2000 Proceedings
The 13th Annual
Conference 2000
Wellington New Zealand.
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| GIS Education at UCOL – From the Teacher Perspective | Erzsebet Bekesi | 9 |  |
| Teaching BA100 (Business Applications) at Taranaki Polytechnic: Using the Technology | Leonie Bridgeman | 17 | |
| Students Experience the Theory: Taranaki Polytechnic’s IS301 Project Life Cycle. | Noel Bridgeman | 21 | |
| The Competitive Model: Should We Really all be Aspiring to be Distance Educators? | Noel Bridgeman | 25 | |
| Aberrant Behaviour | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Angela Virtue | 29 | |
| Bootstrapping a Research Culture: Lessons from the BInfotech Degree at CIT. | Brian Brown | 37 | |
| Concepts and Concept Mapping: Representing states and progression in a novice programmers understanding and abilities. | Chris Burrell | 41 | |
| Persistent Object Storage in the File System: How it works and its use as a database teaching tool | Paul Charsley | 51 | |
| Towards a Multi-Language Teaching Model of IS | Ying Chen, Graeme Faulkner | 55 | |
| Using IT for Active Student Feedback in the Learning Environment | Tony Clear | 61 | |
| Computer-Aided Learning of Project Planning Within a Constructivist Framework | Barbara Crump, Craig Godley | 69 | |
| Optimising the Delivery of Programming Units on Degree Courses | Simon Dacey, David McCurdy | 79 | |
| Remote Remedies:Challenges When Teaching On-Line | Ross Dewstow, Mae McSporran, Stuart Young | 85 | |
| Use of Embedded Applications in Automatic Loop Tuning | Andy Doonan, Chris Cox | 93 | |
| The Music Notation Toolkit: A Study in Object-Oriented Development | Andrew Eales | 99 | |
| Taonga On Line: Managing and Preserving Culture in a Digital Age | Trish Evans, Kevin Wilkinson | 107 | |
| Helping Us Teach – Who do We Select for our Degree Programme? | Bruce Ferguson | 115 | |
| Business Skills: Exploring the perceptions of IT students, academics and industry | Glennis Goodwill | 121 | |
| On-line Teaching Using an Electronic Forum in Distance Education. | John S. Green, Craig G. Eves | 127 | |
| Being Positive About Negative Numbers: How to Win Compliments When Teaching 2’s Complements | Gordon Grimsey | 133 | |
| Helping Cheats Prosper | Dan Hawthorn | 139 | |
| Testing : Comparison Between What is Taught and What is Used in Industry | Peter Henry | 147 | |
| The PASS Project – Identifying Parameters Affecting Student Success | Donald Joyce | 151 | |
| Exploring the Impact of Information Technology on Society | Donald Joyce | 155 | |
| Applying Soft Systems Methodology for User-Centred Design | Diana Kassabova, Rachel Trounson | 159 | |
| Database Design and the Reality of Normalisation | Dave Kennedy | 167 | |
| 80% of What ? _ A Preliminary Investigation of Tutors Understanding of the 80% Pass Mark for DipBC Modules. | Dave Kennedy, Janne Ross | 173 | |
| Quality Assurance: How Much is Needed? | Cary Laxer, Alison Young | 179 | |
| ONWARD and UPWARD A Review of the Bachelor of Information Technology at CIT | Gerard Lovell | 183 | |
| INFORMATION WARFARE and its impact on the Information Technology Industry in New Zealand | Brian Main | 191 | |
| Degrees of Information Technology in New Zealand Vocational Institutions | Samuel Mann, Keith Cowan | 199 | |
| A Language Model Based Optical Character Recogniser (OCR) for Reading Incidental Text | Malcolm McQueen, Samuel Mann | 207 | |
| What the Students Learn: learning through empowerment | Samuel Mann, Nell Buissink-Smith | 213 | |
| Information Systems Research Maturity: UCOL as a Case Study | David McCurdy | 221 | |
| Action and Emancipation: The Flexible Assessment Paradigm | David McCurdy | 227 | |
| Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Information Systems: encapsulating the design and delivery of the unit Hardware Integration at degree level | David McCurdy | 235 | |
| Security on a Linux Box: – a story of problems with hacking | Malcolm McQueen | 239 | |
| Course Web: A Report On Converting Course Notes To Web Pages | Matt Melchert | 247 | |
| Moderation as a Tool for Continuous Improvement | Peter Miller | 255 | |
| Third Year Industry Projects: Reaching For Reality | Mike Moller | 261 | |
| A Pilot Study of a Methodology for Graduate Outcome Survey | Linda Neilson | 267 | |
| Assessment: Central to Learning | Beryl Plimmer | 273 | |
| A Case Study of Portfolio Assessment in a Computer Programming Course | Beryl Plimmer | 279 | |
