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Due |
11:55pm AEST, Friday, Week 12 |
ASSESSMENT |
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Weighting: |
30% |
4 |
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Length: |
Not applicable |
Objectives
This assignment is designed todevelop a
portfolio of resources that you can use during your degree.The compilation of
your Portfolio is progressive throughout the term. 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.
Submission
Submit each file individually into Moodle
using the links in the Assessment block for Assessment item 4 on the course
website.Please note there should be five
(5) files submitted.
The due date for this assignment is the
Friday of Week 12. It is STRONGLY recommended that students complete the work
during the term using the timeframe suggested in the Requirements section below.
Requirements
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 assessment item NOT just the individual
submission. 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
Note: You
need to ensure that your portfolio submissions are free of any spelling, grammatical
and typographical errors.
Week 3:
Create a
Word document called ‘Critical Thinking’ and write approximately 400 words
describing why you need to be a critical thinker.Explain why it is important
for ICT professionals to be critical thinkers.Note that you should include your definitionof the term critical
thinking. You need to provide at least four (4) relevant unique points in your
discussion.Upload thedocument into Moodle.
(5 marks)
Week 5:
Conduct a
Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis of your presentation
skills. An example can be found on page 13 of the prescribed textbook. The SWOT
analysis should be presented in a square with four (4) quadrants. In addition
to the SWOT analysis, you also need to identify two areas of improvement for
your presentation skills and outline some strategies you could use to enhance
those areas.
(5 marks)
Week 7:
Some people
love Social Networking through technology (Facebook and Twitter) whilst others
loathe it. Write reflectively about your experiences with the use of a Social
networking technology such as Facebook or Twitter. You will need to provide a
brief description of the experience and then write three paragraphs (approx. 400
words) of reflective writing where you analyse the experience, what you have
learnt from the experience and how you would handle it differently in the
future. Your reflective writing should cover the three key points on reflective
writing (see below). If you do not use and Social networking technologies you
should write a reflection on why you do NOT use Social networking technologies.
Call your MS Word document ‘Reflective Writing’ and upload that file into
Moodle.
The key
points to consider when writing reflectively are:
1. You need
to demonstrate what you have learned from a particular experience not just
describe what happened.
2. There is
no right or wrong answer—reflective writing is about what you learned from the
experience.
3. Ask
yourself the following questions and give your responses in your writing: Why
did Xhappen? What did I do in X situation? What were the positive and negative
outcomes inthe situation? How might I do things differently next time? What
have I learnt and howdoes this knowledge contribute to my development?
(McCulloch
& Reid, 2012, p. 104)
Note: You should re-read pages 103-105 of
the textbook to ensure you know what is meant by reflective writing.
(5 marks)
Week 11:
In week 9 you
learnt about how to develop a personal ethical framework and last week you
learnt about work and cultural issues. Understanding who you are and how you
relate to others in both your personal and work life can make you aware of the
values that are important to you as well as the values that you may need to
work on to improve. Create a document called ‘Personal Ethical Framework’ in MS
Word and write a 500 word account on how to build a reputation as a good ICT professional
and how to work with others from diverse backgrounds. This document should
include statements about your work ethic, values that are important to you and
how you relate to and communicate with others around you.As you are training to
be an ICT professional you should refer to theACS Code of
Ethics and/orACS Code of
Professional Conduct when writing this personal ethical framework. In addition, your
response should contain your views on working with diversity in the workplace
and how to be sensitive to the people who have been brought up in cultures
different to your own.Upload the Personal Ethical Framework document into
Moodle.
(5 marks)
Week 12:
Create a document called ‘Successful Completion’
andwrite a reflective analysis that demonstrates you have satisfied all eight(8)
course learning outcomes that are listed in the course profile for COIT20233
Professional Skills for ICT (they are listed below). In no more than two (2) A4
pagesjustify how the work you have completed this term has satisfiedall eight
(8) course learning outcomes.Please note it is important that you JUSTIFYthat you have satisfied the
course objectives do NOTjust summarise
the course content and/or assessment items.
