Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Paper

http://delivery.acm.org.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/10.1145/1510000/1509018/p433-summet.pdf?key1=1509018&key2=7489857421&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=44220636&CFTOKEN=17752050

From my supervisor

Plan
- read these: document that contains literature review and some outcome from the previous students.
- think about a plan for 13 weeks

Some additional references...

Identify the key words for the literature review

Novice programmers...

Collaborative learning: towards a solution for novice programmers:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1379249.1379264&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CF
ID=43379918&CFTOKEN=22244351

explore interactive programs already existing
- eg Alice, karol the robot


goals
- change student perceptions from 'have to' to 'want to'...

Outcomes

- find the holes across a semester for csse1001
- develop one interactive high level prototype to support students to
bridge these holes (or one of those) and evaluate
- provides recommendation for next offering

Friday, July 10, 2009

Self-Help

Critical Reading Checklist:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/reading/2b.pdf

Reading Efficiently:
Determine the purpose of reading, that obviously for this semester I have to read to learn about a particular topic or understand the particular theory.
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/reading/1a.html

Reading journal efficiently:
http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/reading/1d.html

Friday, July 3, 2009