Posts by: fracassi

Friday 8th, 2015, First World Energy Exercise at ITBA

  Last Friday we did our first World Energy Exercise at ITBA. This workshop features an interactive role playing gaming in which 6 groups: energy supply, energy eficiency, population and consumption, climate hawks, carbon pricing, agriculture and land use, negotiate a strategic plan to migrate to a sustainable climate friendly economy. Fifty people participated in […]

My www.ingfracassi.com.ar site got hacked! But now is again working…

Some years ago I designed a website about some of the Career Planning and Human Resources services that I was doing in Buenos Aires.  The site needs urgent improvement, and I must confess that it is designed with the old “pixel perfect” paradigm in mind. To my great regret, I forgot to update the wordpress […]

Our experience faciliating the World Climate Exercise!!!! – Interview by Climateinteractive.org

I was recently interviewed by the people at www.climateinteractive.org Here is a link to the interview! “Facilitating the World Climate Exercise – Interview – Eduardo Pedro Fracassi” I must say that it took much time to get the pictures right, my sister Maria Rosa helped with her camera and knowledge. The interview helped me order […]

New Climate Awareness Workshop using the World Climate Exercise!!!

We are organizing the  Fourth Climate Change Awareness Workshop using the World Climate Exercise at ITBA! We are very happy, we expect to be virtually joined by Juliette Rooney-Varga, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Director, Climate Change Initiative UMass Lowell. We will play the  World Climate Exercise developed by Climate Interactive and the team led by […]

Finished migrating namikoshibas.com site to HTML5

We have just finished migrating www.namikoshibas.com static pages from HTML 4  to HTML 5 so that they can be easily browsed in a mobile phone / smartphone. More than 27 English language pages were updated. We hope that in this way anyone around the world might browse our page with his / her smartphone and […]

Improving student feedback!

This time I have changed the way I write feedback to students. Typically, students highly value the feedback notes that they receive with their grades. After checking student course feedback forms, I realized that some top performing students needed and expected extensive feedback. It seemed that they were not happy with being told that they […]

Spanish part of the ecommerce site with responsive design!

We have finished recoding the Spanish pages of the ecommerce project website www.namikoshibas.com  from html 4 into html 5 and CSS 3 so that the website ow can be easily browsed in a smartphone. Using html 5 and CSS 3 for a responsive design changes the website design paradigm from “pixel perfect” to “a design […]

A project to improve AD 648 online facilitation!

Building an ecommerce site for my sister’s hobby: breeding cute shiba inu puppies! How it all began! Some years ago I started facilitating AD 648 Introduction to eCommerce online course. Students had to complete several valuable assignments, one of them was designing and building an ecommerce site with dreamweaver. So I decided to make my […]