Archive for June, 2010
ISTE 2010, TPACK Radio/Video Show!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Personal, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
I have never been able to make to the ISTE (formerly NECC) conference since it falls bang in the middle of my summer teaching. This year was no exception. The ... Read more..Demotivational posters
Friday, June 25th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, MAET, Photography, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 6 Comments »
I have been a big fan of Despair.com and its quirky, dark humor. I particularly love the demotivational posters, with their beautiful inspiring photographs coupled with some deeply cynical or ... Read more..June 18 or June 25, 1178?
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
In my summer teaching I often start the day with some examples of interesting things that happened that day in history. It is a fun way to start the day, ... Read more..Walking in a straight line
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
Determining the shape of the earth is something I have written about previously. For instance, see this post on seeing the shape of the earth using eclipses. (A somewhat similar ... Read more..Indian creative genius
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Economics, Good | Bad Design, India, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
A great article titled the: The Subtle Technology of Indian Artisanship: From saris to hand-painted signs, design thinking is an unacknowledged force in Indian craft by Ken Botnick & ... Read more..Autonomy, mastery, purpose
Monday, June 21st, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Design, Economics, Good | Bad Design, Learning | 7 Comments »
This presentation of a talk by Daniel Pink has been making the rounds on the Interwebs. I am including it here just as a personal reminder for me to use ... Read more..Nothing is original (great quote)
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Fun, Philosophy, Plagiarism | 3 Comments »
Unoriginal Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, ... Read more..Inspiring creativity, when more is more…
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
We have all heard the statement that "less is more" and in many instances that may actually be true. Good design, for instance, often is based on the KISS principle, ... Read more..Dabbling to see: A rant
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Games, Identity, Learning, MAET, Mathematics, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Puzzles, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
My friend and colleague Leigh Wolf forwarded me this article on Edward Tufte: The Many Faces (And Sculptures) Of Edward Tufte. I have been a fan of information design guru ... Read more..Teacher as filmmaker: An update from down under
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Film, Good | Bad Design, Learning, MAET, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 8 Comments »
Back in 2007, I was second author on a paper titled Teacher as Filmmaker, in which we described an approach to teacher professional development that involved teachers creating short, evocative ... Read more..Going cuckoo!
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 Posted in Biology, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Evolution, Learning, News, Philosophy, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Three different news-stories/articles came to my notice today all connected by the infamous brood parasite the cuckoo. The first is a part of Olivia Judson's blog (on the NYTimes) on ... Read more..Thoughtless acts? Technology, creativity & teaching
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I have always been interested in the manner in which people use (or re-use) everyday things for purposes they were never intended for. Be it a piece of red tape ... Read more..