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The SimPa story in pictures
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 […]
Signing the Simple Pledge
June 5, 2009
To celebrate World Environment Day we’ve taken the opportunity to formally launch the book Simple Pledge: Otago Polytechnic’s Journey Towards Sustainability . The book is intended to reinforce the message that this the journey Otago Polytechnic is on, that means you, and yes you can. But we need to do more than simply hand […]
My learnings for innovative education
May 4, 2009
Last week I spoke at the Tertiary Education Summit. I was on a panel to discuss “Developing world leading research and innovation activities”. The panel was asked to explore what are characteristics of successful institutions? I’ve been on panels like this before and listened to lots more. The outcome is always the same: […]
Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South
May 1, 2009
We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers melting and significantly changing landscape in an area that provides the water supply for a huge proportion of […]
Simple pledge: towards sustainable practice
April 27, 2009
You asked for it, here’s Otago Polytechnic’s book as an embedded pdf. Read in full screen to read the words. It’s perhaps in the wrong order in this format – when printed landscape, one tends to look at the picture and narrative on the right before the detailed words on the left. Very […]
Computing for Sustainability 
June 11, 2009
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