Archive for February, 2009
TPACK Newsletter #2: Feb09 Edition
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #2: Special SITE conference issueLate February 2009 Welcome to the second edition of the TPACK Newsletter. If you are ... Read more..Optical illusions go live…
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Fun, Psychology, Puzzles, Representation, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
If you love optical illusions you have to see this... just absolutely brilliant. The moment she pulls out the driver's license is priceless. And of course the face / ... Read more..Bangalore symposium, now on YouTube
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Creativity, India, Learning, Personal, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Video | No Comments »
This past August I was in India for a Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation & Creativity. The meeting was organized by the Quest Alliance, USAID and ... Read more..Visualizing periodic tables (What not to do)
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Representation, Research, Science, Technology, Worth Reading, Writing | 3 Comments »
Sean Nash (of Nashworld) sent me a link to A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods of Management. This is a very cool looking representation developed by Ralph Lengler & Martin ... Read more..Multiple representations of the periodic table and learning
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Housekeeping, Psychology, Publications, Representation, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
Mishra & Yadav (2006) was a paper based around my dissertation research. It took a while to get published and I am including it here for the record. My dissertation ... Read more..Slumdog night (and Rahman)
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, India | 2 Comments »
Slumdog rolled into the Oscars tonight. More important to me were the two Oscars for A. R. Rahman for original score and song. It is time that the world recognized ... Read more..Gandhi, ambigrams, creativity & the power of small pieces loosely joined
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Books, Creativity, Design, Fun, India, Orissa, Personal, Puzzles, Stories, Technology, Worth Reading | 18 Comments »
This is an extended piece on the manner in which the web, small pieces loosely joined, can lead to “serendipitous connectabilty” (something I had written about earlier here). All ... Read more..EduPunk: The logo
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Online Learning, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I had written about the EduPunk program and my natural affinity to it here. What I forgot to add in that posting was an EduPunk logo I had created. This ... Read more..MSU Technology Showcase: The Usual Suspects
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I have been invited by Patrick Dickson, Byron Brown and Jon Sticklen to offer a lowkeynote address (note emphasis on lowkey!) for MSU's Second Annual Faculty Technology Showcase (more details ... Read more..The Allegory of the Cave
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, India, Philosophy, Religion, Representation, Video, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Plato's Allegory of the Cave (see Wikipedia entry) illustrates "our nature in its education and want of education." It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and ... Read more..Finding myself in EduPunk
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Design, Economics, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Online Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
Matt Koehler introduce me to the idea of edupunk. As this Chronicle story (Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk') says, Edupunk seems to be a reaction against ... Read more..A different language
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | 1 Comment »
I have always been interested in how we use words to capture intangibles. For instance wine connoisseurs have developed a specialized language (which sadly is quite opaque to me) ... Read more..The story of Hari & freedom of speech
Friday, February 13th, 2009 Posted in Crime, India, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Last week, Johann Hari wrote an article defending free speech for everyone. You can read the article here: Why should I respect these oppressive religions?. This article was reprinted in ... Read more..Responding to my reading…
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Fiction, India, Politics, Religion, Stories | No Comments »
I had written a response to Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist a while ago (read it here). Yesterday, I received a note from Irfan critiquing my take on the novel. ... Read more..Darwin Day & A new Gallup Poll
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Evolution, Personal, Psychology, Religion, Science | No Comments »
Charles Darwin 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882 Read more..TPACK (wiki + image) update
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Publications, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | 1 Comment »
A couple of TPACK related updates. First, the outdated tpck.org has been replaced by the more up-to-date and more appropriate TPACK.org. [The tpck.org site hasn't really gone away, but we ... Read more..Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Economics, Engineering, Politics, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
Leigh Wolf just sent me this video created by the Johnson Space Center on Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion. A Google search led to this description: Read more..Social Networking & Education @ AACTE
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Learning, Photography, Publications, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The Innovation & Technology Committee of the AACTE organized a symposium titled: Digital-Age Learners in a Socially Networked World at the Annual meeting at Chicago. See photos from AACTE09 @ ... Read more..Appreciating Joel Colbert at AACTE
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Fun, News, Personal, Publications, Stories, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I just spent a couple of days in Chicago at the Annual meeting of the American Association for the Colleges of Teacher Education. On Friday evening was meeting of the ... Read more..TPACK in Journal of Teacher Education
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
The Journal of Teacher Education just came out with a special theme issue devoted to innovative uses of technology for teacher learning. The editorial for the special issue frames the ... Read more..EdTech 2009, Ashland Virginia
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Learning, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel | No Comments »
I am at Ashland, Virginia for EdTech 2009 to be held on the campus of Randolph-Macon College. You can find the complete schedule here. EdTech2009 is an annual two-day conference ... Read more..