| Social Considerations in Distance and Virtual Education | Christopher Rafferty, David McCurdy, Graeme Foster | 285 | |
| Help Desk: Providing Students With Real-life Experiences | Garry Roberton, Robin Holdsworth | 289 | |
| Aptitude Testing as a Predictor of Success: The Christchurch Experience | Janne Ross | 297 | |
| Developing a New Course for the Software Development Pathway on the AUT Bachelor of Applied Science Programme | Nurul Sarkar, Tony Clear | 303 | |
| Hardware Basics: An Alternative Assessment Approach | Ranjana Shukla, Alison Young | 311 | |
| A Bulletin Board for Increased Communication and Student Involvement | David Skelton, Owen Giles | 315 | |
| Real World “Messes”: Possibilities for Teaching IT through a Soft Systems viewpoint. | David Skelton | 321 | |
| “Have-nets” and “Have-nots” – What Determines Internet Access in New Zealand? | Michael Smythe | 331 | |
| Delivering New Curricula: A Case Study of delivering the new ICBC Curriculum in place of the Unit Standards based ICC Course. | Sarah Snell, Rachel Conley | 335 | |
| Promoting Student Interaction in a Flexible Delivery Environment | Anne Steele | 339 | |
| Teaching Software Engineering in a Practical Way | Ken Surendran, Frank H. Young | 345 | |
| Success Factors of Student Projects from the Hosts’ Perspective | Robert Sutcliffe, Graeme Kuypers | 351 | |
| An Achievable Computing Solution for Schools | Robert Sutcliffe, Graeme Kuypers | 359 | |
| Information Systems Development Practice in New Zealand | Hazel Taylor | 367 | |
| Multipoint Desktop Videoconferencing: technology and implementation for New Zealand business and education | Carole L. Teixeira | 373 | |
| An Argument for the Information Systems Educators’ Preferred Model of Internet-based Business Simulations | Irene Toki | 381 | |
| The Effects of Business Simulations on Teaching and Learning in IS Education: a case study of experiential learning. | Irene Toki, Catherine Snell-Siddle | 389 | |
| Communication With Students From Other Cultures | G.W.Tongariro | 395 | |
| Designing Web Pages for Producing Electronic and Paper Based Teaching Material | Michael Verhaart | 399 | |
| Workplace Assessment – Balancing the Needs of Student and Organisation | Malcolm Wieck | 411 | |
| Web Design Techniques using Delphi | Boris Bacic | 419 | |
| Help Desk: The Who, Why, What, When and Where of Training a Technology User | Deirdre Billings | 420 | |
| The Bionic Baby Grows Up | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Greg Trounson | 421 | |
| Electric Fence Demonstration | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Paul Davies | 422 | |
| The Poetic Computer | Peter Brook, Andrew Sewell, John Dickson | 423 | |
| Applied Research in Project Management Subject Teaching | Dobrila Damjanovic-Zivic | 424 | |
| Role Play on Interviewing leads to Teaching Social Skills | Shirley Elliot | 425 | |
| Who Said You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks | Kay Fenton, Pam Malcolm | 426 | |
| Data Mining On Distributed Assessment System | T.T. Goh, Kwan, E.E. | 427 | |
| Quotes for Every Occasion (module!) | Peter Henry | 428 | |
| Local Search Engines for Local Queries | Leo Homes | 429 | |
| A Model for Assessing the Impact of Electronic Commerce On Businesses in New Zealand óA Blend of Multiple Criteria and Structural Equation Modelling Approach | Jie Lu, Su Tang, Gerry McCullough | 430 | |
| Perceptions of Computers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly | Donald Joyce, Carolyn Nodder, Mark Northover, Johannes Sprigode | 431 | |
| Patterns of Success: Who Does Best? | Donald Joyce, Sandra Knight, Sam Kolahi, Ranjana Shukla | 432 | |
| Changes in the Level of Internet Use by UNITEC Computing Students | Stuart Young , Mae McSporran, Ross Dewstow | 433 | |
| A Web-based Infrastructure Supporting Research at Otago Polytechnic | Samuel Mann, Graham MacGregor | 434 | |
| Internet delivery of courses to remote locations | Samuel Mann, Peter Brook | 435 | |
| Network Security | Hira Sathu, Caroline King | 436 | |
| Scheduling of Polytechnic Timetables by Constraint Logic Programming, Genetic Algorithms and a Visual Timetabling Tool. | Si-Eng Ling | 437 | |
| Academic Staff Workload Models | Alison Young, Phil Bretherton | 438 | |
| Industry Certification: Does it have any place in our established programmes? | David Weir, Ricky Watson | 439 | |