Failed Haiku
Five syllables first
Second one has seven more
A failed Haiku!
So close… almost had it.
In keeping with the meta-theme, here is another one, written many years ago, and lightly edited by Danah Henriksen.
Turvy-Topsy limerick
This limerick-wise
Has not the right size
Because the middle two lines are much too long
However, that is the way, although it be wrong
I economize!
A few randomly selected blog posts…
Check this out. Very strange and a lot of fun.
It was exactly a year ago, on the first of January 2008, that I began blogging (see first posting here). When I started I wasn't sure how well this blogging thing would work out. Now 12 months and 376 posts later - I have to say that I have truly enjoyed this. I had...
One of the myths of the new digital generation is that they are natural multi-taskers. The evidence, however, indicates that multi-tasking is detrimental to performance and success, and though we may try delude ourselves, the fact of the matter is that, we do...
In a previous posting I raised the question about when does a piece of technology become an educational technology? One of the coolest pieces of technology today is the iPhone. Can it function as an educational technology? I have been considering getting one for a...
A vase for a daisy, made from a plastic bic pen. (Website here).
typing on this keyboard is still kind of painful, though I am getting better every word I type.
I was reading the final papers written by participants in my CEP 817, Learning Technology by Design seminar and came across this quote by Clement Mok in a paper written by Breanne Edmonds. I wanted to record it for future reference: Design means being good, not just...
I was invited to write an epilogue for a new book on the development of science teachers TPACK (with a specific focus on East Asia), and I "volunteered" my colleague Danah Henriksen to help with it (thanks Danah). The book was recently published. Here is the citation...
Just came across this on the Ph.D. design list (a listserv for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design) from a posting by Charles Burnette. He quotes Donald MacKinnon, author of a large study on creativity in the arts, sciences and professions: If I...
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