[LINK] Uni & School extensions

[Tom Worthington]

At 12:57 AM 6/03/2009, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Wouldn't it be a fine thing if many such pro-active Aussie university ppl
>reached out to schools in this manner .. eg, online 'extension' classes ...

Australian universities do run such activities, they just tend not to 
make a fuss about it.

In December I was teaching school students from the Australian 
Informatics Olympiad <http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/amtaioc.html> 
how to measure the energy use of computers. I got them to do a 
practical exercise with an Electricity Usage Monitor to compare the 
power use of a desktop computer and  netbook, calculate the carbon 
emissions, compare this with published figures and discuss options 
for reduction. They now know more about Green ICT than many CIOs. ;-)



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