Final presentation schedule

Hi All
We have scheduled our final technology project presentation. see the following table for more details. Presentation date is November 16, 2011(Wednesday). Room: 125-1001.

The presentation time is 15 minutes, 3 minutes Q/A and 2 minutes feedback, so you need to limit your slides. There are 19 groups, hence I will be very strictly to control the times. I will sign you at 10 minutes and 3 minutes before scheduled time. It will be cut at the sharp of 15 minutes and no exception.

Please come at least 30 minutes before your time slot and wait in our project room--125, in case your previous group is late, so you guys can do it earlier. If your group is late, you have to do it later.

If you have any issues, Please let us know.

Regards

Niranjan and Lixin

Written report due soon

Hi All
Kindly remind that our technology project written report is due on this Wednesday (Nov 2,2011). Please go to Moodle to download a new cover page, which contains your Gmail and Blogger address. We recommend you type in Word, particularly the Blogger address , and make sure you have your contact details.

Please prepare a CD, which includes all your work and a copy of your Blogger. Our course blogger (click the link)has all the instructions for how to do a blogger backup.

You can hand in your report to student central.

The presentation day is on November 16, 2011(Wednesday), the full details of the timetable will be emailed to you shortly.

Niranjan and Lixin

how to export your blog and save as xml file in your computer

1, The first step you need to do is to sign in by using your gmail account. You will see the bolgger home page like this in your right top corner, shown as follow:

2, the second step is to click Design, and then
go to settings, and choose Basic. You will find the following page:

3, now click Export blog, and a new page will be shown like this:

4, all you need to do is to click download blog yellow button and save to your computer:

You blog will be stored as a Blogger export file (.xml) file which can be kept as a backup on your hard drive or imported into another blog.
Note: Exported blogs are not deleted from your dashboard or Blogger.com

if you find it is difficult to follow, here is the link of a video from you-tube:

Video links
http://youtu.be/vE4bYfT8Lbw

New cover sheet and blogger marking criteria

Hi All
We have designed a new cover sheet for our Technology Project, which you can find on our Moodle page. Some major changes are:
1, You need to provide Gmail address and Blogger address, because your blogs will be marked.
2, Your need to burn a CD, which includes all your project works. like signed contract, written report, videos, photos, communication with your technical supervisor, blogger , etc;
for how to export your blogger and save as a XML file, see our course blogger, which is http://ems6310.blogspot.com/

Please download, and type in the Word format.If your supervisor can't find your blog, you will get zero marks! Blogger marking criteria is also on the Moodle.

You have one more month to write your report and posts, as the due date for written report is November 2,2011.

If you have any questions, please contact us by email or go to 114-2001 every Wednesday morning after 10:00AM.

Regards

Niranjan and Lixin

project assessment schedule

Hi All

Important messages for the Technology Project assessment. We have made some changes for our written report and presentation due dates after we reviewed the course (APPT 6112).

Technology Project assessment schedule for Group A(Summer intake) 2011

written report due day November 2, 2011 (Wednesday) week 12
Presentation Day November 16,2011(Wednesday) week 14
Resubmission due day November 30,2011(Wednesday) week 16

There are 6 weeks to go, however we suggest you guys start to write your report now, and prepare your Presentation after your report submission.

Any questions you can talk to us on 114-2001 every Wednesday or see your technical supervisors.

Niranjan and Lixin

Welcome back

Hi All

Welcome back. Our classroom is the same with last semester:114-2001, however the time is changed: 10:30--12:00AM every Wednesday.

Every group has to see your technical supervisor regularly, and keep a record of your meeting.

Posts on your Technology Project blogger is part of assessment, and it is worth 25 marks. You need to do blogger weekly. It is good to see some multimedia posts: photo, video, drawing, etc.

I am available on Wednesday in 114-2001 from August to November.

