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Fun with TPACK

TPACK has been serious business for me for two decades — which is exactly why it also deserves a page that is not serious at all. Collected here: the silly TPACK images I have made over the years, a few recorded TPACK talks, and the small but wonderful genre of TPACK songs and skits made by others.

Silly TPACK images (over the years)

I have over the years, for no particular reason, created many silly, fun, (dare I say creative) representations of the TPACK framework. I realized that they had been floating around here and there and deserved to be kept in one place somewhere. It is not like the world was clamoring for them, but here they are.

Spilled paint version
Spilled paint version
Tea-Pea-Sea Knowledge :)
Tea-Pea-Sea Knowledge 🙂
TeePee Ack! (the image says it all)
TeePee Ack! (the image says it all)
Technology, Pedagogy and Content coming together to create a rich, tasty concoction!
Technology, Pedagogy and Content coming together to create a rich, tasty concoction!
A completely created image -- using coffee stains and handwritten fonts (I wish I had actually found this)
A completely created image — using coffee stains and handwritten fonts (I wish I had actually found this)
Who does not like tea-pack?
Who does not like tea-pack?
Image created as a banner for TPACK newsletters, where TPACK emerges at the intersection of Judi Harris (editor of the n
Image created as a banner for TPACK newsletters, where TPACK emerges at the intersection of Judi Harris (editor of the newsletter), email and ed tech.
Banner image created for a special issue of the TPACK newsletter that focused on TPACK presentations in three different
Banner image created for a special issue of the TPACK newsletter that focused on TPACK presentations in three different conferences.
Just a minimal TPACK typographical design
Just a minimal TPACK typographical design
TPACK as lying at the intersection of Wolves, Groups and Hot aromatic beverages!
TPACK as lying at the intersection of Wolves, Groups and Hot aromatic beverages!
This needs some explanation. I was born in Cuttack (India), Matt Koehler in Sheboygan (WI, USA) and we met and TPACK was
This needs some explanation. I was born in Cuttack (India), Matt Koehler in Sheboygan (WI, USA) and we met and TPACK was born in East Lansing (MI, USA).
A figure-ground visual design
A figure-ground visual design
A cool design: a 3-dimensional shape that gives 3 different shadows (the letters C, P and T) depending on how you shine
A cool design: a 3-dimensional shape that gives 3 different shadows (the letters C, P and T) depending on how you shine light on it. In some ways that shape in the middle is this construct called TPACK!
A mirror-ambigram for TPACK
A mirror-ambigram for TPACK
The same design as above repurposed for a t-shirt. The tag line "reflect on it" is written as if reflected in
The same design as above repurposed for a t-shirt. The tag line “reflect on it” is written as if reflected in a mirror.
The TPACK button. The design of this button has played an important role in the development of the framework itself.
The TPACK button. The design of this button has played an important role in the development of the framework itself.

A few that I have come across in other contexts (i.e. not created by me):

A TPACK mug
A TPACK mug
Found on the Interwebs -- source unknown. I have no words to describe this :)
Found on the Interwebs — source unknown. I have no words to describe this 🙂

TPACK talks on video

Over the years I have made many presentations about the TPACK framework, sometimes with my colleague Matthew J. Koehler and sometimes solo. A few favorites that ended up being recorded:

Teaching creatively: Teachers as designers of technology, content and pedagogy. Keynote by Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler at the SITE 2008 conference, Las Vegas.
Break out of the box: The TPACK radio / video show, created for ISTE 2010 with Matthew Koehler and Leigh Wolf, edited to remove conference-specific references. The original show as presented at ISTE is also online.
Why theory? A talk about the history of TPACK and the role of theory in research, at the Doctoral Research Forum, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU.

The TPACK commercials

Mock commercials created for the Break Out of the Box radio / video show.

TPACK commercial: the whiteboard / UPS version.
TPACK commercial: the Mastercard “Priceless” version.
And the third: a mashup commercial built around explore, create and share.

Explore, Create, Share

Three short videos I created with my kids, one each for the words explore, create and share.

Explore: To see, or not to see.
Emergence: Create.
A helping hand: Share.

TPACK fun, by others

A search on YouTube reveals a wide range of videos related to TPACK. Most of them are serious descriptions of the framework (heck, I have created a few of those myself). But there is a smaller genre of TPACK videos that do not necessarily seek to explain the construct. They are just good fun. There are songs and skits and things in between. Here are a few that I managed to find.

The TPACK nightmare — one of the oldest, created by students in the MAET program. It depicts what happens when you read too many TPACK-related articles.
The Sweet Spot (TPACK Anthem) — a music video.
A skit built on the classic SNL Cowbell sketch, where “more cowbell” becomes “more TPACK!” Scroll to around the 18-minute mark.
TPACK sprach Zarathustra — a somewhat surreal one; the title says it all.
Don’t mess with TPACK — made with John Lee (NC State) and Todd Zakrajsek (UNC Chapel Hill) at a Microsoft meeting in Seattle, 2012. Hosted here after YouTube’s classifiers decided three professors parodying “Don’t Mess with Texas” constituted harassment.
Everybody is talking about my tight pants TPACK — a parody of the Tight Pants skit by Jimmy Fallon and Will Ferrell.
The first of two mashups by Mike Sisley, University of Canberra, made for a special focus on TPACK for English, literacy and history. This one features an auto-tuned version of my voice.
The second Sisley mashup, with an original song called the Shulman Shuffle.