MS Log
11/10/2010: Went to MS tutorial, used doodle, meeting wizard, etc.
18/10/2010 (16:15): Used meeting wizard.com to arrange a meeting to discuss what industry we want to study and to organise assignments and deadlines.
19/10/2010(14:18): I Googled “cite it right NUIG”, file not found in the James Hardeman Library. Tried www.ul.ie/~library/pdf/citeitright.pdf and briefly read through their guidelines on Harvard referencing.
19/10/2010(14:30): first meeting commences, we decide to investigate the impact of IS on Education.
We then sub divided education into dep. of education, 3rd level, 2nd level, 1st level and exam/special education.
We also agreed that we need to begin with the history of the education system, from about the birth of the state up until the present day and maybe even into the future, to really understand the impact of ms on the education system of Ireland.
We may also need to look at other education systems in other countries.
19/10/2010(17:47): Googled “history of Irish education”, got several links the first on was https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/prog-plan/module-catalogue/3/es/es3006.cfm . It had some useful information and recommended quite a few books.
20/10/2010(13:13): Andrew and I discuss the fact that our essay will require both an opening and a conclusion. Because I don’t really want to do special needs education and I feel that it ties in with all the other sections, I offered to do the opening and conclusion.
21/10/2010(16:23): I did some light research on Irish education system. Looking mainly at the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland. I also feel that our essay needs a section relating to “Porters Five Forces Model” because this seems to be an integral part of the module.
4/11/10: Googled “how to open a report” got nothing useful. Then tried “how to start a report introduction” got: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_start_a_good_introduction_for_a_report I then began writing the start of my report with the limited info that I had.
7/11/10: Went over the lecture slides and extracted the headings of what we need to focus on in our analysis of the impact of I.S. on education. I got twelve headings in total and a few sub-headings. 1. General use and History of IS. 2. IS in a changing world. 3. IS in Business, its purpose. 4. IS and strategy. 5. Use of Strategy and Porters 5 forces. 6. Value creation, first mover, C.A. 7. How IS aids in the creation of CA 8.Decision making. 9. Hierarchy of IS in Business. 10. Enterprise systems, reengineering (BPR) 11. Business and the Internet, disruption. 12. e-Business
08/11/2010: found a good example for me as a guide to referencing at http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library/find/references/harvard/index.php
I found the following information to be useful.
“Book (1 author)
Format:
Author - Surname, Initials. (ed.) or (eds.)-in brackets for editor(s). (Year of publication - in brackets).
Book Title - in italics or underlined. Series title and volume - if available. Edition - if not the first. Place
of Publication: Publisher.
Bibliography example:
Neville, C. (2007). The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism. Maidenhead: Open
University Press.
In-text examples:
(Neville, 2007)
Neville (2007) commented that…
“Direct quotations are placed in double quotations marks” (Author’s Surname, Year of Publication, p. –
followed by page number – in brackets)”
08/11/2010:(16:38) Talked to Adrian and Andrew about re-evaluating our project. I think we should use the points that I got last night to base our report on. I also think we should focus our report, on NUIG, rather than The Irish Education system because Irish education is too broad and we have easy access to primary information if we report on the impact of IS on NUIG.
11/11/2010: I feel we need to incorporate a “Clockspeed” analysis of the Irish Education system.
15/10/2010: Googled “report writng canberra”. Clicked the first link and read the info on the page. The structure of our report should be something along the lines of
· Acknowledgements
· Body*
From, http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/reports. I think we need to include diagrams and tables to illustrate our points i.e. a model of porters five forces on NUIG, or a double helix structure/analysis for NUIG.
15/11/2010(11:48): Used Google doc’s to upload the some of the documents needed for the report. And created new ones. Sent “Test Doc” to caitrianacostello@live.ie
15/11/2010(12:08): signed into www.blogger.com, with “welovems”. Then created a blog “We Love MS” and the link is http://welovems2010.blogspot.com/
15/11/2010(12:30): arranged a meeting for tomorrow at 2pm using meetingwizard.com
15/11/2010(12:34) uploaded files to google docs and shared them with other group members: a.breen4@nuigalway.ie
a.larrigan1@nuigalway.ie
c.fay1@nuigalway.ie
r.corbett1@nuigalway.ie
16/11/2010: Emailed all the other members a list of subheading I think they should report on to pick from, Using my NUIG email acount.
16/11/2010(16:43): posted first blog.16/11/2010(17:03): Googled “the impact of information systems on education” and got some interesting information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_information_system
17/11/2010: Andrew told me about a lecture in NUIG, that video’s his lectures and syncs PowerPoint slides with the AV. He then uploads the data for students to access at a later date, interesting use of technology in Education.
18/11/2010: Andrew emailed me, and he chose; 2. IS in a changing world and 11. Business and the Internet, disruption as the areas he wants to do his part of the report on. He also commented on the Blog. I then replied confirming his choice and I requested that he ask the other members of the group to do the same.
18/11/2010(14:23): I invited the other group members to Co-author the blog.
18/11/2010(14:28): Made second blog post.
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