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The Desk, the Test, the LMS: The 5 Spaces for (re)Design in Education

Nov 30, 2023

What do a teacher's desk, the PISA test and Learning Management Systems (LMS) have in common. Apart from being educational technologies, they are also the heart of a book chapter that Melissa Warr, Kevin Close and I just published in a book titled Formative Design in...

Happy Diwali

Oct 16, 2009

Happy Diwali For an interactive card click here ... . Remember to turn your volume way up, and click anywhere in the sky above the Taj Mahal for some environmentally friendly, fireworks.

Beware of science envy in designing learning

Apr 2, 2020

Mike Crowley has a guest post on the silverlingingforlearning.org site titled: If we need to be right before we move. (If you haven’t read it, I recommend it strongly. Go ahead follow the link above. I’ll be waiting). [Pause] Welcome back. I think Mike makes some...

Going cuckoo!

Jun 3, 2010

Three different news-stories/articles came to my notice today all connected by the infamous brood parasite the cuckoo. The first is a part of Olivia Judson's blog (on the NYTimes) on biology and life (read Cuckoo! Cuckoo! here), the second is is about how scientists...

A surprise gift

Sep 12, 2008

I just received a gift in the mail. It was a box and in the box was One of those cool push pin toys... How cool is that! In the box was a short note that went: Hi Dr. Punya! It was a pleasure to meet you during the Quest Alliance Seminar in Bangalore. I really enjoyed...

TPACK newsletter #4, Aug – Sept 09

Oct 8, 2009

 Welcome to the fourth edition of the TPACK Newsletter, now with 494 subscribers (representing a 36% increase during the last four months!), and appearing bimonthly between August and April. If you are not sure what TPACK is, please surf over to www.tpack.org...

With Gratitude

Sep 12, 2019

This past Monday was a special. That evening I was at Manitas School in Kyrene school district for the ribbon-cutting of the new school model we have been working on for the past two years. An important part of the evening was the reveal of the name of the new school...

Of hernias and hiccups, the evolutionary story

Jan 14, 2009

Interesting article in Scientific American about how flaws in our biology reveal our evolutionary history. Steven Gould talked about it in his famous essay on The Panda's Thumb. This is a wonderful argument for Darwinian evolution since it points not to perfection...

Following up on lunar distance

Mar 27, 2009

A followup to my previous posting about the Italian kids calculating the distance to the moon using recordings from the Apollo Space program. As I read the story on the technology Review website, I came to the comments made by readers. One stuck out. This is what...

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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