Archive for January, 2010
Deconstructing TV news
Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Stories, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
The video below has been getting a lot of attention on the blogs lately, and despite that it is pretty good. No kittens riding skateboards or mentos and Coke here. ... Read more..Unlocking education… news story
Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Learning, MAET, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology | 1 Comment »
Our very own Leigh Wolf is quoted in a story in today's State News. Check out, Education unlocked: MSU professors use open courseware to provide class materials for students Leigh manages ... Read more..The infinity of primes (proof as poem)
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Personal, Poetry, Puzzles, Representation, Research, Stories, Teaching, Worth Reading | 8 Comments »
The math-po (and sci-po) stream keeps flowing. Math Mama Writes, who started the whole math-poetry movement has some more on her blog, and here is Erin Nash with some really ... Read more..Absolutely brilliant video
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Film, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Puzzles, Representation, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The Rethink Scholarship is an scholarship for aspiring art directors and designers to Langara College's Communication and Ideation Design program. This video is to publicize the program. Read more..Limerick on Math & Beauty
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Mathematics, Personal, Poetry, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Image credit: eoliene_pe_campii Mathematical Beauty: A limerick Punya Mishra, Jan 27, 2010 Doesn’t it just gladden your heart to see These games we can play with infinity? How can one stay aloof From the elegance of ... Read more..Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in Books, Creativity, Evolution, Fun, Personal, Philosophy, Plagiarism, Publications, Stories, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Image Credit Leeks As readers of the blog know, Matt Koehler and I work together quite a lot. In fact we just rotate author-order in our papers since it is hard ... Read more..TPACK survey, new journal article
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Design, Learning, Psychology, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | No Comments »
Hot off the press: Schmidt, D. A., Baran, E., Thompson, A. D., Mishra, P., Koehler, M.J. & Shin, T. S. (2010). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK): The development and validation of ... Read more..The futility of existence
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Philosophy, Puzzles, Stories | 4 Comments »
I stumbled across this little machine that shuts itself off once it has been switched on! How cool is that. I don't have an clue whom to credit it to ... Read more..The TPACK game, Littleton version
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
I received an email from Michael Porter of the Littleton Public Schools in Colorado about a version of the TPACK game Michael and his colleagues recently conducted with their K-12 ... Read more..Teaching design, some ideas
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Mathematics, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Research, Stories, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I recently received an email from a teacher in Poland, seeking advice for a curriculum outline for their Design Technology Section. They said, and I quote: Unfortunately, I have minimal experience ... Read more..For Sean & his students
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Art, Biology, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Representation, Science, Teaching, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
Sean had this wonderful post on his blog (Is this a sluggish strategy?) about this whole scientific and mathematical poetry that is going around. He links to some excellent sci-po's ... Read more..Stuck with Google (recursively)
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Mathematics, Puzzles, Representation, Stories, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The other day, for one reason or another, I did a Google search for the word "recursion." According to Wikipedia, recursion ... in mathematics and computer science, is a method ... Read more..Palindromic poetry in prison, introducing Sandra Gould Ford
Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Personal, Stories, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Those who follow this blog know that I love visual wordplay. This is most commonly seen in my ambigram work but another area where I have spent some time is ... Read more..TPACK Newsletter, #6 Jan-Feb, 2010
Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #6, January/February 2010 Welcome to the sixth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, with 642 subscribers (representing a 13% increase during the past 2.5 months), now appearing twice each ... Read more..MLK
Monday, January 18th, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Identity, Politics | No Comments »
Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968 Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted —in Strength to Love, 1964 Read more..Art, design & teaching great quote
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Steve Wagenseller, a student in my 817 Learning Technology by Design seminar wrote something so cool in the class forum that I felt that it was worth recording on my ... Read more..Goldbach is back! New math poem
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
I guess once the bug bites, it never really lets go. So here's another poem (to follow this and this and this). As it turns out this is my second ... Read more..A tangent, a line & a circle, another Math-Poem
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Mathematics, Personal, Poetry, Representation, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
A tangent, a line and a circle A math poem Image credit: chrstphre (on Flickr) A point outside a circle, shoots out two lines one heading for the center the other more feline smoothly kisses the curve That ... Read more..The mathematical “i”
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Mathematics, Personal, Plagiarism, Poetry, Representation, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I guess 'tis the season of Math-Po's! Sue VanHattum, whose challenge started all this, commented on my recent Math-Po (Math-Po (Mathematical Poetry): Goldbach’s Conjecture) by providing an example of her ... Read more..Math-Po (Mathematical Poetry): Goldbach’s Conjecture
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Mathematics, Personal, Poetry, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
My previous post (Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web) mentioned a challenge by Sue VanHattum of "Math Mama Writes" to "write a little kids’ poem ... ... Read more..Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Film, Good | Bad Design, India, Learning, Mathematics, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Representation, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 8 Comments »
A 5th grade science assignment, transformed. A rant about Mother Goose. A math poetry challenge! How did that come to be? And what does that have to do with loving ... Read more..eduPUNKing a course website!!
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Film, Good | Bad Design, Learning, MAET, Online Learning, Philosophy, Research, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 6 Comments »
I had written about the EduPunk movement earlier, in fact had even designed a logo for it. A brief description of Edupunk can be found on Wikipedia (a google search ... Read more..New ambigram logo for ideaplay.org
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Identity, Representation, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I had written previously about a blog started by students in our Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Ph.D. program (ideaplay.org) and had designed a couple of ambigrammatic logos for them. ... Read more..Wikipedia minor fail
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in Art, Blogging, Design, Engineering, Fun, India, Personal, Philosophy, Publications, Religion, Representation, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I recently received the following email: Sir, I was reading the article in Wikipedia on 'Samarangana Sutradhara' (King Bhoja's treatise on Architecture). I was of the impression that there is no ... Read more..