Lego based Sudoku & Rubik Cube solving robots

Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion

Feb 10, 2009

Leigh Wolf just sent me this video created by the Johnson Space Center on Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion. A Google search led to this description: Last summer, Johnson Space Center senior management coordinated a center-wide, cross-generational effort to explore...

Photo triplets

Jul 31, 2009

Christopher Bowhuis (a student in our summer on-campus MAET program) provided me a two minute tutorial on cloning myself, or anybody else for that matter. I had to go home and try it out with my kids (and a few of their friends who just happened to show up). Below are...

Why Theory: Or the TPACK story

Dec 7, 2016

Note: There are two key updates / correction to this post The first has to do with a couple of things that I either got wrong, or rushed over. More about that at Update on "The TPACK story" or "Oops!"The second has to do with an update to the diagram itself that came...

Facebook Username

Jun 13, 2009

I now have a facebook username! Hah! Check out http://www.facebook.com/punyamishra/

Children & anthropomorphic toys

Mar 30, 2008

Andrea Francis and I recently presented a paper at AERA titled "Differences in children's verbal responses and behavioral interactions with anthropomorphic toys." The abstract is as follows: Interactive toys for children are becoming more popular for both play and...

Update on SITE08 Keynote

Apr 2, 2008

A re-edited version of the SITE 2008 Keynote address (by Matt Koehler and me) has been uploaded to the website. You can find the new version here. This presentation depended quite heavily on the exact synching of slide transitions to the audio - and the previous...

International Literacy Day, new ambigram

Sep 8, 2014

In celebration of International Literacy Day, here is a new ambigram design - it reads, "Literacy" one way and "Reading" the other! Enjoy. See below for an attempt to use CSS to use to make the rotation automatic when you move your cursor over the image. Check it out....

Unpacking TPACK, the book

Sep 15, 2009

Candace Figg & Jenny Burson have just released a book titled: Designs for Unpacking Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), making this the second textbook that utilizes the TPACK framework. You can find out more about the Figg & Burson book by going to...

Of ballots and names…

Jan 9, 2008

Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford, argues that Hillary Clinton's surprise victory in the New Hampshire primary (contrary to what was being predicted in the pre-election surveys) could be simply due to the design of the ballot! Here is is the key quote: Our...

2 Comments

Sudoku Strategies on February 23, 2011 at 4:02 am

Nice work Lego.
Tilted Twister is a clever little bugger all right.
Which one would you build first?
Obviously I’d go for Sudoku, but I’m a Rubik’s Cube fan as well.

Sudoku Strategies on May 14, 2010 at 9:49 pm

wow this is amazing. and then it becomes aware and gives birth to Skynet! lol. this is a super creative invention. very cool