Word cloud, redux

Glass half full?

Sep 14, 2008

Just discovered a great riddle/puzzle site: [wu:riddles]. As the site says: The riddles are organized by difficulty ... easy, medium, and hard. Then there is the microsoft section, consisting of weird, open-ended consulting-style questions. The cs and putnam sections...

Generative AI: Will history repeat or (just) rhyme

Mar 10, 2024

As generative AI continues to reshape our world, we're faced with a crucial question: Will we repeat the mistakes we made with previous technologies or will this time be something different? George Santayana famously warned, "Those who cannot remember the past are...

Happy 2012

Dec 26, 2011

Every Christmas-break our family creates a stop-motion video new year's greeting card. We have been doing this for 4 years or so and it is an incredibly fun way to spend time together. It has become a "signature" thing we do as a family. Anyway this year was no...

An IQ test for color

Sep 8, 2008

If there is an IQ test for everything, why not one for color. This is Howard Gardner multiple intelligences run rampant. Check out the Color IQ test. BTW, my score was 27 (where 0 is a perfect score and 99 is as bad as you can get!). Irrespective of what you think of...

Designing for Creative Learning Environments: New chapter

Nov 9, 2023

In 2017, Carmen Richardson and I co-authored a paper (Richardson & Mishra, 2017) introducing SCALE: Support of Creativity in Learning Environment: SCALE, a tool created to evaluate how well educational settings foster student creativity. Unlike formal evaluation...

Double Vision: A Creative Dance of Typography & AI

Jan 26, 2025

I love playing with type and words. Recently I got obsessed with creating a particular kind of typographic design—layouts where letters in words do double duty. A simple example is given below: “THINK INFINITY” where the shared letters "IN" span both the words....

Creative uses of ChatGPT for Education: A conversation with Ethan Mollick

Jun 12, 2023

Ethan Mollick is a professor at the Wharton School of Business and studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He also leads Wharton Interactive, an effort to democratize education through games and simulations. He is also one of the most innovative users of...

Expert eyes on creativity

Aug 3, 2018

Since 2012, the Deep-Play Research Group has been publishing a series of articles under the broad rubric of Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century in the journal Tech Trends. This has led to 33 articles (and counting) and...

National Sun Yat Sen University & Taipei

May 16, 2008

National Sun Yat Sen Unversity has one of the most gorgeous campuses you can imagine. Nestled between hills, with wonderful views of the ocean, with little twisty roads that connect departments and buildings, just beautiful. My hotel room had a magnificient view of...


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