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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

Full papers>>>
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Full papers

(Full papers are double blind quality assured)

Best Practices for IT Education: Vocational and ContinuousLearning 11
Dave Bremer
Dr Samuel Mann

APL for Computing Staff in 2005:A Role for NACCQ? 19
Dr Noel Bridgeman
Elizabeth Bridgeman

Refining the SoDIS®Process in the field: A COTS Project as a context for Risk Analysis 25
Choon-Tuck Kwan,
Leo Hitchcock
Tony Clear
Prof Donald Gotterbarn
Stuart Simpson

Spam in Email Inboxes. 33
Ursula Dantin
John Paynter

Data Gathering Dilemmas: Postgraduate Experiences. 39
Kay Fielden

Motivating Adults to Study : How Effective is Web-Based Training? 47
Lyn Hart

Visions, hype and confusion: selling computing futures ininstitutional marketing. 55
Dr Samuel Mann

Exhibiting reality: collaboration in practice. 65
Dr Samuel Mann
Lesley Smith

Developing And Running A Photographic Website 75
Trevor Nesbit
Rob Oliver
Martin Hancock
Gary Nesbit

A SWOT Analysis of Introducing Practical Assessments inIntroductory Programming. 83
Christine Prasad

Status of Wireless Networks in Educational Institutes inAuckland. 91
Steinar Rudsar
Dr Donald Joyce
Sam Kolahi

Security Issues that Arise in IEEE 802.11x and 3G Wireless Networks 97
Avinash Shridhar
Dr Donald Joyce
Sam Kolahi

Enhancing International Student Learning 103
Ranjana Shukla
Hira Sathu

Best Practice Assessment methods for evaluating an individual’s performance in group work 113
Michael Verhaart
Kim Hagen
Owen Giles

Concise papers

Exploring E-Commerce Development: Lessons learnt from aCase Study. 123
Frina Albertyn

Multimedia and ICT – the challenges of creating creativity 127
Bridie Atkins

Graduate Expectations of Employment Training 131
Dave Bremer

A Comparison of Two Learning management Systems: Moodle vs Blackboard 135
Bremer, Dave
Bryant, Reuben

IT Graduates’ Transition to Productive Employees and Entrepreneurs: An Economic Perspective. 141
Trish Brimblecombe
Dr. Vasanthi M Peter

FITNZ - Graduate profiles for ICT education at seniorsecondary level 145
Tony Clear
Graham Bidois

What Makes Polytechnic Students Employable?. 151
Stephen Corich
Robyn Williams

Is it time to Moodle? 155
Stephen Corich

Simulations in teaching systems analysis case studies: amethod described 159
Colin. Dyer
Michael Mullany

The Observer Pattern Revisited 163
Andrew Eales

Visual Basic: New Content 167
Dr Dmitry Gakhovich

First Year Scholarships: A Case Study. 171
Owen Giles
Allister McLay

The IT Industry Leads the Field in Knowledge Management:Yeah Right!. 175
Phillipa Grant

Practical Solutions to Set and Maintain MultifunctionWorkshop Labs. 179
Henry Ren He

ICE: Integrated Computing Education - An individual integrated computing teaching experience. 183
Min Jie Hu

Time to Enjoy: Go with the flow. 189
Dr Tim D. Hunt

The Advertising War: Are the students paying anyattention? 193
Ian Hunter
Corinne Ross

Issues surrounding course content migration: Blackboard toMoodle 197
John Jamieson
Michael Verhaart

Games Programming AI. 201
James Jordaan

Research Cultures under the Microscope: Three Case Studies. 207
Dr Donald Joyce
Dr Noel Bridgeman
Trevor Nesbit

Supervising students affected by language and/or distance:staff /student perspectives. 213
Dr Donald Joyce
Claudius Benedikt Hildebrand

Mindless entertainment: A literature review on the use of computer games in education 217
Paul R Kearney

Graduate Profiling: Aligning course content with industry. 223
Paul R Kearney
Linda Fraser

Working with cerebral palsy students: A personal perspective. 227
Paul R Kearney

Maths with Attitude: an encouragement based approach 231
Dave Kennedy

Raising Awareness of Stakeholders with Disability in Multimedia Design 235
Dr Donald Koh

Do we know or know or just think we know 379
Dobrila Lopez
Mike Lopez
John Peppiatt

A document-centric design pattern for Service Oriented Architectures 239
Mike Lopez
John Peppiatt

A+, Guaranteed1: Insisting on best of practice within capstone projects 243
Dr Samuel Mann
Lesley Smith

Technical complexity of projects in software engineering 249
Dr Samuel Mann
Lesley Smith

A Critical Comparison of Usability Testing Methodologies. 255
Paul Mason
Dr. Beryl Plimmer

eLearningInitiative for Education in ICT. 259
Chris McCarthy
Janne Ross

Projecting Students to Employment. 265
Allister McLay
Stephen Corich
Matthew Millman

