1. First Term 2017
Diploma of IT Networking: ICTICT514 Identify and Manage Current Technologies

2. Your New Teacher My name is Warren Toomey
20 years of teaching at University
3 years here at TQGC
Cisco Academy Instructor
CCNA Certified

3. Term 1 of Your Diploma: 4 Units
ICTICT514: Identify and Manage Technologies:
Introduction to the technologies of networks
ICTICT501: Research and Review Technologies:
Research into suitable network tech for businesses
ICTICT511: Match ICT Needs
How to determine what technologies a business needs
ICTICT418: Copyright, Ethics and Privacy
How IT deals with these issues professionally
Our website is: connect.tafeqld.edu.au
You will receive a username and password for this website

4. This Term: Daily Schedule
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays for 10 weeks
Monday and Tuesday
Three two-hour sessions starting at 8am
Short break around 10am
Lunch at 12pm, back at 1pm
Wednesday
Two two-hour sessions starting at 2pm
Short break around 4pm

5. Learning Skills and Knowledge
Powerpoint slides
Bare bones of each unit
You need to put “meat” on these bones
Teacher delivery of content
Bring pen and paper to make notes!
Cisco reading
Very beneficial, do as much as you can
Your questions
Flesh out the things that don’t make sense
Lab activities: Packet Tracer and others
Practice makes perfect

6. Maximising Your Learning

7. Maximising Your Learning
Be active:
Study at home: read material ahead of class and do Packet Tracer activities
Ask questions when in class, or by
Actively take notes (pen and notebook)
Do all the lab activities (required, optional)
Learn the ideas, don’t just do the lab activities
Be reflective: do I have gaps, what do I need to do to stay on top of things?

8. Communication Communication is going to be very important
You need to understand me, and I need to understand you
“Can you say that again more slowly please?”
“I didn’t understand that, can you explain it in a different way please?”
“What does that word mean?”
“I am having trouble with your accent, can you say that again thanks”

9. Expected Behaviour
You are here to learn skills & knowledge, so act accordingly: be an active learner
Don’t behave in a way that distracts yourself or other students in the class
Talking in class, browsing the web, sending or reading SMS, answering the phone
If you are disruptive, it is important that you leave the room to allow other students to keep learning

10. International Student Requirements
100% attendance on all days of the term
Successfully complete all your units
If you do not achieve this, you will be asked in for an interview to explain why not
Students who have no reasonable explanation will be prevented from continuing on in the Diploma
Department of Immigration may then cancel your Student Visa: you get to go home early