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