Stop motion fun

Harvard Open Access update

Feb 13, 2008

An update to my previous posting regarding Harvard adopting a open access requirement to all it faculty. It seems that the proposal has been approved. See this news story on the Chronicle.com website. Stuart M. Shieber, a professor of computer science at Harvard who...

Obama at MSU

Oct 2, 2008

Soham and Shreya make it to the Lansing State Journal's website photo gallery... Smita and I pulled the kids out of school today to go see Obama at Michigan State. Leigh Wolf joined us... and frankly it was a long and tiring day: reaching campus at 9:30, standing in...

The role of Vitamin D in beta-cell function

Dec 2, 2008

Who says scientists can't have fun. I just discovered a series of videos on (where else) YouTube about scientists expressing their doctoral research through dance!!! What can be cooler than that? Check out one of the winners: The role of Vitamin D in beta-cell...

TPACK in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Ed Tech

Jun 4, 2015

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, edited by Dr. Michael Spector just got published. We have one article in it on (no surprise there) TPACK! Koehler, M., & Mishra, P. (2015). TPACK (technological pedagogical content knowledge). In J. Spector (Ed.),...

The beautiful futility of art

Feb 22, 2010

Just came across this video about Milton Glaser. If you are interested in design you have to watch it for yourself. But here's a quote that stayed with me: The possibility for learning never disappears. Basically you have to admit you never learn it....

Txting develops spelling skills, how gr8

Jan 28, 2011

Scott Graden is Superintendent of Saline Area Schools and a blogger. He recently posted about a study that indicated that texting helps students develop vocabulary skills. Though he was skeptical of the finding, I am not sure I was as surprised. He cited a news story...

Teaching TPACK @ BYU

Mar 10, 2009

I just found out about IPT287: Instructional Technology for ElEd and ECE a course taught at Brigham Young by Charles Graham (an active TPACK researcher and the adviser of Suzy Cox about whose dissertation I had written about here). Of particular interest to me was a...

e. e. cummings on the battle for identity

May 6, 2009

Patrick Dickson just quoted e. e. cummings (one of my favorite poets) and I just had to look it up. To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can...

Defense against the dark arts in the Sydney Morning Herald

Jan 29, 2019

I was in Sydney recently to present a keynote at the MITE conference. I spoke there about some issues that have been concerning me for a while—what I like to call the "dark arts" of digital technologies. After the conference I had a wide-ranging interview with Jordan...

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 🙂
Reply