Fact / Fiction, ambigram

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I had written before, CEP917: Knowledge Media Design, a course taught by Dr. Danah Henriksen and myself, in the Fall semester of 2012, received First Place (in the Blended Course category) in the2013 MSU-AT&T Instructional Technology Awards Competition. The awards...

Tipping point for online learning?

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Is the Covid19 crisis the tipping point for online learning? As we wrote in our introduction to the Silver Lining for Learning webinar series …this crisis has forced schools and universities to close, pushing often unprepared institutions to move teaching and learning...

How to author 85,000 (or is it 200,000) books…

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Andrea Francis just emailed me a note about Professor Phillip Parker who is the world's fastest book author. He has over the past five years over 85,000 books to his name. He is also the most eclectic. As the article says, "He has authored some 188 books related to...

You’re invited! MAET Showcase July 26th 10am, Room 252 Erickson

Jul 19, 2013

Dear MAET graduates, current students, and other friends of the program: You are cordially invited to our current MAET Summer 2013 students’ final project showcase, on July 26th, at 10am, in room 252 Erickson Hall. As you may know from your own past experiences with...

New media, new genres

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There is an interesting article in today's NYTimes titled Content and its discontents by Virginia Heffernan. In this article she makes the argument the new digital, online media require new ways of representing information, new ways of thinking about how ideas are...

Deep-Play on Michigan Radio Stateside with Cynthia Canty

Mar 3, 2015

I am a huge fan of Stateside with Cynthia Canty, a radio show on Michigan Radio. So imagine my excitement when I was interviewed by her about my ongoing exhibition (Deep-Play: Creativity in Math & Art through Visual Wordplay) at the MSU Museum. The interview was...

James Kaufman on creativity: New article

May 29, 2018

Dr. James C. Kaufman is Professor of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut and a highly-renowned creativity researcher. He is also a writer and playwright, having recently written the book and lyrics to the musical...

Learning science with the body

Oct 10, 2019

We often think and understand the world using our bodies. Our senses and movement shape how we form and process knowledge. Paul Reimer, Rohit Mehta and I explore this idea and its educational implications in a new article published in iWonder: Rediscovering School...

TPACK in the land down under

Feb 26, 2010

I recently received an email from Debra Bourne, IT Coordinator at St. Paul's International College in Australia informing me about some work related to TPACK being done in Queensland. Specifically she mentioned a paper to be presented at the upcoming Australian...

3 Comments

Gaurav Bhatnagar on May 30, 2009 at 12:39 am

Very nice one. Its somehow very different and original too. Given the fake controversy, I suggest that it actually reads Friction.

BTW, while searching for whether what you have made is an ambigram or not, I found a ref to you on wikipedia.

Punya Mishra on May 29, 2009 at 3:04 pm

I know, but it seemed cooler to create a fake controversy … 🙂

Sonny on May 29, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Just saw this again: I did not consider my self deprecating humor a ‘putdown’ of your skills. Quite the contrary, actually. Just for the record;)