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Panda Island
Otago Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Information Technology capstone project sees groups of students undertaking year long “real projects for real clients”. Panda Island is a recently completed project. The Peace Foundation has identified a need for an interactive tool to complement their Cool Schools programme, which is aimed at primary school students to learn skills required […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology, Otago Polytechnic
FarmBase
November 21, 2012
Here’s one of our recently completed capstone projects. The farm environmental accreditation process is a time consuming, costly and document-laden endeavour. FarmBase enables efficient management and auditing by providing agribusiness and environmental data in an integrated system (for Ian Brown Consulting).
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology
Arguing in a way that responding challenges my thinking
October 4, 2012
Jeffrey Bardzell makes some really interesting points in his recent discussion on the nature of peer reviewing of argument papers. I agree with his approach to reviewing essays, but that is not why I’m writing this post. Jeffrey argues that we should look beyond the usual normative criteria to judge argument/essay papers: Do I agree […]
Of behavioural wedges and spillovers
September 21, 2012
In the New Zealand Parliament yesterday the Associate Minister for Climate Change Issues Simon Bridges repeatedly answered Kennedy Graham’s questions about worsening scientific evidence with answers about protecting NZ jobs (video). Only when the economy improves, he said, could we look at changes so long as they didn’t affect NZ jobs. In other words, the […]
Sounds Like Sustainable Computing
September 17, 2012
In 2011 we began a weekly radio show “Sustainable Lens: Resilience on Radio”. Each week the team take a sustainable perspective on current topics in the world around us. Regular features aimed at drawing out connections lead into an extended discussion with invited guests. The show is broadcast live on Otago Access Radio, streamed on […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
November 21, 2012
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