The Curriculum and Quality workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to contribute to the content of the 13th edition of the NACCQ Curriculum document, colloquially referred to as the Blue Book, due for release in November 2011. Participants will also be invited to contribute to the following:

* Locally taught modules that could be included in the blue book as National modules

* Corrections and revisions to existing modules

Morning: 11am – 2.30pm (lunch 12.30-1pm)

Many courses comprise Cooperative Education (CE), Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), or any of the myriad variations of title that describe classroom-based education that is then mixed with practical work experience. These are often in the shape of a project or capstone-course whereby a piece or pieces of work are typically planned, completed, reflected upon and subsequently assessed for course credit.

The workshop will discuss some of the joys, pitfalls and opportunities faced when conducting these courses. It is hoped to build up a stock of good practices/points to watch out for that will help us all do a better job of supervising and assessing these courses.

Morning: 11am – 2.30pm (lunch 12.30-1pm)

Experience design is a growing field in computing. As computing becomes ubiquitous we are increasingly becoming immersed in a giant computer, but more often than not, the experience does not involve a traditional computer. The development of interactive exhibits for museums and science centres pushes the boundaries of traditional HCI.

This workshop explores the development of an interactive exhibition, Survival Factor. This interactive museum exhibition presents body science information within the context of survival. The 16 exhibits are all interactive, ten involving a computer or microprocessor. While some have what might be recognised as a screen, none have a mouse or a keyboard. The development took place over an intense three months involving students and recent graduates from Information Technology and Communication Design.

In the workshop participants will examine the development of the interactive exhibits and collaboratively develop a new prototype exhibit. The approaches described will be useful to anyone bored with standard programming assignments, or who is looking to add excitement to capstone projects.

The workshop will be held at the Otago Museum.

Afternoon: 3pm – 6pm

This workshop is for those educators looking at developing content in a wiki format (similar to wikipedia), and will provide the basic skills to allow you to privately host your own wiki or create public content in wikieducator or wikiversity.

A hands on workshop where you will cover

*An introduction to Mediawiki and the Media wiki markup language ( which is used by both WikiEducator and Wikiversity)

*Hosting your own mediawiki

*Extending media wiki and you will create a lesson using media wiki.

Afternoon: 3pm – 6pm

Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) is a programming language and programming environment developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. It helps students explore important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. At Manukau Institute of Technology, we have been looking at ways of improving success in teaching programming and trying to recapture the fun and excitement of an earlier era. In semester 1, 2010, we chose Scratch as the language of instruction for the introductory programming course (PP490) in its Certificate in Information and Communications Technology (level 4) programme. The workshop will cover the following:

• A hands-on introduction to the Scratch programming environment.

• A discussion of the experiences of using Scratch at Manukau Institute of Technology: what worked well, what did not, the lessons learned.

• A discussion of future use of Scratch at Manukau Institute of Technology and possible collaboration within the NACCQ community.

If you have been wondering how to engage your students in learning beginning programming in a new and effective way, this workshop may show you an idea that will actually work!

Afternoon: 3pm – 6pm