Tuesday, December 5th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

• Tuesday! We are going to have visitors today from Burlington High School at 11:00. Show off your best work, what you have been working on, etc. I will take visitors away at 11:30 or so. Students working with visitors:
  • Otto
  • Isaac
  • Jace
  • Mia
  • Remember to start with the visitor form if you want to earn the extra credit! I can’t give you extra credit if you haven’t had them fill out the form.
• I am going to be sending out CTE 1st Semester T&E Rubrics this week. This rubric will show you were you are in a number of different employability categories, and show you were you could improve. These rubrics (and your improvement between now and the spring) will be factored in CTE Administration’s admissions decisions for next year.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Blender

• Rigging practice
• Weight painting / fixing issues which inevitablly come up

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

• 10 Minute break – going to keep doors open today to absorb visitors.

11:00 AM Production / Visitors

• Short 25 minute window for AM production if not working with a visitor
• If you are working with a visitor….

11:30 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 Otto will give Constructive Criticism.

12:00 Blender

• Modeling coin collectable for Unreal
• Today we make it and bring it in there – tomorrow we use it

Where are we going with this?

1. We have a “gate” which we can use, but only when we are close to it.
2. Now we are going to add an extra condition, where if we have a collected a certain amount of coins, we can then get close to the gate, and use it. Think of games like Mario where you have to collect a certain amount of Green stars to move to the next level.
3. Start thinking about how you can apply these conditions to your game. Start thinking like a game designer and artist.

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 A Gentleman in Moscow

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

• DH14: Architectural Drawing in 2 Point Perspective
  • (lastName)DH14.jpg
• Week 14 Agency / Pin Design 1st Draft
  • lastNamePin_V1.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
    • … or …
  • (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.

2:45 Dismissal