Tuesday, January 30th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Tuesday!
What is this magic? Is this CGI or real life?
We have students working with visitors from Colchester High School today (2) and tomorrow (4). Farm that extra credit! Start with the visitor form. Students working with visitors:
- Jace (10:05-10:30)
- Ben (10:05-10:30)
- Zander (10:05-10:30)
- Dylan (10:05-10:30)
- Mia (10:05 – 10:30)

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Working with visitors or Pass / Fail

If not working with a visitor, open up Blender and model a drone. Propeller powered.

Here is your benchmark – try to beat it. In 20 minutes I want to see if you can beat something like this which is free on Turbosquid.

Create and save a single render using your last name, and place in the “tuesdayPassFail” folder on the public. You have until 10:30.

** Students working with visitors do not need to do the Pass / Fail.

10:30 Presentations of Drones

10:31 Setting up VS Code

Setting up VS Code to work on our machines. This is free and you can get at home.

Setting up Live Server extension that allows us to preview right in the browser.

We are going to use a model of:

Code Pen for initial learning and tinkering
VS Code for creating actual deliverable work

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 Peyton will give Constructive Criticism.

11:30 Web Design

Let’s take what we built in Code Pen last week, and move it to VS Code where we are writing and connecting multiple files as a professional would.

In addition we will look at:

Explaining the rest of the boilerplate code – the basics of an HTML document.
- Commenting
Workspaces
Case sensitivity
Validation through the W3C

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

DH21: Bowl
- (lastName)DH21.jpg
Week 21 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.