ANU - DCS - CS Projects CoP Meetings S1 2008

For this semester, all individual project students and the overall project co-ordinator will have a number of hourly meetings aimed at improving the students' understanding and practice of generic project issues and applying them to their projects. A by-product of this will be fostering out-of-class support and a sense of community within the project student group. These sessions will also include the initial and final presentations (the latter will be longer than one hour though!). In these meetings, we will review and discuss the general principles of a topic, e.g. making good presentations, examine the work of previous project students, and evaluate and give feedback to each others' work in progress. Such a meeting series forms what is termed a Community of Practice.

Attendance at the meetings should be considered mandatory for MCOMP students (as it is required for the ACS accreditation for the MCOMP), and is highly encouraged for all other project students. You may also receive evaluations from your peers on for example your presentation, but these are for your feedback only. At each session, your suggestions on how to improve the current and future proposed sessions will be sought. There will also be surveys at the start and end of the semester. There surveys will be purely used by the project co-ordinator for his feedback, and will have no effect on your assessment in your project course.

In some of these sessions, we will be using the book Writing for Computer Science by Justin Zobel, Springer, 2004,(2nd edition), ISBN 1-85233-802-4. It is an excellent book for those considering doing research in computer science. The timetable of these meetings is set out below; the weeks refer to semester teaching weeks 1-7 and 8-13 (mid-semester breaks are excluded).

The weekly meeting time is Thursday 17:00 in CSIT N101 (time and venue confirmed, unless noted below). Meeting dates and topics scheduled for more than a week from the present date should be regarded as tentative, as it is subject to the CoP's wishes.

The sessions will begin in week 3; below is the schedule of the sessions for semester 1 2007 (fitted in to the 2008 timeline), which we will use as a starting point.

Week	Title	Notes
3	Elements of Good Presentations	Zobel Ch 14; ASLC online notes; s1 2007 initial presentations
4	Initial Project Presentations
5	Presentation Review; Managing Your Project	Zobel Ch 10; ASLC online notes
6	Literature reviews, Citations and Attributions	Zobel Ch 13 & 2; ASLC online notes: referencing, footnotes and Harvard citations; academic honesty, plagiarism CSIT N224
7	Report Writing: Structure and Setting Out	Zobel Ch 9; report section of COMP87*0 rules
10	Implementation and Evaluation Issues	Zobel Ch 11
11	Writing Up Reports: Finer Details	Zobel Ch 2,6,8
12	Presentations - Practice and Feedback	Zobel Ch 10
13	Final Project Presentations

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CS Projects `Community of Practice' Meetings (S1/2008)