It's nothing new. It has been around for years and it has been (correctly) advocated as a much better way to teach and learn over conventional lecturing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning

You could also make webapps. There's enough you can do with HTML5, Javascript, CSS. It's a way to get started,

The real first Cambridge is the UK one. Cambridge, MA, USA was founded by students of the University of Cambridge, UK in the new world. Harvard was established first. Much later, MIT decided to make Cambridge. MA its own home. Despite these two giants, the University of Cambridge is a world leading university. Discounting it as a "UK University???" only shows utter ignorance.

Something that always escape the discussion on the reduction of carbon emissions is the production of cement. As boring cement is, its production is one of the highest sources of carbon emissions due to high temperature processes required for the formation of calcium silicates (the main component of cement). Its contribution in carbon emissions is major at least in the tens of %. Yet, nobody talks about it. There is great research done and sponsored by the cement manufactures, but too little. As the needs for cement are rising as fast an our energy needs, one has to wonder when we start taking this problem seriously.

According to Richard Clarke, a former National Security advisor, and Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity and cyberterrorism, it's not that China has extraordinary capabilities for cyber attack. It's the US that has essentially no defense. The US is the country with the highest penetration of the Internet in infrastructure (power grid, defense contractors, etc), often run with systems not designed to be exposed to the Internet itself. There is currently no government plan to defend against any attack. Contrary to that China has strong defenses and it can shut itself down from the rest of the internet, to prevent major infrastractural disruption. It's all in here:

http://www.amazon.com/Cyber-War-Threat-National-Security/dp/0061962244/

It should have (depending on the kind of hardware, you have (out of the box): 1. Backup, very similar to Time Machine, with the added advantage that you can actual performed a backup not only locally, but remotely or in the cloud (Ubuntu One)> Extremely easy to configure 2. Ubuntu One is very similar to iCloud, as it even synchronize with your phone. 3. Unity is getting more and more similar to OS X 4. You can pay for support.

If you have sharing enabled, you might be able to connect via SSH and install a script that activates the camera...

... I know it's too late for you now. But, you should consider prey project. It does now what you are asking.

... for some it was never conceived!