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A recent story in the NYTimes about Peter Gabriel (An Old Rocker Gets Digital) brought back memories of Peter Gabriel’s album covers. It tells you a lot about me that I know album covers better than I know his music!
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An interesting (and growing) collection of “habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work.”
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I have continued adding photographs from the trip to my Flickr Site… I had posted about this earlier but I guess it is time for another reminder. There are now 380 photographs on the “Travels in Asia 2008″ Flickr-set (and more coming soon).
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A short and sweet trip to Hong Kong, one full day, two nights, fly in fly out. Read the rest of this entry »

Arrived at Taipei airport and got through immigration and customs quite quickly. I was received at the airport by Waiway Lin, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Curriculum and Instruction at the National Taipei University of Education. Read the rest of this entry »

I love Malaysia. I love its greenery, its up and down hilly landscape, the colors and designs of the houses, and yes the food. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been taking photographs as I travel around Asia (what I have previously described as my multi-national TPACK tour) and uploading them onto Flickr as and when I can. Read the rest of this entry »

The award ceremony for the 2008 MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards was last Friday. I drove back from Purdue in time to be there - mainly because I wanted to hear how people would respond to our faux radio interview Read the rest of this entry »

All of us have walked through a sun-dappled forest. However, few of us have noticed that underneath are feet are thousands of little perfect circles. This is often difficult to see because these little perfect circles often overlap into irregular globs of sunlight. However, if you find a single piece of sunlight within the shadows of the leaves above - you will a perfect circle of sunlight. And when I say a perfect circle, I mean exactly that, perfect! Where do these perfect little circles come from? Read the rest of this entry »

Our first family vacation in over three years! New Jersey to visit relatives, Delaware to visit friends, and New York city for the big city excitement! Hectic but great fun.

I took over 500 photographs, got back home and deleted around 200 of them - the remaining are now up on Flickr. Enjoy…

This past Saturday the Okemos High School auditorium hosted Dances for Cause, a fund-raiser for Habitat for Humanity. My daughter, Shreya, performed a dance with her dance group Read the rest of this entry »

Matt has Flickrd photos from SITE08. Some of these photos are taken by me, but the rules are that the owner of the camera automatically gets the bragging rights and since I didn’t take my camera along, he takes credit for all the pictures. Given that a bunch of the photographs taken by me have huge amounts of camera shake, I am not sure that that is necessarily a bad thing. But there is one… Read the rest of this entry »

I discovered PES a couple of years ago when searching for examples of stop motion animation on the web. One glimpse of his work and I was smitten. Read the rest of this entry »

The Indian Cultural Society of greater Lansing (ICS) held its annual cultural program Milap 2008 this past Saturday. It was a great program with traditional and Bollywood dances, songs, and other performances. My daughter Shreya’s dance troup, performed a Kathak dance (a traditional Indian dance style), to a classical Hindi song (Madhuban mein Radhika naache re…). I was volunteered to be the unofficial photographer of the event and I took over 400 photographs over two hours or so, 350+ of which are now available for viewing on my Flickr site.

That is my 8 year old on the left. You can see the entire show by going here (external link to a set on Flickr) or just photographs of my daughter’s dance group by going here.

Tonight was a full lunar eclipse - the last one we will have till December 2010. Lucky for us we had a pretty clear sky - a welcome change from the past few days. Shreya and Soham and I tracked it Read the rest of this entry »

I have had a Wacom tablet for a while now but haven’t really gotten down to playing with it… till a couple of days ago. I started with rough drawings / sketches of friends and family. Take a look and let me know what you think…. You can click on the images to see larger versions on Flickr.

Soham	Jayni	Matt	Shreya	Smita

And just in case you think I drew these from scratch… not at all. All I did was trace over existing photographs.

I took a couple of hours off to walk around New Orleans in the French Quarters taking pictures. Here they are…

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One of the important events at the New Orleans AACTE meeting was the release of the TPCK Handbook for Educators and the book signing. This was the first time I had ever participated in a book signing and it was great fun. Here are some photographs from the event…

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From left to right: Joel Colbert, (the missing) Matt Koehler, Punya Mishra, Kamili Anderson, Nancy DePlatchett, Marcela van Olphen, and Mario Kelly.

In blogging Kevin Kelly’s piece on “Better than free” (read that post here), I came across another site that he maintains, titled “Street Use,” self-described as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

In a previous post I had described David Wong’s ideasarecool.com website and his idea of making i-Images. As David describes them, i-Images are “professional, provocative images that seize the viewer’s attention and, more importantly, spark their imagination.”

Anyway, after he shared some of his i-Images with me, including one that was based on a photo taken by me, I got bitten by the i-Image bug and have created a few… Read the rest of this entry »