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Simpa diaries
We’re busily working with runaka on the Simpā project. Tori and Amber are helping communities build capabilities in digital media as part of engaging in their own narratives. Tori writes up brief notes of each session, and with her permission, I thought I’d share some of them with you. These document a project of combining […]
Most important of the three Rs
August 25, 2008
We’re on the first of the three R’s today. Both the Reading one and the Reduce one. We’ve been doing some analysis on our paper use. Before you scroll down, take a shot at working out how much paper we use in this institution. Three ways of thinking about it: 1. Total number of pages? […]
Little systems thinking in games either
August 17, 2008
I’m still on the hunt for systems thinking in museums. I still don’t know why museums tend to shy away from complexity in their interactive exhibits. Martin suggests that it is the complexity of making such games that dissuades museums – they don’t have the big budgets of the games industry. Good point. […]
Audience map for eLivingCampus
August 14, 2008
Audience mapping was used by student groups to identify stakeholders of the Living Campus project. Ethics is an important component of the Agile development framework (earlier post). We strongly believe that ethics should be integrated, and the best way of doing this is from the start. The Living Campus student groups have been identifying stakeholders […]
Computing award for sustainability “far beyond own footprint”
August 12, 2008
Last week the winners in the Computerworld Excellence Awards were announced. For the first time there was an award for Sustainable ICT. I thoroughly enjoyed being a judge for this award, along with Peter Noble of IRD and the govt3 programme and Claudia Vidal of Uniservices. Here’s the judges’ report from the paper version of […]
Computing for Sustainability 
August 27, 2008
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