[Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?

Thu Nov 27 11:57:42 EST 2014

OT but . . . 

Takes me back many years to pre-Windows when we were teaching programming at Year 11 using Turbo Pascal. One very bright young lady (and quite wild Mark :-) ) set her editing skin to dark blue text on a black background, which I could hardly read. Also had a very individual style for variable names which made it very easy to pick those few other students who chose to copy her work.

Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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  From: Savage, John L 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2014 10:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?

  Hi Benjamin,

  It’s funny you should mention Notepad++. We love it. My girls were sold on it for two reasons – Block Selection and Themes! Once they discovered Hello Kitty and the dark, brooding Twilight-ish themes that was it. Some of them even went so far as to turn off colour coding/matching just because they could. And the appalling fonts they chose! I have never seen HTML coded in 18pt Segoe Handwriting before; all in all it was a lovely way to lure them into coding, and quite unintentional.

  Laurie

  From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Savage, John L
  Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2014 8:46 AM
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?

  If we could use a CMS it’s not far from building the site in Google Sites is it?

  Laurie Savage

  From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Baas, Benjamin B
  Sent: Thursday, 27 November 2014 7:56 AM
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  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?

  It would be nice to be able to use a CMS, there are some good free ones available. At the moment I have limited software choice and most of students will be making sites using only notepad++.

  Ben.

  Alkira

  From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
  Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2014 11:09 PM
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Creating websites?

  An interesting question indeed. A decade ago, knowledge of HTML would have been required. Times change, CMS and click/drag site builders are now the norm. VCAA's list of required skills for websites may need a face lift, because its age is starting to show...

  On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Bill Oldham <0woldham8 at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi everyone,

    Just home from an Adobe presentation of Adobe Muse for website creation on a visual basis. No knowledge of HTML, CSS seems to be needed.

    Could a software program like this be used to meet the Year 12 ITA course requirements? 

    It is able to  create a website. But little more than point and click appears to be needed to create an online community.

    Cheers,

    Bill Oldham (retired from RMIT)

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