Archive for April, 2009
Too cool for school: Using the TPACK framework
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Learning, Mathematics, Philosophy, Publications, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | 4 Comments »
Matt Koehler and I just published an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, the membership magazine of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The complete citation is ... Read more..Exploring visual space with mathematics
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
Stacy Clause just sent me this very cool link to an article titled Exploring logo designs with Mathematica. In this article, Chris Carlson, of the User Design Group at Mathematia ... Read more..Rube Goldberg website
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design | 1 Comment »
Just found out about this through a list-serv I am on. Very cool. Hema is a Dutch department store (started back in 1926 and has over 150 stores all over ... Read more..Of tools and disciplines (OR the TPK in TPACK)
Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Learning, Online Learning, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 7 Comments »
One of the many things I have to do as a faculty member is review grant proposals. This is an important service to the field, but truth be told, given ... Read more..Create… Emergence!
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Puzzles, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Video | 2 Comments »
I ended the mashup TPACK commercial with the following words, Explore, Create, Share! Over the past couple of weeks my kids and I have been working on a series of short ... Read more..TPACK @ AERA, 2009
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Housekeeping, Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I did not go to AERA this year - choosing instead to go to Chicago to Keynote the Engaging Minds: Pedagogy and Personalism, the 2009 DePaul Faculty Teaching and Learning ... Read more..Profesor 2.0, blurring the boundaries
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Learning, Online Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Plagiarism, Psychology, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel | 2 Comments »
I am in Chicago to give the Keynote address at the 2009 DePaul University Faculty Teaching and Learning Conference. The conference theme this year is Engaging Minds: Pedagogy and Personalism. ... Read more..Mea maxima culpa
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 Posted in Design, News, Online Learning, Personal, Stories, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I try to be scrupulous about giving credit where it is due and yet I messed up big time. This happened over a year ago and to my dismay I ... Read more..Explore: To see … or not to see
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Video, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I have been working with my kids on a series of short videos around the themes of Explore, Create, Share. These three words were used in my video mashup of ... Read more..Twittering in class, what’s the big deal?
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, News, Online Learning, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
Noah Ullman just forwarded me this story in the The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Professor encourages students to pass notes during class via twitter. It is amazing to me ... Read more..Translation, Technology & TPACK: Reflections on French Lieutenant’s Woman
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Note: When Sean of Nashworld asked me to guest blog while he was gone I had a couple of different things I wanted to write about. Something I had been ... Read more..Guest blogging for Nashworld: TPACK video
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Film, Learning, Online Learning, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 11 Comments »
Sean Nash over at Nashworld asked me to guest blog for this week while he is out with his students doing some really cool stuff. Here is a link to ... Read more..Hobnob with MSU faculty
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Learning, News, Personal, Representation, Stories | 1 Comment »
Paul Morsink & Bakar Razali, two graduate students in our college have been doing this interesting variant of the 60 second lecture. They record short videos of individual faculty members ... Read more..New presentation tool
Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Representation | 1 Comment »
Todd Edwards at Miami University just told me about this new presentation tool called Prezi.... You have to see it to believe it. Just amazing. Check it out at http://prezi.com/ Read more..Tech as tool, medium & network
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Design, Learning, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I just discovered (through the serendipitous connectibility of Google Alerts) about Teaching Thursdays a blog from the University of North Dakota. It is a collaborative venture between Anne Kelsh (Office ... Read more..