Archive for January, 2009
TPACK Newsletter (#1)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in News, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | 6 Comments »
Judi Harris, Matt Koehler, Mario Kelly and I have been working on setting up a regular TPACK newsletter. The first edition of the newsletter went out to subscribers yesterday. I ... Read more..TE150 presentation in streaming video
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Online Learning, Psychology, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Terri Gustafson has created streaming downloads of the presentation recently made by the TE150 (Reflections on Teaching, Reflections on Learning) Online team (see this for more context). The video can ... Read more..Presentation/Workshop at Twente
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I just completed a presentation at the symposium organized by the Department of Curriculum Design & Educational Innovation, University of Twente. Later this afternoon I will be conducting a workshop ... Read more..Cool clock design
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Technology, Travel | 3 Comments »
Just thought I would share an example of interesting clock I saw during my stay here at Twente, made almost entirely of cardboard! front view Read more..Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Film, Fun, Games, Good | Bad Design, Poetry, Representation, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
... Or Why I love the web. I stumbled upon a piece (Lotus Blossom) by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries the other day... and it was like nothing else I had ... Read more..Rate of change of technology
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Design, Engineering, Evolution, Fun, Representation, Technology | 5 Comments »
I just stumbled upon this image from a 1950 issue of Popular Mechanics. The tag line below the image says: Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of ... Read more..Photos from Twente
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Fun, Personal, Photography, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I have uploaded a set of photos from my walk around the Twente University campus onto Flickr. You can see the entire set by clicking on the image below. Enjoy. ... Read more..The more things change…
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Evolution, Film, Learning, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I had posted earlier about a recent commercial that, though arguing at one level that technology can fundamentally change education, seemed to stick to the standard-lecture (albeit in different and ... Read more..TPACKed and ready to go
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel | No Comments »
I am off to the Netherlands, specifically to Twente University to talk and discuss TPACK and other interesting stuff. I have been invited by Dr. Joke Voogt, Associate Professor at ... Read more..Playing with light and shadows
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Puzzles, Representation | No Comments »
Stumbled upon the creative work of Kumiya Mashita. It is amazing just how much can be created with just light and shadows. Just brilliant. Here are some examples: Read more..Representing networks
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Design, Engineering, Good | Bad Design, Personal, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Facebook has a couple of apps that allow you to map your friends' network. I knew about them but hadn't really played with them till Matt Koehler asked for some ... Read more..Reflecting on reflections (TE150)
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Learning, Online Learning, Psychology, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
The entire TE150 team joined together to make a presentation to the College today as a part of the Online Teaching and Learning Colloquia. These sessions are sponsored by the ... Read more..Tiger by the tail
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Books, Creativity, Economics, Learning, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A while ago I blogged about a column by David Brooks in the NYTimes (Flipping the Tech & Ed equation). Brooks described research by Goldin and Katz indicating a "race ... Read more..On making computation visible
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Puzzles, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, Video | No Comments »
Here is a cool video about a "a mechanical, binary adding machine that uses marbles to flip the bits" - in other words a computer made of wood, that works ... Read more..Sitar Hero!
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Games, Representation | No Comments »
Why I love the Internets :-) Read more..On beauty in banality
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Learning, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Does beauty transcend banality and inconvenience? If this story about a violin virtuoso, Joshua Bell, playing on the subway station is any indication, we do not have "a moment to ... Read more..On messing with your mind
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creativity, Fiction, Fun, Mathematics, Psychology, Puzzles, Representation, Science | No Comments »
A fascinating series of illusions to reveal just how complicated a phenomenon perception is. I was particularly impressed by the "rubber hand" illusion. And then, from Gizmodo, comes the Yoshimoto ... Read more..Is your head in the McClouds!
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Art, Comics, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Evolution, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Representation, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
Scott McCloud is a pioneer in his field - the field of comics. (I had previously posted about him here). I just discovered (via Presentation Zen & Matt Koehler) a ... Read more..Of hernias and hiccups, the evolutionary story
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Design, Engineering, Evolution, Good | Bad Design, Religion, Science, Stories | No Comments »
Interesting article in Scientific American about how flaws in our biology reveal our evolutionary history. Steven Gould talked about it in his famous essay on The Panda's Thumb. This is ... Read more..Plus ça change
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Leigh Wolf forwarded me a link to a video commercial with the subject line saying "this is a very intriguing commercial." Of course I took a look at it right ... Read more..A different vision of the web
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Design, Engineering, Evolution, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
T. H. Nelson coined the word "hypertext" and more than anyone else, and much earlier than anyone else, truly understood how computing technology would change the text and print. One ... Read more..Technology, creativity & illusion
Monday, January 12th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Puzzles, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Marco Tempest is magician who loves technology, or a techno-geek who happens to be a good magician. He brings an unique amalgam of high-tech and magic to his shows (see ... Read more..Ambi-poetry: A mathematician reinterprets ambigrams
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, India, Personal, Poetry, Representation, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
My friend Gaurav Bhatnagar (I had blogged about his new book, Get Smart: Math Concepts here), for some reason, known only to him, has decided to create a poetry-blog based ... Read more..Blogging has been light
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Housekeeping, Personal | No Comments »
the past few days, primarily due to "beginning semester" blues. I hope to get back to full strength pretty soon... there are bunch of things I would like to blog ... Read more..Another New Year’s card
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Fun, Personal, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
We just created another New Year's Card / Video. Check it out: Shreya's Magic Touch [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOrRsXaFE3o[/youtube] Read more..Solving the rubik cube, blindfolded
Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Film, Fun, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A YouTube video of Soham solving the rubic cube blindfolded! [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymi-iG8uhR4[/youtube] [Thanks for Michael Gondry for the idea.] Read more..A year of blogging
Thursday, January 1st, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Fun, Housekeeping, Learning, Personal, Technology | No Comments »
It was exactly a year ago, on the first of January 2008, that I began blogging (see first posting here). When I started I wasn't sure how well this blogging ... Read more..