Tuesday, January 2nd

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024, January, and Week 17. Let’s all make our folders now.

2nd semester focus / Web Design / Do you wish to earn 3 College Credits for “Website Development“?

Work is already being done in class – CAWD has been deemed worthy of college credits
The big issue is motivation – let me tell you about The History of the Ancient Greeks...
A great experience to youth ready to kick start their education if fully engaged. A giant toe to stub if you aren’t able to give it your full attention.
Emmy and I need to know by say … Thursday if you would like to take part. We will touch base with you later in the week, talk to your parents now about it – should cost you zero dollars.

Work Keys for this week!

Connie, Isaac, Lee, and Tennyson (10:15) E109 Wednesday the 3rd
Otto, Elizabeth and Tobi (10:15) in E109 Friday the 5th
Please check in with me both times for attendance. If they mention Ben…

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks – up until break

Animation Tests (Sneak / Item Chest / Character Selection)
- (lastName)AnimationTests.mp4
DH16: Tree House in 3 Point Perspective
- (lastName)DH16.jpg
Week 16 Agency / Pin Design 3rd Draft
- lastNamePin_V3.jpg (make sure you keep the AI file)
  - … or …
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg

Use this morning to get caught up, get all work in, so we can all have everything ready for a 10:50 submission.

You have until 10:50.

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 Lee will give Constructive Criticism. Tomorrow Phoenix will.

11:30 Illustrator Review

Creating Scaled Down Versions of a design to match clients requirements
Setting up guides
Everyone will go through the process, and this workflow will be what the Pin Design track kids will be doing for their Week 17 Pin work

12:15 Pin Design Track

Finalize your design.
Create a small version that is legible at the 1.5 inch smaller size.

Call your file (lastName)DH17Print.jpg

12:20 DH 17 1st Draft of Summative perspective sketch (for portfolio)

As we move to the end of the 2nd quarter, we going to take a 2 week session and create our final, perspective piece. This piece should be your “best” work in perspective drawing, and will have a draft 1 (50% of work) and a final draft (50% of work) component.

This final piece will go into your college portfolio.

First – which perspective did you like best – and which can you use to create an amazing piece of art? 1, 2 or 3 point perspective?

You will turn in the first 50% this week (40 to 60 minutes) and then a final draft (another 40-60 minutes) where we compare the before and after. To get 2 A’s, we need to see 2 excellent projects over the next 2 weeks.

Call this file (lastName)DH17Draft.jpg.

Remember that for DH18 we will be putting both your 1st and second drafts up to see your progress.

Draft 1 – a solid first effort
Final Draft – detail, color, shading, perfection

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

DH17: Summative Perspective first draft
- (lastName)DH17draft.jpg
Week 17 Agency / Pin Design 3rd Draft
- lastNamePinPrint.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.