I listened to Daniel Pink open the TLT Symposium with a presentation that confirmed, for me anyway, much of how I feel. His presentation, though, seemed to serve the needs of a Human Resources climate committee more than the needs of educators. So it was both good and not so good; appropriate and confirming, yet …
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badges in education, part 2
I have a backpack for my open badge badges through mozilla and I have an account on Credly. I’m learning. One small fact that I learned that changes how I view the actual badge: If it’s standards compliant it will be an image in the PNG format, and by design, PNG allows considerable adaptation. One …
what I don’t get about badges in education
To understand anything, my first step is usually finding similar things I already understand and doing some sort of comparison. I don’t get where badges go, who authorizes them, who determines their value, what they mean to people who wear them, or what they mean to people who view them. I’ve read as much online …
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third sketch, flavia de luce
This is getting the attitude of the young lady in my head. Real quick, almost a gesture drawing. If I was doing a whole book, I think I’d use pen and ink in an old style – like the balloon drawings – rather than anything digital. And I think Flavia would look a lot like …
Maybe three is the charm? second sketch
Tea fresh from the Bunsen burner. Second attempt. Wow, I liked this going in, but now it looks too much like animé. I don’t dislike animé at all, but it isn’t what I was going for. It looks a bit more like Flavia then the first sketch.
quick sketch
First thinking-out-loud doodle for Kim. Not so happy with this. I like the odd perspective, but I’m not too happy with Flavia. Rolled up girly jeans made sense to me, especially for riding Gladys- but I can only ever find her in a dress. More doodling required!
trying spreads again
It helps to see these here; it’s a good record, too. It helped to run in to Hammond Building to scan a few of the sketches. Right now, I’m liking this as a solution. I just have to do more!
after school
This goes before the ones in town. Much closer to what I want.
black point / white point
From September 2012: With a prompt from Taz Tally on lynda dot com I created this file to check the printers I use to find their value range. If you retouch images and try to print them, you might find that regardless of your Photoshop skills, the images always seem to print dark or blow …
design hell – from August, 2010
More old stuff. Opinion, no pictures… Perhaps I should’ve stuck with pictures? My own personal hell would be designing graphics for a committee made up of people who have dabbled a bit themselves with drawing pictures… Socialized art. Socialized design. Shirky describes it in his new book, though he doesn’t use those words. Downplay quality …