“One of the great speeches in the history of western civilization.” – Peter Kreeft
“At least we have courage.” A. Solzhenitsyn
All posts by Bill Genereux
Comic Book Halftones in Photoshop
Whenever I want to produce a half-tone effect in Photoshop, I invariably have to look up how to do it. It should be more straight-forward than it is, but we don’t use half-tones in images as much as we did in the pre-digital days.
Below is a good tutorial for the halftone effect that’s been online for a number of years now. (HT Dylan M. for finding this.)
https://www.thegraphicmac.com/create-comic-book-halftone-dot-effect-your-photoshop-images/
Move Fast and Fix Things: How We Can and Why We Must Build a Better Internet
Just Follow the Rules – by Dave Ramsey
Survivorman
We are using the theme of survival for our Digital Literacy online course this fall. It didn’t take too much searching around on YouTube to be reminded of the Survivorman series.
As contrasted with the Survivor series, which is more of a survival game show with contestants, the Survivorman show is more about the concept of man versus nature. Of course, all media are created and the same holds true of these two programs, even though one appears to be much more realistic with the scenarios than the other.
The above video clip was added to this post by using the “embed” code that YouTube provides with every video that permits the practice of embedding. Not every content creator wants their videos to be made available on every website.
How to Write a Short Story
Undersea creatures
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John Cleese – Most People Don’t Know What They Are Doing
Undo the Damage of Sitting
Undo the Damage of Sitting https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/fitness/undo-the-damage-of-sitting/
A “SKETCHY PEOPLE” VIRTUAL WORKSHOP FOR CREATIVITY AND DESIGN THINKING
University professors from institutions in the USA and Dubai hosted an online workshop in creativity and design thinking called “Sketchy People” for their students. We hoped to learn how to engage our students beyond their respective institutions and classrooms by connecting them with students from other institutions who have similar educational goals and interests.
Using the online collaboration website Miro.com these students from different geographic locations completed lessons in drawing, creative writing, and typography together in real time in a virtual design studio setting. Just as they would in a physical design studio, students were able to see how others responded to different writing and drawing prompts and provide each other support and feedback.
Breaking outside of institutional boundaries with online technology for this event resulted in an extraordinary outpouring of creativity and engagement. Drawing inspiration from artist and author Lynda Barry’s book “Syllabus,” these students wrote and read aloud original stories as well as made drawings based upon the stories that they heard each other tell. In under two hours each student participant produced numerous drawings along with several written pieces and typographic examples.
This “Sketchy People” online learning event permitted colleagues separated by distance to reconnect and work with each other’s students through an innovative team-teaching approach while enabling their students to meet new people and see new ideas in action. Because the methods and communication tools utilized in the workshop are freely available to educators, future virtual workshops are easily scalable and replicable