Archive for November, 2010
Education in India & the role of the Azim Premji Foundation
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 Posted in Housekeeping, India, Learning, Personal, Travel, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »
Just before the Thanksgiving break, the College of Education and Michigan State University had the opportunity to host Dilleep Ranjekar and Anurag Behar, Co-CEO's of the Azim Premji Foundation. The ... Read more..Models of design, creativity and more…
Friday, November 19th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Design, Economics, Engineering, Good | Bad Design, Learning, Philosophy, Psychology, Representation, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | No Comments »
The Dubberly Design Office has created a series of models of innovation, play and design. These are terrific resources and I just found out about them by chance. I see ... Read more..TPACK & Social Media at Bloomfield Hills
Monday, November 15th, 2010 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Fun, Learning, Online Learning, Photography, Poetry, Representation, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
I spent a two days a couple of weeks ago with the faculty and leadership of Bloomfield Hills School District. The first day was a workshop on teaching, technology and ... Read more..The mysterious pentagon… explained?
Sunday, November 14th, 2010 Posted in Design, Fun, Personal, Photography, Puzzles, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Around 2 weeks ago I posted a note about a "pentagon" I saw in some boiling lentils in my kitchen. There have been some interesting responses to this... but before ... Read more..TPACK & Art Education
Friday, November 5th, 2010 Posted in Art, Creativity, Learning, Publications, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK | 4 Comments »
Camille Dempsey, a professional development consultant in instructional technology, education, arts and leadership as well as a doctoral candidate in in the Leadership and Instructional Technology Program at Duquesne University has ... Read more..Happy Diwali
Thursday, November 4th, 2010 Posted in Fun, Identity, India, Religion | No Comments »
Happy Diwali 2010 Readers of this blog know that every year I provide a link to the same interactive Diwali eCard. Why change anything this year? So follow the link below, turn ... Read more..The mysterious pentagon
Monday, November 1st, 2010 Posted in Design, Evolution, Fun, Personal, Puzzles, Religion, Representation, Worth Reading | 14 Comments »
There are interesting patterns all around us. Here is one I found the other day. We were boiling lentils in a shallow bowl... and then, out of nowhere emerged an ... Read more..