Received proposals

I received nearly 24 proposal out of 30. So there are 6 of you who did not submit to my email. For the rest of you who submitted to the fcmcg1@gmail.com account, thanks.

See you all next week!

Submission of Proposal and Gantt Chart

For all FA students, for any queries on your proposal please see Dr. Mai. Please make appointment with her this week (24/11/08 – 27/11/08). I will be out of the country this whole week so any queries or consult please contact Dr. Mai

As for your submission of your proposal and Gantt Chart. Here are the requirements:

(1) Submit the hard copy or print out of the Gantt Chart and proposal to Dr. Mai on Thursday 27/11/08 by 12 pm. Please ask her where she will be in your Tuesday lecture class.

(2) Email to fcmcg1@gmail the softcopy of your proposal and Gantt Chart by Thursday 27/11/08 12 pm. Anyone submitting later than that will be penalised by reduction of grades. The time stamp on my gmail account will let me know if you submitted or emailed your proposal and Gantt Chart to me on time. So please note.


Anyone only submitting hard copy and not the soft copy, the submission will not be marked.

Anyone only submitting softcopy and not hard copy, the submission will not be marked

Anyone not submitting both softcopy by email AND hard-copy to Dr. Mai, may get a 0 for the submission.

If you need to contact me, please email my mmu email – tkneo@mmu.edu.my. I will try my best to help you out.

Some notes to consider when submitting the proposal.

Make sure you add references. Follow the example Ms. Belinda’s proposal for the format.

Here are more examples.

Book references:
Cuban, L (1986). Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.

Saettler, P. The Evolution of American Educational Technology. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1990.
Neo, M. & Neo, Ken T.K (1998). The Multimedia Pavilion: Trends and Technologies. Meway Computec. Malaysia.
Journals:
Mayer, Richard, E. (1989), “Models for Understanding”, Review of Educational Research,
(59:1), 43-64. (if journal not online)

Ediger, M. (1996). Technology in the school curriculum. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 12(2), 145-161. Available: http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet12/ediger.html [Viewed: May 5, 2004] (if journal is online)

Branch, P. and Tonkin, B. (1997). Multicampus video on demand at Monash University. Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 13(2), 85-97. http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet13/branch.html [May 5, 2004].

Online Conferences:
Trollinger, V.L. (2001 ) ADDIE for Music Educators: Creating Effective Multimedia Programs for Teaching. Proceedings of the Eighth InternationalTechnological Directions in Music Learning Conference. Online. Available http://music.utsa.edu/tdml/conf-VIII/VIII-Trollinger.html [Viewed: October 10,2003].
Catalano, G.D. & Catalano, K.C. (1997). Transformation: From Teacher-Centred to Student-Centred Engineering Education. Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. Available: [Online] http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie97/papers/1318.pdf [Viewed: March 15, 2004].

Bodley, D. (2000). The Development and Testing of an Interactive Listening Guide System for Instructors and Students of Music Appreciation. Proceedings of the 4th conference of Technological Directions in Music Learning. Available : http://music.utsa.edu:16080/tdml/conf-VII/VII-Bodley/VII-Bodley.html [Viewed: 30 Oct 2003]
Online references:

Schoenherr, S. (2004). Recording Technology History. Online: Available: http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html. [Viewed: May 5, 2004].

McDonald, J. (1998). "The New adventures of Jasper Woodbury". School Science and Mathematics. May 1998 Issue. Available: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3667/is_199805/ai_n8787560. [Viewed: 15 Nov. 2006.]


Lidtke, D.K. & Moursund, D. (1993). Computers in Schools: Past, Present and How we Can Change the Future. Communications of the ACM 36(5): pp. 84-87. Available: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=155073&type=pdf&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=12202858&CFTOKEN=65900403. [Viewed: 28 May 2003].

What happen to the rest?

Those who have responded to the blog entry below, WHEN DO YOU WANT TO MEET???? :-)

I only received one appointment from Group C - 12pm Thursday. Since you did not put in any time and date, I will schedule you for this week. Meeting is in my office. Room 2045.

Group A - 10 am Thursday
Group B - 1020 am Thursday
Group C - 12 pm Thursday
Group D - Where are you? - 10:40 am Thursday
Group E - Where are you? - 1100 am Thursday.
Group F- Where are you - 1120 am Thursday.

Also, since no one has volunteered to move to Ms. Joon's consults, I will have to assign you then. I am selecting the first six names from my list and assignning you to Ms. Joon's consult group. Below are the list of students.

1031190088 HAJEZADEH HODA
1041101762 LESLY LEON LEE
1041106570 W MUHD AFIF BIN W AB HADI
1041107163 NAHDA NADIRA BINTI ISMAIL
1041110377 ZAHRA REZAEI SALARNIA
1041110630 MOHAMMAD HASSAN FARAMARZIAN

Lastly, if you do not meet me this Thursday, you may face problems with the submission (10%) next week. So please take note and let's try to avoid this.

Greetings young and eager minds!

This is for the FA students who are doing Design research or SRI this semester. The consultation will begin next week or week 2 (17/11/08). Here are some things that are needed before next week's consult.

(1) Please form groups of 5 students. The purpose of doing so is to allow for a more efficient use of the consultation time. Each group, not individual, will come and consult with me at one time.

We will use Group A, Group B, Group C Group D, Group E and Group F. As such, please give me the names and emails of the members of the group in the comments area of this entry.

For example:

Group A - John (email:something@something.com), Sam (email:something@something.com), Sarah (email:something@something.com), Harry (email:something@something.com)& Sally (email:something@something.com)

Group B - and so on...

(2) I would like volunteer about 5 students who would like to consult with Ms. June Jong. This is to evenly split the cohort of students doing SRI this sem. Again, please inform me who would like to consult with Ms. June or I will pick. ONLY 5 members needed.

(3) For next week's consult, please bring your proposals for consult. Your proposal should relate to your FYP. This class is for you to do research on areas that you will use in your FYP.

Write it in the format given to you by Dr. Mai and please use the proper referencing technique.

Here is a rule to live by for SRI - no references, no proposal, no passing.

In research terms, referencing is to give credit to people or persons who originally came up with the idea or concept. If you do not reference the idea or sentence you took from others, it would be unethical as well as not permissable. It would be considered plagrism. So please take note of how references are done. Dr. Mai will elaborate referencing in the lectures.

(4) Tentative Consultation times:
Tuesday 930-11 am OR
Thursday 1030am-1230 pm (since all have no classes on Thursday, this is preferred.)


I do not know when you are free so please let me know. I am hoping these times are suitable. I would prefer to meet as many groups at one time rather than one group per day. So, please discuss amongst yourself.

(5) Finally, please follow the schedule of submissions. Late submissions are frowned upon and may result in reduction of marks.

So, this is where we are for now.

The purpose of this blog is to facilitate your supervision for your final year thesis. Some resources maybe added here for your help.

Please feel free to add your comments, questions or queries here. I am sure most of you will work at odd times and if you have any questions, please do so. This will benefit not only yourself but your coursemates.

Thank you and I look forward to meeting all of you again.