Thinking about reports

On Wednesday I met up with Jacek and we discussed what was required for your reports. Jacek will give you more detail on the content of the reports that he requires today (Friday).

What was agreed was a structure and format for your reports. I have made up a template and have saved that in the Working in A Project Team folder on the P drive under the filename "report template".

I also gave out a handout on reports which touch on issues to do with the purpose of reports; types of reports; sections; and style. This, too, can be found on the P drive ("Report writing handout").

Most of those who were in yesterday handed in their evaluation reports for me. I also received a couple by email. If you haven't sent those on to me, can you email to me as soon as you can. Thanks.

As I said, once you complete all the bits and pieces for your portfolio for my unit (some have already), then you can use the time on Thursday mornings to work on your reports for Jacek and use me as a resource on the style, rather than content, of the reports.

Evaluating the research project

After a long break, we started back today with the next stage of the unit: self-evaluation.

I gave out details (which you'll find on pages 22-25 of the student guide on the P drive) of an evaluation report which you are now required to write. The purpose of this report is to describe the short research project and process and, crucially, to evaluate your team and individual performance. I won't go into the details of this again - as I say you'll find details of that in the student guide.

I have asked for a copy of a first draft of that for next week.

Just to clarify, this report is not one of the ones that you need to do for your Building a Network PC unit.

Team presentations

Thanks to everyone who made it in today to share their research as a team with the rest of the class for the four tasks. Hopefully at this stage you will all have a good idea of what you know and, more importantly, need to know to get working on the various tasks.

The presentations were the climax of the team-work element on the course. You'll remember the purpose of each team was to work collectively to research and share information on the various tasks.

After Easter, we need to look towards how all of this research comes together in a report format.

I've collated a list of the websites that have been suggested for the various tasks and added them to the task descriptions on the right-hand side column of this blog. If anyone would like to suggest more sites, just give the details as a comment to this post and I'll add them on to the rest.