Showing posts with label Creativity in Art and Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creativity in Art and Technology. Show all posts

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Summer Time!


So much is possible when time is available to you. I so enjoy the numerous opportunities which present themselves. I love to make changes while enjoying time spent in my home and garden. I love to rearrange my home and get more organized and add new plants to learn about in the garden. Sometimes this prompts purging the old to make room for the new. Boxes get packed for a future garage or tag sale. Other options of attending classes and training, reading books, writing, and getting more organized. I enjoy attending classes each week at the APPLE store to learn more about the many new applications. My classes cover Adobe's InDesign, Keynote, and IMovie and Garageband to name a few. Learning how to use these to offer more things in my virtual art room online will be exciting. It is nice being the student after having been the teacher for over three decades. Training to become a trainer of teachers who are becoming mentors to new first year teachers and training to be a mentor in my hometown district was a great way of being around other educators for four days.
My web site has changed and been updated to get products ready and available to my subscribers. Who would expect 14 days of setting up a merchant account and another week to add SSL security on the server. Having a vision of what you want and then finding others aligned in their thinking so that they can assist in creating it takes more patience than I can sometimes muster. The monthly bonuses each month have yet to be available as we determine the best way to make that happen. The opportunity to send e-cards is on hold as we are still looking for the Mac software.
The ArtWorkBook Series is finally in the art catalogue and available in ebooks which can be downloaded at any hour of the day or night. The books are also available in print on demand,( when someone orders, they are printed and shipped) this one company is a little costly and won't print one book at a time. So I am looking into other companies.My other blog was customized and when we changed the theme, it lost all that customization. It is now being updated. About to attend a family reunion at Lake Texoma and look forward to time in nature.
Also scheduled to meet up with internet marketers: Pat O'Bryan, Dr. Joe Vitale, Craig Perine, Bill Hibbler and others in San Antonio at Unseminar 5 in July. The assistance in providing clarity on what's next in the development of my site will be welcome and appreciated. Two of my mastermind group are attending and it will be nice to see them in person as we meet on the phone each week from all parts of the world.Well, time is of the essence although there seems to be more of it on these long summer days, I think I will walk in my garden before getting into my next daunting task. This afternoon a nice dip in the pool will be refreshing. How are you spending your summer days? I would love to hear.

" You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however." Richard Bach

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

ArtWork on the Web site is coming to Life!

It has been nearly two years of working on my web site so that it can be useful to both educators and their art students.For me it will be such a relief to have all of the lessons and images archived so that I can say that I have done it. Who was it that said,"Anytime you say Let it be! something happens!" Well, plenty is happening each and every day and I am happy to say that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I love the creative possibilities of technology as much as art and am thrilled each time I jump through a hoop to complete some other daunting task that makes having a web site easier. The word is "automation" and it allows you to set up in advance ways to communicate with other like minded individuals and share common concerns and successes.

I really look forward to hearing from others. I set up this blog forever ago and I need to figure out how to link it to my site...that will be one of the next challenges to overcome, Have a ho-ho filled Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year—2008 will be GREAT!