No, I celebrate what we all have to offer and share. :-)<br><br>In the secondary system we are working to prepare students for a VCE as
independent and highly skilled learners and of course, some dignity is
due to technology teachers who have worked hard to help build up a new
course over the past decade, often from the ground up. Do well with
what we have and aspire to do our best.<br><br>We decided<br><ul><li>Ask each secondary school teacher where we can best embed ICT into their coursework</li><li>Some ICT is delivered through dedicated offerings, the
remainder becomes the responsibility of other teachers. </li><li>Encourage ICT rich classrooms but not make everything we do an ICT activity or progression point task.<br></li><li>Every activity in every learning area does not need an ICT focus or assessment task
</li><li>IT dedicated classes should draw their contexts and build links with other subject areas</li><li>Use an IT tagged teacher to help assemble IT assessment tasks and assess student ICT competencies</li><li>Determine an ICT PP once but do it well, averaging a bigger bucket will not give us a better answer.
<br></li></ul>It isnt surprising that there is scope and some some good reasons for schools to have specialist IT classes as standalone subjects. There is room for us all to do wonderful things with our students. I guess we came about it from a different direction
<br> <a href="http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/about/faq.html#22">http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/about/faq.html#22</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">DANIELA LUPONE
</b> <<a href="mailto:luponed@columba.vic.edu.au">luponed@columba.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Also
Roland if you go to the site below they do discuss integration. RememBER I do
not disagree with you it's just the situation at my school has been looked at
differently to yours </span></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/index.html#2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/index.html#2
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I
guess you really hated my course outline</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Daniela</font></span></div>
<blockquote>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:vels-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vels-bounces@edulists.com.au
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:vels-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">vels-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]<b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland
Gesthuizen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 11 December 2006 4:01 PM<br><b>To:</b>
Victorian Essential Learning Standards<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [VELS] A unit
for Year 7 IT<br><br></font></div>Odd, we are putting a small IT course back
into our year 7 curriculum to make life easier for all the other teachers.
They can still embed IT into their course but relax as the assessment has been
done, knowing that a competent teacher has got the ball rolling with an IT
course that draws its context from the other domains. Anybody interested in a
course outline? <br><br>Regards Roland<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">DANIELA
LUPONE</b> <<a href="mailto:luponed@columba.vic.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">luponed@columba.vic.edu.au</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I
know there was some discussion about what people are doing with regards to
VELS and It<br><br>I am putting together a course with regards to Year 7 IT.
In putting this together I am conscious that the school will probably get
rid of Year 7 IT in the following year. I have tried to devleop on our
existing course where we use IT applications such as word, powerpoint and
outlook. <br><br>Would appreciate any criticism<br><br>regards Daniela
Lupone<br>St Columba's College<br>Essendon
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