Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

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The culmination of all your efforts

December 17, 2007

Over there on the right, you can see a link to what I’ve called the Team Blog Project Repository. A repository is a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping - an appropriate name, I thought, for the collection of all the work the class has done over the last month. Its purpose is to provide a one-stop location where you can find out everything you need to know about the Software Development & Programming topic… as researched by you!

Head over there right now and check it out – the page is pretty self-explanatory. Enjoy!

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That’s all, folks!

December 13, 2007

Congratulations, everyone – we’ve reached the end of the Team Blog Project. It lasted four great weeks, and I think the entire class has done a great job in making it work.

Today, many of you will be finishing up your Project Finalisation tasks from Tuesday. Once these are complete, everyone is to go over the posts they have written and check them for spelling, grammar and formatting. Make every effort to have clear, easy-to-read answers that are attractive and give helpful explanations of your subject matter. The quality of your answers in this regard will make up a significant portion of your assessment marks.

Since each individual’s posts is mingled with their team members’ posts on your blogs, it can be a bit tricky to go through and find the posts written by you alone. An easy way to do this is to go to your Dashboard, click on Manage, and then select your name in the Author… drop-down menu (see the diagram below), then click on Filter (on the right hand side). This will display all the posts written by you (including saved drafts).

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Another thing to be careful of is making sure that your Project Finalisation tasks are made as Pages, not Posts. If you are unsure about the difference, ask another member of your team to explain (or Mr. Woo, if no one in your team knows!). 

Once you are done, fill out and sign a Completion Slip (ask Mr. Woo if you don’t have one), and hand it to Mr. Woo. Well done – you’re finished!

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In the home stretch

December 10, 2007

Well done to everyone for getting this far in the project: we’ve flown past the halfway mark and are well and truly close to the end. Well done to the IST Killasz, who retain their iron grip on the lead. The project will be all finished by this Friday (14 Dec), so it’s anyone’s game up till then!

Below you can see the progress chart up-to-date as of Sunday afternoon. We’re almost there, everyone!

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Week 8 Progress Chart
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Team Progress Update

December 3, 2007

As of the end of last week, we have a new leader! Well done to IST Killasz, who have shot into the lead by a narrow margin. If you have a dispute about your team’s score, please see me.

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Week 7 Progress Chart
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Make sure you…

November 27, 2007

This is an important announcement with regard to the answer posts that you make. Well done to everyone for getting started and posting answers; however, there are a couple of things you need to do:

  1. When you post your answer, you must come to my blog and provide a link to the answer you have just made. Your link should be in a comment to the question you have answered. If you answered Q4, go to the Q4 post for that date and paste your link into a comment.
  2. When you make a post, you must sign off. Your signature must include your full name, and you may like to include a unique image of some kind. The reason this is important is that many of you have chosen blog themes that hide the identity of the author when a post is made, and I need to know who has posted what.

Also, below you can find a progress chart that shows where each of the teams is up to, as of the end of week 6. A 1 indicates that you have completed the question and linked to it on my blog; a 0.5 indicates that I have found evidence that you have begun, but you are either unfinished or haven’t posted a link to it yet. Well done Historical Wizards for taking an early lead!


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Week 6 Progress Chart
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FAQ Updated

November 26, 2007
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Got questions?

November 20, 2007

If you have any questions at all about the IST Team Blog Project, I have begun a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page. So go ahead and ask some questions, and I will post up the answers there!

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Announce your blogs

November 20, 2007

Please comment on this post and give the address of your team’s blog, so that your peers from other teams may make comments on them.

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Marking guidelines now available

November 19, 2007

Hello everyone. Well done to everyone for getting through a difficult initial stage - setting up user accounts and the respective team blogs.

The marking guidelines are now available online at this page (also viewable on the right in the navigation menu). A hard copy will also be distributed during class tomorrow, but they are identical and you might find the online version easier to access.

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Welcome!

November 18, 2007

This blog will serve as a central hub for the 9IST Team Blog Project. Come here to find announcements, to read material relevant to the project, to suggest feedback for improving the project, and to report in when you have completed your project work for each lesson. See the project’s introductory instructions in the previous post.

Any questions or comments are more than welcome.