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Bic to vase: Cool idea

Mar 31, 2009

A vase for a daisy, made from a plastic bic pen. (Website here).

Ganesh, new ambigram, & old video

Sep 5, 2016

One of the big parts of my life over the past decade or more, has been the Ganesh Festival celebrations in Lansing with friends and family—Good food and good times. Of course this year I have to miss all the fun - being here in Phoenix. I have kept up with all...

Empathy through gaming: New article

Nov 2, 2015

Over the past couple of years my research team (the Deep-Play Research group) and I have been writing an on-going series of articles around the broad topic of Rethinking technology and creativity for the 21st century. Published in the journal TechTrends, these...

Microblogging in the classroom II

Nov 20, 2008

I had blogged earlier about my attempts at using micro-blogging in my face to face classroom. As I had said after the experiment At the end of the class, upon being quizzed, the students seemed to feel that this experiment had been a success and would like to do it...

Capturing CAPTCHA or If it can be outsourced…

Sep 2, 2008

... it will. We have all see CAPTCHA's (aka Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). They are images with somewhat garbled text on them that websites used to tell humans from automated programs. The idea is to prevent prevent...

Learner autonomy and creative reflective practice: New journal article

Nov 11, 2018

Herbert Simon, famously wrote: Everyone designs who devises courses of actions aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The first two words in this quote are now the title of a recently published journal article (with Danah Henriksen and William...

Designing for anticipation, Teaching for anticipation

Oct 19, 2009

In a couple of previous posts I had talked about the idea of postdiction (see the posts here and here). The argument being that good teaching (among a long list of other good things) is postdictable, i.e. it walks the line between predictability and chaos, and most...

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Jan 26, 2009

... Or Why I love the web. I stumbled upon a piece (Lotus Blossom) by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries the other day... and it was like nothing else I had ever seen. At some superficial level it looked like kinetic typography, but both simpler and more complex at the...

Heading to India

Aug 13, 2008

I leave for India tomorrow to participate in a Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation & Creativity being held in Bangalore from the 20th to the 22nd of August. The meeting is organized by the Quest Alliance, USAID and International...