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Master’s course wins ATT Award

Mar 31, 2009

Just got the news from Carrie Albin, Outreach Coordinator of our Educational Technology Certificate Program (which is part of our Master's in Educational Technology program) that our CEP810 (Teaching for Understanding with Computers) course earned first place in the...

Total eclipse of the sun: An experiment with visual AI

Oct 16, 2023

In a previous post I explored some of the visual capabilities of ChatGPT. This is a continuation of those experiments, where ChatGPT helped me identify the date and time of a solar eclipse based on a photo I took decades ago, as a graduate student at the University of...

National Sun Yat Sen University & Taipei

May 16, 2008

National Sun Yat Sen Unversity has one of the most gorgeous campuses you can imagine. Nestled between hills, with wonderful views of the ocean, with little twisty roads that connect departments and buildings, just beautiful. My hotel room had a magnificient view of...

Street Use

Feb 6, 2008

In blogging Kevin Kelly's piece on "Better than free" (read that post here), I came across another site that he maintains, titled "Street Use," self-described as follows: This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection...

Plugin’ into superpowers

May 19, 2023

I have been playing with couple of the newly released ChatGPT plugins (you have to have the paid version to use them) and want to share some of my early experiments. The two I am going to talk about are the ChatWithPDF and the Wolfram plugins. Short answer, they are...

véjà du, on seeing anew

Sep 9, 2008

I recently learned about véjà du (see here to learn more). I was sufficiently intrigued by this idea to use this as an assignment in the CEP818, Creativity in Teaching and Learning course I am currently teaching (with Mike DeSchryver). The assignment students were...

The civilizing effects of technology

Feb 8, 2013

Martin Amis was recently interviewed in Guernica (Amis Unfiltered, Santiago Wills interviews Martin Amis). The interview covered a wide range of topics, literature, Obama, and a fascinating digression on the relationship between food and national character! What...

TED is bullshit 🙂

Mar 11, 2010

Evrim Baran (who I often joke is the only reader of this blog) sent me this link to a set of notes by Jeff Jarvis from a TED talk he recently gave. He says that he used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education,...

An IQ test for color

Sep 8, 2008

If there is an IQ test for everything, why not one for color. This is Howard Gardner multiple intelligences run rampant. Check out the Color IQ test. BTW, my score was 27 (where 0 is a perfect score and 99 is as bad as you can get!). Irrespective of what you think of...

8 Comments

Sherman Unkefer on January 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Excellent points, I completely agree on that…

Gamefly on January 11, 2010 at 1:25 am

Your daughter is really creative.I liked her film.

Sydney on December 30, 2009 at 7:15 am

Great information shared. Well done.

Bali Top on December 25, 2009 at 8:09 am

ya, I would like to try with my middle school technology class.

Punya Mishra on December 23, 2009 at 12:13 am

We used a digital video camera connected to a MacBook laptop running iStopMotion software. Final editing (and sound) was done using iMovie. I plan to post a picture of the setup in day or so.

concretekax on December 22, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Could you explain the hardware and software used to create this? I would like to try with my middle school technology class.

Matt on December 22, 2009 at 3:31 pm

Cool! One suggestion…. Are you setting focus, exposure, aperture and everything manually? It looks like it may be changing from frame to frame, and might look better if it stayed locked (manually).

Punya Mishra on December 22, 2009 at 7:19 pm

This was created by 5 different girls yelling, screaming, shrieking, shaking, all the while. It is a wonder anything was in focus at all 🙂

And given this was the first time ever doing something like this (for most of them) I am amazing anything showed up at all 🙂
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