Soham, Shreya and I spent this afternoon making a stop-motion animation new year’s card. Check it out…
Have a great 2009!
A few randomly selected blog posts…
Does it matter whether a brownie is served on a paper plate or on china? Is the Patagonian Toothfish less tasty than the Chilean Bass? In an earlier posting (perception of taste) I had cited research showing that wine with an expensive price tag was judged to be...
T. H. Nelson coined the word "hypertext" and more than anyone else, and much earlier than anyone else, truly understood how computing technology would change the text and print. One of my most treasured possession is a copy of his double-book ("Computer Lib: You Can...
How can anybody resist this flowchart / visual representation of Hey Jude! Check it out. Don't you just hear the song as you move through the boxes and arrows.
I am off to Charleston, SC for the SITE 2009 conference. . I can't believe it has been a year since Matt Koehler and I presented our Keynote. I am sending this note sitting in the Michigan Flyer bus (making good use of their free wi-fi) and am looking forward to a...
My Good-Evil ambigram made it to the cover of Screen Guide, a special interest magazine for web-developers! Here it is for the record.
Taare Zameen Par (loosely translated as "Stars on the earth") is a new movie produced and directed by Aamir Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars. He also acts in it. What is unique about this movie is that despite its Bollywood trappings, it is a somewhat serious...
180-degree rotational ambigram for "Flow" by Punya Mishra The next article in our series Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century just got published by the journal TechTrends. This article features Susan Perry, social psychologist,...
A NYTimes article on word-processing versus writing (or scrivenering??): An interface of one's own. What stood out was this description of writing being more than just the putting of words on a screen -- but rather of seeing it this complex, often non-linear...
I wrote this essay a few years ago, around the time I was going up for tenure. I saw writing this as a welcome change from the usual academic stuff I had been writing. I was bored and tired of taking on this third-person, impersonal intellectual voice and just wanted...
Hello Punya,
Saw the Happy New Year stopmotion… creative and entertaining…
Great project to do with kids and then eat up the skittles!!! Would like to know more about your tech-integration projects… Since I’m curious about various tech projects with kids..
Here is one we made with our kids –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjfbe5Pbkjg
Also, I’d like to discuss such more projects with you..
Looking forward to hear from you,
Priti
Happy New Year, Punya. It’s great to see that you’re still up to fun and frolic with technology. All the best!
wonderful.soham’s interest in music is interesting.
This is great – what a brilliant way to use Skittles. Happy 2009 – thanks for sharing the video.
Happy New Year! 🙂