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Interactive PopUp Multiple Image Cards from HGTV

 

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Topic of the Week: Interactive MultiImage Cards

Last week we talked about decorations, and I've left some of that discussion here. This week I want to highlight the number of interactive folding cards, like the explosion box/card and the waterfall card. Most of us are curious creatures, and we like novelty. So it pays to use different cards if we want to do successful advertising for learning about what's going on in our world.

This week I happened across some wonderful examples on HGTV. See Instructions and Assignments for Independent Study with Jeanne and Pat For Week of February 11, 2007 for the new interactive examples. Once we have a few models that attract attention of the young people, we'll have a good library from which to work. Don't be surprised if the instructions seem difficult. Once we've done them together, you'll discover they're not hard at all. Collaborative work makes learning both easier and more fun.

And don't forget to decorate: Decorate while your project is still flat!

Patterns can be square, rectangular, minimal, in neutrals or in bright colors. Patterns can also be frilly, silly, and fun. Find the combinatiion that works for you. I did the ones in this issue on Paint in Windows. Use whatever program is most convenient for you. That will help you choose colors in paper and cardstock. Use stamps or stickers if you need help with figurative drawing. Or print any of the images on Dear Habermas, and use them, bigger, smaller, cropped, whatever.

My Paint program made those funny little marks in the rectangle under the thumb-nail image of the Reverend Martin Luther King. Hey, that's free. Keep it. Don't be picky about decorating your cards or boxes. Use whatever comes along, as long as you like it. Most of us think it's really neat to get something you made for us. Homemade is cool.

I know that lots of you have already started on boxes. I wish I'd thought to tell you sooner. It's easiest to decorate the boxes if you decorate the flat pieces before you put them together. Then you can make all over patterns with stamps or rulers or stencils , whatever. And it's lots easier to paste on buttons, ribbons, etc. before you put the box together.

Check out some of the possibilities in this issue and on Decorating.

love and peace, jeanne

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Issues

  • Thinking Outside the Box

    • mosaic condition: ""Mosaic conditions of a genetic disorder (such as Down's syndrome) are now widely accepted and people who have the condition in a much more minor form are treated differently than those who have it in an extreme form. But we could not have made such a transition if we had not learned to think outside of our inherited categories enough to see the in-between forms, the fuzzy boundaries." Defintiion by Lois Shawver in a post on PMTH listserv. "fuzzy" is a good word to describe this thinking.

      Thanks to my Google search I also found Male/Female: A Polydimensional Continuum. By Roberta M. Meehan, PhD. Greeley, Colorado. College Science Educator and Biological Science Writer. 22 May 1998. This is a good reference on the fact that the male/female dichotomy is not a good mathematical model for describing gender.

Summaries and Sources

  • Index of Summaries and Sources for Spring 2007 Updated and expanded index on sources for current social, economic, and political issues in our communities. I'll work on this index throughout the semester. It takes time. But you're welcome to nag me if there's a topic that concerns you. jeanne

  • Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi jeanne begins to post what she's reading. Story of Saint Francis trying to convert the Muslims to Christianity has much to say to us today, especially the way his efforts were reported. (Just started. Will continue.) First posted February 7, 2007.

Visual Sociology: Different Colors, Different Feelings

  • No new images for this week. Sorry, jeanne.

SquiggleA Range of Sources on Global Events

Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation
The Cato Institute (Libertarian) - The Open Society
BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - La Opinion - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report

Wikipedia - Web Sources Linked from Dear Habermas
Concept Index - T.R. Young and the Red Feather Institute

 

 

 

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