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Tell me when you stop agreeing…
When we were rolling out the Simple Pledge we spent the day talking, one after the other, to several hundred staff and students. Some signed straight away, others first wanted to talk about what it means to be a sustainable practitioner and about education for sustainability. It’s amazing how repeating the same discussuion in […]
Educational Innovation Award for SimPā
July 19, 2009
Last week we presented a review of SimPā at NACCQ. We we thrilled to be given the Award for Educational Innovation. Here’s the presentation and the paper itself. Abstract The SimPā project is a multiyear collaborative project that aimed to convey and strengthen Māori culture, tikaka and knowledge using innovative and cutting edge technology. In […]
Posted in: Otago Polytechnic, SimPa
Award for collaborative research for computing sustainability
July 19, 2009
Each year the CITRUS Trust gives an award for the best collaborative research in the NZ computing education sector. This year the award recognised our work into computing sustainability – in particular the collaboration between Otago Polytechnic (Samuel Mann and Lesley Smith) and Unitec (Alison Young and Logan Muller). Thank you folks – is a […]
Simple Pledge recognised
July 18, 2009
Our poster describing the Simple Pledge was “highly commended” at the 22nd NACCQ conference awards this week. Well done everyone. Here’s the poster. And the page from the proceedings:
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Our student research rewarded
July 15, 2009
We’re very proud of our capstone projects. This year our students again won the national award for the best student research for the poster describing the virtual antfarm for the Otago Museum. Well done Trevor Farquharson, Jun Cui and Gareth Dorset (and Hamish and Patricia). Here’s the poster that won the student category at the 22nd NACCQ […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing for Sustainability 
July 24, 2009
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