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Computing is ubiquitous, but experiences are design-led
Knuth described the “art of programming”, but the relationship between art and code is somewhat uneasy. For many years we have seen papers at conferences making excuses for computing students’ inabilities when it comes to design. Those of us who teach computing have all sat through assessments where students show us something functional but truly […]
Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist
June 29, 2010
At this year’s CITRENZ/NACCQ conference we’re introducing Mashup: Pecha-Kucha with a Twist. This promises to be a fast paced, visual, interactive collaborative celebration of computing research. You are invited to participate (even if you know nothing about computing or research!). A Pecha Kucha sees the fast paced presentation of ideas – each presenter has […]
Upcoming workshop
June 22, 2010
I’ve been asked to lead a full day workshop at the 2nd Annual New Zealand Higher Education Summit. The workshop will develop the context and strategy for sustainability in education. This fits really well into the conference as a whole that aims to explore the factors that underpin the sector’s success in making tertiary […]
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Green IT: Challenge for designers
June 20, 2010
A few years back I wrote a paper about marketing computing programmes – promoting courses of study that is (rather than either selling programs or programs that sell things). In that paper I talked about how badly our prospectuses do at promoting the career of computing to potential students. Instead of careers with a focus […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, marketing
Simpa retrospective slide show
June 1, 2010
Here’s our Simpa talk from Museums and the Web: The full text is here: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/papers/mann/mann.html
Posted in: SimPa
Computing for Sustainability 
July 1, 2010
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