Archive for May, 2009
Fact / Fiction, ambigram
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Puzzles, Representation, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
Yesterday after I had posted my two latest ambigrams (see them here) I got a message on Facebook from my cousin Sonny (the one who composed the cool music for ... Read more..Computer Fiction: Two new ambigrams
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Worth Reading | No Comments »
For one reason or another I have not been bitten by the ambigram bug for a while - till suddenly a week or two ago, two new ambigrams popped into ... Read more..Creativity in teaching, a workshop
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Games, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Representation, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The Office Faculty and Organizational Development at MSU conducts an annual Spring Institute on College Teaching and Learning every summer. The past week was their 15th such event (details here) ... Read more..Computerized aesthetics… what’s right with that idea?
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Identity, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Psychology, Representation | 1 Comment »
I just came across this... Online System Rates Images by Aesthetic Quality Pennsylvania State University (PSU) has launched the Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine (ACQUINE), an online system for determining the aesthetic ... Read more..e. e. cummings on the battle for identity
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in Identity, Learning, Teaching | 1 Comment »
Patrick Dickson just quoted e. e. cummings (one of my favorite poets) and I just had to look it up. To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing ... Read more..Clement Mok on design
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Art, Good | Bad Design, Online Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Representation | No Comments »
I was reading the final papers written by participants in my CEP 817, Learning Technology by Design seminar and came across this quote by Clement Mok in a paper written ... Read more..Is a lecture just a lecture?
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Film, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 6 Comments »
My mashup of a commercial has been on YouTube for a while and just yesterday I noticed that someone had left a very thoughtful comment... and that comment got me ... Read more..Appreciate the magic…
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Evolution, Fun, Philosophy, Science, Technology, Video | No Comments »
Louis CK on appreciating the magic of technology... [youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOtEQB-9tvk[/youtube] Read more..Of teaching & cooking
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Philosophy, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Elizabeth Helfant over at Digital Learning Environments Blog has an interesting posting titled The Pancake principle. She makes a connection between technology integration and making pancakes, and offers three tenets ... Read more..TPACK Newsletter #3: May09 Edition
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Housekeeping, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #3: Late April 2009 Welcome to the third edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 362 subscribers (representing a 30% increase in the last two months!), and appearing ... Read more..7 tools… one big job: Video Explore II
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A few months ago I had created a video mashup of a commercial (see the original and my mashup here). This video ended with three key words, encouraging people to ... Read more..The first 100 days, on Facebook
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Politics, Representation | No Comments »
This is just absolutely brilliant!! In particular check out the URL that Dick Cheney sends to Obama, approximately half-way down the page. (You will have to copy and past the url). ... Read more..