Due date:	12:00 Noon AEST Monday of the week following when the activity was set (for example, if the activity is set in week 2 it is due on the Monday of week 3).	ASSESSMENT
Weighting:	20%	1
Length:	Depends on each activity

Objectives

This assignment is designed to encourage the development of professional skills through the completion of weekly activities relevant to the role of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professional. Please refer to the course profile to see how this assessment item relates to the course learning outcomes.

These objectives will be measured by the ‘closeness of fit’ to meeting the requirements and the assessment criteria below.

Requirements

The weekly participation activities (PA) will be listed in the “Study material and activities” section of the COIT20233 Moodle course website in weeks 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. The weekly participation activities and the marking criteria are listed on the following pages. You need to ensure that ALL your weekly participation activities are free of any spelling, grammatical and typographical errors before submission.

ALL assignments will be checked for plagiarism (material copied from other students and/or material copied from other sources) using Turn-It-In. If you are found to have plagiarised material or if you have used someone else’s words without appropriate referencing, you will be penalised for plagiarism which could result in zero marks for the whole assignment. In some circumstances a more severe penalty may be imposed. Useful information about academic integrity (avoiding plagiarism) can be found at:

http://www.cqu.edu.au/about-us/service-and-facilities/referencing

 

Submission requirements

Each participation activity has to be uploaded in to Moodle. The submission links can be accessed through the Assessment block on the Moodle course website.

 

 

 

Weekly Participation Activities

Week 2 -Participation Activity 1 (4 marks)

Using the email guidelines specified in the Week 2 course materials on the Moodle website write an email to your local lecturer. Include in the email a well-structured“Personal Biography” (approximately 200 words). The biography should contain an overview of your education, work experience and achievements. Some tips on writing a biography can be found through this link:

http://www.ehow.com/how_8448652_write-personal-biography-template.html

 

The email should also describe what you would like to achieve by studying this course and any questions you may have about this course. This section should be about 200 words.

 

You can send the email to your local lecturer but you also need to upload a copy of your email into Moodle so it can be marked. If you use Outlook you can open the message and click “save as” and save the message as a text file that you can upload into Moodle. Or you could copy and paste the To:, Cc:, subject line and content of the message in a MS-Word file and also add a screen shot of your email to that file and upload into Moodle.

 

NOTE: a copy of the email has to be uploaded into Moodle to be marked.

 

Week 4 - Participation Activity 2 (4marks)

Part A:

Create a search strategy for finding information relevant to the report (Assessment item 3).

Your search strategy should start with an analysis of the problem. Use the four questions of the Analysis part of the AREA process to frame your analysis. The four questions are:

· What is the problem/issue?

· What do I already know about the problem/issue?

· What do I need to find out about the problem/issue?

· What sort of information do I need?

How to do this analysis is explained on pages 20-24 of your COIT20233 textbook.

 

The second part of your search strategy should include the keywords you are going to use to search for information relevant to the report topic and where you are going to search for this information, for example, which databases, journals, books and websites you will be using. Your search strategy should ensure that your sources are relevant, reliable and reputable.

 

The library guide for COIT20233 explains how to create a search strategy. See:

http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/coit20233

 

 

 

Week 6 - Participation Activity 3(4marks)

By now you should have started organising your ideas and arguments for the report (Assessment item 3). Submit an outline of your report. It should include:

·One or two sentences describing your organisation

·Three or four sentences stating the aim/purpose of your report.

·Outline the sections/headings and the content that you will include in the body of the report. For each section provide one or two sentences about what will be included in that section.

·Three or four sentences about your findings.

·A brief summary of your recommendations.

 

Week 8 - Participation Activity 4(4marks)

Diversity in teams has its own advantages and disadvantages (refer to pages 137-139 of the prescribed textbook). Drawing on your experience of working with diverse groups of people you are to imagine that you have been assigned to do a group assignment with three other people. You meet with your group and the tasks are allocated. You are happy with the task that you have to do but one of the group members is not happy with the task assigned to them and has asked for something else to work on. Describe the process you would use to resolve this situation (approximately 300 words).

 

After two weeks you realise that you are the only member of the group who is hard working and aiming at getting a High Distinction. The other three in your group are happy just to scrape through on a Pass. Write approximately 300 words describing what you would do to ensure that you get the grade that you deserve.

 

Week 10 - Participation Activity 5(4marks)

Write approximately 300 words reflecting on how the use of ICTs has impacted on your life in the past five years in your work, study and social life. A clear segregation of these three areas should be evident in your written reflection. Please note that reflective writing is explained on pages 103-105 of the prescribed textbook.

 

Write approximately 300 words on how the use of ICTs allows people to work in a global environment. Support your statements with examples.