{"id":1706,"date":"2011-03-30T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2013-03-10T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T14:56:57","slug":"tpack-creativity-at-cedar-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2011\/03\/30\/tpack-creativity-at-cedar-rapids\/","title":{"rendered":"TPACK &#038; Creativity at Cedar Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} -->I had a wonderful day at the <a href=\"www.aea10.k12.ia.us\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Woods Area Education Agency<\/a> at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was invited there by Andy Crozier and his team as a part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/gwaeac21year3\/\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Learning Institute<\/a>. I spent the day with 50+ teachers, library media specialists, and administrators talking about TPACK, creativity, technology integration and other fun stuff. This was a great group of people and I had a great time (and I hoped that they did too).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A wordle of some of the ideas that we touched upon can be found below (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/1to1schools.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Sauers<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Wordle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/presentations\/gwaea\/wordle.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find a <a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/presentations\/gwaea\/gwaea-cedarrapids.pdf\">PDF document of my slides<\/a> as well as a PDF of the <a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/presentations\/gwaea\/demotivationalposters-gwaea.pdf\">demotivational posters created by the participants<\/a>. (Even if you don&#8217;t see my slides, you MUST see the posters&#8230; they are funny and worth a moment of your time).<\/p>\n<p>A couple of participant took notes during the day and have kindly made them available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Sauer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/16uzYjXu_444llHMTOmsHAnkyO3gnm62ibURtB18enUQ\/edit?hl=en#\" target=\"_blank\">Notes<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/1to1schools.net\/2011\/03\/punya-mishra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog posting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matt Townsley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qTlEGQb-YJZWLS4q2qMvicgQJd16UoBhsKKunogQr9I\/edit?hl=en&amp;authkey=COm7gsQC#\" target=\"_blank\">Notes<\/a> (Incidentally Matt and I have known each other for a while now but had never met. It was great to finally meet up with one of my online buddies. Matt blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/mctownsley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetaMusing<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The participants also created (as a part of the workshop) some poems. I am including them below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creativity Haiku<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Karry, Michelle, Kathleen, Beth, Todd, Kathy<br \/>\n<\/em>technology is<br \/>\ncreative innovation<br \/>\ntpack makes us think<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limerick<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Deanne, Ruth, Jason<br \/>\n<\/em>Administrators, librarians and teachers<br \/>\nCame to learn about &#8220;teachnology&#8221; features<br \/>\nTPACK is the focus<br \/>\nDr. Punya is the &#8220;mostest&#8221;<br \/>\nThey came out of there much wiser creatures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Untitled<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Joe, Kay, and Jessica<br \/>\n<\/em>While spoon feeding our students in class<br \/>\nWe focus on the Total PACKage<br \/>\nAs we use, integrate, and innovate<br \/>\nTo help them Know-Act-Value<br \/>\nWe find-Everything is NEW<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deja Who?<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Amy, Christopher, &amp; Mike<br \/>\n<\/em>There once was a man from MSU.<br \/>\nHe D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu\u2019ed and Veja du\u2019ed.<br \/>\nTPACK was his shared view<br \/>\nof all that was NEW!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poem<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Melva, Cathy, Jan, Kim, Dianna<br \/>\n<\/em>Acronyms, acronyms, here\u2019s what we found<br \/>\nTPACK is where teaching hits the ground.<br \/>\nTechnology, Pedagogy, Content and Knowledge<br \/>\nWill take teaching beyond the cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>NEW stands for Novel, Effective and Whole<br \/>\nAnd if something is meant to roll, it should roll.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re learning how in our classrooms to apply<br \/>\nAll of this information which is in great supply.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team TPACK<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Tony, Mary, Kelly, Jodi<br \/>\n<\/em>There once was a teacher from Marimac<br \/>\nWho wanted to teach with his Mac<br \/>\nHis friend said now Jo<br \/>\nJust take it slow.<br \/>\nRemember to think about TPACK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poem<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Mary, Brad and Jan<br \/>\n<\/em>Teaching 3 knowledge bases<br \/>\nProviding framework for technology integration<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nCreativity<br \/>\nKeeping learning d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu and veja du<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creativity<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>by Brian, Lisa, Seth, Julie, Stacy<br \/>\n<\/em>There was a smart man from MSU,<br \/>\nwho defined creativity as N-E-W.<br \/>\nHe effectively did present<br \/>\ntechnology, pedagogy and content<br \/>\nand it all started with veja du.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Andy and his team for this wonderful opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful day at the Grant Woods Area Education Agency at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was invited there by Andy Crozier and his team as a part of their 21st Century Learning Institute. I spent the day with 50+ teachers, library media specialists, and administrators talking about TPACK, creativity, technology integration and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20,10,11,5,28,94,19,38,27,8,17,36,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}