Archive for April, 2010
No excuses! Veja du (or don’t you)
Friday, April 30th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Excusado by Edward Weston I have written earlier about the idea of veja du (which ended up becoming an assignment in my creativity class). To recap: ... if déjà vu is the ... Read more..My favorite Internet meme (and how it almost died)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Fiction, Film, Fun, Personal, Plagiarism, Video, Worth Reading | No Comments »
I have been tracking the Hitler-Downfall parodies for over two years now and it seems that they keep getting better and better. But over the last few days comes the ... Read more..What is this thing called text?
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Design, Evolution, Philosophy, Plagiarism, Representation, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Steven Johnson has a great essay on the future of text title: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book. I recommend reading the full thing but here is a quote that ... Read more..Poem or Pie
Sunday, April 25th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Poetry, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I recently read the following poem by Grace Paley and just had to write a response. Anyway, here's the original poem: The Poet's Occasional Alternative by Grace Paley I was going to write ... Read more..Repurposing a stick. What fun!
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Philosophy, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
Teaching with technology, for me, is all about repurposing technology. Such repurposing requires creative play. Our presentation at SITE 2010 was around some creative micro- and macro-design tasks that can ... Read more..SITE 2010, symposium on TPACK
Monday, April 5th, 2010 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Learning, MAET, Mathematics, Research, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I just got back from an extended trip to California (San Jose and San Diego). I will be posting a lot more about this trip but for now here are ... Read more..