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Posts from SICSE: Lazowska suggests green IT as next space race
Ed Lazowska is chair of the Computing Community Consortium. He gave the last keynote at SIGCSE (slides here). He describes the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century. Computing is listed, as are electronics and the internet. Perhaps even more important though is the role of computing in ALL of the other achievements from […]
LivingCampus underway
March 31, 2008
On Saturday Otago Polytechnic Leadership Team had a working bee and a major area of focus was getting the LivingCampus underway. Thanks for your support everyone. We’re hoping to get interpretative material up by the end of today (feel free to contribute on the wiki). More images on Flickr. Including this one from Simon which […]
Posted in: LivingCampus, Otago Polytechnic
Living Campus Participatory Planning
March 30, 2008
The LivingCampus is is both bottom up and top down. We have leadership from the top (our CEO Phil Ker is very supportive) and have a strong groundswell of support from our community. Incidentally, Phil makes a useful point that we need to move beyond an us (staff) and them (students) and others (oustide) and […]
Missing slides from the LivingCampus slideshow
March 30, 2008
Rob points out that some of the slides from the forum post have gotten lost in the wash (replaced by red squares, suspiciously like half of a pair of socks). Here are the missing images from Michelle Ritchie. Michelle has done a great job of mixing the permaculture design with a themed educational/interaction design. The […]
LivingCampus Forum slidecast
March 30, 2008
Here’s the slides from the LivingCampus Forum we held a couple of weeks back.
Posted in: LivingCampus, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
April 3, 2008
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