[Yr11 Information Technology] [Year 12 SofDev] Please thankMark Kelly for all he has done for us

[PIKE Philip]

Yes Mark, let me join the chorus of grateful ITA and SD teachers who have found your site and contributions invaluable. Your generous spirit will hopefully set the benchmark for many to follow in your footsteps.
Best wishes for the next stage of your life.
Regards


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Philip Pike
Director of ICT

Bacchus Marsh Grammar
T. 03 5366 4893  F. 03 5366 4850
E. pikep at bmg.vic.edu.au  W. http://www.bmg.vic.edu.au
South Maddingley Road | PO Box 214 | Bacchus Marsh Victoria 3340



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From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Anna Cosio
Sent: Sunday, 3 February 2013 1:57 PM
To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] [Year 12 SofDev] Please thankMark Kelly for all he has done for us

I just want to say Thanks Mark for the VCEIt website. It really helped me a lot when i first started teaching VCE IT in 2009-2012. Although I wont be teaching IT this year because I chose not to and do Psyche instead (IT is still the coolest subject), I always tell new teachers of IT to use the VCE.IT website to assist you in your planning and teaching... Kudos and thank you

Regards,
Anna Cosio-Maramba
Teaching Staff
Holmes Secondary College


-----Original Message-----
From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Mark
Sent: Sun 2/3/2013 1:14 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Cc: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] [Year 12 SofDev] Please thankMark Kelly for all he has done for us

Golly.  This is like watching one's own funeral ceremony, with special interest from those at the back who turned up just to make sure I was really dead.  :-)

Yes, folks, at 55 I have had enough of ethos, powerful learning, E5, VELS, Australian Curriculum, immersion, curriculum review, "making a profound difference in the precious lives of each and every student we have the honour to teach", being accountable, jumping at the sound of bells like a champion Pavlovian stunt dog, attending hour-long meetings that could have been replaced by a one-paragraph email, dealing with adolescent bush-lawyers who know only their rights and not their responsibilities, settling disputes about which year 7 took something from another year 7's pencil case, marking endless SACs, and driving to and from work with the headlights on during cold, wet winters .

Ah, the memories.

I will now have time to do stuff like writing "Buckets of Knowledge" for ITA and SD (focusing on the tricky bits that everyone gets confused about), and a Jumbo Collection of multchoice questions, perhaps as an app.
And for years I've been planning on converting vceit.com from static HTML to CMS... now I have time to choose a platform (perhaps Joomla or Wordpress
- whichever is easier to convert to.)  And learn MySQL.
And I want to play with Python on my Raspberry Pi... which sounds pretty odd, if you don't know them both.

And if, on a Wednesday night at 10pm I suddenly get a craving to re-watch an entire season of 'Breaking Bad' just so I can work out if Walter actually poisoned Brock with ricin - I WILL. 'Cos I CAN.  The thrill may wear off after a while, so then I'll satisfy my lifetime desire to get a part-time job at a hardware store selling hammers.  Nothing else: just hammers.  Sweet.

But most of all while in my Gentleman Of Leisure mode, I will be strolling down the sand at Bonbeach in the sun thinking kindly of you all sculling your coffee, grabbing your laptops and whiteboard markers and running off to double year 10 while you KNOW that it's a beautiful day outside and that at least one person is CERTAINLY strolling down the sand at Bonbeach thinking of you.

I do thank Kevork for his gracious message and noble sentiments.  He really is one of the nicest people in The Real World (TM) as well as the IT community.

Have a rich and rewarding year, everyone!

Regards,
Mark K


On 3 February 2013 09:33, Kevork Krozian <kevork at edulists.com.au> wrote:

> Hi folks,****
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> ** **
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>   It may or may not be entirely in the public sphere that our very
> special colleague Mark Kelly has decided to retire from the day to day
> pleasures of teaching teenagers in the school system.  He stresses
> this is retirement from the Department and not from our community for
> which we are grateful.*
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> It would fill many pages to itemise all that Mark has done for us to
> help with our VCE IT teaching, assessment and exam preparation. ****
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> So how do we do justice to all this selfless giving, hundreds and
> hundreds of hours of preparation to make available web content that we
> can just lift and use in class ?  We certainly cannot repay Mark for
> all he has done but in our own way express our thanks for his
> assistance, moral support and ever present community contribution to
> support everyone in their day to day challenges of delivering a fast
> changing IT curriculum.****
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> Please feel free to express your thanks here and also detail how
> Mark's help has influenced and supported your work as a teacher. ****
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> Kind Regards****
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>
> Kevork Krozian****
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> Edulists Creator Administrator****
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> www.edulists.com.au****<http://www.edulists.com.au****>
>
> tel: 0419 356 034****
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Mark Kelly
mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com

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