Write two things you liked about this course and provide
the reason or reasons you liked them. Also describe two suggested improvements
to the course and justify why they would improve the course.
Upload the Successful Completion document into Moodle.
From the Course Profile:
On successful completion of this course, you will be
able to:
1. Describe the basic principles and importance of
effective interpersonal communication, active listening and reading for
meaning.
2. Demonstrate teamwork skills.
3. Communicate ideas effectively both verbally and in
written form using appropriate language.
4. Create and deliver effective oral presentations.
5. Argue the importance of ethics, codes of behaviour,
and societal, privacy and legal issues within the ICT industry.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of common work
practices and values operating in the Australian workplace.
7. Assess how ICT can be used to improve
organisational processes.
8. Evaluate the application of emerging technologies
to communication and collaboration.
(10 marks)
Assessment criteria:
All portfolio submissions should
be free of any spelling, grammatical and typographical errors.
The following criteria will be used to
assess your portfolio:
Week 3:
The
Critical Thinking document should include:
1. Your definition of the termCritical Thinking. Please note that this is to be your definition; do NOT just quote from
other sources. If you do use other sources to support your definition then you should
acknowledge the reference using Harvard referencing style (Harvard
citation and referencing guidelines)
(1 mark).
2. At leastfour (4) relevant unique
points about your need to be a critical thinker (4 marks).
Note if the
submission contains grammatical and/or typographical errors or is NOT well
structured and easy to understand or it is too long or too short (less than 350
or greater than 450 words) there will be a penalty of –1 mark.
(5 Marks)
Week 5:
Three marks for the SWOT analysis. You must
have reasonable points in each quadrant of the square.
Two marks for the strategies you will use
to overcome the two weaknesses you identified. Must identify at least two
strategies that are a reasonable way to overcome the weaknesses you identified.
Note if the
submission contains grammatical and/or typographical errors or is NOT well
structured and easy to understand there will be a penalty of –1 mark.
(5 Marks)
Week 7:
The
reflective writing on Social Networking through technology should:
1. Include a brief description of
the experience (1 mark).
2. Reflect on why the experience
happened and how you contributed to the experience (include both positive and
negative contributions) (1 mark).
3. Demonstrate what you have learned from the experience (1
mark).
4. Describe how you would handle the experience differently in
the future (1 mark)
5. Explained the positives and negatives of the
situation (1 mark).
Note if the
submission contains grammatical and/or typographical errors or is NOT well
structured and easy to understand or it is too long or too short (less than 350
or greater than 450 words) there will be a penalty of –1 mark.
(5 Marks)
Week 11:
The
Personal Ethical Framework document should include:
1. Your perception of a good
professional. Note this should refer to the ACS
Code of Ethics and/or ACS Code of Professional
Conduct (1 mark).
2. Statements about:
a.
your
work ethic(1 mark).
b.
values
that are important to you(1 mark).
c.
how
you relate to and communicate with others around you(1 mark).
3. Your views on working with
diversity in the workplace and how to be sensitive to the people who have been
brought up in cultures different to your own(1 mark).
Note if the submission contains
grammatical and/or typographical errors or is NOT well structured and easy to
understand or it is too long or too short (less than 450 or greater than 550
words) there will be a penalty of –1 mark.
(5 Marks)
Week 12:
TheSuccessful Completion
document should:
1.
Justify that you have successfully
achieved all eight (8) course learning outcomes (1 mark per successful justification
of each course learning outcomes). Please
note that a summary of the course content and/or assessment items will receive
ONE mark only.
2.
Two things you liked about this
course plus reasons (1 mark).
3.
Two suggested improvements to
the course plus justification (1 mark).
Note if the submission contains grammatical and/or
typographical errors or is NOT well structured and easy to understand there
will be a penalty of –1 mark. If the submission is larger than two A4 pages you
mark will be reduced by –1 mark.
(10 Marks)
