Thats sounds like a fantastic subject. I would take that!!! <br>:)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, lisa.field <<a href="mailto:lisa.field@overnewton.vic.edu.au">lisa.field@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks Diane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">This gives me some great ideas!</span></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Lisa Field</span></i></b></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Diane Peat<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 14 March 2008 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hello
Lisa</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We
run Year 9 Media at our school – girls only independent. It's
called Media to distinguish it from Year 11 Multimedia. We look at the main
types of media – newspapers and magazines, television, film and radio,
and now the internet as well. To start the semester, I get them to use
Photoshop to adjust pictures and photos ready for use in their films or
magazines, so they have a couple of weeks on that. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The
major assessment tasks are </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>1.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Newspaper/magazine
– using Adobe InDesign<br>
We start with some discussion on types of newspapers (tabloid, broadsheet,
gutter press) then we look at parts of newspapers – obituary, classified,
features, sport, etc, what impact the newspapers have on people these days,
particularly compared to the use of the internet by teenagers. We look at
magazines and the impact of advertising and pictures on teenagers and the
general public. The girls are then asked to create four pages (they usually run
out of time and create two!) of a magazine. Magazines are much easier for the
girls because they can relate to them more readily than a newspaper! The idea
is that they all use the same master document to create their pages, so that
someone (usually me) can put them together into a book with page numbers and a
table of contents at the front. I get them to write the stories themselves
which means that some may write very short articles and create a big
advertisement. Or I might get the girls who really struggle with words to
create front and back cover and the table of contents. I get them to bring in
magazines – they love that! – to look at for their ideas but the
content must be their own. Being girls, they usually opt for stories about
clothes, makeup and music. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>2.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">They write, film and
edit a five minute documentary – we enter these into the Bayside Youth
Documentary Film Festival and have terrific support from the film maker who
comes in for about six workshops during this period. We also had a full day on
Tuesday at Sandringham Secondary College where they looked at how to film, use
of lighting, shadow, etc, as well as watch previous docos from winners in the
festival. We use Adobe Premiere Pro for editing but there are other software
programs out there that are less expensive. </span></p>
<p style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span>3.<span>
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We
use Audacity (free download) to create an advertisement for their films which
(hopefully) we play in time to generate interest in the students to come along
at lunch time to view the "World Premiere" of their films. This is
usually at the end of semester when we are all stressed and worn out!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Added
to that, we do tasks in class – Photoshop, Illustrator (for advertising
poster) and, if time – which there usually isn't – we also
watch an older film or television show, so the girls can do a film review. <br>
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I hope that gives you some ideas – please feel free to contact me off
list if you want more info.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Stay
out of the heat today!<br>
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Regards</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Diane
Peat</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Firbank
Grammar School</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BRIGHTON</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>lisa.field<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 14 March 2008 8:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi all, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I have started teaching this year and have only recently joined
this list. Thanks for all the emails thus far. They have been very useful.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I mainly teach Year 9 Multimedia- which is a stand alone
subject. Classes have 100 minutes of Multimedia per week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Students have their own notebooks and currently the program
looks at giving them the skills so they can utilise their notebooks adequately
in other subject areas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I would, however, be very interested as well to hear what other
schools are doing at Year 9. We have recently had a change of curriculum and
are still looking at developing this program further. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If anyone has any ideas/suggestions for me as well, it'd
be greatly appreciated. So far we have looked at Microsoft Outlook and Word and
are due to complete a unit of Cybersafety at the end of term. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><i><span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Lisa Field</span></i></b></p>
<p><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">9 Yellow Pastoral Care</span></u></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James GIBNEY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 March 2008 10:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> James GIBNEY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wed 3/12/2008 12:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> ICT in year 9</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Hi all,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">this
year I have been fortunate enough to be on a Teacher Professional Leave program
with three other staff members looking at reworking our year 9 program. We get
one day off a week. As ICT coordinator I am interested in how schools
incorporate ICT into their Year 9 program. For ICT we currently have a
standalone program for each year 9 class which runs for one semester of 2
periods a week. The software covered is PowerPoint and Access with some
Dreamweaver/Flash if we get through all the work.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I
am interested in how other schools have structured their year 9 ICT program and
the following questions:</span></p>
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the value of ICT as a standalone subject or taught within other faculties</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-
use of EWBs, gaming consoles, tablets and other hardware/software in the
classrom</span></p>
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class sets of laptops and managing them</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-
other ideas</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Any
information on or off list would be appreciated as would any discussion or
opinions. If you have a particularly impressive program and you are amenable I
would like to come along and have a look.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I
look forward to the flood of ideas and suggestions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Regards</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">James
Gibney</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">St
Helena Secondary College</span></p>
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