Word cloud, redux

Post-lunch session: Nancy Law

Aug 20, 2008

The last session of the day was led by Dr. Nancy Law, Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education, University of Hong Kong. Her session was titled Using ICT to support learning: lessons learnt from international studies I met Dr. Law at SITE 2008 and then...

AERA 2013 – San Francisco, Photos

May 2, 2013

AERA 2013 - San Francisco, a set on Flickr.Photographs from the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2013 at San Francisco. It was great meeting up with friends and colleagues, present two talks and take in some of the sights. Enjoy.

An Euclidean coincidence

May 24, 2023

FYI, this is a somewhat pointless blog post around a somewhat funny coincidence that popped into my life the other day. I was reading a recent article in the NYTimes with the provocative title: Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning, clearly a topic of...

This is your brain on technology!

Feb 7, 2011

May years ago I wrote an essay titled On becoming a website. It was about my experience on teaching online and I suggested somewhat facetiously that in order to be a good teacher online I needed to actually "become" the course website! I started the essay by...

Creativity in Las Vegas

Oct 25, 2010

I was recently invited to present a keynote address at the 21st Century Instructional Technology Conference (titled Elements of Technology) at the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clark County is the 5th largest school district in the country with...

Embodied Thinking: New article

Jan 11, 2015

Photo: Punya Mishra; Santiago, Chile, 2014 Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century is a series of articles we have been writing for Tech Trends. The latest article in the series has just ben published. This article focuses on Embodied Thinking as a...

Making (non)sense of dots & lines

Jul 6, 2009

I love how these interconnected pipes called the Intertubes lead to serendipitous discoveries. Here are two videos, the first I went looking for, and the second, fell into my lap, so to speak, due to YouTubes related videos section. The video I went looking for was...

Happy 2013!

Dec 31, 2012

Our family has a Christmas-break tradition. Over the past 5 years or so, every winter-break, we work together a create a video new-year's card. And of course, we made one this year as well. As you can imagine, coming up with original ideas has become increasingly...

Sketching on the iPad

Sep 15, 2011

Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with using my iPad as a drawing/painting tool. The sketches below were created by tracing on an existing image - usually a photograph. So this is not "freehand" drawing per se - but given my limited talents that may...


Word map created from the all the words used in Mishra & Koehler 2006 (TCRecord article) & Koehler & Mishra 2008 (Handbook chapter) on TPACK		Word map created from the all the words used in Mishra & Koehler 2006 (TCRecord article) on TPACK

Word map created from the all the words used in my official vita. (it is no wonder that Mishra is the largest word there – the vita is an ego trip after all)		Word map created from the all the words used in David Wong’s article on ideas as fashion. Clearly fashion plays a bigger role in the paper than the ideas 🙂

Word map created from the all the words used in the syllabus for CEP818, Creativity in Teaching & Learning taught in the fall semester of 2008 (with Mike DeSchryver)		The first of two word maps created from the words on the websites RSS feed

The second of two word maps created from the words on the websites RSS feed