12 Days of Christmas, the desi version

Tell me a story: Delightful design in an airport

Apr 2, 2023

“Design doesn’t need to be delightful for it to work, but that’s like saying food doesn’t need to be tasty to keep us alive” — Frank Chimero I am always looking for examples of good and bad design in the world around me. Good design is rare, functional and at the same...

Ambigrams & Math: In one embeddable ebook

Oct 3, 2015

Over the past two years Gaurav Bhatnagar and I have written five columns for the Math education journal At Right Angles on the topics of mathematics and visual wordplay, specifically Ambigrams. In this five articles we have explored everything from symmetry to...

$Math & Visual Wordplay: New video$

Math & Visual Wordplay: New video

Oct 5, 2016

The word "math" written such that it has rotational symmetryi.e. it reads the same even when rotated by 180-degrees. The relationship between mathematics and visual wordplay is one I have played with and writing about for a while (More here). I just discovered...

Exploring visual space with mathematics

Apr 30, 2009

Stacy Clause just sent me this very cool link to an article titled Exploring logo designs with Mathematica. In this article, Chris Carlson, of the User Design Group at Mathematia shows how one can mathematically develop variations on commercial logo designs by the...

véjà du for the first time ever!

Aug 4, 2008

I learned a new term today, véjà du. As we all know (didn't I write a posting about this earlier?) déjà vu (or paramnesia) from the French meaning “already seen” describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. It...

designing research | designing technology

Dec 5, 2008

Matt Koehler and I usually have a end of semester show-case of work done by the students in our classes. This semester Matt has been teaching CEP955 (Research design and methods for educational psychology and educational technology) and I have been involved with...

EPET in the Spotlight!

Mar 18, 2013

The current issue of TechTrends (Volume 57, Issue 3, March 2013) is a special spotlight issue, and the spotlight this time around is on the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Programs at Michigan State University! This special spotlight issue was edited...

EduSummIT 2017: An update

Oct 1, 2017

I just returned from participating in EDUsummIT 2017, the fifth International Summit on Information Technology in Education. EDUsummIT is a global knowledge building community of researchers, educational practitioners, and policy makers committed to...

Total eclipse of the moon

Feb 20, 2008

Tonight was a full lunar eclipse - the last one we will have till December 2010. Lucky for us we had a pretty clear sky - a welcome change from the past few days. Shreya and Soham and I tracked it since it started till it was almost complete - and then they had to go...

3 Comments

Punya Mishra on December 18, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Papa, good to see you here… I have to approve the first comment from a new user … and then they can comment whenever they want. So drop by when you can and type up in a comment.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:02 pm

liked a lot.

benoy mishra on December 18, 2008 at 1:00 pm

shreya is wonderful, a flight of imagination. really nice.