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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 Technology that will continue to evolve with the changing world of ICT.

The best part ... we can show off what we are learning!

TreeHugger

• "Clean Coal" Positioned To Be The High End Energy Product No One Can Afford

Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed "clean coal" power plant. Image credit:Illinois Times? Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explain, in a last-year kind of way, why Obama's Energy Department supports this $3.5 billion fantasy. (Several major conceptual design changes have been made since the Bush Ad...Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Paul McCartney Takes on NASA, Ewan McGregor Needs Your Help, and More

Photo via OneThirtyBPM.com Musician Paul McCartney isn't shy about taking a stand for animal rights -- the vegetarian superstar has talked about his journey to a meat-free diet and supported Meatless Mondays -- and now he's speaking up for another group: the monkeys that NASA uses to predict how space travel will affect humans. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Chimps Found Deactivating Snares Set By Human Bushmeat Hunters

photo: Graham Racher via flickr Go chimps, go! An interesting new paper in the journal chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea have been successfully deactivating snares set by human bushmeat hunters. Though not always successful, the scienti...Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Best of Inhabitots: 7 Toxic Dangers for Kids

Photo credit: on_ovington + Baby formula could contain unsettling amounts of aluminum&emdash;more than 40 times the amount found in breast milk, according to one recent study. + Another scary side-effect of tainted baby formula: Breasts in female infants. + 85 percent of so-called kid-friendly drinks and snacks could contain Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Marine Stewardship Council's Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

• Banksy Turns Kiddie Ride Into Anti-BP Statement

Photo: Banksy.co.uk Poor Dolphin World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months. Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action....Read the full story on TreeHugger

BBC News - Science & Environment

• Plans for solar 'close encounter'

Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.

• Wolves fail to halt aspen decline

The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.

• Technique to trace persistent CFCs

Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone layer.

• Openness urged on UK's emissions

The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion.

• 'Lights out' help migratory birds

A growing number of New York sky-scrapers switch off their lights at night to help reduce the number of migratory birds hitting the buildings.

• Ants protect trees from elephants

A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.

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