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TPS Assignment:

Work for Thursday 10th June
So I'm so glad you all brought your textbooks today - you'll need them. Read pages 113 to 118 and answer the question page 119. That should keep you busy for a while - obviously if you don't have your book you'll need to beg someone else to work with them for the day. You can email me the completed questions please!

Thanks, see you all Tuesday, have a nice 4 day weekend!


 * ASSIGNMENT DUE WEEK 7, 4th June, Friday, 3.30pm.**

The final version of the task is here, including marking criteria. Good luck everyone!

Wednesday
K so last day before I'm back. Here's what I want to see when I get back:
 * 2 status meeting reports, signed by every member of the group, printed version.
 * Work that you've done to this point
 * I will also meet briefly with each of the project managers to see if you've all been pulling your weight.
 * Also, please catch up on any work over the past weeks that you have missed out on, because I will want to check to see how much you've done of all the other things... maybe some of you will have homework tonight?

K then, see some of you at hockey, the rest tomorrow!

Mr Carroll

TUESDAY
Hi everyone,

I trust that you're all well and up for some work today.
 * 1) Check in with your project manager and tell them if you've done any work on the assignment. If you've done no work on the assignment, then you have the shame of walking up to them with your head down and a sheepish look on your face, and telling them that you were going to work on the assignment over the last few days but that you didn't because of [insert lame excuse here].
 * 2) If you haven't had a second status meeting, huddle up and get it on.
 * 3) I will be back on Thursday, I want to see a full report on progress.
 * 4) Thanks to our HOT ONLINE RESOURCES section of this wiki, and the tractor who is affectionately known as Macca, if you are stuck waiting for someone else in your assignment, you can do http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/ipt/mm_systems/7-5/review_quest.htm#q1 whilst you wait!

This should be plenty for today! Have a nice day and see you round the corner.

Friday -

How did the note taking go? Good I hope - continue that schizzle at home.

K back to our groups for a hardcore lesson of Project today. 2 groups haven't had a second status meeting, and that needs to happen soon. Some good questions have come in from various ones, I hope my answers have helped. I'm keen to sit down with you when I get back next week and see where everyone is up to and give you an appraisal of your work and see if you are on track.

I would like to be impressed upon my return! (Prob mid next week?)

Good luck, no lounging around....

Have you heard that joke asking what the difference is between a goldfish and a goat? Well... one mucks about the fountain... .... Dont be like the goat...

=Thursday 13th May=

Hi all - Hope everyone is fighting fit and keen to get their IPT on today. I was hoping you guys could use today as an organisational lesson where you get everything you have in order and start some of these alleged notes that good HSC students start doing around this time. So follow the following steps and have a nice productive lesson.
 * 1) Go to your H:\ and get all the notes, exercises and various things you've done there and upload them into your google doc's space. This way you can get to them at home or anywhere, and even share them with study buddies.
 * 2) Get a text book, you have at least one textbook (hopefully in your locker, bag, or at worst at home), and create a document on each of the topics from that book. Don't fill them up yet, just name them, save them, close them.
 * 3) Choose a topic that you know really well and start with that one - such as communication systems, and start taking notes with lots of sub headings which break it up into smaller sections. This will really help you come study time.
 * 4) Continue doing this for other sections in your own time, maybe 15 minutes a night or topic of two per night, and this will help you in your run in.
 * 5) Before you go, make sure you upload all your docs online (or at worst put them all on your thumb drive, whatever will help you the most.)

I know some of you will find this to be tedious, but know that this will REALLY HELP YOU UNDERSTAND some things you haven't before, and help you remember them in the lead up to your last exams.

Good luck and thanks, Mr Carroll


 * Tuesday 11th May**

Hi again everyone, some good questions coming in around the assignment, keep them up, and keep talking with your project managers please to see how your group is going. Maybe organise another team meeting or group seession at some point?

Today we are building a resource kit for our run into the HSC. On the left is a page called Online HSC resources... see it? you all need to make one entry at least in there and visit the sites that others put up in there please.

You also look a bit behind on what you were doing yesterday - which was the HSC questions on the left - there are hardly any answers there. Can you please have a go at answering some of those questions please.

Lastly, here are some files that you should look at when you've finished the above two things...they are for you to read over, and also to let you know the sort of study you can be doing ... making notes and slides about topics with key points...

