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Sustainability at the student showcases – Team Dunedin
Team Dunedin exhibit at Excite We were doing the Excite thing on Saturday. In L-block Phillip Ballard was showing off the Team Dunedin design for Shac. The aim of the Team Dunedin house is to “mainstream sustainable building and living using our houses built on campus”. Team Dunedin is designing and building a […]
Inspiring sustainable practitioner
November 4, 2008
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 […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing and sustainability in billboard mash-up
October 30, 2008
Today I have been inundated with evidence of the power of computing and its relevance to sustainability. It seems that everyone I know has found the Green’s “make your own Vote for Me billboard“. This is brilliant viral marketing that engages you with their brand message. It seems the very act of looking through your […]
Unwinding in the Catlins
October 28, 2008
We spent the long weekend at Papatowai in the Catlins. Labour weekend being the traditional start-of-summer, the weather was traditionally dreadful. Saturday was very wet indeed but cleared on Sunday for a stunner of a day on Monday. I did no work at all. I took a PhD I’m reviewing, but I’m sorry Laura, it […]
Posted in: Otago
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 […]
Computing for Sustainability 
November 24, 2008
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