As we are rapidly approaching the end of school, I thought it would be fun to ask what everyone is looking forward to this summer. (20 character limit per answer, as recommended by Answer Garden.)
What are you most looking forward to this summer?
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Introduction
As I considered what I wanted my blog to look like, I was a little overwhelmed with my choices. I'm still not sure that this is what I want it to look like in the end, but it was definitely fun to play around with the different options! I chose to set up a blog with a url that I might be able to use in the future as a librarian. One of the things I noticed about my current school library is that while there is a Blackboard site for the library and the library catalog is available online all the time, there is not a lot of updating from our current librarian.
In Presentation Zen Design, Reynolds (2014) calls for designs to be simple so that viewers are able to clearly understand what you're trying to get across. I debated between the background of books on blogger as well as one of the other ones. In the end, I chose the birds flying over what appears to be sand because that's how I feel when I am reading a really good book. I want my students to be able to have that same feeling of being transported into the book and story. In terms of typeface, I did not see any of Reynolds' (2014) suggested typefaces on my list of options or I couldn't figure out how to add them. Instead, I chose Trebuchet, a sans serif font, because "it's generally accepted that sans serif fonts work better on computer screens" (Reynolds, 2014, p. 40). All of the different areas of text are in Trebuchet, with the headings being a little bit larger and bolded.
References:
Reynolds, G. (2014). Presentation zen design: A simple visual approach to presenting in today's world (2nd ed.). United States of America: New River.
In Presentation Zen Design, Reynolds (2014) calls for designs to be simple so that viewers are able to clearly understand what you're trying to get across. I debated between the background of books on blogger as well as one of the other ones. In the end, I chose the birds flying over what appears to be sand because that's how I feel when I am reading a really good book. I want my students to be able to have that same feeling of being transported into the book and story. In terms of typeface, I did not see any of Reynolds' (2014) suggested typefaces on my list of options or I couldn't figure out how to add them. Instead, I chose Trebuchet, a sans serif font, because "it's generally accepted that sans serif fonts work better on computer screens" (Reynolds, 2014, p. 40). All of the different areas of text are in Trebuchet, with the headings being a little bit larger and bolded.
References:
Reynolds, G. (2014). Presentation zen design: A simple visual approach to presenting in today's world (2nd ed.). United States of America: New River.
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