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Beyond cognition
Back to my research focus on motivating creativity. As Amabile (1997, 1998) posited in her Componential Theory of Creativity, abilities and skills alone are insufficient to bring about creativity in a domain unless one is motivated and willing to do so. How can we motivate people to be innovation-oriented? What is it in the environment – including human and non-human resources – that can inspire someone to be creative and willing to work at it? Let me know. Just finished submitting my AECT 2010 proposal. Yay!
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Day of Play at SU
The Golden Mean Series in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) will present “Day of Play!”—an exploration of play as a critical need in design, business and society—in a series of events on Wednesday, Feb. 11, on the SU campus. For more info, visit Day of Play news site.
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PAGE-Imagining America
I went to the Publicly Active Graduate Education forum today with Page (pun unintended), a fellow doctoral student. The gathering was interesting; it was fascinating to hear scholars from different disciplines talk about what’s on their heart: how to get beyond the ivory tower to make their research accessible; how to connect with the community through their research; the desire not to mess up the community by walking away when the research is done. Really, how does one sustain research in a community after one graduates and not make others…
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I got Schmapped!
In the first week of January 2009, I received an email from Schmap, a company that produces electronic travel guides for tourists. They said they had shortlisted one of my digital photos (taken in Vienna) that I had uploaded on my Flickr pro site for inclusion in their e-guide. Of course, I was surprised since I never in a million times considered the thought of taking photos for use commercially or even for any e-zine. Anyway, since it wasn’t a big deal, just 1 photo, and the one I least…
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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.
