Modern Distortion

Every so often something really nice appears on my screen. This was one of those times. Today's Gratitude Item: No meeting before school tomorrow morning! That gives me more time…

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Butterfly Network

Another in the 'too interesting to bin' category. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting positive feedback from one of our senior leaders who visited my classroom yesterday. Happily they liked what they…

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Dream Flower

As in a cross between a dream catcher and a flower. Today's Gratitude Item: That my 2:20 hack was well received by my colleagues in this morning's briefing. I'm not…

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Boundary Push

An odd design that got rendered anyway. Today's Gratitude Item: An incredibly useful envelope template maker. Paired with my school's laser cutter it is now easy to custom make intricate…

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Prison Beads

Perhaps this one should have been called 'behind bars'. Today's Gratitude Item: Being mostly ready for tomorrow (which is always a good thing).

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Life Mechanism

As in it looks a bit like an organic lock. Today's Gratitude Item: Finishing my reports. These took ages to write and I'm questioning their value given the significant lag…

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Infinite Pools

Perhaps this one should have been called 'infinite puddles'. Today's Gratitude Item: A quieter than expected last period. My 12th graders had 'Academic Counseling' which meant that after checking in…

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Butterfly Fan

It took a while to find the right colours but the effort was worth it. Today's Gratitude Item: Having plenty of books to read. This is a good thing as…

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Flower Lace

I'm pretty sure we've been here before... Today's Gratitude Item: Figuring out why Illustrator was lagging when I tried to copy, paste and edit relatively small amounts of text. It…

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Slate Skin

Another tiled experiment that went well enough to be worth rendering. Today's Gratitude Item: A *very brief* presentation that I gave to colleagues this morning was well received. They laughed…

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