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Tell me when you stop agreeing…
When we were rolling out the Simple Pledge we spent the day talking, one after the other, to several hundred staff and students. Some signed straight away, others first wanted to talk about what it means to be a sustainable practitioner and about education for sustainability. It’s amazing how repeating the same discussuion in […]
Award for collaborative research for computing sustainability
July 19, 2009
Each year the CITRUS Trust gives an award for the best collaborative research in the NZ computing education sector. This year the award recognised our work into computing sustainability – in particular the collaboration between Otago Polytechnic (Samuel Mann and Lesley Smith) and Unitec (Alison Young and Logan Muller). Thank you folks – is a […]
Our student research rewarded
July 15, 2009
We’re very proud of our capstone projects. This year our students again won the national award for the best student research for the poster describing the virtual antfarm for the Otago Museum. Well done Trevor Farquharson, Jun Cui and Gareth Dorset (and Hamish and Patricia). Here’s the poster that won the student category at the 22nd NACCQ […]
The SimPa story in words
June 11, 2009
Looking back (and forward!), SimPa is quite different to how we first conceived it. Despite these differences, or perhaps because of them, it has far exceeded our expectations. Here’s the first stab at the words to follow the SimPa pictures (these are my personal thoughts, Tori is doing the same, tomorrow they join forces to become […]
The SimPa story in pictures
June 11, 2009
SimPa is our project working with Maori communities to build capacity in digital content to benefit the culture. Close to the end of the funding from the Digital Strategy, we’re awash in reports and milestones. Amidst all the words, we’ve spent time this week developing a visual comparison of where we thought the project would […]
July 24, 2009
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