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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Sadly, Software Development will &nbsp;not be running at John Paul College next year. First time ever since VCE started. Not enough enrolments.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heike Demarteau<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sofdev@edulists.com.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">As far as I know, we're only running SD at KooWeeRup SC.&nbsp; This is through choice mainly on my part, partly because I've been running both courses in one class&nbsp;for two years
 (not enough for two classes to run independently)&nbsp;which is exhausting and the word has got around the school that SD is &quot;cool&quot; and interesting.&nbsp; I'm looking forward to a year without Apps (as I found it really&nbsp;boring this year.)<br>
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Heike Demarteau.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From: kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au<br>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:30:10 &#43;1100<br>
To: itapps@edulists.com.au; sofdev@edulists.com.au<br>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] No ITA at McKinnon in 2012<br>
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Hi all. <br>
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As I feared, ITA didn't get enough enrolments to run in 2012 - for the first time in about 15 years.&nbsp;
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Strangely enough, Software Development *is* running - and before this year it hasn't run for 3 years.
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Actually, I'm kind of relieved since SD is more interesting anyway, and ITA seems old, dry and tired. Perhaps it's just because I've been teaching it since forever, or it may be that the new study design is partly to blame - and yes! normal forms, I AM looking
 at you.&nbsp; And I'd also put some blame on the freakishly large and long U4O1 - my kids were exhausted at the end of that.<br>
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After a hiatus this year, Units 1&amp;2 return to McKinnon in 2012, and since I have barely looked at them it will be another fun year compiling resources for those units.
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If the ITA embargo continues and SD continues to run, I may craft units 1&amp;2 to be heavy on programming to better funnel kids into SD in the following year.<br>
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Do you guys know what units will run at your places next year?<br clear="all">
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-- <br>
Mark Kelly<br>
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area<br>
McKinnon Secondary College<br>
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia<br>
Direct line / Voicemail: &#43;613 8520 9085, Fax &#43;613 9578 9253<br>
<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
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