Hi Andrew. While I acknowledge that PDF has one or two distinctively onscreen features, it lacks most of them. If I let my kids use PDF as a format, they'd type up a normal Word document and just save it as PDF without exploiting the features they were meant to use.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 July 2011 10:22, Andrew Shortell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net">shortell@get2me.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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PDF is no longer merely meant to be printed. It is a simple way to keep everything looking like you meant it to look.<br>
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PDF docs can contain links etc so they are not merely printed pages<br>
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A lot of user doc that one receives nowadays comes as pdf. 100s of pages of it. When was the last time that you printed a pdf manual????????<br>
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E.g. Last night I installed a big pond usb modem for a “Senior” couple. The suer doc was a series of pdfs. Telstra is moderately up to date with things......<br>
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Back off my soap box and on to teaching and learning<br>
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On 25/07/11 9:07 AM, "Mark KELLY" <<a href="http://kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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I don't include PDF in the class "onscreen documentation."<br>
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PDF is usually static and meant to be printed. It usually lacks many of the active features of onscreen user documentation such as animation, video, colour, sound, hyperlinks, menus, search facilities: the things we normally associate with websites and multimedia products.<br>
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On 25 July 2011 08:53, John Bellavance <<a href="http://John.Bellavance@beaconhills.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">John.Bellavance@beaconhills.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
</span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi Mark,<br>
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I am also planning 10 marks for the user doc. <br>
Can a PDF count as on screen documentation?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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John<br>
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</span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="http://itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA U4O1 task 1 weighting<br>
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Hi all. I'm curious how you are weighting the parts of task 1 of U4O1 : the SS/dB component versus the onscreen user documentation. I'm planning 40/50 for the solution and 10 for the user doc. <br>
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Neither the study design nor the the assessment handbook allocates or suggests marks for each component. What are you doing?<br>
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