12 Days of Christmas, the desi version

Unpacking Design & Creativity @ Purdue

Apr 24, 2008

The presentation Unpacking Design and creativity: What I think I know, and what I (quite certainly) don't is done, and it went well (I think). You can read the abstract here or view the presentation below Or see it full screen, by clicking here. After the presentation...

SITE 2024: A recap

Mar 30, 2024

The Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) conference has been an integral part of my professional journey for over two decades. My first presentation at SITE was back in 2001 with Matt Koehler and through the years, SITE has played a pivotal...

WordMapping the debate

Oct 16, 2008

I created two WordMaps (using wordle.net) using all the words used by Obama and McCain during their third and final debate. Kind of interesting. Check them out (Click on the image for larger versions, hosted on Flickr). Wordle created using all the words used by...

New media, new genres

Dec 12, 2008

There is an interesting article in today's NYTimes titled Content and its discontents by Virginia Heffernan. In this article she makes the argument the new digital, online media require new ways of representing information, new ways of thinking about how ideas are...

Educational Technology @ MSU

Apr 11, 2011

The Educational Psychology and Educational Technology program at the College of Education at Michigan State University offers a variety of programs in educational technology. The College of Education is one of highest ranked colleges of education in the country (see...

STEM teaching & leadership for urban educators

Oct 25, 2017

The MSUrbanSTEM project was one of the best projects I have ever been part of. We worked with 124 Chicago Public School STEM educators over three years, in an effort to develop their teaching and leadership in the STEM areas. We have written about this...

Meta Poetry: I and II

Jun 19, 2019

This sentence refers to itself. This sentence declares that this blog post is about 2 poems I wrote recently. Both these poems are self-referential to some degree, namely both poems are about poetry. I have been interested in self-reference for along time—and this...

Rainbows in your backyard, how scary

Jun 30, 2009

We have been talking about misconceptions in my summer MAET classes and one of my students sent me this hilarious link. There is really nothing much to say... just see it for yourself. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s[/youtube] Another video that I...

Representing networks

Jan 23, 2009

Facebook has a couple of apps that allow you to map your friends' network. I knew about them but hadn't really played with them till Matt Koehler asked for some ideas to use in his 956 (Mind, Media & Learning class) and I suggested trying some of these tools out. To...

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.