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Love this talk: do schools kill creativity
So funny & inspiring!
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Creative Tension
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” — Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art Thoughtful quote I picked out from blog post by Dave Troy about the “tension” (I would call it a creative intersection that produces innovations, as Frans Johansson would say) between dominantly left and right brain thinkers. He also created these cool applications like Twittervision and Flickrvision that provide real-time visualization…
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Cenegenics?
I’ve not been keeping up with all my blogs due to a redirection in my life – full-time doctoral studies , but I’m back now. What inspired this post today has to do with research in the field of age management – you got it, the quest for the fountain of youth. I was captivated by a photograph of a 67-year-old man with a 30-year-old’s body in the AP article.
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Fulbright FLTA Orientation
I saw many nationalities and ethnic groups of students at lunchtime around the quad and at King David’s. Well, here’s the presentation I’ll be making with Mike at 5:30 pm today. >> P.S. 8/15/08: If anyone is unable to view it on their pc, like on my tablet pc yesterday, you probably have to download the Java add-on from this site: http://java.com/en/ To any Fulbright Foreign Language TA who may be accessing this page – hello! I didn’t manage to clarify why I picked some of the tools for yesterday’s…
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Oops, yes, the conference
Yes, the conference. I ought to write a little about it, lest some folks think all I did was sightsee Vienna. Here are some links for those who are interested: 1. EdMedia08 twemes: http://twemes.com/edmedia08 2. Keynotes:04.07.2008:: Patricia Manson, “Technology Enhanced Learning in the 21st Century – The Role of European Research”.03.07.2008:: Peter J. Scott “Where is the Mentor?: New Ways of Supporting Learning”02.07.2008:: Geetha Narayanan “Moving beyond the Plentitude: An Indian Fable”01.07.2008:: Alan Amory “Playing Games: Hegenomy as Enemy” 3. EdMedia08 on Twitter: http://twitter.com/edmedia 4. EdMedia08 blog: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/edmedia/blog/ 5. James…
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Spectacular energizing Vienna
It takes a while to get used to sleeping at normal SYR hours and settling down to small city living. In Vienna, I cherished the urban vitality and accessibility to food, shops and European goods. The transportation system and big city living reminded me a lot of SG and the convenience of living in a developed city. I walked a lot and was in the sun often. The first few nights I was exhausted from all the walking and jetlag. An American professor at the conference told me it took…
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Getting to Vienna – the how-to’s
I’m sitting at Hancock Airport now, kind of concerned about the low battery level and watching out for a power socket to plug into. BRB… found it. Flight leaves for Detroit at 12:37pm, then catch another flight to go to Amsterdam, Netherlands, then another to Vienna, Austria. By the time I land, it’s Sunday about 3pm in Vienna. They are ahead of us by about 6 hours. So it will be interesting how I will adjust to the time difference. It’s taken a long time to get to where I…
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Use of Media in Classroom Teaching
This is the second workshop slides on my webspace. I haven’t put it up on Slideshare yet. Later.
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Blogging as a Teaching Tool
Here’s the slideshow for the first Minnowbrook presentation on May 15, 2008 on Slideshare and on my own webspace (this one was impaticized and so has transitions).
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Going to Minnowbrook to teach
I’m teaching 3 sessions at Minnowbrook this year: Blogging as a Teaching Tool (2 sessions) and Use of Media in Classroom Teaching (1 session). Here’s another clip from Common Craft by leelefever that gives an intro to blogging. or watch it here:
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Twitter has come of age
I think Twitter has come of age. It has made the Chronicle of Higher Ed frontpage and Mike says it’s on TV news too. There’s a neat video of how it works by leelefever, the founder and principal of Common Craft.
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S B N B Channel #8
Gabcast! S B N B Channel #8
