Monday, February 12th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Happy Monday! Welcome to Week 23, lets all make our “week_23” folders now…
Today we have visitors. Students working with visitors 10:05 – 10:30. As always start with the form.
- Lee
- Mia
We will have until 10:45 this morning for last looks, with articles and notes at 10:30.
Super satisfying!
Today we will have a visitor from CCV in the room, Mr. Molander. Say high to him!
Fire Drill today at 2:00. We are going outside, remember to get to our location efficiently for attendance.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Band with Float
- Folder called “band”
Absolute Positioning Practice
- Folder called “absolute”
DH22: Glass
- (lastName)DH22.jpg
Week 22 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

10:45 DH 23: Banana and Blending Stump

So far in our Still Life journey we have worked on a bowl, glass, and now we are going to start thinking about organic elements that could go into your project.

This week the resource is based around a Banana. While we are all drawing a banana this week, try to think about how the shading lessons (and shading with a blending stump) can work with other fruits or subjects in general.

Create the the bunch of bananas!

Save your file as (lastName)DH23.jpg.

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

11:00 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday as a class. I will then present your work to the class. Every week we will pick a new student to proactive giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

Today Jace will give Constructive Criticism. Tomorrow Megan will.

11:30 Web Design

So far we have talked about 3 different ways we can layout web elements on the screen:

Standard document flow – code read town to bottom, and rendered top to bottom.
Floats – move content left or right in the flow of the document and let other content cascade around it.
Absolute positioning – content removed from document float and allowed to be placed anywhere on the screen. With great power … we can move it anywhere we want, but we may have clipping/overlapping issues.

Today we are going to talk about another way to setup content for layouts, one that I particularly like as it is so perfectly suited to Responsive Web Design – where a site changes from screen to screen, Flexbox.

Flexbox, short for the Flexible Box Module, is a layout mode in CSS3 designed to improve the way we design responsive and flexible page layouts. It provides a more efficient way to lay out, align, and distribute space among items in a container, even when their size is unknown or dynamic. Flexbox makes it easier to design complex layouts without having to use float or positioning hacks, and it works well for both web and mobile interfaces.
GPT4

Today we will start working with Flexbox in CodePen. First, let’s get a final review of floats and absolute positioning, then onto Flexbox.

If we have time we may move this learning from CodePen -> VS Code. If not, tomorrow.

12:25 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:55 Attendance and Article

1:00 Steve Jobs Biography

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

10 Minute break – you have to exit the room.
When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:30 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:45 Afternoon Practice & Production

DH23: Banana
- (lastName)DH23.jpg
Week 23 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

2:20 Dailies

2:25 “19 Minutes”

4 of 5 days per week we will end our day in CAWD with the “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At 2:44 each day I will come to 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened in your story over that day’s reading session. It is neat to hear little pockets of a story, here and there.