Archive for October, 2010

TPACK on Vimeo & in the Netherlands

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Blogging, Learning, Online Learning, Representation, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Video, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »

Dr. Clare Kilbane, Associate Professor at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio recently created an enhanced podcast/vodcast explaining TPACK as a part of an ARRA grant implemented in the state of ... Read more..

Creativity in Las Vegas

Monday, October 25th, 2010 Posted in Art, Blogging, Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Games, Housekeeping, Learning, MAET, Personal, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | 4 Comments »

I was recently invited to present a keynote address at the 21st Century Instructional Technology Conference (titled Elements of Technology) at the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Read more..

Triplet from China

Monday, October 25th, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »

The triplet ambigrams keep flying in. This new one came in an email from Chunlei Zhang, a faculty member at East China Normal University, having received his Ph.D. in Curriculum & ... Read more..

New triplet Ambigram (Now in 3D)!

Thursday, October 21st, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Blogging, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Personal, Puzzles, Representation, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »

A few weeks ago I had shared a few triplet-ambigrams I had designed. For the uninitiated a triplet ambigram is a 3-d shape that cast different, and interesting, shadows depending ... Read more..

Creativity ambigram

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 Posted in Ambigrams, Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Personal, Representation, Worth Reading | No Comments »

Here's a new ambigram I designed at the kick-off for the MSU Creativity Initiative. I will have more information on that in a later post but for now... enjoy. Creativity, any ... Read more..

Creative Idiots share their process

Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Good | Bad Design, Psychology, Representation, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »

Slate Magazine is running a series on Creative Pairs, or why Two is the Magic Number! Written by Joshua Wolf Shenk the series seeks to understand: What makes creative relationships work? ... Read more..

Preparing educators for the 21st Century

Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in Creativity, Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »

Back in March of this year, Joel Colbert (friend and former chair of the AACTE Innovation and Technology Committee) spent a few hours working together on a document that AACTE ... Read more..