We don't bite.
> 
> --
> Mark Kelly
> Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253 kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture Notes: http://vceit.com
> Moderator: IT Applications Edulist <http://www.edulists.com.au/>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:25:34 +1000
> From: Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing icarait.com
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> Of course when I mentioned the announcement of "icarait.com", I actually meant "acarait.com".
> 
> It was a slip of the something-or-other whatchamacallit - umm - brain?
> Yeah, that thing.
> 
> --
> Mark Kelly
> Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253 kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture Notes: http://vceit.com
> Moderator: IT Applications Edulist <http://www.edulists.com.au/>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 08:25:38 +1000
> From: Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [Year 12 SofDev and itapps] Announcing
>        icarait.com
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> Perhaps you should also register   auit.com  (australia IT) as this may well become teh australian curriculum  and it is ieasier to type for those of us who are lexico-grahically challenged (or like me whose fiongers are too big for small keyboards)
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Andrew Shortell
> CRC Melton
> 
> On 07/04/2012, at 11:11 PM, Mark KELLY wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi all*
> >
> > Please ignore this post - it may only become relevant in about 3 years, if federal government national curriculum IT plans continue unabated.
> >
> > Realising that I was lucky to grab the domain name vceit.com before it was registered by a cunning oriental numerologist, I decided to future-proof myself against the Australian Curriculum before it dumps itself on us all with its full pedagogical majesty.
> >
> > So, I took advantage of holiday lethargy to register acarait.com before the only remaining choice was AustralianCurriculumAssessmentandReportingAuthorityInformationTechnology.com.
> >
> > So, soon you will be able to visit the ACARA-enabled vceit.com site by typing acarait.com.
> >
> > Your first visit to acarait.com might seem remarkably similar to your previous visits to vceit.com... changes may occur as soon as I find out what ACARA is, exactly.
> >
> > Actually, I don't really care too much about what ACARA IT includes, as long as it has a glossary.
> >
> > And there's not too much databasing.
> >
> > And there's some 21st century content such as media editing.
> >
> > Come to think of it, I do care about what ACARA IT includes. You might want to get your sixpence worth of input in while they're still listening.
> >
> > Keep enjoying the sunny days while they're here
> >
> > Mark
> > --
> >
> > * Especially you, the cute, shy lurker at the back - yes you, the one with good ideas who has always meant to start posting here, but has so far been too scared to do so.  Post now. It's quiet. We don't bite.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Kelly
> > Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College
> > McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line /
> > Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
> > kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture Notes: http://vceit.com
> > Moderator: IT Applications Edulist
> >
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> > An E-flat, a C, and a G go into a bar. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, but I can't serve minors."
> >
> >
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> Mark Kelly
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> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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