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Dynamic visualisations for telling sustainability stories

December 17, 2007

What makes the Story of Stuff so appealing? (despite content that increasingly frustrates). It is basically a talking head with some animated diagrams: essentially a lecture with a whiteboard. This has been a passion of mine for a while. Lecturers are challenged to deliver courses in new ways: online; distance; asynchronous; interactive. Yet for many, […]

Hey, I got an award!

December 8, 2007

At the Otago Polytechnic Graduation. For “Excellence in Sustainable Practices”. Cool bananas, must be doing something right. Dave got one too, for his flexible teaching.

Otago Polytechnic progress on Education for Sustainability

December 5, 2007

Yesterday I gave a talk for the Dunedin Sustainble Business Network. Here is the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3756542993146112906&hl=en

Sustaining all week

December 2, 2007

My diary is full of sustainability this week. Most of Monday is being taken up with meetings to pull together our institution’s Education for Sustainability strategic plan. We have several strands – I’ve been reporting on the curriculum (teaching and learning) here, but there is also much happening in both compost (operations) and community. By […]

Streaming Kaikorai plans

November 19, 2007

Dr Simon McMillian is a science teacher at Kaikorai College in Dunedin. We have worked with him previously when he had a Royal Society Fellowship to work on community-based environmental management around the Kaikorai Stream. One of my project groups helped him establish teaching resources based around the installation of a real-time monitoring station in […]