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In this ever rapid world of ICT, keeping up with the changes is challenging! This is a collaborative resource project designed to be used by Design Technology teachers and students.  The teacher and students work together researching, entering and editing each others additions. The aim is to use and develop higher order thinking skills, co-operative learning procedures and interpersonal skills in a project based learning environment. The hoped result is a resource and project wiki dedicated to Design Technogology that will continue to evolve with the changing world of ICT. The best part ... we can show off what we are learning!  TreeHuggerPhoto via [[http://www.internationalrivers.org|International Rivers ]] The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today. Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering solar industry, the Spanish gov offered far too sweet a feed-in tariff for solar investors--a whopping 58 U...Read the full story on TreeHugger Climate Changer A few weeks ago, from his post as the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat. Who replaces him figures to be a signal of where the UN is going on climate change. Developing countries have had a hard road to climb in the UN process and three are stepping up to nominate a replacement for Boer. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger This photo, via The Telegraph, shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old, in fact, that their broad ...Read the full story on TreeHugger Image credit: Grist Imagine a hot summer day in a town surrounded by glistening pools of water. Now imagine that no one is swimming—that they can't because the water has been contaminated with a potentially dangerous, yet common, pollutant. For many, this terrible thought is a reality and the culprit is nitrate....Read the full story on TreeHugger Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Read the full story on TreeHugger The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be "warranted but precluded" by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it "warrants" protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said, the greater sage-grouse will not be added to the list at this time. Instead, it would join nearly 300 other species that have been "precluded"—essentially placed on a waiting list—while other priority species are considered. While the ruling was by no means a total loss for the grouse, it falls far ...Read the full story on TreeHugger BBC News | Science & Environment | UK EditionThe Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned. Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists. The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say. A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers. Research shows some EU countries "import" about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries. A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England. Please note: Any IB syllabus statements included on DesTechWiki are NOT under any free license and remain property of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). They are reproduced here for personal study purposes only.  DesTechWiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License |
