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System metaphor for eLivingCampus
Our software engineering class is working to develop the “Living Campus Information Infrastructure” . We’re working towards a project proposal at the end of the first iteration, focussing at the moment on the business opportunity. While most groups moved quite quickly to an information system to support a garden (ie signs, irrigation systems), some are […]
Towards an eLivingCampus
August 11, 2008
Our software engineering class is working to develop the “Living Campus Information Infrastructure” . What does that mean? Good question, and one the students have been asking both us and their client, Paula Petley from our CEO’s office. Having gone through nearly two years of doing assignments with specific instructions, the students arrive in software […]
Learning from having achievements plummet
August 10, 2008
In one of the first classes of software engineering for the semester we get students to do an “egg and straws”. The challenge is to build a structure to prevent an egg breaking when dropped to concrete from shoulder height. The only resources available are 6 drinking straws and 20cm of tape. I have a […]
Software Engineering meets Living Campus
August 10, 2008
We’ve got two full streams of Software Engineering this year. We teach a brand of software engineering that attempts to integrate agile with structure: Agile development framework (link to emerging wikibook). As part of our drive to find opportunities to integrate sustainability into teaching, we’re giving the groups the challenge of developing an information infrastructure […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Can students re-engineer? No.
March 26, 2008
Eli Blevis makes the point that we have to make it cool to want to own a retro iPod. He doesn’t mean a new piece of equipment made to look old, but that we keep our old favourites alive for a lot longer than is the current trend. beyond the switch in marketing and fashion, […]
Computing for Sustainability 
August 11, 2008
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