design
Book Trailers
Friday, June 27th, 2008I haven’t been writing on this blog for a while… but in case I’m still on anyone’s feed.. I have to brag.
My students created great book trailers in my class this spring. I was very proud of them. Please go take a look. And comment! I’d love to know that someone has been able to […]
what’s your type?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007After a post about how to pimp the text, it seems only fair to add another about classic, beautifully designed fonts. Smashing continues to provide great tool with 80 beautiful typefaces for professional designers (and students who are particularly well educated about their letters) You know what? Teach the kids grammar, because […]
use your mind to pimp your text
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007I’m not about the shizzle (which must be, by now, a corny mid-21st century equivalent of groovy), but I like to nod in the direction of the cool now and then. And what better way to do that than to give kids access to tools and tutorials that help them personalize […]
Data Visualization
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007One of the things that I’ve been most interested in is how information is graphically represented. Every year, our students have to do data collection (what’s your favorite ice cream, team, candy, etc.) and then represent that information as a graph. I’ve wondered ( and maybe 12 is too young, who knows?) whether […]