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Popup Ecozoo
I’m a great fan of pop-ups. I use them in teaching interaction design. I have a skeleton for a book that goes like this “computing interactivity is based on the ultimate in paper based design from 30 years ago – the library card or bank book. Most of our HCI aims to replicate that database […]
AAEE in Darwin from Dunedin
July 11, 2008
The Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference is on in Darwin this week. We’ve presented two papers there: Living Campus and an overview of Education for Sustainability at Otago Polytechnic. None of us left Dunedin to participate (except Phil who was in Christchurch), presenting via their online conference systems (instructions). It was good to be […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Sustainable practitioners: update
July 10, 2008
Last year Otago Polytechnic made a commitment that by 2009 “every graduate may think and act as a sustainable practitioner”. At the NACCQ conference last week, we were invited to present a summary of progress twoards this goal. Here’s the paper. It expands on this earlier presentation. Every Graduate Education for Sustainability one year on […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Not caught in Fish’s net
May 13, 2008
Last night we attended a talk by Stanley Fish entitled “Save the world on your own time – what the university professor should (and shouldn’t) do”. Wrongly assuming the title to be tongue in cheek and meant the opposite, I went along hoping to find some stories to add to 89 reasons. How wrong I […]
Posted in: curriculum, Education for Sustainability
Towards Sustainable Practitioners
May 12, 2008
Nine months ago, Otago Polytechnic set a goal of “that every graduate may think and act as a “sustainable practitioner”. This notion of sustainable practitioner very much puts what we are doing into the context of each discipline. We just had a review session where every head of department told us about progress towards this […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 17, 2008
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