<div dir="ltr">(Apologies for crossposts, but this may affect everyone.)<div><br></div><div>An old study design did include Agile, but it disappeared. (This is more of an SD issue rather than ITA, but it's still relevant.)<br>
The old design had different flavours of the SDLC for SD/IS, ITA/IPM, Units 1/2... an awful mess. But at least it recognised that different models existed, and had merit.<div><br></div><div>I'm glad the current study design listened to reason and devised a single, coherent PSM, but to ignore Agile and other models is - as you say - odd since Agile is a major player in The Real World.</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I guess VCAA has to balance realism against practicality : it would be impossible to include *everything* involved in real-life IT in a course consisting of around 130 hours of class time per year. The question is - what is so important that it can't be left out? And if new content is added, what should be removed to make room for it?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Since Paula recently announced that the new study design is in preparation, this is the time to pull out our blue pencils, judge the current contents and give our feedback.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra">Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Savage, John L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The mismatch was never so clear as on a recent industry visit we made. Increasingly software is being developed for early and rapid release/update cycles. The
software houses we visited all used the AGILE model, one in particular used a very formal Agile approach with an Agile Coach and regular morning sessions that sounded like they were based on AA meetings (hello, I’m Larry and I’m a Ruby developer, and yesterday
I wrote 500 lines of code, today I will write another 500). Our mandated PSM is looking long in the tooth, great for shrink-wrapped software with infrequent updates, not so useful for rapidly evolving web-based solutions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 28 November 2013 3:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web authoring software<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We need to be clear and align with the skills that are being asked. Increasingly my friends in ye' olde big world build and publish using content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, wikis etc.) My school continues to use Dream Weaver.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Timely discussion. There is a trend and interest with device such as Chromebooks. Whilst they may not suit everybodies ICT taste or VCEIT needs, I also notice that we seem to have a doubling of what can be done online every two years. Four
years ago we were just editing basic word docs, then came spreadsheets .. then more. I can see cracks starting to happen with our VCE IT subject that is firmly anchored in desktop solutions and like others on this list. We can expect more of this to happen
over the next decade, just check out the horizon report: <a href="http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-report-k12.pdf" target="_blank">
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<b>Roland GESTHUIZEN</b><br>
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CSS from a skills perspective. While an author can select attributes:values for tags, I’m not convinced that that demonstrates the skills to edit the html or a style sheet, or maybe I’m making it too difficult. As far as the key skills for AOS1 go “Sites”
looks OK. But if I remember, this was discussed last year and online web-creation software was ruled out. Maybe Paula could clarify this.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Van Der Westhuizen, Eugene Y<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Tuesday, 26 November 2013 9:22 PM<br>
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Expression Web and DreamWeaver over the last couple of years but a number of students this year asked whether they could have used Google Sites. As far as I can see from the VCAA site the software needs to incorporate the following items:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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