Grant Hackathon 2016

TPACK in the land down under

Feb 26, 2010

I recently received an email from Debra Bourne, IT Coordinator at St. Paul's International College in Australia informing me about some work related to TPACK being done in Queensland. Specifically she mentioned a paper to be presented at the upcoming Australian...

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...

Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

Apr 16, 2026

This piece was also cross-posted on the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you can find at Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring...

Good teaching is good design

Jul 5, 2016

I just came across Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design and was immediately struck by how closely they paralleled what is essential for good teaching. All one has to do is replace the word "design" with "teaching" and I think we get 10 pretty...

TPACK Newsletter #20: May 2014

May 16, 2014

TPACK Newsletter, Issue #20: May 2014Welcome to the twentieth edition of the (approximately bimonthly) TPACK Newsletter! TPACK work is continuing worldwide. This document contains recent updates to that work that we hope will be interesting and useful to you, our...

Technology Integration in Higher Education

Mar 19, 2008

Matt Koehler and I led a session on Technology Integration in Higher Education: Challenges & Opportunities for a day-long symposium titled: Colloquium on the Changing Professoriate. This is how our session was described in the program book/website: Technology has...

From HTML to GenAI: Re-visiting Three Early-Web Projects

Feb 26, 2026

I've been on a bit of a vibe-coding spree lately, building interactive simulations, educational tools, cultural experiments, all through conversation with AI rather than traditional programming. At some point I looked up and thought: what about the stuff I made back...

Computational Thinking paper wins Outstanding Paper

Feb 22, 2017

A paper co-authored with Jon Good and Aman Yadav, building on Jon's practicum study has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the SITE 2017. Complete reference, link to article and abstract given below. Good. J., Yadav. A., & Mishra, P....

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...