A note from the creator of Fun Literacy:
In addition to being a teacher, I am also a visual artist and a website developer. In making these books I have used all these skills. I began writing and drawing stories when a fellow teacher planted the idea in my head. The books were a great success with my students. The system for customizing the text in the first few books was rather clumsy and time consuming, so I tapped my skills as a web designer to make the process easier. When our school were closed for 2 days in January due to extreme cold weather, I found the time to patch together code which would automate the process of making the books. I also found fonts which were more appopriate to emerging readers.
My work as a visual artist (primarily painting and photography) can be seen at
www.emeraldstudio.com My web design work is primarily focused on creating sites for visual artists. The site dedicated to that work is
www.fineartpost.com I teach ESL at Orchard Ridge Elementary. I work there half time and devote the rest of my hours to painting, web design and fathering.
- Doug Haynes, teacher, artist and web developer
