[Year 12 SofDev] My U3O1 SACs and assessment guide - UPDATE!

jansona at bigpond.net.au jansona at bigpond.net.au
Mon Mar 19 13:24:24 EST 2007


Good stuff!

Glad you retained 'Beany' - he is really undercover for ASIO!

Cheers,
Adrian


---- Mark Kelly <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote: 
> O..k... tweaked version NOW attached!  D'oh.
> 
> Mark Kelly wrote:
> > Lovely task, Adrian.
> > 
> > Being an inveterate fiddler, I tweaked it a little to add a specific 
> > security risk (AJ's competitive brother), and a little more detail to 
> > the network diagram.  Tweaked version attached. Hope you don't mind.
> > 
> > A few houskeeping queries...
> > 
> > - How long would you give kids for this?  It looks like a 90 minute 
> > double-period job to me.
> >  - Are you mandating that software be used to produce the network diagram?
> > - For that matter, will you have computers turned on at all?
> > - Would you be letting kids refer to notes?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers and thanks again
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > Adrian Janson wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> I have updated my files that I previously posted on the VITTA web 
> >> site… here are the links:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3160
> >>
> >> http://www.vitta.org.au/resources/detail.php?doc_id=3161
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> Please download the files from the VITTA web site and disregard the 
> >> ones I previously posted.
> >>  
> >>
> >> As has been correctly pointed out to me, U3O1 needs to be styled as a 
> >> report – not as a set of tasks or questions.  Although this was always 
> >> my understanding - I do ask my students to deliver a report (and not 
> >> just answers to questions), the wording in my U3O1 document could have 
> >> been interpreted as being a set a questions rather than a report.  One 
> >> of the reasons I break up the report in this way is so that I can ask 
> >> students to address particular things during particular classes.  I 
> >> need to clarify this with you, so that you all know what is expected 
> >> in this outcome.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> The second thing that I have changed is in relation to the weighting 
> >> of the tasks.  The VASS system will ask you to enter a mark out of 40 
> >> (for the report) + a mark out of 10 (for the network diagram).  If you 
> >> have a different weighting in the criteria sheet (as I did – opps!), 
> >> things will become a little confusing when it comes time to enter your 
> >> marks into the VASS system.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> Hope this clarifies things!
> >>  
> >>
> >> So to ensure that I haven’t let you all astray, please delete the 
> >> files that I posted previously and access the new ones via the links 
> >> above!
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Adrian
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> Adrian Janson
> >>
> >> VITTA President
> >>
> >> Director of ICT, Melbourne High School
> >>
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> >>
> >> F: +61 3 9495 6834
> >>
> >> E: jansona at mhs.vic.edu.au
> >>
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> >>
> >> W: www.vitta.org.au
> >>
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> >>
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