Bryan Mathers

@visualthinkery.bsky.social

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Conversations -> cartoons. Visual Thinkery: https://visualthinkery.com Remixer Machine: https://remixer.visualthinkery.com Zines: https://ulster.visualthinkery.com

A landscape showing a hot air balloon entitled "Characteristics of Sensemaking" - thinking by Karl E. Weich, thinkery by Bryan Mathers.

Computer says No. Search says Go. AI says hello!

An cartoon by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery showing a signpost with "Change maker" written below contrasted with a wooden fence with "Gatekeeper" written below.

Cartoon, Emoji faces stacked on top of each other in a staggering pile. The emojis at the bottom of the pile are red with sad and disappointed faces, in the middle of the pile they are orange with neutral expressions, and at the top they are yellow smiling happily. hand drawn black Text to the middle right of pile reads "The issue with ranking".

Cartoon, ten penguins stand next to each other in two rows of five. Each has their own prop and/or costume relating to their title. The first row of penguins (from left to right) are labelled "The pragmatist, The Philospher, The Unknown, The Explorer and The Maverick." The second row "The Famous Scientist, The Absent Minded Professor, The Wizard, The Maestro and The Master."

Cartoon, a man holds a human skull to his eye-level and says "To use GenAI or not to use GenAI that is the question..."

Cartoon, o-meter tool labelled "Fan-o-Meter" Split into seven sections labelled (Starting left to right) "Epic, Based, Chill, Average, Cringe, Pathetic, Braindead". The needle of the o-meter is pointing to section "Epic" at the bottom left. The band of colour behind the sections of the o-meter is a gradient of bright leaf green to fire engine red.

Cartoon, A see-saw with a woman calmly sat on the left side and a man dangling his legs in panic on the right, tipping down to the left and lifting up to the right. Above the woman is text "Power" written in blue. Below the man is text "Risk" written in Red.

Cartoon, detailed hardback book with raspberry red cover, with white text "An Educator's Repository of ethical statements to opt out and other spells". To the bottom left of the cover a black and white hand pointing up with lines appearing above the finger.

cartoon, hand drawn black text "Ethically engaging with an Unethical tool". the 'i' in "Ethically" is a daisy flower. To the top left of Text is a yellow closed-eye smiley face emoji with a halo, and to the bottom left of text is a red, angry devil emoji.

Hat Tip remix: (cartoon) A hand with fair skin is holding a forest green snap back cap by its mustard yellow brim. On the head of the cap is tangerine orange text "h/t". To the left of the cartoon is text "Thanks for all the blogging!".

Greyscale cartoon of a man with short hair driving a car, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the gearstick, whilst he checks his rearview mirror and whistles along to a song on the radio. On the dashboard is text "h/t Kierkegaard". Above the cartoon is text "Life is lived forward but it understood backwards" (Kierkegaard quote).

Navy blue square background, Baby pink circle middle ground and a large butterfly taking up most of the square in the foreground. It has ocean blue wings with black lines, baby pink dots at middle tops of the wings and turquoise dots around the edges. The wing pattern similar to a Monarch butterfly.

Voronoi Mosaic remix of a wooden guitar with a metal resonator.

Zoomed in picture of England and Ireland on the globe, the countries are pink with white outlines and the ocean is blue.

Underground Roundel Remix: The circle outline is firetruck red and the rectangular banner is navy blue with white text "St. Pancras"

Underground Roundel Remix: The circle outline is firetruck red and the rectangular banner is navy blue with white text "Elton's Piano".

Underground Roundel Remix: The circle outline is mustard yellow and the rectangular banner is black with white text "Bzzzzz Bzzz".

Postcard Remix with a picture of two Canadian geese and three chicks, floating together in a lake, with message "Here is a picture of some geese and their babies that I saw in St.Catharines. Cuties!" 'Sent' from St.Catharines - Niagara, Ontario, Canada.

A landscape photo distorted by small triangles with thin white outlines, together they form the scene of a beige coloured gothic church surrounded by a variety of different trees, in the background is a clear blue sky.

Hat Tip Remix by Todd Conaway.

Cartoon featuring a board game titled "Social justice in the classroom" from the Toolkit for Teacher Educators to Embrace Social Justice Pedagogies project.

