2005 Proceedings
The 18th Annual
Conference 2005
Tauranga, New Zealand.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications Editors: Samuel Mann and Tony Clear
Prologue
Reviewers , Quality assurance status
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| Best Practices for IT Education: Vocational and Continuous Learning | Dave Bremer,Dr Samuel Mann | 11 |  |
| APL for Computing Staff in 2005:A Role for NACCQ? | Dr Noel Bridgeman,Elizabeth Bridgeman | 19 | |
| Refining the SoDIS® Process in the field: A COTS Project as a context for Risk Analysis | Choon-Tuck Kwan, Leo Hitchcock , Tony Clear, Prof Donald Gotterbarn, Stuart Simpson | 25 | |
| Spam in Email Inboxes | Ursula Dantin,John Paynter | 33 | |
| Data Gathering Dilemmas: Postgraduate Experiences | Kay Fielden | 39 | |
| Motivating Adults to Study : How Effective is Web-Based Training? | Lyn Hart | 47 | |
| Visions, hype and confusion: selling computing futures in institutional marketing | Dr Samuel Mann | 55 | |
| Exhibiting reality: collaboration in practice | Dr Samuel Mann, Lesley Smith | 65 | |
| Developing And Running A Photographic Website | Trevor Nesbit, Rob Oliver, Martin Hancock, Gary Nesbit | 75 | |
| A SWOT Analysis of Introducing Practical Assessments in Introductory Programming | Christine Prasad | 83 | |
| Status of Wireless Networks in Educational Institutes in Auckland | Steinar Rudsar , Dr Donald Joyce, Sam Kolahi | 91 | |
| Security Issues that Arise in IEEE 802.11x and 3G Wireless Networks | Avinash Shridhar, Dr Donald Joyce, Sam Kolahi | 97 | |
| Enhancing International Student Learning | Ranjana Shukla, Hira Sathu | 103 | |
| Best Practice Assessment methods for evaluating an individual’s performance in group work. | Michael Verhaart , Kim Hagen, Owen Giles | 113 | |
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| Exploring E-Commerce Development:Lessons learnt from a Case Study | Frina Albertyn | 123 | |
| Multimedia and ICT – the challenges of creating creativity | Bridie Atkins | 127 | |
| Graduate Expectations of Employment Training | Dave Bremer | 131 | |
| A Comparison of Two Learning management Systems: Moodle vs Blackboard | Bremer, Dave, Bryant, Reuben | 135 | |
| IT Graduates’ Transition to Productive Employees and Entrepreneurs: An Economic Perspective | Trish Brimblecombe, Dr. Vasanthi M Peter | 141 | |
| FITNZ – Graduate profiles for ICT education at senior secondary level | Tony Clear, Graham Bidois | 145 | |
| What Makes Polytechnic Students Employable? | Stephen Corich, Robyn Williams | 151 | |
| Is it time to Moodle? | Stephen Corich | 155 | |
| Simulations in teaching systems analysis case studies: a method described | Colin. Dyer,k Michael Mullany | 159 | |
| The Observer Pattern Revisited | Andrew Eales | 163 | |
| Visual Basic: New Content | Dr Dmitry Gakhovich | 167 | |
| First Year Scholarships: A Case Study | Owen Giles, Allister McLay | 171 | |
| The IT Industry Leads the Field in Knowledge Management: Yeah Right! | Phillipa Grant | 175 | |
| Practical Solutions to Set and Maintain Multifunction Workshop Labs | Henry Ren He | 179 | |
| ICE: Integrated Computing Education – An individual integrated computing teaching experience | Min Jie Hu | 183 | |
| Time to Enjoy: Go with the flow | Dr Tim D. Hunt | 189 | |
| The Advertising War: Are the students paying any attention? | Ian Hunter, Corinne Ross | 193 | |
| Issues surrounding course content migration: Blackboard to Moodle | John Jamieson, Michael Verhaart | 197 | |
| Games Programming AI | James Jordaan | 201 | |
| Research Cultures under the Microscope: Three Case Studies | Dr Donald Joyce, Dr Noel Bridgeman, Trevor Nesbit | 207 | |
| Supervising students affected by language and/or distance: staff /student perspectives | Dr Donald Joyce ,Claudius Benedikt Hildebrand | 213 | |
| Mindless entertainment: A literature review on the use of computer games in education | Paul R Kearney | 217 | |
| Graduate Profiling: Aligning course content with industry | Paul R Kearney, Linda Fraser | 223 | |
| Working with cerebral palsy students: A personal perspective | Paul R Kearney | 227 | |
| Maths with Attitude: an encouragement based approach | Dave Kennedy | 231 | |
| Raising Awareness of Stakeholders with Disability in Multimedia Design | Dr Donald Koh | 235 | |
| Do we know or know or just think we know |
Dobrila Lopez, Mike Lopez, John Peppiatt |
379 | |
| A document-centric design pattern for Service Oriented Architectures | Mike Lopez, John Peppiatt | 239 | |
| A+, Guaranteed1: Insisting on best of practice within capstone projects | Dr Samuel Mann, Lesley Smith | 243 | |
| Technical complexity of projects in software engineering | Dr Samuel Mann , Lesley Smith | 249 | |
| WHERE DID THE B……. GO AND IS IT STILL IMPORTANT? | Trevor Nesbit | 269 | |
