Word cloud, redux

Microblogging in the classroom

Nov 12, 2008

I have written quite a bit about how a technology can become an educational technology (see this, this, this and this). This is a non-trivial task that all educators face, and requires situational creativity in re-purposing / re-designing the existing tool to meet...

On the Ethical Perils of Mass-Produced Books: A Concerned Scholar’s View

Apr 1, 2025

The prose below is from a manuscript that was recently discovered in the archives of the Indian National History Museum. It was found among papers donated in 1923 by the estate of Colonel Jackson Vivian Quill III of the Royal Fusiliers, who served in British India...

Collaborative Haiku

Sep 5, 2018

A silent white boardScribble a first line, and waitEmergent haiku. Last Friday, goofing off between meetings, I scribbled one line, five syllables long, on one of the white-boards in our office space. Within a few minutes, lo and behold, was a lovely haiku,...

Summer Ball by Lupica

Jan 29, 2008

I picked up Summer Ball by Mike Lupica from Soham this evening, and ended up finishing it at one go (another excuse for not working on our AACTE presentation). Lupica writes sports novels for young adults and Summer Ball is a sequel to his previous best-seller Travel...

New ambigram: Nihal

Oct 9, 2009

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.

Creativity in Teaching & Learning @ Mizzou

May 27, 2019

I was recently invited to conduct a workshop for the Celebration of Teaching Conference at the University of Missouri around Creativity in Teaching and Learning. This was my first time at Columbia, MO and the conference organizers were wonderful. I did two versions of...

Tiger by the tail

Jan 22, 2009

A while ago I blogged about a column by David Brooks in the NYTimes (Flipping the Tech & Ed equation). Brooks described research by Goldin and Katz indicating a "race between technology and education" based on the idea that technology is (by its very nature) skill...

Alien games paper, published

Dec 3, 2008

I had posted earlier that a paper on gender and video games had been accepted for publication. Well, it is published now, full reference, abstract and link to PDF given below. Heeter, C., Egidio, R., Mishra, P., Winn, B., & Winn, J. (2008). Alien Games: Do girls...

How to fix your Indian accent using AI

Feb 19, 2023

Featured image design © Punya Mishra (background image courtsey PxHere) There are many meanings to the phrase "having a voice." It can mean whether you are present and acknowledged within a space - but most literally it means what you say and how you speak? And...


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