The Beatles Abby Road album cover, Sunflowers by Van Gogh, Roy Ayers everybody loves the sunshine album cover and a movie poster for Little Miss Sunshine. Above is their distorted versions made up of many small triangles using the Voronoi Remix.

A distorted image made up of many small triangles, which are mainly different shades of yellow, but also include a few red, black, beige and brown triangles.

A distorted image made up of many small triangles, which are mainly different shades of yellow, but also include a few brown and black triangles.

A distorted image made up of many small triangles, which are mainly different shades of yellow, but also include a few green and grey triangles.

A distorted image made up of small triangles, in the colours sky blue, forest green, pavement grey, black, muddy beige, mustard yellow and creamy white.

A wooden table covered in 20 stickers and a two pin badges with different cartoons as their artwork. These consist of images like an orange air balloon, A postal stamp with the queen doing a facepalm, a pigeon head with the text "be less pigeon" above, and more...

A screenshot of a webpage of different peoples entires to the Flourish Remix Gallery, taken from The Remixer Machine website.

Header of the website page attached in the link below the caption of this post.

Cartoon of Two penguins: One penguin stands on a tall block of ice looking down at the other penguin on the ground, who looks back up at him, waving a flipper. The penguin on the ground has a speech bubble with text "Well hello there asymmetric power relationships..." The background of the cartoon is a bright sky blue.

Cartoon of a penguin chick looking at its mother, as it says "...But the only rich thing around here is the Guano..."

Flourish Remix: A flower with 8 brightly rainbow coloured petals on white background. In the middle of flower is white text "Online Learning Principles". The petals each have a different black text label, "Inclusive" "Contextual" "Supportive" "Sustainable" "Flexible" " Engaging" "Diverse" and "Open"

Light green circle background, with cartoon of a hand wearing a purple glove tipping a brown and yellow striped top hat. Below to the left is purple text "To Bryan and Gracie for the OEWeek25 Remixer Challenge". Above to the left is purple text "Hat Tip".

Cartoon Postcard with a picture of a quilt, with a patch including text "OER" in the middle, taped to top left corner, with text "Thanks to creative commons for such a supportive community!" written below. Its being sent to "The CC Community" from "Maura and Celine".

Cartoon of a magazine with title "Dominant discourse what you see is all there is!". Man flexing his arm muscles with text "Crush every goal" to left. Woman in pink dancing with text "dance dance dance" below. Small build Blonde woman in blue bikini with text "Fit strong healthy" to the left.

Orange background. Two cartoon penguins, on either side of a large sign, point to its text "You are Not alone. No matter what you are going through, there are people who care and want to help you." below text is a cartoon black heart with arms and legs holding up a sigh which says "YOU MATTER".

A cartoon flower, on a green background, with 8 petals, each a different colour of the rainbow. The centre is labelled "Learning". Each petal with its own label - "Read, Remix, Combine, Repurpose, Write, Feed Forward, Publish, Aggregate". Text "Online learning Experience vI.0" in top left corner.

Cartoon weather calendar, for April 1982. Different symbols fill each days section. They range from a cloud, sun, cat, poo, rainbow, bird, tractor or tree.

Woman wearing glasses sitting on a wooden chair with a speech bubble to her right saying "Open Education? And how did that make you feel?" A man laying down on a red couch to her right, with his hands behind his head and a contemplative expression. A speech bubble to his left with text "Well..."

Black drawing of an upside down top hat, a red arrow enters the hat through a hole at the bottom and pokes out the top, pointing to text "Da - Nah!" Below is text "Artificial Intelligence". To it's right, Squiggly red face made up of arrows with question marks for eyes, one arrow points to text "Oh wow!" Below is text "Curious Intelligence"

FieldNote with arrow pointing to London on map in background. Photograph of large wooden door top left. Text "Field Notes" top right. Text below "I remember learning about Creative Commons licences back in 2012 - that changed everything...". Text bottom right "By : Bryan Mathers"

A circular badge with illustrated black text reading "I (red heart symbol) OE #OEweek25" on a white background. Surrounding the image is a light green outline, with the darker green text "Keen advocate of open education - #OEweek25". A banner sits at the lower half of the circle which reads "Hello!"

A Light Blue and Yellow circle overlap each other slightly in the middle, forming a Venn diagram. in the Blue circle is the text, eh? In the Yellow circle is the text, aye! A red arrow points to the middle of the circles labeled 'Artificial Intelligence.'