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I think it's looking really good. Love the icons.

I do think we need to continue the discussions around the year levels. If we are going to keep the year levels, there are a few things we have to consider: 1. Some teachers are using the Curriculum Framework (in phases of schooling), some are using the Department's k-10 syllabus, some are working towards using the National Curriculum. Which are we going to base our content on for each Learning Area? 2. As we move towards Sydney and perhaps later other states, how are we making our content specific for the appropriate year levels across the different states? 3. I'm not sure what will happen with the Courses of Study (year 11 and 12) in the future, when the national curriculum comes in. Does anyone know the answer to this?

It's good if we can retain some flexibility as we start to learn the answers to some of these questions. this cng.file was supplied by verve on the 18th August 2010

Richard's Feedback on 24th August 2010
 * I like the icon bar - clear, fun and memorable
 * please try laying out this page as per PDF provided " Notes for New Website Design"
 * teachers want to see "concepts covered" first
 * navigation bar with Year 8, etc does not need to appear at this level
 * let's try move the lesson plan legend to the left side
 * yep and big feedback form to bottom. Is it easy to put a comments box at the end to make it very easy to see feedback on lessons ?
 * Could picuture and written summary be next to each other to reduce need to scroll down?
 * I really like the icon bar too.
 * Icons - where did the come from and are they easy to replicate if we add more subjects

Ingrid 26th Firstly, i think the new layout of the website is looking really look. Easy to naviagate and I really like that we will be able to see who is looking at what and how often. I don't think we should have year levels at this point. The National Curriculum is definitely coming out but we're not exactly sure what it will look like yet. I think that we should play it safe until we know for sure. And the lessons really do seem adaptable for various year levels. I think teachers will work it out for themselves, as long as we can be clear about the content of the module. What are your thoughts? I agree with you on this Ingrid as I think it will also be easier to search by topic and this is what I think teachers are more likely to use than years and yes many of the lesson v adaptable for different ages, we can of course always put our guidelines in on the summary and they are on the lesson plans so a search for say yr 8 would bring it up. It will also negate the problem of having to reproduce modules in different year groups and make the website just that bit simpler. However Richard strongly disagrees with me on this as I have already tried to convince him a few times.

More Website Considerations

These are the names of the learning areas described in the National Curriculum. Should we be using these in the development of the new website? The phases shows the order in which they are being written. Phase 1: English, Maths, Science, History Phase 2: Geography, Languages, The Arts Phase 3: Design and Technology, Health and Physical Education, ICT, Economics, Business, and Civics & Citizenship

How does this / does this impact on the names of the learning areas we have down the side? It mainly impacts on SOSE which includes currently History, Geography and Economics and also I alot of citizenship which would now be in different areas. I think we could probably leave it as is for the minute.