Spying on teacher: CCTV in classrooms 'on the rise'

I read an interesting article about CCTV's in classrooms. It turns out that there is a new fashion on installing CCTV's on classrooms! The reasoning behind this is to provide everyone's safety in learning environment but schools have been starting to sack teachers based on this footage for very weird reasons...

More bout this in the following article:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/spying-on-teacher-cctv-in-classrooms-on-the-rise-9271501.html

Protecting animals with CCTV's

While walking down Great Western road I saw a poster which had a big picture of CCTV camera and a text "save the animals". With some gogle searches I found that there is a on going campaign for installing surveillance for slaughter houses so that animals would get better treatment and people who don't follow the rules could be easier caught. I think this is one of the only ideas which plan to get more surveillance which  I would totally support. I assume that for the animals it doesn't matter if they get filmed and I know how cruel people can be with them. I signed the petition and I hope to see some results in the near future!

A CCTV with a light!

I found a very interesting CCTV design by a designer called BEN ROUSSEAU. As I have previously mentioned lighting up streets rises security as much as installing CCTV's this design provides both of them! I could see this as a very useful device for future.

Solar-Powered 3D Printer!

I found an article about 3D printer which uses solar energy and prints objects out of sand! Quiet unreal....

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/solar-powered-3d-printer-turns-desert-sand-glass-bowls-sculptures.html

Aesthetics of CCTV's

I found an interesting article about the look of CCTV's. I have previously written a lot about the function and ethics of the surveillance cameras but haven't thought much about the design and aesthetics of them. It is a sort of of object you assume to always look the same even though I as a product designer should not think so. With making the design nicer the feeling about the whole system could be different. I collected few example of different designs of the cameras below.

RNR Speakers

I wanted to learn more about laser-cutting and set up myself a task to redesign the casing for my old speakers. Here is what came out of it:

Useful webpages for designers

This semester I have learned a lot about different internet sites and I thought that it many people would gain a lot of this information!

1. The noun project.

You find logos and symbols for almost any noun which is very useful when you are doing folio work or presentation sheets

http://thenounproject.com/

2. Trello

Very good tool if you have a group project. You can manage and set up tasks and get organized in a very clear way.

https://trello.com/

3. Mural

A very good page where you can collect your online research

https://mural.ly/