Sharing the Addiction

I am running a session during a full day workshop on Monday on the role of the lead teacher. Being my obsessive compulsive self, I decided that this would be best supported by creating content on a wiki. At first I was going to add content to an existing wiki but then I decided there was enough content to make a dedicated wiki so here it is – http://leadingict.wikispaces.com

I made the front page graphic in Wix. This is an excellent tool and I see myself using this more and more.

I also have become completely attached to ColourLovers when setting up colour schemes for my wikis. It is so much easier than having to come up with this by trial and error. When you have found a palette of colours that you like in Colour Lovers, you copy the hex code for each colour and then go into ‘Manage space’ and then ‘Look and Feel’ and paste the code into the box for each option in the template. The screenshot on the left shows what each option from Look and Feel (screen shot on the right) changes.Note that I have also created a logo using one of the avatars I have created online. I am now branding this on all my wikis.

I have also been playing with my Twitter background picture which you can see all of on http://twitter.com/suzievesper I’m not completely happy with the colour combinations against some of the Twitter colours so will probably rework this again and I need to make the side panel shorter so all of it shows. To make this, I went back to Colour Lovers and selected a pattern I liked and downloaded it. From there I opened up GIMP (would also work in Photoshop etc) and copied the pattern which meant I was able to use it with the fill bucket to fill the entire space. All patterns from Colour Lovers will appear as one seemless pattern when tiled. Then I created a layer with the rectangle where I added my details and avatar. I saved the whole thing as a PNG and then uploaded it as my design to Twitter.

In other words, I spent ages mucking around in the evening doing something pretty inconsequential but diverting.

Tags: design lead_teacher