Archive for July, 2009
Photo triplets
Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Personal, Photography, Puzzles, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
Christopher Bowhuis (a student in our summer on-campus MAET program) provided me a two minute tutorial on cloning myself, or anybody else for that matter. I had to go home ... Read more..Creativity @ Plymouth, year 3
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, MAET, Photography, Puzzles, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I spent some time last week with each of the MAET cohorts at Plymouth England. I have blogged about my time with Year 1 here and Year 2 here (as ... Read more..MAET Graduate Celebration, Plymouth
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in MAET, News, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading, Writing | 3 Comments »
Last Friday we celebrated the latest graduates from the MAET off campus program. These were students, who for the most part, have completed the MAET program over three summers in ... Read more..Representing $$, two different ways
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Representation, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The power of serendipity... A few minutes ago I received a note via Facebook / Ken Dirkin providing a link to Where are your taxes going for 2010?. A few ... Read more..Quick Design Video: Are you ready for the future?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Leigh Wolf and Ken Dirkin, instructors in the year III of the MAET program in Plymouth have been assigning, what they call, Quick Design assignments. These are quickfire challenges for ... Read more..Pomes on Creativity II
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Poetry, Representation, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I had blogged about poems written by the year I students at the Plymouth MAET program. Today I spent time with the 2nd year cohort and this is what ... Read more..Correlates of creativity
Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Biology, Creativity, Design, Learning, Personal, Psychology, Research, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Just came across this on the Ph.D. design list (a listserv for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design) from a posting by Charles Burnette. He quotes Donald ... Read more..Pomes on creativity
Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Photography, Poetry, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | No Comments »
I am in Plymouth, England, for a week, as a part of our off-campus MAET program. I spent time today with the first year cohort, talking with them about creativity ... Read more..Online physics-based games
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 Posted in Design, Games, Learning, Puzzles, Science | 2 Comments »
Physics Games - online physics-based games. Some cool stuff here. For instance check out Demolition City Online Physics Games Read more..Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Psychology, Publications, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
One minute design ideas... [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/fr/video/x93dzc_lota-1-objet-en-moins-de-1-min_creation[/dailymotion] I had posted something similar here (from Bic to vase). There is something deeper here than just cool design ideas though. What this video highlights is improvisation, creativity ... Read more..Summer Institute for Superintendents, presentation
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Learning, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | 1 Comment »
I was recently invited to present at the 2009 Summer Institute for Superintendents ... Read more..Announcing: Short film competition, cool prize for winner!!
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Film, Fun, Photography, Publications, Puzzles, Representation, Research, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Those of you who have been following this blog know, over the past few months I have made a few short videos with my kids. The ones I am most ... Read more..Rethinking Little Red Riding Hood
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fiction, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Philosophy, Poetry, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Awesome retelling of the old tale... (h/t Steve Dembo @ teach42). Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo. As Steve says (you can read his full post here) such ... Read more..Technology Integration 2.0 — was TPACK ;-)
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Conference, Learning, News, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
The recently concluded NECC conference had quite a bit of TPACK related presentations. Sadly neither Matt nor I could make it to NECC... maybe next year! One I discovered just today ... Read more..Making (non)sense of dots & lines
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Art, Books, Creativity, Design, Fiction, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology, Puzzles, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I went looking for, and the second, fell into my lap, ... Read more..