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A room of their own: New article on technology & creativity in the 21st century

May 31, 2013

The latest in our series Rethinking Technology and Creativity in the 21st Century is now available. The article was co-authored with William Cain, Sandra Sawaya and Danah Henriksen (and the Deep-Play Research Group) and deals with the issue of how expertise may...

New ambigram logo for ideaplay.org

Jan 2, 2010

I had written previously about a blog started by students in our Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Ph.D. program (ideaplay.org) and had designed a couple of ambigrammatic logos for them. You can see the original post here. Here is one of the original...

Unleashing Creativity: ISTE interview

May 29, 2018

A few months ago I was interviewed for an article in Empowered Learner, an ISTE member magazine. The final article, Unleashing every genius: Creative genius isn't rare – but the conditions that nurture it are is now online. You can access the entire issue of the...

Hello Taiwan

May 14, 2008

Arrived at Taipei airport and got through immigration and customs quite quickly. I was received at the airport by Waiway Lin, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Curriculum and Instruction at the National Taipei University of Education. It appears that she...

Multi-national TPACK tour

May 7, 2008

I leave tomorrow (actually today, given that it is past midnight as I write this) on a multi-national TPACK tour. I touch 4 countries in around 2 weeks!! I am taking a non-stop flight from Newark NJ to New Delhi, for the first time ever. It is a 15 hour flight and I...

On picturing words, tech-mix an old school idea

Dec 11, 2009

Students in my CEP 818 (Creativity in Teaching and Learning) have been using digital photography to explore a variety of topics related to trans-disciplinary creativity. I hope to showcase some of their work on this blog once the semester gets over. In the meanwhile,...

Putting technology first

Dec 8, 2009

Don Norman has a great essay titled Technology First, Needs Last that I strongly recommend. We have been making a similar argument in some of our more recent pieces, see here and here... What do you think of Norman's ideas? Read it first and come back here to discuss...

Number (non)sense & flatulence!

Dec 16, 2009

Numbers are a gas! (Image credit: Phillie Casablanca) Numbers are seen as being critical to developing our understanding of a subject. As Lord Kelvin, (1824-1907) said: ... when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something...

Announcing the Numeroscriptor, great quote

Dec 1, 2009

What a wonderful quote... Already every bank of any importance probably uses calculating machines. It is not likely that the fatiguing and uncertain process of having arithmetical calculations of any sort performed in the brains of clerks will survive the improvements...

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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