Staff Profile
Lecturer
Shirley Gibbs
BCM, GD Information Design (CPIT), MApplSc (Hons)
Currently Teaching
Shirley is currently teaching:
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COMP 203 Problem Solving with End-User Tools
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Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications
• Computer literacy
• Computing skills of incoming tertiary students
• End-user computing requirements for business graduates
• End-user computing education
• Gender issues in computing education
Gibbs, S., and McLennan T. (2010) The Digital Divide: Real or Imaginary. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference o f Computing and Information Technology Education in New Zealand (Incorporating 23rd Annual NACCQ Conference), Dunedin 7-9 July 2010.
Gibbs, S., and McKinnon, A. The Computing Skills expected of Business Graduates: a New Zealand study. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009
Gibbs, S. (2008). Internet use equals computer literacy? In Hello! Where are you in the landscape of educational technology? Proceedings ascilite Melbourne 2008 http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/gibbs.pdf
Website
Shirley and Theresa McLennan have developed the website Spreadsheet Resource Reservoir. This website contains many different spreadsheet teaching a learning resources.