[Year 12 IPM] Got the VCAA CD - Totally UNDERwhelmed !

[Bane, Janet A]

Totally agree!
Not much on there that you couldn't get out of the study design.  I am also=
 disappointed that they didn't include a sample outcome for Unit 1 - some of=
 us have been doing spreadsheets for the past few years and are a bit rusty=
 on database SACS. We have ALL done webpages!
 
Also I was annoyed with the formatting -no print- friendly Word versions, ha=
d to copy and paste a lot of it just so the tables printed out correctly, wi=
thout the text printing on top of itself.
 
I am now hanging out for the VITTA CD - I am sure it will more adequately ad=
dress our needs!
 
Janet Bane
Patterson River SC

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Sent: Tue 12-Dec-06 11:07 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Got the VCAA CD - Totally UNDERwhelmed !


Tried to get to grips with the study design via the support CD..
Feels like the study design has been DISintegrated rather than integrated -=
 so many bits & pieces !!!
Lack of clarity re. status of the material - could  have colour coded the pa=
ges that were official instruction (e.g. study design vs. mere advice)
No provision of full text of assessment advice doc (or have I mislaid it amo=
ngst the large number of fragments ?)
No commitment to do any integrating maintenance on the design, just the usua=
l - visit our site and sort integrate the other fragments we throw at you by=
 yourself..
I haven't taught VCE IT for a few years now and realise why I was so relieve=
d to stop - feels like curriculum designed by lawyers !!
 
Attempted to put some site map to the CD to get a handle on it so that I can=
 extract some benefit - download if you feel like it at
 
http://infonet.cheltsec.vic.edu.au/file.php/1/Implementing-VCE-IT-2007-2010.=
zip  (less than 2 Mb on a CD ?? Why on earth bother !!!! )
 
I will continue to add a site map and try to add the missing docs... suppose=
 we just have to do the work ourselves.
That's what you get if you let architects loose on a building site !!!
 
Too late... getting too annoyed... Must be rebound from having printed those=
 1300 reports !!!
Good night and god bless...
 
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Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager 
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Cheltenham Secondary College www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au <http://www.cheltsec.vi=
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Children, just as they have no control over other parts, so have no control,=
 at first, over the tongue.
Aristotle, History of Animals, Bk. 4, 536b 
 

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