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Rationale for the choice of software applications

No new software needed
World Wide Web incorporated
Compatibility with many of students home products
Access to unit of work on line from home
Transferability of skills across a range of applications - in particular - drawing skills and presentational skills
Microsoft agreement means software is already being paid for and open licensing means that teachers can have access to the same tools at home
Business Standard Applications
Student choice encouraged in selecting applications

Bibliography
Department of Education Training and Employment (99-2000) The South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability Frameworks accessed online at www.sacsa.nexus.edu.au/ Nov 2000
Education Network Australia (2000) Learning in an online world, School education action plan for the information economy. Produced by Curriculum Resources Unit, Seacombe Gardens, SA. Available online at www.edna.edu.au/onlineworld.pdf  Sept 2000
Jonassen, D (1996) in White, B (2000)
McKenzie, J. (2000) Beyond Technology, Questioning, Research and the Information Literate School, FNO Press, Bellingham, Washington
McKeown, L. (2000) - keynote speech CEGSA conference accessed at www.cegsa.sa.edu.au Accessed Sept 2000
Shadiac, E. (1999) Developing Computing Skills - Mathematics. Published by the author - visit www.adelaide.net.au/~eshadiac 
Statements and Profiles in The Arts and Mathematics, of the South Australian Department of Education Training and Employment accessed via www.learnsa.edu.au 
Tangara Consortium - Learning Technologies Continuum http://www.tsof.edu.au/curriculum/general/LTContin.pdf 
White, B (2000) - lecture in subject 11572
Judy Beal
Nov 2000
jbeal@wbeachps.sa.edu.au