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From blog post to AERA paper: Kant, Borges & AI go to Bollywood
Last summer, digging around in an old Dropbox folder, I stumbled across a Kant quote I had used in a…
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Kant, Borges, & AI go to Bollywood: Connections Nobody Asked For
Intro: I am not entirely sure of the point of this post: a somewhat random associative rumination that brings together…
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Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)
Since 2008, our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the start of a new year. Each video is…
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The Conscious Suspension of Belief: Getting Smart about Human-AI Interaction
A classic tale of early cinema recounts the 1896 Paris screening of the Lumière brothers’ “L’arrivée d’un train en gare…
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Reflection: Welcome 2024
Since December 2008 we have been creating a video to welcome the new year. When we made our first video…
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Vinit Masram (1988 – 2023)
I found out about Vinit Masram’s passing a week or so go. I did not know Vinit personally, having met…
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Flip/Flop: Goodbye 2022 – Welcome 2023
Since 2008 our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of…
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Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
One afternoon, back in December 2008, we made a couple of new year’s videos to welcome the new year. It…
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Goodbye 2020 (whew), welcome 2021
2020 has been a heck of a year… and maybe in hindsight (hindsight, of course, being 2020) it will all…
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Happy 2020 (& and new video)
We have been creating short videos to welcome the new year since 2008. This year was no exception. These videos,…
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Happy New Year (and a new illusory video)
Since 2008 we have been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string…
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Sliding into 2018
Over the years our family has developed a mini-tradition of creating short videos to celebrate the new year. These videos…
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The beauty of randomness
I have always been intrigued by the idea of how truly random our lives really are. Seemingly minor events can trigger…
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Hidden Figures
In honor of the movie “Hidden Figures” here is a new figure-ground ambigram. Enjoy.
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Goodbye 2016, Welcome 2017
Since 2009, our family has made short videos to welcome the new year. These videos are great fun to create,…
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Happy 2016, New Video Happy 2016, New Video
Since 2009, our family has been creating videos to welcome the new year. The videos are typically typographical in nature,…
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Inside-Out: Happy 2015 Inside-Out: Happy 2015
Every winter break (for the past six years) our family creates a video to welcome the new year. This is no…
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Have a great 2014! Have a great 2014!
It is that time of the year… the time for the Mishra/Sawai family new year’s video. As tradition has it…
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Why don’t students like school… In 30 mins! Why don’t students like school… In 30 mins!
One of the challenges faced by all instructors is ensuring that students actually read the textbook. This summer we came…
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Living words, MAET Summer 2013 Living words, MAET Summer 2013
Steven Jobs famously said, Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel…
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My Illusions on the web My Illusions on the web
There are a couple of websites that feature work done by me. I had written earlier about Brad Honeycutt’s website…
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Happy 2013! Happy 2013!
Our family has a Christmas-break tradition. Over the past 5 years or so, every winter-break, we work together a create…
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Bollywood meets Guitar Hero Bollywood meets Guitar Hero
Over the Christmas break my daughter and three of her friends got together to make a music video. The idea…
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Happy 2012 Happy 2012
Every Christmas-break our family creates a stop-motion video new year’s greeting card. We have been doing this for 4 years…
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The one rule of teaching The one rule of teaching
Pauline Kael is regarded to be one of the best film reviewers to have ever lived. Sam Sacks has a…
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iVideos from Australia, the 2011 edition iVideos from Australia, the 2011 edition
Last June I had posted a note (Teacher as filmmaker: An update from down under) about the iVideos created by…
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SITE 2011, the fun stuff SITE 2011, the fun stuff
I had posted earlier about the paper presentations I was involved with during the recently concluded SITE conference at Nashville. Matt…
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It’s all Greek to me: TPACK commercial It’s all Greek to me: TPACK commercial
Last summer Matt and I created a couple of TPACK commercials for a video presentation we had been invited to…
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Research conduct: The movie Research conduct: The movie
From Ken Friedman & the PhD Design listserv: The current issue of The Scientist has a story on an interactive…
