RBS - About: Rough Blobby Shapes

Hello and welcome to Rough Blobby Shapes – creating fun resources for Middle School & High School teachers who just need a little help.

I’ve been in and out of Education for over 30 years, initially Math and Computers, most recently with Technology Education (CTE) including:

Agriculture
Computer Science / Digital Tech
Cooking – Food Tech / Home Economics
Design & Technology
FCS / FACS – Hospitality
Metalwork
Textiles
Woodwork & Construction

I’ve also worked in Science (General, Bio, Chemistry, and Physics) and Visual Arts (Art, Ceramics, and Photography).

I started my TPT store in August-September 2021 and was lucky enough to sell my first resource a few weeks later. Getting the notification for that first sale was such a buzz I still remember it.

I had known about TPT for quite a few years after a friend started her store, but I never thought I could do anything like she did. But after buying a few resources for my own classes off TPT, one day I had a bit of a lightbulb moment about the sort of things I could make available for others that I would like myself.

As a Technology teacher, I cover a lot of subject areas. I thought my store would mostly be focused on either Cooking / Food Technology and Woodworking. But I prepped a bunch of ideas for all of our subjects, and then simply chose Agriculture to experiment and play with as it was first alphabetically. Well, it kinda exploded!

I then spent the next year or so doing Ag resources before doing some Cooking ones, and then finally few things for Computer Science, Woodworking, Metalwork, and some Science. An experiment with trying something for the Paris 2024 Olympics also took off so Sports became another thing.

I feel like I’ve just gotten started – I still have so many ideas written down from my first few brain storms. Every time I do some research I come up with more. More topics and more resource types are planned, eventually more complete workbooks for topics but life takes time.

Thanks for checking out Rough Blobby Shapes. I really hope you find something useful here that helps your day teaching the awesome kids you have.

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Rough Blobby Shapes: Origins

One of my favorite books from when I was a kid was “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“, by Douglas Adams. I got to hear the original radio series on the wireless, saw the TV show, actually got to meet Douglas a couple of times and even made him a nice hot cup of tea.

Last time I read through the books, I took note of some of the unusual phrases, with the thought one of them might be useful for a future blog name or some other project.

At that moment however, a flash of light arced through the structure and revealed in stark relief the patterns that were formed on the dark sphere within. Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture in his mind…

the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by douglas adams. page 123 (ish).

So there it was. One of several I wrote down, but when I went looking back for ideas for this adventure, that one stood out. Plus as far as I could tell – it hasn’t been used anywhere else online which makes it easy to register domain names, social media, and stand out in search results.

You’re never alone with a rubber duck…

The Captain hummed and hahed about this for a moment.

“Well, I wouldn’t overstress that angle, you know” he said finally, “one’s never alone with a rubber duck.“

He held the duck aloft and it got an appreciative round from the crowd.

The restaurant at the end of the universe, by Douglas Adams. page 175 (ish)

Another quote, this time from the Restaurant…. I liked this idea that you can have a quiet companion with you to help – just like a teacher sometimes needs a little help to get through a lesson. So hopefully Rough Blobby Shapes can help you with your teaching. Plus, you know, now we get to use Rubber Ducks as our logo / mascot 🙂

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(I’ll let you work this one out for yourself)