Archive for March, 2009
Bic to vase: Cool idea
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Photography | No Comments »
A vase for a daisy, made from a plastic bic pen. (Website here). Read more..Master’s course wins ATT Award
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology | No Comments »
Just got the news from Carrie Albin, Outreach Coordinator of our Educational Technology Certificate Program (which is part of our Master's in Educational Technology program) that our CEP810 (Teaching for ... Read more..Special CITE issue on TPACK
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Mathematics, Online Learning, Psychology, Publications, Representation, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | No Comments »
The CITE Journal had a recent special issue devoted to TPACK. You can access the special issue (edited by Judi Harris and Matt Koehler) here or individual articles below. Read more..TPACK & the moon OR why I love the web
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Philosophy, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I recently blogged (here and here) about the experiment conducted by students in Italy that allowed them to use publicly available NASA audio recordings from the moon landings to determine ... Read more..Following up on lunar distance
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Philosophy, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A followup to my previous posting about the Italian kids calculating the distance to the moon using recordings from the Apollo Space program. As I read the story on the ... Read more..From Tech to Ed Tech: Distance to the moon
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, News, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
For one reason or another, I have three consecutive posts regarding the earth and sun and moon - i.e. the local area in the solar system. I had just completed ... Read more..The beauty of the web: Shape of the earth
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Learning, Mathematics, Photography, Representation, Science, Teaching, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
While searching for information for my previous posting on using eclipses to see, I came across an interesting paper that provided yet another way of figuring out the shape of ... Read more..Using eclipses to see
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Fun, Learning, Photography, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Let me start with two questions: First, what is the shape of the Earth? And two, what shapes does the sun cast on the ground when filtered through the leaves ... Read more..TPACK videos: A few new ones
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Mathematics, Online Learning, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video | 1 Comment »
I have come across some new TPACK related videos/podcasts (either on youtube or elsewhere) that I feel may be worth sharing. Read more..TPACK in a textbook!
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Books, News, Personal, Publications, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Just found out from Kathryn Dirkin that a prominent textbook of Educational Technology now features the TPACK framework. The book is titled "Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching" [link to Amazon.com] ... Read more..Brilliant stop motion
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Photography, Representation, Video | No Comments »
Just came across this on Nina Paley's blog... and it just blew me away! [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY[/youtube] Read more..Serendipitous Connectability… a short history of an idea
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Blogging, Creativity, Evolution, Fun, Housekeeping, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Stories, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
A while back I had written about the idea of "serendipitous connectability;" the idea that the web allows us to "to run across things that are stunning in their ability ... Read more..Creativity at Wake Forest
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Online Learning, Psychology, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I presented yesterday at a conference a Wake Forest University titled: Creativity: Worlds in the Making. I was part of a panel that included Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein and Todd ... Read more..Milap09
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Art, Design, Fun, Housekeeping, India, Personal, Photography | No Comments »
I took photographs at the Milap 2009, the annual cultural program organized by the Indian Cultural Society of Greater Lansing. Click on the photo below to view the photos (hosted ... Read more..Bad poetry time: Clerihews
Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Housekeeping, Personal, Poetry, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Just when you thought I had run through all the bad poetry I can spew (see here for my palindromic poems) here is another set of poems I had all ... Read more..Why I love the web…
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Design, Good | Bad Design, Psychology, Science, Stories, Technology | 6 Comments »
I don't know if anyone has been following the back and forth following my posting about the Periodic Table of Typefaces (see Yet another periodic table...). In brief, I was ... Read more..TPACK at Classroom 2.0
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Teaching, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
There is an ongoing discussion at Classroom 2.0 on TPACK. You can join the conversation here. Read more..Palindromes in video and poetry
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Housekeeping, Personal, Poetry, Puzzles, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Leigh Wolf just sent me a link to this extremely creative YouTube video. The funny thing is that I had seen this a while ago but I didn't get it. ... Read more..Yet another periodic table…
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Representation, Science, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
The ongoing saga of mis-representing the periodic table for any darned list of objects continues... Here is a new one sent in by my friend and colleague Patrick Dickson: A ... Read more..University courses using TPACK
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 6 Comments »
Matt Koehler and I rarely (if ever) explicitly mention the TPACK framework in our teaching. Of course the framework guides all that we do in class - but we have ... Read more..Teaching TPACK @ BYU
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Learning, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I just found out about IPT287: Instructional Technology for ElEd and ECE a course taught at Brigham Young by Charles Graham (an active TPACK researcher and the adviser of Suzy ... Read more..SITE08 Keynote YouTubed!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Conference, Creativity, Design, Learning, Personal, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I just found out (via These Apples are Delicious blog, and more specifically this posting: Creative Teachers) that the keynote that Matt and I presented at SITE08 is now available ... Read more..Representing DNA as code
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Blogging, Creativity, Evolution, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
What does it mean to represent something? Sean Nash (of Nashworld) and I have been having some fun at the expense of periodic representations (my post and his response) and ... Read more..The 60 second lecture
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Online Learning, Philosophy, Psychology, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I received an email yesterday from the State News (our local university newspaper) about what I thought of the 60 second lecture—a trend sweeping through online courses. Some of my ... Read more..Gary Marks, Lifetime achievement award
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Fun, Personal, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Gary Marks is the director/founder of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)and also the Executive Officer of the Society of Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE). ... Read more..TPACK tshirt now available
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, News, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The ambigram design I had first presented here is now available through cafe-press in a variety of formats. Click here to buy t-shirts, buttons and more... Just to be clear, ... Read more..Bits to Atoms, A Fab lab
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Engineering, Learning, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I had heard of Neil Gershenfeld's work on the Bits to Atoms Project at MIT but thought of these Fabrication Labs as being too expensive ($500,000+) or esoteric for everyday ... Read more..Shin, et. al. wins Outstanding paper award
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | 2 Comments »
Just found out that Shin, T., Koehler, M.J., Mishra, P. Schmidt, D., Baran, E., & Thompson, A.,(2009, March). Changing technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack) through course experiences. Paper presented at ... Read more..TPACK Survey(s), now available
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Learning, Psychology, Publications, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
As the TPACK framework has developed and received greater research and scholarly attention there has been an increasing demand for a survey instrument that can help us measure TPACK. There ... Read more..Charleston, SC for SITE 09
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Conference, Games, Learning, Online Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I am off to Charleston, SC for the SITE 2009 conference. . I can't believe it has been a year since Matt Koehler and I presented our Keynote. I am ... Read more..