E-Business Theme

It's already over now, but it had been a busy week. :-/

Teaching - DT500

Topic for this week’s Data Organisation class was decimal and binary floating point and test revision which included base conversions, addition and subtraction in binary, octal and hexadecimal, 2's complement, designing codes, and rules for accuracy of bar codes via check digit.

Teaching - IN500/IN600

Topic for this week’s Internet & Web Development class was online ethical and legal issues including privacy, copyright and intellectual property, the internet applications quiz #4 and a series of activities for creating a set of html web pages.

Informal Study Sessions

Met with two BCS students at our informal Tuesday session dedicated to E-Business Strategies and Special Topic papers, which both students have opted to study remotely. I've taken a generic position facilitating brain storm sessions with the students, helping them to work through and discuss the blended content provided on EITonline by the Taradale lecturers.

E-Business Strategies

Although, I feel stretched quite thin doing two papers this semester and working, I'm still managing to absorb some new concepts and broaden my scope within the topic of e-business.  It was a late night Wednesday and early morning Thursday to finish the assignment one case study on Tesco (UK) and Countdown (NZ) online shopping systems. Time management needs some work, maybe a good task/question estimation formula for study. All in all ... I'm pleased I've put that one to bed ... yae :-o

Campus Networks to Industry

Met with Jan Mogford (Campus Director) and Peni Niwa (EA) to discuss options to source local business contacts e.g. Chamber of Commerce as potential participants for this IT industry research initiative. Jan provided me with a 100+ list of Gisborne and Wairoa business contacts to get started on.

Meet the Graduate

EIT, Tairawhiti have previously hosted a 'Meet the Graduate' event, which involves a businesses from the Chamber.  Jan noted that the attendee's at a previous event were asked what was their means for sourcing event information, interesting to learn that more than half had used social media to check up event details prior to coming along.  Which poses the question, will social media be a means to source local business information and/or capture the attention of Gisborne companies or interest groups?