Archive for July, 2010

Demotivational Posters II

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, MAET, News, Personal, Philosophy, Psychology, Representation, Uncategorized, Worth Reading | 15 Comments »

A few weeks ago I posted a note about an assignment I gave my students in the on-campus version of the MAET program. They had completed an unit on motivation ... Read more..

About face

Monday, July 19th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Personal, Photography, Representation, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »

I love finding interesting faces. I am not speaking of the ones on people (though I like interesting ones there as well) but rather the unexpected faces we find in ... Read more..

TPACK Radio/Video Show, now on Vimeo

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Film, Fun, Learning, MAET, News, Online Learning, Personal, Representation, Research, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »

The TPACK Radio/Video show that we had created for ISTE is now available on Vimeo. I think this version is easier to embed and view (as opposed to a 21MB ... Read more..

TPACK commercial II, Mastercard “Priceless”

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Film, Fun, Learning, Personal, Representation, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »

Here is the second of the two commercials created specially for our ISTE Radio/Video show. The first one (a take-off on the UPS/Whiteboard commercials can be seen here). Enjoy. ... Read more..

TPACK commercial, UPS/Whiteboard version

Monday, July 12th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Film, Fun, Learning, MAET, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »

Our ISTE Radio/Video show needed a few commercials to break the monotony - so we created a couple. Here is the first one, a take on the UPS / Whiteboard ... Read more..

On breaking the rules (and words)

Sunday, July 11th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Good | Bad Design, Identity, India, Learning, Orissa, Personal, Philosophy, Poetry, Representation, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »

My daughter on her blog has a new poem / haiku called Sweat, a haiku with one glich. She is in India right now where the temperatures are easily in ... Read more..

Cool i-Images at MICDS

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Posted in Art, Biology, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Identity, Learning, Personal, Philosophy, Representation, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »

I just spent a day at MICDS in St. Louis talking with a small but select group of teachers about creativity in teaching, the role of big ideas, the meaning ... Read more..