We Feel Fine is a web-installation, “a self-organizing particle system,” art project that is powerful and touching – building as it does on people’s emotions, harvested from blog postings from around the world. As the designers say, “We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.” It is worth a visit… Check it out
A few randomly selected blog posts…
The Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education conference has been an important part of my professional life for over two decades. My first presentation at a SITE conference was back in 2001 at Orlando, Florida, with none other than Matt Koehler. For the...
I think I solved the biggest educational challenge of our time, namely: How do we recognize AI generated text from human-created ones? Just to provide some context, the advent of large language models and generative AI have made it essential that we, as educators,...
Now that all of us are commodities, with personal brand names (and brand value) it is time to take the next step. It is time to get your own barcode! A quick scan with a barcode reader and your worth will be known to one and all. I was prompted to thinking of this...
TPACK Newsletter, Issue #24: August 2015 Welcome to the twenty-fourth edition of the (approximately bimonthly) TPACK Newsletter! TPACK work is continuing worldwide. This document contains recent updates to that work that we hope will be interesting and useful to you,...
I just finished a marathon session of presentations and discussions with the master's students in Curriculum Development and Educational Innovation at Twente University. It was wonderful to meet with them and discuss creativity, teaching, design, TPACK, among other...
Since 2009, our family has made short videos to welcome the new year. These videos are great fun to create, often requiring days of discussion, planning, construction, shooting and editing. They are always typographical in nature, often with a visual twist...
My friend Carl Young of NCState recently released an edited volume (co-editor, Sara Kajder a the University of Pittsburgh) titled Research on Technology in English Education. It is a volume in the series: Research Methods for Educational Technology, edited by Walt...
Happy Diwali 2010 Readers of this blog know that every year I provide a link to the same interactive Diwali eCard. Why change anything this year? So follow the link below, turn your volume way up, and remember to click on the sky above the Taj Mahal for some...
MindHacks has a great post related to some of my previous postings about anthropomorphizing interactive artifacts (see here and here) - just that this time these artifacts under discussion are robots. As it turns out, sometime too much similarity between humans and...
Thanks for the link. Twistori is cool! Somewhat simple compared to the visual panache (and computational complexity) of We Feel Fine – but pretty cool none the less.
Yes… I LOVE that site. It is one of the quirkiest things I have seen… and was one of the first to tag in Delicious when I began using it.
It also reminds me of this one: http://twistori.com/
Have you seen it?
Sean