| NESB STUDENTS – COPing WITH BICT: ONE YEAR ON | Trevor Nesbit, Fiona McPherson | 275 | |
| Putting .NET Web Forms in the Frame | John Peppiatt, Mike Lopez | 279 | |
| Ostrich or Eager Beaver: to Embrace or Reject New Tecchnologies | Karen Phillips | 283 | |
| Supernet: Introducing Computers to the Elderly | Dileep Rajendran, Matt Melchert, Kaveh Farbeh-Tabrizi | 287 | |
| Using a Live E-Commerce Retail Site Improves Teaching E-Business | David Skelton | 291 | |
| Artefact enhanced learning in introductory computing | Rene Smit, Peter Brook, Cindy Davies | 297 | |
| Probing the World of the Project Student | Lesley Smith, Dr Samuel Mann | 301 | |
| Remote Projects: bringing their diaspora home | Lesley Smith, Dr Samuel Mann | 307 | |
| IT Phone home – an Alumni Community | Catherine Snell-Siddle, Bridie Atkins, Danette Whitehouse, Tama Randell | 311 | |
| IT and Women: No Interest or Direction | Snell Siddle, Catherine Snell-Siddle | 375 | |
| Nattering over the net to meet Learning Outcomes | Irene Toki | 315 | |
| Using OpenOffice as a tool in teaching database administration | Albert van Aardt | 319 | |
| A Taste of Honey – UCE (Spam) Reduction Through Deception | Nick Wallingford | 323 | |
| Evaluation of Weblog Services | Markus Westner , Dr Donald Joyce | 329 | |
| The IT Skills Deficit – an Opportunity for Industry and Educators | Murray Wills, Robert Sutcliffe | 333 | |
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| DIY marketing – using IT to attract IT students | Bridie Atkins | 339 | |
| The challenge of teaching the Japanese electrical engineering curriculum in English | Stuart Allan, Samuel Mann | 340 | |
| Race car racing characteristics | Ashley Benson, Sachin Rao , Rachel McLean , Jason Reid, Samuel Mann | 341 | |
| Teaching Multi-Media Programming with prescription PR61n | John Calder, Kiwi Henare | 342 | |
| XMContentManager – an open source website framework |
John Calder, John Peppiatt, Mike Lopez |
343 | |
| Building a user group: the benefits for acdemic staff and students | Sue Chard, Brenda Lloyd | 344 | |
| Three years of BIT projects: aligning with professional practice |
Sue Chard, Brenda Lloyd, Warrick Procter |
345 | |
| DILEMMA! A game of ethics and chance | Pippa Coard, Laurel Hayton | 346 | |
| You Just Gotta Have This! A view of Dissemination of Innovation Theory | Steve Cosgrove | 347 | |
| Energy system wireless monitoring | Robert Cameron, Rodney Thompson, Duncan Hills, Dr Malcolm McQueen, Dr Samuel Mann | 348 | |
| HyperPascal with a persistent memory manager: why and further developments | Todd Cochrane, Paul Lyons | 349 | |
| WACI polled by Render Farms can it be SOAP? | Todd Cochrane, Paul Bryant, Geoff McIver | 350 | |
| Does Course Delivery Disadvantage Some Students? – a Learning Styles Consideration…………. | Neil Comins | 351 | |
| SciCards | Keryn Goodsir , Andrew Douglas, Sheila Holo , Amos Mann, Andrew Sewell, Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann | 352 | |
| OtagoNet ICT Ambassadors | Joy Gasson | 353 | |
| CLIENT MANAGEMENT PROJECT | Gareth Griffiths, Bridie Atkins, Markku Kesla | 354 | |
| Two degrees + one framework = more flexibility and choice for students | Chris Johnstone, Trish Brimblecombe | 355 | |
| The Forgotten Language | James Jordaan, John Jamieson | 356 | |
| Maintaining Academic Integrity: Staff and Student Perspectives | Dr Donald Joyce, Beni Hildebrand | 357 | |
| Software system practices in New Zealand industry | Des Kenny | 359 | |
| Effective Teaching Coding Standards in Programming Courses | Xiaosong Li, Christine Prasad, Paul Kearney | 360 | |
| Salsa: The Systematic Analysis of Learner Self Appraisal | Mike Lopez | 361 | |
| A Leap of Faith: Improving assessment validity in introductory programming | Mike Lopez | 362 | |
| INFRASTRUCTURE AND DATABASE PROJECT | Gordon McIvor, Bridie Atkins, Sam Ralston | 363 | |
| Rest-Home Management System | Jason McBratney, John Hunt, Christopher Morton, Andrew Sewell, Samuel Mann | 364 | |
| Using Drag and Drop Puzzles to Teach Introductory Programming | Dale Parsons, Joy Gasson | 366 | |
| E-GOVERNMENT : LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES | John Paynter, Maria Fung | 367 | |
| Min and Max the O.R. Heroes (minandmax.org.nz) | Nicola Petty, Shane Dye, Andy Philpott, John Paynter | 368 | |
| Water Measurement Data Collection System | Thomi Richards, Krissi Wood, Wayne Fahey, Kevin Barclay, Dr Cameron Hay, Dr Samuel Mann | 369 | |
| Weblan-designer demonstration | Nurul Sarkar, Krassie Petrova | 371 | |
| PIC-Based Projects Demonstration | Nurul Sarkar, Trevor M. Craig | 372 | |
| Competency to Achievement – a Mindshift | Catherine Snell-Siddle, Bridie Atkins | 373 | |
| C# and its use in Programming Education | Gerard van de Ven | 374 | |