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Posts from SIGCSE: Marissa Mayer’s 9 lessons from Google
Marissa Mayer is giving the keynote at SIGCSE. In her talk “Innovation, design and simplicity”, she’s talking about 9 lessons from Google. She’s given this talk before (Stanford podcasts) but the insights for computer science education and the Q&A are new. Here’s my notes: 1. Creativity loves constraint Sometimes best ideas come from constraint. Eg […]
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Posts from SIGCSE: Humanitarian FOSS project
March 14, 2008
Ralph Morelli from Trinity College is leading a workshop at SIGCSE called “Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software” (with others including Heidi Elias and Janardham Iyengar). This is an exciting move towards computing for sustainability. Humanitarian-FOSS is software that benefits humanity in some way. They use the word humanitarian in the broadest sense, so […]
LivingCampus Forum
March 5, 2008
We’ve got a LivingCampus forum on Friday lunchtime. At this meeting we’re talking about what we’ve done so far and introducing a strategy to progress the design and implementation. The key to this process is working groups to contribute to the design of each themed area to develop a plan that meets each of the […]
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LivingCampus Update
March 5, 2008
The LivingCampus got off to a great start with a prominent article by Brenda Harwood in the Star. Phil Ker endorsed the project, as did student representatives Meagan Cloughley and Ryan Ward. Leigh has been writing about the project too: We’re aiming to be developing sustainable production systems and living/working spaces with community education value. […]
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Posts from NZAEE (7): John Fien
March 4, 2008
John Fien is Innovation Professor of Sustainability RMIT in Melbourne. He spoke at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education in Dunedin recently. Fien extended the activity/action distinction made by Bjarne Jensen earlier in the conference. He talked about the Gould League Pledge, but suggests that an equivalent approach in abstinence pledges has had a […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
March 15, 2008
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