Creating
A Deck of Cards That Embodies Your Worldview
Note: This program works best
with Internet Explorer. After entering your name, you select worldview themes for
fifty-four cards
to compose the front sides of your deck of cards. Pictures
of fifty-four corresponding playing cards will then appear on the screen spread out over six
"pages" with each page containing nine cards. You will use your
web browser and printer to print out these cards. (Printing them out with certain other web browsers
(such as Firefox?) may be tedious.) The program will then picture (again
spread out over six "pages") the corresponding texts of worldview
themes that will go on the back sides of the cards. Using the cards whose front
sides you previously printed, you'll then print their back
sides.
Custom
Cards--Front Sides
Instructions for Composing the Front
Sides of Your Deck of
Cards This program is to be used only after you have spent time
articulating your worldview using the project
Worldview website--and in particular have translated your worldview
to a deck of playing cards. In doing this, you should have completed a
"Your Worldview to Deck of Cards Translation" sheet. From what
follows here, select the corresponding fifty-two cards below--thirteen from each of the four suits as prompted. Use the scroll bars
and page down key to
move through the lists. Then select two worldview themes that you feel
particular "Enthusiasm" or "Antagonism" for--these will be
your "Magnifier Cards" (jokers!). So altogether you will specify
worldview themes for fifty-four cards. Upon making these selections you'll be prompted
to click on "Enter Your Information". CAUTION:
Be Careful! Failure to make fifty-four selections--or in duplicating selection of the same worldview theme--will result in
an error ("NaN" or other) message.
Instructions for Printing Out
Your Deck of
Cards--Front Sides If you have
successfully followed the instructions to this point, paging or scrolling back
up the screen will reveal six "pages" of customized playing cards--nine cards to a page. You will use your printer and 8.5" x 11"
card stock to print them out, one page at a time. To do this, starting
with the first page, use your mouse to highlight all nine cards on the
page. Then use Print Preview / Print as Selected / Print, File / Print / Selection
or something similar to print what you have
selected. Repeat for the remaining five pages. This creates the front
sides of your cards. (See Note below before proceeding!)
Note:
Prior to printing you'll need to tell your web browser to print background
images. With Internet Explorer you do this by clicking the
"Tools" menu, then "Internet Options," then
"Advanced," scrolling down to "Printing," checking
"Print background colors and images," and finally clicking
"Apply" and "OK." When using your mouse, highlighting of each page
should begin with the text that precedes the individual cards and identifies the
page number. You may need to adjust page margins to be as small as your browser /
printer will allow, and eliminate any headers or footers that it might otherwise
print. Plan on experimenting using plain paper in your printer first
before using card stock!)
Another Note: Printing will be easy from some web browsers (like
Internet Explorer)
From others (like Firefox?) which won't let you copy regular text and text in text
boxes at the same time, the process will be much more involved. It will require
that you first copy all of the regular text to make a template into a word
processing program, then copy each of the fifty-four worldview theme names (one at a time) to fill
in this template. You will then print the front sides of your cards (one page of nine cards at a time)
from your word processing program--not from your web browser.)
Custom Cards--Back
Sides
page one--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions are
copyright 2009, project Worldview
page two--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions are
copyright 2009, project Worldview
page three--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions
are copyright 2009, project Worldview
page four--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions
are copyright 2009, project Worldview
page five--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions
are copyright 2009, project Worldview
page six--back side: all worldview theme text descriptions are
copyright 2009, project Worldview
Instructions for Printing Out
Your Deck of
Cards--Back Sides If you have
successfully followed the instructions to this point, paging or scrolling back
up the screen will reveal six "pages" (nine cards to a page) of
worldview themes in an order appropriate for the back sides of your customized playing cards.
Now you will use your printer and the 8.5" x 11"
card stock that you previously printed the front sides of your cards on to
print out their back sides, one page at a time. To do this, starting
with the first page, use your mouse to highlight all nine cards on the
page. Then use Print
Preview / Print As Selected / Print, File / Print / Selection or something
similar to print what you have
selected. Repeat for the remaining five pages. This creates the back sides
of your cards. Remember your highlighting of each page should begin
with the text that precedes the individual cards and identifies the page number.
You may need to adjust page margins to be as small as your browser / printer will
allow, and eliminate any headers or footers that it might otherwise print.
In loading the previously printed card stock into your printer, it should be
oriented as it was when you first printed it, except that it should be turned
over (like you'd turn the page of a book.) Again, plan on experimenting using
plain paper in your printer first before using your previously printed card
stock!