Mascot Style Guide

This page previews Rowan's seven RGBA raster-image poses and their intended teaching contexts. Every pose has a fully transparent background so Rowan integrates with both light and dark themes. Rowan is generated artwork—not SVG— and should be used purposefully, no more than five or six times in a chapter.

Character Summary

• Name: Rowan
• Species: Red panda
• Role: A warm learning-record librarian who helps readers connect events, evidence, and meaning
• Catchphrase: "Let's follow the record."

A Note from Rowan

Use this calm pose for short sidebars that orient readers before introducing unfamiliar terminology.

Welcome to the Record Trail

Follow one learning event from producer to LRS to query, and the larger architecture becomes much easier to understand.

Key Insight

An xAPI statement preserves actor, verb, and object as one meaningful event. Keeping those clues together supports trustworthy analysis later.

Rowan's Tip

When documenting a data pipeline, include validation, retry, and failure paths. The unhappy path often teaches more than the ideal flow.

Common Pitfall

An LRS is more than a log sink. Preserve the semantics that make learning records interoperable and useful.

You Can Debug This

Walk one concrete statement through the system. Once each handoff is visible, an abstract event architecture becomes a sequence you can reason about.

Record Connected

You can now inspect a learning event, explain why it matters, and predict where it flows next.