WHERE DID THE B. GO AND IS IT STILL IMPORTANT?. 269
Trevor Nesbit

NESB STUDENTS – COPing WITHBICT: ONE YEAR ON 275
Trevor Nesbit
Fiona McPherson

Putting .NET Web Forms in the Frame. 279
John Peppiatt
Mike Lopez

Ostrich or Eager Beaver: to Embrace or Reject New Tecchnologies. 283
Karen Phillips

Supernet: Introducing Computers to the Elderly 287
Dileep Rajendran
Matt Melchert
Kaveh Farbeh-Tabrizi

Using a Live E-Commerce Retail Site Improves TeachingE-Business 291
David Skelton

Artefact enhanced learning in introductory computing. 297
Rene Smit
Peter Brook
Cindy Davies

Probing the World of the Project Student 301
Lesley Smith
Dr Samuel Mann

Remote Projects: bringing their diasporahome 307
Lesley Smith
Dr Samuel Mann

IT Phone home – an Alumni Community. 311
Catherine Snell-Siddle
Bridie Atkins
Danette Whitehouse
Tama Randell

IT and Women: No Interest or Direction. 375
Snell Siddle
Catherine Snell-Siddle

Nattering over the net to meet Learning Outcomes. 315
Irene Toki

Using OpenOffice as a tool inteaching database administration. 319
Albert van Aardt

A Taste of Honey – UCE (Spam) Reduction ThroughDeception 323
Nick Wallingford

Evaluation of Weblog Services . 329
Markus Westner
Dr Donald Joyce

The IT Skills Deficit – an Opportunity for Industry andEducators 333
Murray Wills
Robert Sutcliffe

Poster papers

DIY marketing – using IT to attract IT students 339
Bridie Atkins

The challenge of teaching the Japanese electricalengineering curriculum in English. 340
Stuart Allan
Samuel Mann

Race car racing characteristics 341
Ashley Benson
Sachin Rao
Rachel McLean
Jason Reid
Samuel Mann

Teaching Multi-Media Programming with prescription PR61n. 342
John Calder
Kiwi Henare

XMContentManager - an open source website framework. 343
John Calder
John Peppiatt
Mike Lopez

Building a user group: the benefits for acdemic staff and students. 344
Sue Chard
Brenda Lloyd

Three years of BIT projects: aligning with professional practice 345
Sue Chard
Brenda Lloyd
Warrick Procter

DILEMMA! A game of ethics and chance 346
Pippa Coard
Laurel Hayton

You Just Gotta Have This! A viewof Dissemination of Innovation Theory. 347
Steve Cosgrove

Energy system wireless monitoring. 348
Robert Cameron
Rodney Thompson
Duncan Hills
Dr Malcolm McQueen
Dr Samuel Mann

HyperPascal with a persistentmemory manager: why and further developments. 349
Todd Cochrane
Paul Lyons

WACI polled by Render Farms can it be SOAP?. 350
Todd Cochrane
Paul Bryant
Geoff McIver

Does Course Delivery Disadvantage Some Students? - a Learning Styles Consideration. 351
Neil Comins

SciCards 352
Keryn Goodsir
Andrew Douglas
Sheila Holo
Amos Mann
Andrew Sewell
Lesley Smith
Samuel Mann

OtagoNet ICT Ambassadors 353
Joy Gasson

CLIENT MANAGEMENT PROJECT . 354
Gareth Griffiths
Bridie Atkins
Markku Kesla

Two degrees + one framework = more flexibility and choice for students 355
Chris Johnstone
Trish Brimblecombe

The Forgotten Language 356
James Jordaan
John Jamieson

Maintaining Academic Integrity: Staff and StudentPerspectives. 357
Dr Donald Joyce
Beni Hildebrand

Software system practices in New Zealand industry . 359
Des Kenny

Effective Teaching Coding Standards in Programming Courses. 360
Xiaosong Li
Christine Prasad
Paul Kearney

Salsa: The Systematic Analysis of Learner Self Appraisal 361
Mike Lopez

A Leap of Faith: Improving assessment validity inintroductory programming 362
Mike Lopez

INFRASTRUCTURE AND DATABASE PROJECT . 363
Gordon McIvor
Bridie Atkins
Sam Ralston

Rest-Home Management System. 364
Jason McBratney
John Hunt
Christopher Morton
Andrew Sewell
Samuel Mann

Using Drag and Drop Puzzles to Teach IntroductoryProgramming 366
Dale Parsons
Joy Gasson

E-GOVERNMENT : LOCAL GOVERNMENTSTRATEGIES. 367
John Paynter
Maria Fung

Min and Max the O.R. Heroes (minandmax.org.nz) 368
Nicola Petty
Shane Dye,
Andy Philpott
John Paynter

Water Measurement Data Collection System 369
Thomi Richards
Krissi Wood
Wayne Fahey
Kevin Barclay
Dr Cameron Hay
Dr Samuel Mann

Weblan-designer demonstration 371
Nurul Sarkar
Krassie Petrova

PIC-Based Projects Demonstration. 372
Nurul Sarkar
Trevor M. Craig

Competency to Achievement – a Mindshift 373
Catherine Snell-Siddle
Bridie Atkins

C# and its use in Programming Education. 374
Gerard van de Ven


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