Soham, Shreya and I spent this afternoon making a stop-motion animation new year’s card. Check it out…
Have a great 2009!
A few randomly selected blog posts…
I have written quite a bit about how a technology can become an educational technology (see this, this, this and this). This is a non-trivial task that all educators face, and requires situational creativity in re-purposing / re-designing the existing tool to meet...
I am trying to live blog the conference: Symposium on Education Technology in Schools: Converging for Innovation & Creativity [Full agenda here]. Let us see how far I can keep this up. August 20: Morning session: The pre-conference session has been about meeting old...
I was recently interviewed by Wired magazine for a story about Sugata Mitra's (of Hole in the Wall fame) experiments with minimally invasive learning, or more recently what are called SOLE (Self Organized Learning Environment) classrooms / schools. I have been...
Quest Alliance is an NGO based in Bangalore that seeks to equip young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning. I have known of Quest and its director, Aakash Sethi, for over a decade now. In fact I had blogged about Quest back in 2008 here, and...
Greg Casperson is a graduate student in our Ed Psy & Ed Tech program. He has been engaged, over the past few months, in the most interesting experiment. He carefully selects and posts to his website one poem every day! Greg's RSS feed has become one of the first...
My mashup of a commercial has been on YouTube for a while and just yesterday I noticed that someone had left a very thoughtful comment... and that comment got me thinking... and hence this posting. To start with, if you haven't seen the videos here they are again....
Stacy Clause just sent me this very cool link to an article titled Exploring logo designs with Mathematica. In this article, Chris Carlson, of the User Design Group at Mathematia shows how one can mathematically develop variations on commercial logo designs by the...
As the TPACK framework has developed and received greater research and scholarly attention there has been an increasing demand for a survey instrument that can help us measure TPACK. There are now two such measures available. We, here at Michigan State, in close...
What is the role of beauty (and aesthetics) in science in science education? This is something that I have been interested in for a long time, going back to highschool. Over the years I have built a small body of scholarship around this topic. Sadly, this work does...
Hello Punya,
Saw the Happy New Year stopmotion… creative and entertaining…
Great project to do with kids and then eat up the skittles!!! Would like to know more about your tech-integration projects… Since I’m curious about various tech projects with kids..
Here is one we made with our kids –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjfbe5Pbkjg
Also, I’d like to discuss such more projects with you..
Looking forward to hear from you,
Priti
Happy New Year, Punya. It’s great to see that you’re still up to fun and frolic with technology. All the best!
wonderful.soham’s interest in music is interesting.
This is great – what a brilliant way to use Skittles. Happy 2009 – thanks for sharing the video.
Happy New Year! 🙂