134 - Telling a WAAPA

Day 134. Tonight I did a webinar for Adobe on some tips for using InDesign. In this session I started with a blank document and just made something up on the fly, showing and telling my thought processes as I worked through the creation of an InDesign document. I used my daughter Kate as the subject and created a flyer about some of her acting experience.

I was originally drawn into computers via desktop publishing and I really enjoy messing about with page layout. With the web as my main platform these days I don't do it much any more (and am quite out of touch with it really!) so it was nice to just mess about in InDesign.

120 - Ni Hao

Day 120. My colleague and friend Faraday teaches Chinese at my school, and has co-authored a book for teaching HSC level Chinese. It's full of resources and practise exercises and although I don't understand a word of Chinese - well, maybe Ni Hao (hello) and Xièxiè (thank you), so I guess two words - it certainly looks like a useful resource for teachers who teach Chinese.

When she showed me the cover design, just made in Word, I thought it could do with a bit of colour, so I offered to make something just a little nicer in InDesign. It's only simple, but here is the first revision of the cover as a daily create.

031 - A Sesquipedalian Fairy Tale

Day 31. Today I'm publishing something that I actually made a while ago but never formally released publicly. Several years ago I attended a workshop for teaching English skills and the task set for us by the presenter was to write a couple of paragraphs of a fairy tale using the biggest words we could.

I enjoyed the task so much that I went home and finished the whole story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and filled it full of the biggest, longest words I could think of. And then I used Adobe InDesign to make it into an eBook, just for fun.

Anyway, if you're interested, you can click this link to get an ePub version of the story that you can download and read on an eBook reader.