Archive for September, 2010
Looking for a one good person, i.e. #MAET is hiring
Monday, September 27th, 2010 Posted in MAET | 1 Comment »
I'm excited to announce that the MAET program is hiring a new team member. The official posting is below (or you can go here). The posting closes on ... Read more..How to complete a half-marathon
Sunday, September 26th, 2010 Posted in Fun, Personal, Worth Reading | 7 Comments »
I completed the Capital City River Run Half Marathon today. This race has become an annual event for me, this being my 7th outing so far (the first three years ... Read more..The art of science
Monday, September 20th, 2010 Posted in Art, Biology, Creativity, Fun, Learning, Personal, Poetry, Representation, Science, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »
I have always been interested in what lies at the intersection of science and art. There are of course many different ways of looking at this. There is the idea ... Read more..A pome a day
Saturday, September 18th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Personal, Poetry, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Greg Casperson is a graduate student in our Ed Psy & Ed Tech program. He has been engaged, over the past few months, in the most interesting experiment. He carefully ... Read more..Rethinking homework, some thoughts…
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 Posted in Design, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Philosophy, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »
Shelly Blake-Plock over at TeachPaperLess has a great post about homework and how it can be structured to act as a "cliffhanger." As he says: These days, the homework I give isn't based ... Read more..On writing less badly
Sunday, September 12th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Philosophy, Publications, Writing | No Comments »
I just came across an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled, 10 tips on How to Write Less Badly [H/T Geekpress]. It is not that I agreed with ... Read more..véjà du, all over again
Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, MAET, Online Learning, Photography, Puzzles, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 8 Comments »
A véjà du experience is about looking at a familiar situation but with fresh eyes, as if you’ve never seen it before. It forms the basis of an assignment I ... Read more..ABC-Triplet Ambigram
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »
I am currently teaching a course on Creativity in Teaching & Learning and as a part of that I was searching for an interesting image to highlight a note I ... Read more..