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		<title>Keep TPACK clean :-)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this sign when I was in India recently and I just HAD to take a picture of it. 

Click on the picture for a larger version
Of course, much of the effect comes from the inadvertent yet appropriate peeling of the paint from the letter &#8220;R.&#8221; But fun nonetheless. 
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		<title>Diwali 09 Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lansing temple recently organized a special Diwali program. My daughter Shreya participated in a dance and I, as always, took photographs of the event. Click here or the image below to see all 161 of the photographs I took. 

Enjoy. 
You can also read a poem written by Shreya on Diwali on her blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Diwali</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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Happy Diwali 





For an interactive card click here &#8230; .
Remember to turn your volume way up, and click anywhere in the sky
above the Taj Mahal for some environmentally friendly, fireworks.

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		<title>New ambigram: Nihal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Hartosh (I had written previously about his mathematical novel here) and his wife Pam, recently had a baby boy. This ambigram is of his name: Nihal

Enjoy.
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		<title>Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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I had written earlier about the idea of Jugaad, the quintessential Indian idea of situational creativity. One of the masters at this is Arvind Gupta. Check out his website for tons of wonderful science toys and experiments that can be made from stuff we typically throw away. Very cool and a critical part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milap09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took photographs at the Milap 2009, the annual cultural program organized by the Indian Cultural Society of Greater Lansing. Click on the photo below to view the photos (hosted on Flickr). 

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		<title>Bangalore symposium, now on YouTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past August I was in India for a Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation &#038; Creativity. The meeting was organized by the Quest Alliance, USAID and International Youth Foundation and was &#8220;designed to bring together education and education technology practitioners, scholars and experts, academicians and students for an exchange of ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slumdog night (and Rahman)</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/22/slumdog-night-and-rahman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slumdog rolled into the Oscars tonight. More important to me were the two Oscars for A. R. Rahman for original score and song. It is time that the world recognized his genius. Here is a cartoon by Kaladhar Bapu from his site Point Blank

A.R. Rahman by Kaladhar Bapu 
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		<title>Gandhi, ambigrams, creativity &amp; the power of small pieces loosely joined</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/21/gandhi-ambigrams-creativity-the-power-of-small-pieces-loosely-joined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an extended piece on the manner in which the web, small pieces loosely joined, can lead to “serendipitous connectabilty” (something I had written about earlier here).  All this is situated in a story that connects cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstader, Oriya writer and poet J. P. Das, and the father of non-violence Mahatma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Allegory of the Cave</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/17/the-allegory-of-the-cave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave (see Wikipedia entry) illustrates &#8220;our nature in its education and want of education.&#8221; It is maybe one of the most famous allegories in literature and philosophy, a precursor to the kinds of mind-games (think brain in a vat) that philosophers like Dennett engage in today [Where am I? is a [...]]]></description>
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