I used the sock monkey taking photos a number of places. He helped me by shooting the photo of my feet in this blog’s header, and he serves as my avatar on a few social sites. When I needed something for the back of my cards, the automatic, and quick, choice was the sock monkey …
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card printing decision
This is one of my cards at zazzle.com. They look good, they’re printed well, but really- at 5″ by 7″ they seem a bit large. When I see my stuff that big I get a bit queasy. Lucky for me, the subtler cards that I had printed at moo.com are a bit smaller. And a …
note cards
All of these images have been posted here before. I’ve decided to try having cards made of this assortment. I’ve tried zazzle.com, and actually have a link to their store in the widget column of this blog (scroll down…) They do decent work. I’ve tried moo.com through work and they do great work. Zazzle provides …
moving to a child theme…
The last time I tried to use a child theme, I hosed my widgets and header. It looked great in the preview, but when it went live, it died. I had to get a hold of the help desk to regress my site to an older, but living, version. Now, maybe I should attempt the …
Daniel Pink and Badges, part 3
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 …
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!