Lixin

pregress presentation

some key points we need to cover in your progress presentation are:

1, what is your topic
A, the topic
B, agreed outcomes
C, other key points of your project

2, What you have done so far
A, investgation, or researches you have done
B, your progress (gantt chart)
C, Blogger posts and comments

3,what is your planing for next step
A,...............
B,.............
C,..............

the presentation date is June 22 (Wednesday)the time is 15 minutes for each group
you can use Microsoft PowerPoint, or Prezi, or Google Doc PPT, etc

Prezi as a new Presentation tool for Progress report Presentation

Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. It is different from our traditional Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation with linear structure—slide by slide. Wauters, R. (2009) stated that it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc. Prezi launched its products from 2009. It is a revolution for teacher to make PPT. Prezi says it is all about helping people understand each other better:

We Help People Share Ideas

We Encourage Beauty

Curiosity is a Goal, not a Means

We Interact with our Surroundings

We Criticize, Learn from Mistakes, and Avoid Blame

Some researcher mentioned even we learned how to use the Prezi is a very good examples of new learning experience. Perkins, J. (2009) argued that is the authentic tasks and motivation, scaffolded, self-directed and integrated learning, and just in time and connected learning. We can use Prezi as a teaching and learning tool for trade students training:

In automotive teaching, lecturers have to design some systematic diagram to show students what is the relationship between the components or substructures, like suspension system, brake system, etc. It is hard for conventional PPT to fulfil this job. We need to copy the slide of big picture, and insert in between. Sometimes we need to switch over and over many times during classroom presentation. All these tough tasks become easy in Presi, as there are non-linear structures.

Graphic organizers are another good thing for automotive teaching and learning. In automotive, the hardest part is to let students understand the principles of structure, in other words: how does it work? Graphic organizer can make students understand better about relationship and principles, even the ideas and thinking of mechanics.

Zoom in the zoon out function of Prezi is another good design for students understanding the details. We don’t need to worry about the PPT pre-organized; just select different frames of the photo and we can zoom in or out.

Mind-map, Prezi meeting, embedded Google map, or your tube video are some useful functions we can use in automotive trade teaching and learning.

You can explore more from http://prezi.com/desktop/, or down load an education version fro educators and students in your desktop. Bishop, J., & D, P. (2008) has created a manual for beginners or just Google for more tutorials information.

Reference:
Prezi.(n.d) Our Values 1.0 . Retrieved on April 14,2011from http://prezi.com/our-values/
Wauters R. (2009). Prezi Is The Coolest Online Presentation Tool I’ve Ever Seen. Retrieved April 14,2011, from http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/20/prezi-is-the-coolest-online-presentation-tool-ive-ever-seen/

Perkins, J. (2009). Where are the instructions ? Understand more , Remember better : Learning to use Prezi in the 21 st century . Pedagogies, 1-6.

Bishop, J., & D, P. (2008). An assessment of the online presentation Tool–prezi.

Here is an example:

Copy of how to change engine oil on Prezi

This Wednesday class

Hi All

We have class which is run by Integrated practice team this Wednesday(May 18, 2011). The topic will be Reference and Database.

The library workshop will be from 9-10am. The Auto students are to meet in 114-2011. The Electro and Marine group to meet in 112-3001.

The combined referencing workshop from 10.30-12.30am will be in 180-1003.

I am still waiting some Gantt chart to come (3 groups)

Gantt chart and progress meeting

Hi There:

As most of the groups have signed the contract before the deadline, the next step is to do your project. The logical step for a project is to make a plan firstly, then you carry out the design or investigation by the plan. Here are somethings we need to do in these two weeks.

1, All the groups have to do Gantt Chart , and finished in one weeks, due on May 11, 2011; (Email to me).

2,All the groups have to fill up a form every time you have meeting with technical supervisor; It is your responsibility to keep this form throughout the year, and hand in with your final report. It is the evidence of your communication with your supervisor;

3,Each student has to comment his group mate's blog at least 3 times, and his blog has at least one comment from technical supervisor;

4, at the end of this semester, all the groups will have a project progress Powerpoint presentation. the presentation day is June 22, 2011(Wednesday);

Lixin

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individual group tutorial class for week 5 and 6

Hi there

This week we have normal class on Wednesday(March 30,2011);

9:00---9:45 AM in room 114-2001
10am---12pm Writing in 180-1003


We are going to have two individual group tutorial sessions in week 5 and 6 (
April 6, and 13). Bring your ideas or contract and discuss with technical adviser by group.

