Stop motion fun

Improv here, there, everywhere…

Jul 10, 2008

A few months ago I wrote about Professor R. K. Joshi (here and here). He was, as I said in the piece, maybe the single greatest influence on my role as a teacher. I had mentioned that R.K. loved absurdity and play. I was reminded of this when I read about this group...

Partial to PartiallyClips

Sep 10, 2008

I Stumbled Upon PartiallyClips, a web-based comic strip based on clip art. The rules are simple, "No changes to the art from frame to frame ... Never use the same clip in two strips. No repeating characters." It it amazing just how well this works, despite these...

Postdictable, the commercials

Oct 15, 2009

I had written earlier about the idea of "postdictable" which was defined as something that is "surprising initially, but then understandable with a bit of thought." It lies at the spot between predictability and total chaos. The movie Sixth Sense is postdictable in...

Cognitive psychology of science: Old article

Oct 6, 2017

Science ambigram with 180-degree rotational symmetry This chapter, published back in 1998, focused on the cognitive science of science. I realized today that I had not uploaded this article onto my website. So, better late than never, here it is. But before jumping...

Sketches of life

Feb 17, 2008

I have had a Wacom tablet for a while now but haven't really gotten down to playing with it... till a couple of days ago. I started with rough drawings / sketches of friends and family. Take a look and let me know what you think.... You can click on the images to see...

MLK, Jan 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

Jan 16, 2017

Martin Luther King, Jr.January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

Special CITE issue on TPACK

Mar 30, 2009

The CITE Journal had a recent special issue devoted to TPACK. You can access the special issue (edited by Judi Harris and Matt Koehler) here or individual articles below. Bull, G., & Bell, L. (2009). TPACK: A framework for the CITE Journal. Contemporary Issues in...

Happy Hanukkah: New Ambigram

Dec 25, 2016

In keeping with the holiday theme (see Christmas ambigram below) it seemed appropriate to create a design for Hanukkah. That task actually turned out easier than I had expected - with some natural symmetries that I could take advantage of. The "U" at the...

A defining moment?

Jan 5, 2008

Is this a defining moment of our time? One can just hope... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc

8 Comments

Sherman Unkefer on January 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Excellent points, I completely agree on that…

Gamefly on January 11, 2010 at 1:25 am

Your daughter is really creative.I liked her film.

Sydney on December 30, 2009 at 7:15 am

Great information shared. Well done.

Bali Top on December 25, 2009 at 8:09 am

ya, I would like to try with my middle school technology class.

Punya Mishra on December 23, 2009 at 12:13 am

We used a digital video camera connected to a MacBook laptop running iStopMotion software. Final editing (and sound) was done using iMovie. I plan to post a picture of the setup in day or so.

concretekax on December 22, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Could you explain the hardware and software used to create this? I would like to try with my middle school technology class.

Matt on December 22, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Cool! One suggestion…. Are you setting focus, exposure, aperture and everything manually? It looks like it may be changing from frame to frame, and might look better if it stayed locked (manually).

Punya Mishra on December 22, 2009 at 7:19 pm

This was created by 5 different girls yelling, screaming, shrieking, shaking, all the while. It is a wonder anything was in focus at all 🙂

And given this was the first time ever doing something like this (for most of them) I am amazing anything showed up at all 🙂
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