Nick Wallingford

Senior Academic Staff Member

I have been a tutor at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic for over 30 years now.

  • Basic Information

  • Nick Wallingford
  • 4 May 1951
  • 55 Watling St, Tauranga, New Zealand
  • +64 7 5781422
  • +64 21 1787812
  • nick@wallingford.nz
  • qwerty.geek.nz/nickw

Educational Background

  • S.F. Austin Senior High School1966 - 1969

    Houston, Texas, USA

  • University of Texas1969 - 1971

    Austin, Texas, USA

  • Post Graduate Diploma in Computing: UNITEC2000 - 2001

    Auckland, NZ

  • Master of Computing: UNITEC2000 - 2002

    Auckland, NZ

Employment History

  • Bay of Plenty Polytechnic1983 - 2005, 2007 - present

    Tauranga, NZ

  • InternetNZ2006 - 2007

    Wellington, NZ

Skills

  • * Course design

  • * Course delivery

  • * Assessment

  • * Moderation

Chronology and Research

Overview of activities for the last 40(!) years...

1969 High school diploma (Houston, Texas)
1969 - 1971 Attended University of Texas (Austin, Texas)
1974 Emigration to NZ
1974 - 1979 Commercial beekeeper (Taranaki, Timaru, Leeston, Dannevirke, Tonga)
1979 - 1983 Sideline beekeeper (Rotorua)
1979 - 1980 Charge baker (Rotorua)
1981 - 1982 Self-employed builder (Rotorua)
1983 Employed by the Bay of Plenty Community College (Tauranga)
1983 - 1984 Investigate, design, prepare Certificate in Beekeeping course
1985 - 1990 Deliver, administer Certificate in Beekeeping course, other courses
1990 - 1991 MIS user support, user training, user documentation, system design, teaching introductory computing
1991 - 1994 Planning Asst, quality documentation, budget and planning functions, teaching introductory computing
1995 - 1996 Full time tutoring in computing
1997 - 1998 Industry Training (computing short courses) and general tutoring in computing
1998 - present Full time tutoring in computing
2000 - 2002 Study and complete Post Graduate Diploma in Computing and Master of Computing
2002 - 2004 Appointed as Programme Co-ordinator to manage the new Bachelor of Computing Systems (BCS) degree at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic.
2005 Teaching full time on a range of IT programmes
2006 Leave of absence to work for InternetNZ as a Technical Policy Analyst
2007 - 2008 Return to teaching on Diploma in Information and Communications Technology (Level 5) and Bachelor of Computing Systems degree programmes
2008 - present Return to teaching on N.Z. Diploma in Business - teaching 550 (Business Computing) and 650 (Applied Computing).

Publications, Conference Presentations, Posters, Dissertation

Publication: Wallingford, N. (2005, December). A taste of honey: reducing SPAM. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology, Vol 3, Issue 3. ISSN 1176-4120.

Conference presentation: Wallingford, N. (2005). Audio files for te reo ataahua - Basic te reo Maori. eFest 2005, Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics New Zealand, Wellington.

Concise paper: Wallingford, N. (2005). A taste of honey UCE (Spam) reduction through deception. In S. Mann & T. Clear (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (pp. 323-327). Tauranga: NACCQ.

Publication: Wallingford, N. (2005). An in-house internet service provider for the Bachelor of Computing Systems. Forum, Vol 10 (July 2005), p. 16.

Publication: Wallingford, N. (2004, November). Enrolment Motivations for IT Students. Bulletin of Applied Computing and Information Technology Vol. 2, Issue 3. ISSN 1176-4120. Retrieved August 19, 2005 from http://www.naccq.ac.nz/bacit/0203/2004Wallingford_BITRMotivations.htm

Concise paper: Wallingford, N. (2004). An analysis of enrolment motivations for IT students. In S. Mann & T. Clear (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (pp. 471-474). Christchurch: NACCQ.

Concise paper: Wallingford, N. (2003). Doing it with style: Structured document creation from wordprocessing into HTML. In S. Mann & A. Williamson (Eds.), Fresh Fields, New Horizons (pp. 449-453). Palmerston North: NACCQ.

Publication: Wallingford, N. (2003). More than a typewriter. Forum, Vol 7 (October 2003), pp. 6-10.

Poster presentation: Wallingford, N. & Fleming, P. (2004). Audio files for te reo Ātaahura: Basic te reo Māori. In S. Mann & T. Clear (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (p. 537). Christchurch: NACCQ.

Poster presentation: Harford, T. & Wallingford, N. (2004). RemotePoint management interface and RemotePointSVR. In S. Mann & T. Clear (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications (p. 496). Christchurch: NACCQ.

Workshop presentation: Wallingford, N. (2003). Descriptive statistical techniques. Staff training workshop, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Workshop presentation: Wallingford, N. & Fleming, P. (2003). Advanced internet search methodologies. Workshop for AAPNZ held at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Poster presentation: Wallingford, N. & Fleming, P. (2003). Developing a pathway for information technology courses at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic. In S. Mann & A. Williamson (Eds.), Fresh Fields, New Horizons (p. 511). Palmerston North: NACCQ.

Poster presentation: Wallingford, N. (2003). You Write Tomato, I Write Tōmātō In S. Mann & A. Williamson (Eds.), Fresh Fields, New Horizons (pp. 512). Palmerston North: NACCQ.

Seminar presentation: Wallingford, N. (2003). SPAM, SPAM and more SPAM - How to deal with junk email. Public seminar for E-Week, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Workshop presentation: Wallingford, N. (2003). Descriptive statistical techniques. Staff training workshop, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Seminar presentation: Wallingford, N. (2002). An introduction to descriptive statistical methods for new researchers. Research methods 06.804, Master of Computing programme, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Seminar presentation: Wallingford, N. (2002). The library without a librarian - an introduction to internet search methodologies. Public seminar for E-Week, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Workshop presentation: Wallingford, N. (2002). CAOS - Computer aided outlining and styles. Staff training workshop, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga.

Seminar presentation: Wallingford, N. (2001). Research proposal for a masterate project with the provisional title: An analysis of posting frequency, size and source for an electronic mail distribution list. Research methods 06.804, Master of Computing programme, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Seminar presentation: Malcolm, P., Northover, N., Taylor, K. & Wallingford, N. (2001). Scope of information technology research in the domain of instructional technology. Research methods 06.804, Master of Computing programme, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Master's dissertation: Wallingford, N. (2002). An analysis of posting frequency, size and source for an electronic mail distribution list. Master's dissertation, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland. [On-line] Retrieved 4 May 2015 from the WWW: http://www.wallingford.nz/dissertation

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