Archive for March, 2011

TPACK & Creativity at Cedar Rapids

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, MAET, Poetry, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »

I had a wonderful day at the Grant Woods Area Education Agency at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was invited there by Andy Crozier and his team as a part of ... Read more..

Learning Games & TPACK @ Drexel: Video now online

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Art, Conference, Creativity, Design, Fun, Games, Learning, Mathematics, Online Learning, Philosophy, Representation, Research, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Video | 1 Comment »

Back in January I was invited to speak at the Drexel Learning Games Network (DGLN) seminar series. As I had written in my original post (TPACK & Games @ Drexel), DLGN is ... Read more..

TPACK underpins Aussie Teacher Ed Restructuring

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 Posted in Learning, News, Personal, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 5 Comments »

Dr. Matthew Kearney (who was featured in my recent post on student constructed iVideos) just wrote to inform me about a teacher preparation project currently underway in Australia. The Teaching ... Read more..

iVideos from Australia, the 2011 edition

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 Posted in Art, Creativity, Fun, Learning, Plagiarism, Politics, Representation, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 2 Comments »

Last June I had posted a note (Teacher as filmmaker: An update from down under) about the iVideos created by students from the University of Technology, Sydney (under the guidance ... Read more..

SITE 2011, the fun stuff

Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Posted in Art, Blogging, Conference, Creativity, Film, Fun, News, Personal, Photography, Stories, Travel, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »

I had posted earlier about the paper presentations I was involved with during the recently concluded SITE conference at Nashville. Matt Koehler and I were co-Program Chairs for the conference, and ... Read more..

Creativity, TPACK and Trans-disciplinary Learning for the 21st Century

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Art, Biology, Creativity, Fun, Learning, Philosophy, Poetry, Publications, Representation, Research, Science, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading, Writing | No Comments »

Over the past few years my scholarly focus has shifted into areas related to teacher creativity and transdisciplinary learning. I see this as being the next step in my research ... Read more..

SITE presentations: 21st Century learning, TPACK and more…

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

I had a bunch of presentations at the recently concluded SITE2011 conference at Nashville TN. There is a lot to post about the conference, particularly the presentations I made at ... Read more..

MSU college of Ed leads US News rankings!

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 Posted in Research, Teaching, Worth Reading | No Comments »

The 2012 U.S. News rankings of graduate programs in education have been released and there is good news for our college and department. Overall, the College of Education at Michigan State ... Read more..

TPACK Newsletter #9, March 2011

Sunday, March 6th, 2011 Posted in Conference, Learning, Mathematics, Online Learning, Publications, Research, Science, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Travel, Worth Reading | No Comments »

TPACK Newsletter, Issue #9: March 2011 Special Spring 2011 Conference Issue Below please find a listing of TPACK-related papers/sessions that will be presented at the SITE conference in March in Nashville, Tennessee; ... Read more..

TPACK & 21st Century Learning @ AACTE

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 Posted in Conference, Creativity, Learning, MAET, News, Personal, Research, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | No Comments »

I was recently in San Diego for the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. I had served as a chair of the Innovation & Technology ... Read more..