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Past seminars

• Detecting Plagiarism in Microsoft Excel Assignments
  Mr. Laurence Hellyer, School of Computing (homepage)  and  Mr Lawrence Beadle, Computing Laboratory

  Wednesday 19th August 2009, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

  We present a new anti-plagiarism tool called Excel-Smash. Whilst there are already anti-plagiarism tools available for essays and programming based submissions, our tool to the best of knowledge is the only tool designed to compare student submissions in the form of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. We present details of the plagiarism checks performed and we test our software on over nine hundred current and past student submissions. We present a case study to show how Excel-Smash functions from the point of view of the user, and we present data to support the ability of Excel-Smash to identify plagiarism between different marker groups above the abilities of its human counterparts. With a low false positive and false negative result Excel-Smash quickly allows identification of serious and more minor inter-group plagiarism.

• project updates from Australia
  Dr Judy Sheard, Monash University  and  Dr Margaret Hamilton, RMIT

  Thursday 23rd July 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• Curing recursion aversion
  Kat Gunion, University of British Columbia

  Wednesday 15th July 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

  The paradigm recursion is a major one when teaching programming. There is quite some debate on the difficulty to learn, understand and use recursion for the typical first or second year student in computer science. We approach the efforts to improve the success of teaching and learning recursion from a new perspective: Can we teach the concept successfully to younger students? If so, this in turn may prepare the university students to easier grasp this concept. This paper outlines the concept of recursion as a sophisticated topic, the challenges that are faced when teaching recursion as well as the age old debate, .When to teach Recursion?.. We present a preliminary study on teaching the concept to a group of 10 youth in grades 6.8 in BC, Canada.

• Pedagogical futures for CMC
  Martin Gough, UELT

  Thursday 4th June 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• Scratch: MIT's environment for beginning programmers
  Mr. Ian Utting, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 21st May 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• Useful Sharing
  Ms. Sally Fincher, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 9th April 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

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  Mr. Ian Utting, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 2nd April 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• The Greenfoot Gallery: An attempt to use an online community to increase motivation for learning programming
  Professor Michael Kölling, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 2nd April 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• The HEA-ICS
  Ms. Janet Carter, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 5th March 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• Student Produced Podcasts for Learning and Assessment
  Dr. Colin Johnson, School of Computing (homepage)

  Thursday 19th February 2009, 10:00 - 11:00, s110b

• Surveying views on teaching and assessing professional values in CS
  Ms. Ursula Fuller, School of Computing (homepage)  and  Dr. Bob Keim, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 5th December 2008, 11:00 - 12:00, s110b

• A Theory of Collaborative Technology Fit: A Diagnostic Tool for Global
  Tony Clear, Auckland University of Technology

  Tuesday 21st October 2008, 16:00 - 17:00, S110b

  Working in global virtual teams (GVTs), presents a set of challenges spanning several dimensions. In addition to the global actors working directly within their teams, a number of further actors perform support roles through a set of 'backstage' activities. While crucial to the success of GVTs, their work has been little researched. The Theory of Collaborative Technology Fit (CTF), reported for the first time in this presentation, derives from empirically grounded research conducted for the author's Doctoral thesis (Clear, 2008). The research originates from a grounded analysis of a global collaboration conducted in 2004 between three Universities: Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand; Uppsala University Sweden; and St Louis University, St Louis Missouri, USA. The theory of CTF will be explained and its potential applicability to supporting the work of Global Virtual Teams will be outlined in this presentation.

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  Mrs. Janet Linington, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 11th July 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Using Second Life in a computing curriculum - learning and teaching experiences and opportunities
  Dr Mike Hobbs, Anglia Ruskin University

  Friday 27th June 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

  The seminar will focus on what we've done with Second Life in our computing curriculum and also cover some the of the potential areas we'd like to use it for.

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  Mr. David Barnes, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 13th June 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110B

• The Mundane and the Magnificent: the future of learning technology in the lab
  Mr. Phill Camp, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 30th May 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

  Very short presentation on where we are and what the centre is doing and a few ideas to get us started on our discussion.

• The TOPS Project
  Ms. Janet Carter, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 9th May 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Accreditaion in the US the good the bad and the ugly
  Dr Paul Tymann, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

  Tuesday 22nd April 2008, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• Python is Cool
  Mr Tony Jenkins, University of Leeds

  Monday 21st April 2008, 10:00 - 11:00, S110b

• GPPM - A Generic Model of Programming Processes and its Relevance for Programming Education
  Professor Michael Kölling, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 11th April 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Integrating Java ME with BlueJ
  Mr. Ian Utting, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 4th April 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Novel Approaches to the Electronic Delivery of Learning Materials
  Mr David Mitchell, School of Computing

  Friday 7th March 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Learning Taxonomies for Computer Science
  Dr. Colin Johnson, School of Computing (homepage)

  Friday 8th February 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• The Disciplinary Commons
  Ms. Sally Fincher, School of Computing (homepage)

  Tuesday 15th January 2008, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b

• Should we assess our students' attitudes?
  Ms. Ursula Fuller, School of Computing (homepage)  and  Dr. Bob Keim, School of Computing (homepage)

  Tuesday 6th November 2007, 14:00 - 15:00, S110b