Induction
Year 1 Semester 1 Induction
Information
Links to
Year 1 Semester 1 Small Group Tutorials
Week 1
Week 2
- How to use WiFi, Printers and AD network
- How to use the iMac Suite
- How to access the Portal
- How to access features of blackboard
- Practical Task Example
Week 3 - Personal skills
Helps deal with some of the personal competencies which contribute to the development of transferable employability skills and which students often cite as issues when referring themselves to the Counselling Service.
Step 1- Individually Take the Skills Audit within PACE
- Step 2 - In a Group task use LearnHigher and review this guide:
- time management and related issues such as procrastination, goal setting, and revision planning;
- reflection and self-awareness in relation to learning styles and personal strengths and weaknesses;
- the application of interpersonal skills to the learning process. The latter grouping includes issues such as listening and conflict resolution in group work.
You should use this resource to help you with the area that you personally feel is your weakest. It contains numerous sections on the likes of listening and interpersonal skills, time management, group work, critical thinking and reflecting. It contains both text based and interactive material and the site is easy to navigate. Use the video resources to gain an overview of the topic.
Use the critical thinking model and reflecting skills identifed above to view the http://www.identityexploration.com/ site and make a single set of group comments on what you think their main business is and if they clearly get their message across. You should collectively create bullet points to the following 3 questions:
- Describe - the areas where they clearly identify what it is the site is promoting
- Analysis - where the message is unclear
- Evaluate - How you would make the site more focused
You are only allowed to use the http://www.identityexploration.com/ site and you can not contact anyone relating to the company to gain further information. You should also limit your engagement in this task to approximated 2 hours after you have use the links highlighted here. Also use these points as guidance.
Week 4 and 5 Literacy skills and Information skills
Areas covered are:
- define your research topic;
- identify your search terms;
- combine your search terms to improve your search;
- choose the most relevant sources;
- evaluate and manage your results;
- identify sources that will keep you up to date.
Using these skills you are to write a one page reflection in Microsoft Word on your views of "What Web 2.0 is in relation to the WWW". You should include appropriate citations using the the Harvard Referencing Style Generator. (This was developed by an IMD student.) Your page will be uploaded to Turnitin.
Resources: Report Writing / Reflective Writing / Avoiding plagiarism / Questions to ask yourself
Week 6 Numeracy skills
Here are a number of sites that explain how to convert between bases:
This is the best and most animated:
The following act as additional examples and resources:
Everything in one place:
http://www.golgotha.org.uk/useful/bases.html
Understanding Base 10
http://www.codemastershawn.com/library/tutorial/hex.bin.numbers.php
Decimal Notation Zero 0 One 1 Two 2 Three 3 Four 4 Five 5 Six 6 Seven 7 Eight 8 Nine 9 Ten 1 0 Eleven 1 1
The base of a number is what you count up to before you indicate a digit in the second column. Trouble is, we only have the numerals 0-9 for digits as our language is based on base 10 numbering (maybe because we have ten fingers). When we're counting in base 16 we use the letters a-f as notation for the remaining digits we need. The number eleven, for example, would be written as B. Counting to seventeen in Base 16 looks like this:
Hex Notation Zero 0 One 1 Two 2 Three 3 Four 4 Five 5 Six 6 Seven 7 Eight 8 Nine 9 Ten A Eleven B Twelve C Thirteen D Fourteen E Fifteen F Sixteen 1 0 Seventeen 1 1 Eighteen 1 2
- Find the closest even product of 16 for your number.
- Indicate the remainder using the table above.
* For instance, 72 divided by 16 is 4, or 64, which leaves a remainder of
8. To write 72 in hexadecimal notation you would write 48, "four sixteens
and eight remainder". Likewise to indicate the number 255 in hexadecimal
you would write FF, because 15 sixteens are 240, so there are 15 sixteens
in the left column, which leaves a remainder of 15 in the right column.
Understanding Binary:
A base 2 8-bit number system represented by the numeric values of 0 or 1,
also known as ON or OFF, and the primary language that computers
communicate in. Below is an example of the maximum 8-bit value of 255,
which is 11111111 in binary. To get this value add each column, so 1 + 2 +
4 + 8 + 16 + 32 + 64 + 128 = 255.
Value: 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 ON/OFF: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Below is another example of 10001101, which is 141 or 1 + 4 + 8 + 128. Value: 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 ON/OFF: 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
Binary and hexadecimal conversions
http://www.computerhope.com/binhex.htm
To convert a value from hexadecimal to binary, you merely translate each
hexadecimal digit into its 4-bit binary equivalent. Hexadecimal numbers
have either and 0x prefix or an h suffix. For example, the hexadecimal
number:
0x3F7A
Translates into, Using the Binary chart and the below chart for Hex:
0011 1111 0111 1010
Decimal Hexadecimal Binary
0 0 0000 1 1 0001 2 2 0010 3 3 0011 4 4 0100 5 5 0101 6 6 0110 7 7 0111 8 8 1000 9 9 1001 10 A 1010 11 B 1011 12 C 1100 13 D 1101 14 E 1110 15 F 1111
http://www.ecawa.asn.au/home/jfuller/binary/binary7.htm
Example 1. Consider Binary: 1000100100110111 (a 16-bit Byte)
STEP 1 Break the Byte into 'quartets' - 1000 1001 0011 0111
STEP 2 Use the table above to covert each quartet to its Hex equivalent -
8937
Therefore ... 1000100100110111 = #8937
Understanding the Binary System http://pcnineoneone.com/howto/binary2
Understanding the Hexadecimal Number System
http://pcnineoneone.com/howto/hex1/
http://pcnineoneone.com/howto/hex2/
http://pcnineoneone.com/howto/hex_sidebar2/
HEX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 00 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 01 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 02 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 03 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 04 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 05 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 06 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 07 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 08 128 129 130
Conversion Code - Chart (http://easycalculation.com/hex-converter.php)
DECIMAL 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 HEX 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F BINARY 0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010 1011 1100 110 1 1110 1111
Converter online:
http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/hex-to-rgb/color-converter.php
Week 7 Visual/creative design skills
- Good design is innovative.
- Good design makes a product useful.
- Good design is aesthetic.
- Good design makes a product understandable.
- Good design is unobtrusive.
- Good design is honest.
- Good design is long-lasting.
- Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
- Good design is environmentally friendly.
- Good design is as little design as possible.
Week 8 Presentation skills
Effective Presentation Skills - content and style
pausing in a presentation
Powerpont presentation advice
Presentations dos and don'ts check list
Task to complete: As two groups, create a short PowerPoint Presentation of about 10 minutes in duration to give the other groupfeedback on what was to be gained from the Studies Skills SAGs.
If the SAGs where to bepart of the assessed modules in Semester 1 for next year, how would you recommend they be tackled ?
Week 9 - Viewing your presentations and Review
Turnit_In Feedback
Examples of submissions for review:
Report with 0% Similarity
Report with 4% Similarity
Report with 4% Similarity
Report with 5% Similarity
Report with 75% Similarity
Report with 87% Similarity
(please note that details of module specific tutorials will be given in class)
Year 1 Semester 2 Small Group Tutorials
Weeks 1 thorough 12
(please note that details of module specific tutorials will be given in class)
Year 2 Semester 1 Induction
Week 1
- IMD introduction for ex-foundation degree students
- Tasks for induction day
- How to use the P-drive and IMDSERVER
- iMac / Mac How-To-Guides
- guide to PDP
