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Missing slides from the LivingCampus slideshow
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
Green Birds of Feather
March 27, 2008
We held a successful Birds of a Feather session at SIGCSE last week. Here’s my notes: – Hope for a SIGCSE sustainable practice statement We discussed the New Zealand (NACCQ) statement on Computing Education for Sustainability – here is the background: https://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/cfs-policy/ – Deeper analysis of problems and opportunities – Promoting sustainable practice, integration with […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Posts from SIGCSE: Differentiated learning through reading
March 27, 2008
Leigh Ann Sudol from Carnegie Mellon takes a different approach to get students thinking about bigger pictures: she makes them read. In forging connections, she describes a reading assignment and the impact of that assignment on getting students thinking about computer science and its connections to their life. She sees that: students are entering with […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Computer Science service-learning programme
March 26, 2008
Chris Brooks described a successful service-learning programme for computer science students (pdf). He teaches at a Jesuit school where service learning is the norm. He makes the point that this is not “volunteering” , rather service learning is community-based active lerning that supplements classroom material with reflective activities that help students synthesize experiences: If the […]
Computing for Sustainability 
March 30, 2008
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