I’m lazy. Talk to anyone who programs and they will tell you the same (or they will lie to you). Programming is the art of lazy people who want to not do things over and over. I look at almost every task I do on the computer and think “could I automate this?” because: lazy. …
Month: March 2016
ALC Oahu Experience Day 1
The past three weeks have felt really small and empty. With spring break and two weeks missing over half our kids the energy has been a bit low and mellow. It felt a little scary even. Today, however, began a free “experience” week here at ALC Oahu. We’ve invited interested families to come for three …
Introducing the sticky nav to Make child themes
The ALC Network website offers users a few theme options, the primary one which most ALC sites use is the “ALC Make Child” theme based off Theme Foundry’s wonderful theme Make (which is impossible to google). I’ve added and am currently testing a new function in the theme, sticky navigation! This actually isn’t a new feature, …
Frustration and Learning
I’ve been doing frustrating work over the past few days. Hours of my time have been dedicated to wading through challenging problems that push the limits of my knowledge. I’ve been working on a Shopify store for one of the ALC Oahu parents who is hosting me and working on the ALC style themes for …
Set the Week Board for ALC Oahu
This tool is used at the start of each week to determine the offerings, trips, or group activities that are available to the community. I redesigned the ALC Oahu Set the Week board using recycled wood and whiteboard paint. Click to learn more about Set the Week and see examples from around the network.
Motivations
I got the following questions from a teen I know: Ok so the question I had was basically How do you stay motivated doing all the website projects you do? And more then that How would I find something that worked for me? Motivation for me has a few different parts. There is the motivation to …
Staff Kanban at ALC Oahu
The ALC Oahu Staff Kanban was upgraded with the introduction of intention setting and reflection rituals. By formatting the board to work on a monthly, weekly, and daily cycle. This way staff could better visualize what what was happening, when it was expected to be complete, and what work was coming up.
Community Mastery Board for ALC Oahu
The CMB is used during the Change Up meeting which is held each week at ALC Oahu. In an effort to make the agreements around community practices available to everyone at any time we decided to digitize the CMB using Trello.com. Click to learn more about how we made a physical board work online.
ALC Network Membrane V1.0
I’ve updated my diagram of the ALC Network membrane (see v0.1 here) in two major ways. I’ve simplified it, practicing design through subtraction, and I’ve changed how I related to it. Initially I thought of the ALC Network membrane as the center of a flower with each ALC acting as a pedal. I am now …
Getting the most out of Slack
If you’re doing network work with ALC you’re probably using the ALF Slack team. Slack is a wonderful service which provides a slick platform for teams to chat with each other (rather than email!). In this post I will link you do some great help pages that Slack offers then I’ll go over a strategy …