K, hear from you soon! Mr C

Monday 10th May
Yay! So most of you know by now, little Joshua Carroll (not Lucifer or EdwardMcSparklepants as so graciously suggested) was born Thursday night at 7.15pm. Im still recovering.

Thanks to those people who have been hooking in and having a go. I've got a few emails and posts from some of you - Alex and Tom - you guys still need to email me some minutes from your meeting (Well done Nicola and group). Hope those past papers are helpful - remember just answering them without knowing what a good answer is is not nearly as helpful as answering them and knowing what a really good answer should be. http://arc.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/hsc/ is great but they only have answers from the 2001 and 2002 papers there I think... so that leads me to what you're going to do today....

I have added pages on the left here called HSC EXAM Q... see them? What we're going to do is build some answers together as a class for some HSC questions. Here are the rules:


 * You must go and find one unique HSC Exam Question that you think you would like to answer from http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/, copy the question (including graphics!) and create a new page called HSCEXAMQ[yournamehere]
 * Start an answer for it...not a full one... just a start to evoke some discussion.
 * Everyone should then look at other pages that have been created and add something useful to the answer that is already there
 * Everyone can take out something that another person has written if it is wrong, but only if you leave a comment in the discussion tab stating why you removed it.
 * Everyone MUST contribute something to at least three questions.

I have put some questions there to get us started if you are waiting on other people, but you need to drive this yourself to make it work.

Ok, I hope that makes sense. You guys are in charge of your learning at this point, so if you want to learn, you will, if you don't want to, I can't do anything even if I am there in person to help that, so I hope this task makes it interesting for you. I will check back on Monday night to see how we went. Project managers, just check up on your personnel to make sure they are going ok!

FRIDAY
Hi all - wikispaces isn’t working for me at the moment, it will probably be working when you get this tomorrow. Still no bub, but SURELY it wont be any longer. Today I am happy for you to continue with your assignment, but I’ve only received 1 company’s minutes from their meeting. I expect the other minutes to get to me over the weekend or else I will get cranky. I have only had the one email asking about the assignment too, so I hope the rest of you are thinking about it and doing it. It is your second last assignment ever in IPT! I would also be happy if you did another past paper’s multimedia section if you are waiting on someone in your company. Please feel free to email me your work and I’ll check it.

K then, see you all next week I think, all being well!Mr Carroll

T HURS:
Well, thanks Owen for coordinating - I hear you didnt have IPT on Tues, which means you are a day behind... so if you can please do Wednesday's work today! Let me know how it goes with a post here or and email or texty.

Thanks!!!! Still no bub, 5pm, Wed.

Wednesday 5/5/2010
Ok...so I'm assuming that your meetings went well yesterday? I hope so. If I could please have a copy of the minutes emailed to me today please after they are tidied up to ncarroll@mdccww.catholic.edu.au, that would be great. It appears that not everyone has signed up to this wiki in the class. If you are reading this, can you please make sure that the people next to you and your other group members have subscribed to this wiki? Tell them to get their bloomin' act together.

Also, there is a discussion post in the tab above which you can have general discussions on the assignment in case you have any need to.

Lauren is going in tonight (Tuesday night), so it will be on for young and old by the time you read this. I simply ask that today you do three things:
 * 1) Find a multimedia question from an old exam paper from the board of studies and do the multimedia section.
 * 2) Make a post here in the discussion forum to let me know you are getting this and comment on your own personal progress on the assignment so far.
 * 3) Work on your assignment, following on from your meeting yesterday.

Tuesday 4/5/2010

So I've got the go ahead that the assignment will be due at the end of week 7, so PM's you can lock that into your Gantt charts. I've attached a new, updated version of the assignment here, but it is still not the FINAL version, which I will post here as soon as the higher ups give me the green light. Today you are going to have your first 'official team meeting'. You will need to find a space which comfortable for all members of the group, away from the noise and distractions of the other groups, and have someone take official 'minutes' which will be uploaded to google docs and shared with your group and me. Minutes simply record who was in attendance, the time and date of the meeting, the length of the meeting, the points that were raised in the meeting, and any actions that were taken in the meeting. This minute taker should probably be someone other that the Project Manager. Items to discuss in the meeting will include -
 * reading through the new task outline
 * confirmation of job roles
 * updates of where people are up to
 * fielding of questions from staff members
 * any problems so far
 * a sensational motivating speech from someone in the group

After your meeting, get to work! Go on! Get to work! Roderick! No games!