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Inspiring sustainable practitioner
Yesterday we hosted Lizzie Gillet, producer of “The Age of Stupid“. Back in Dunedin for a while, she gave an inspirational talk about the making of the movie. Otago Polytechnic is committed to sustainable education and from 2009 every graduate will have been trained in sustainability practices. With that goal in mind we’re always […]
eLivingCampus on to iteration three
October 22, 2008
As you know, our software engineering classes are developing the information systems that will power the LivingCampus. At the end of the second iteration student groups have presented their functional deliverables to the clients (flickr). In teaching the Agile Development Framework we focus on the development cycle in the first two iterations. Although the […]
eLivingCampus wireframes and paper prototyping
October 22, 2008
Robert Fulghum famously wrote that all he really needed to know he learned in kindergarten. He meant, of course, the important stuff like sharing and not hitting, but perhaps he also meant cutting out. In the development of the eLivingCampus we’ve been doing just that with our paper based prototyping. We first develop wireframe […]
eLivingCampus Dialogue diagrams
October 21, 2008
The Agile Development Framework we’re following for the development of the eLivingCampus is very much user focussed. We’ve just spent a few days developing dialogue diagrams that explore possible flows of interaction. The basis for this process is an analysis of each task (person interacting with a functional requirement = a task). I think […]
Inspiring students
September 19, 2008
Otago Polytechnic has made a commitment to quality teaching and learning. Consequently everyone has to hold a qualification in tertiary teaching. I’ve just done my Grad Cert Tertiary Learning and Teaching (Level 7) by assessment of prior learning. It is a reflection on 10 years of teaching software engineering, capstone projects, Simpa and […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 4, 2008
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