Archive for November, 2009
Creating Palindrograms, aka palindromic ambigrams
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
Ambigram.com is a website about ambigrams and the people who make them. Lots of cool stuff for enthusiasts and novices alike. They often conduct competitions and other fun challenges for ... Read more..All you can cheat, part II (a response)
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Design, Learning, Online Learning, Philosophy, Plagiarism, Psychology, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 10 Comments »
Patrick Diemer commented on my previous posting, All you can cheat, the web & learning by saying: Do you have any words of wisdom or resources on how to create appropriate ... Read more..All you can cheat, the web & learning
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Learning, News, Online Learning, Philosophy, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 15 Comments »
Now here's an important story coming out of Denmark: Students in Denmark Allowed Full Access to the Internet During Exams I have always been a believer in allowing students to use ... Read more..Video Bingo in Alabama: Tech & change
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in Design, Economics, Fun, Identity, Online Learning, Philosophy, Representation, Technology, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
How does technology change what we do? Often when a new technology appears we tend to see it in terms of existing practices and structures. So an e-book is the ... Read more..Shreya makes the newspaper!
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Fun, Personal, Worth Reading | No Comments »
For Halloween, my daughter, Shreya's fifth grade class entertained a bunch of first-graders with a spooky music and dance show. A news reporter was there and her photo (Shreya's not ... Read more..Keep TPACK clean :-)
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Design, Fun, India, Orissa, Personal, Photography, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I came across this sign when I was in India recently and I just HAD to take a picture of it. Click on the picture for a larger version Of course, ... Read more..Jere Brophy / Motivation Ambigram
Monday, November 9th, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Learning, Personal, Psychology, Representation, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
A new ambigram created in memory of Jere Brophy, world renowned scholar on psychology of motivation. The ambigram reads, "motivation" one direction and "Jere Brophy" when rotated by 180 degrees. ... Read more..TPACK moving in international circles
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Learning, News, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
My friend, Martin Oliver, over at the London Knowledge Lab sent me the following link about a TPACK related publication that appeared in the International Journal of Education and Development ... Read more..New ambigrams for a new blog!
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, Puzzles, Representation, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
What do you think this is? Take a guess... Well, it is the top half of a lake-reflection ambigram. What this means is that if you reflect what you see along ... Read more..TPACK newsletter #5, Oct – Nov 09
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Learning, MAET, Online Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #5: October/November 2009 Welcome to the fifth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 568 subscribers (representing a 15% increase during the last two months!), and appearing bimonthly ... Read more..