Things to do over the holidays in order to be prepared for 2008.
Enjoy your holidays. Recharge your batteries. It’s a long year ahead and you need to pace yourself. Then, once you’ve recharged…
Complete the test in the green book to see how much of Change Management you’ve understood. Check your answers against the answer sheet given to you.
Complete your summary notes of Change Management and Qantas. Take some time to study these and to memorise the acrostics we have developed in class.
Page 513 of your text contains a good topic test of Change Management to retest your knowledge after you have studied from your study notes.
OK. Now that you have got Change Management under control its time to read ahead on Marketing. Skim through Topic 2 (pg. 198-289) to give you an idea of what the topic contains.
Read through Chapter 9 (pg 200-214) to be prepared for the first few lessons back.
Skim through your pink book. Try and answer what you can from your existing Year 11 knowledge. If you find the time start working through the rest of the book.
That’s it. Not too much but enough to imbed your knowledge of Change Management and to ensure you’ve reviewed Marketing and are ready to go for 2008.
If you want to know what to do beyond this add a comment and I’ll get back to you.
This is the syllabus for both Preliminary and HSC Business Studies containing all topics areas. You can download it from here (right click and ‘Save Target as’) or view it directly on this site by clicking ‘view’.
In the HSC paper the very last section (Section IV) has 2 questions. Both questions assess your knowledge from multiple topic areas but, most importantly, they require you to “use your knowledge and relevant business case study/studies“.
What this means is that in this section you must refer to the Qantas case study. However you may also refer to additional material on businesses that you have read about or that you recall from our class discussions.
In this year’s paper the 2 questions you had a choice between were as follows;
Question 27 (20 marks)Outline the external sources of change for a business to expand internationally, and critically analyse the strategies a business may use to ensure ethical practices in a global environment.
OR
Question 28 (20 marks)
Outline the external sources of change for a business to expand internationally, and critically analyse the strategies a business may use to manage employment relations in a global environment.
By this stage of the course you should be able to answer the first part of the question (which is the same for both Q27 and Q28). To give you a guideline about length you should be able to produce about 5-6, exam booklet, pages of material to “outline the external sources of change for a business to expand internationally”. Some of you have already been working on this as part of the in class extension work so could you post (in the comments) the plans you drew up in response to the first half of Q27 & Q28.
Just a quick post to say that we’re both impressed with the amount of work all of you have been putting in over the last few weeks. We’re especially happy with the effort you’ve been putting into your Qantas report. Keep up the excellent start all of you have made to Year 12.
You’ve probably seen this orange box on the left a few times before. It’s there to tell you that you can subscribe to this site (or any other site that has this symbol) so that you can be notified whenever that site updates.
Its a very powerful tool especially if you visit various sites (newspapers, facebook friends, blogs etc) to find out what’s new. By subscribing to their RSS feed (the orange box) you don’t need to visit each and every site. Whenever those sites update their information your “feed” will be updated with whatever new information has been posted.
For example the feed for this blog is http://scholsbiz.edublogs.org/feed/. To find out when this blog updates go through these simple steps;
That’s it … easy as. Now everytime you go to http://www.google.com/reader you will see any new information we have updated without having to visit this site each time.
You can add lots of other feeds … for example you can add blogs from your friends myspace pages by adding something like this http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=0000000 (change the numbers obviously)
In bebo you can click on the link that says “subscribe to feeds”
You can add feeds from most websites nowadays. Once you’ve added a lot of feeds you can then use Google Reader as a way of keep track of all of these sites and not have to go to each site individually to find out what’s new.
You don’t only have to use Google Reader. There are other alternatives. Personally I use bloglines but Google Reader is easy to use and straight forward.
If you prefer to see a vid that explains all of this then, rather than trawling through all the blurb above, have a look at this youtube vid from commoncraft
Your assignments all require that you use the Harvard Referencing System. Attached to this post is the handout given to all of you at the beginning of Year 11 on how to use the system.
Just as a quick recap here are a couple of examples to get you started (you will still need to refer to the attached document for more specific information).
When Citing in text (which you must do everytime a new idea or concept is mentioned) Long (1991) conducted an experiment which proved….
OR
An experiment was conducted that proved the validity of this argument (Long 1991).
When writing up your list of references/bibliography (at the end of your document)
Douglas, M & Watson, C 1984, Networking, Macmillan, London. Long, PE (ed.) 1991, A collection of current views on nuclear safety, Penguin, Harmondsworth.
This is the first blog in what will be a series that will allign themselves with material covered under the NSW HSC Business Studies Syllabus. This material should be used to supplement material provided in the classroom and allow you to extend your learning.
You are strongly encouraged to comment on posts and to read the comments of others.
Things to do over the holidays in order to be prepared for 2008.
You’ve probably seen this orange box on the left a few times before. It’s there to tell you that you can subscribe to this site (or any other site that has this symbol) so that you can be notified whenever that site updates.
