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This is a sample from the Morning Routine project, from the school supplies page. This would allow parents or other caregivers to create checklists of things to prepare for school each day. I’m doubling up some icons like the books. There’s a blank version that people can customize or there’s a version with generic samples already drawn in. Some children will enjoy customizing their own schedule boards.

Here’s a rough draft of a graphic for the Positive and Productive Meeting process. The previous iteration was very cartoony and hasn’t aged well. Drawing the original was my first experience with Adobe Illustrator. Before that I created all my graphics in Fireworks. I didn’t know any better.

This is a prototype of a poster for a birthday party. This idea has been suggested in the past but tonight was the first time I had to actually play with it.

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This is an older graphic I found recently, from a training guide I developed for Oregon’s Individual Support Plan. The system was rather complex and one of the most difficult aspects was the Risk Tracking Record, a lengthy document that was used to identify health and safety concerns for people with developmental disabilities. The icon for Behavior Risks is adapted from a typical Beetle Bailey fight.

I taped a penny onto my wall to show just how tiny this proposed layout of a book is. I was at the library when I stumbled on this idea for organizing my book on facilitation graphics in this way. I had limited paper, but apparently I did have scissors. The book itself will be a more regular size.

Looking back.

A slideshow about Learning Murals as hosted by slideshare.

Educate, illustrate, illuminate. Hydrologic system.

In the latest issue of Fast Company, the Heath brothers of Made to Stick fame discuss whisker goals, a good way to make changes in your world, particularly in crisis times. In the current economic climate, people are not making radical professional or personal changes- at least not by choice. But holding still is even more dangerous; incremental movement is still movement.

I am a sucker for crossing stuff of lists, which is harder to do when working in increments. I recently reorganized my action plan/to-do list into a galaxy poster. I wanted to try a new representation and it was fun to draw. At the same time I came up with a new tracking system, one that measures increments in a positive, encouraging way. At the end of every day I go to the poster and put orange dots next to things I worked on in some way, shape or form. If I made progress I earned a dot. In one corner of my galaxy I write the date and then put down the number of dots I got that day. I aim for four dots a day but have topped out at eight a couple of times. This doesn’t accurately measure if I worked like heck on one thing all day, but I’m trying to keep myself rolling, not create data metrics. It’s been a successful system for me. I look forward to getting out the marker and I can track where I’m making good progress and what things are being neglected. And since it’s on a big poster on my wall, the information (and motivation) is never far away.

Impersonate.