First Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle Wednesday June 16th 2004, Monash University 8:45 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome, Associate Professor John Hurst Computing Education Research Group Monash University 9:10 - 9:30 Opening Address, Professor Ron Weber Dean, Faculty of Information Technology Monash University 9:30 - 10:00 Keynote Address, Raymond Lister, UTS 10:00 - 10:30 Student Plagiarism, Justin Zobel and Margaret Hamilton, RMIT 10:30 - 11:00 ********************* Morning Tea ****************************** 11:00 - 11:30 Critical Thinking and Reasoning for Information Systems Students, Theda Thomas, Tim Davis and Alanah Kazlauskas, ACU National 11:30 - 12:00 Using Extreme Programming in a Capstone Project, Karen Keefe, Swinburne TAFE and Martin Dick, Monash University 12:00 - 12:30 Improving Students' Learning Approaches through Intervention in an Information Systems Learning Environment, Chris Cope and Lorraine Staehr, La Trobe University, Bendigo 12:30 - 1:30 ************************** Lunch ************************** 1:30 - 2:00 Keynote Address, Quintin Cutts, University of Glasgow, Scotland 2:00 - 2:20 Gender and IT: Do Stereotypes Persist? Catherine Lang, Swinburne University of Technology 2:20 - 2:40 Walkabout Learning: Balancing the Demands of Life and Learning Des Casey, Monash University 2:40 - 3:00 Educational Effectiveness of 100% Online IT Courses E.J.S. Morris and C.P. Zuluaga, RMIT 3:00 - 3:30 ************************** Afternoon Tea ************************* 3:30 - 3:50 Introducing Unit Testing with BlueJ Andrew Patterson and John Rosenberg, Monash University and Michael Kolling, University of Southern Denmark 3:50 - 4:10 The Design of Reflective Journals as Course Evaluation Instruments Adam Jenkins, University of South Australia 4:10 - 4:30 The Motivation is the Message: Comparing Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Different Settings Jim Eales, Tony Hall and Liam Bannon, University of Limerick 4:30 - 5:00 Close