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Can’t rely on geeks

July 26, 2009

Last week we won an award (Best Paper NACCQ and Alison Young Cup) for our research into the sustainability understandings of computing student intakes. The paper (here) is quite dense so here’s a summarised version of some key findings: 539 new students at Otago Polytechnic responded to a survey aimed understanding their attitudes towards sustainability. […]

Educational Innovation Award for SimPā

July 19, 2009

Last week we presented a review of SimPā at NACCQ. We we thrilled to be given the Award for Educational Innovation. Here’s the presentation and the paper itself. Abstract The SimPā project is a multiyear collaborative project that aimed to convey and strengthen Māori culture, tikaka and knowledge using innovative and cutting edge technology. 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 […]

Simple Pledge recognised

July 18, 2009

Our poster describing the Simple Pledge was “highly commended” at the 22nd NACCQ conference awards this week. Well done everyone. Here’s the poster. And the page from the proceedings:

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 […]