Kindly reminder: our contract due day is on April 13(Wednesday) before 4:00PM. If you couldn't finish on time, Please follow the special circumstance procedure and provide us with the evidences.

Thanks for your all hard work and helping each other!

Lixin

How to find a research problem by Lindsay Nicholson

http://www.bris.ac.uk/cellmolmed/air/qanda/archive/how_to_find_a_problem.html

Finding a good research problem is tough thing to do. From a distance, it appears easy. There are so many things that we need to know: how to prevent childhood leukaemia; how to reverse global warming; how to maintain a stable economy; how to treat autoimmune disease. Then as you approach these questions more closely, they reveal themselves to be too large to tackle in one go: They have to be broken down.

When you do this, you suddenly find yourself with the choice of thousands of small problems. Now, you may be able to figure out ways to investigate these fragments, but you have to choose which is the most important.

Many of them will already have been studied by others. You may believe your research is relevant and unresolved, but what if someone else has already discovered the answer you are still looking for? Finding this out can be a lengthy and frustrating process. It has brought many of us to tears.

What's more, now you are dealing with something that is only a small piece of a big puzzle, it may not be important at all. How do you feel, when you tell your colleagues what you are doing and their reaction is 'so what?' Now you have to have the stamina to do the experiments well, so that the results are unambiguous, even if for most people they are unambiguously boring!

In summary the ideal research problem is something that can be solved, but hasn't been yet. It's important enough so that your peers can understand the value in doing it, and if you design the experiments well and are lucky, when you have finished working, the results are clear and interesting. Then you can count that problem solved, and all you have to do is find the next one.

project base learning information

1, An Introduction to Project-Based Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-introduction-video

2, Project-Based Learning: An Overview
http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-overview-video

3, Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
http://www.learning-theories.com/problem-based-learning-pbl.html

key assessment plans of TTEC6112

1. Technology project contract: 5% (learning outcomes 3), Due on April 13,2011

Collaboratively (groups up to 3 students) students identify a project area, which is negotiated with the technical advisor(s). Students have to fulfill a contract that promotes a solution to a technological problem.

2. Project management: 25% (learning outcomes 2, 6, 8)

Student uses Blogger (electronic ways) to reflect his (her) learning, reading, thinking, and findings weekly. Students demonstrate effective problem management, communication, safety management, and project management

3. Written report: 60% (learning outcomes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7,8)

Students synthesize and apply automotive technical knowledge to produce a solution
Design and produce a product/process/system that offers a practical solution to the problem, including all details necessary to bring the design to fruition. Students reflect on practice, and identify project succession.

4. PowerPoint presentation: 10% (learning outcomes 9)

Students verbally defend a documented solution before peers

learning outcomes of TTEC6112 Technology Project

Learning Outcomes

1. Integrate technical knowledge and applied skill

2. Demonstrate effective problem management, communication, safety management, and project management

3. Identify a technological problem within their industry and negotiate a contract for its solution (which may be real &/or virtual)

4. Design and produce a product/process/system that offers a practical solution to the problem, including all details necessary to bring the design to fruition

5. Explain any implications of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
6. Apply the principles of technological sustainability
7. Reflect on practice
8. Identify project succession
9. Verbally defend a documented solution before peers

how to follow and share

Hi Guys

Please send me your gmail address and your blogger address, so i can share information for you.

All the groups have to add me (Lixin) as a group member, so I can easily view your blogger and make some contribution or comments.

Thanks

Lixin

some websites for gmail and blogger

1, How do I become a Follower of a blog?

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=104226

2 creating a gmail account:

https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&continue=http://mail.google.com/mail/e-11-4cca618fd04ee62b8c3608697be58-0fc11d42f0957793b73125314e00fdef044a3335&type=2

3 How do I create a blog that Blogger will host for free?

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41345

4 How do I create a team blog?

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41440

5 How do I add the Following gadget to my blog?

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141483

Timetable for TTEC6112 of 2011

Hi all

Our Technology Project class hours for Group A(New Group)will be from 9:00AM to 10:30AM every Wednesday; and for Group B will be from 10:30AM to 12:00PM. Our classroom is in 114-2001.

Next Wednesday we have a tutorial class of how to create a gmail mail and a blogger and link to our appt6112 blogger.

Lixin