Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 26! Let’s all make our folders.
- Yesterday means that today acts as Monday, our first day of the week.
- Game Teams – you have Beta Testing with 15 users on Friday at 10:05! You may need to use all your free time in class to work on your game, and get your agency, web, and DH projects done at home. Whatever you need to do to get it ready, do it.
- Mia early dismissal at 1:45 today.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Last Looks
- Week 25 Agency
- (lastName)Agency_1.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_2.jpg
- (lastName)Agency_3.jpg
10:30 School Survey
“They” said to carve out 30 minutes for this. I don’t think it will take 30 minutes.
When you are complete use the time for quiet production.
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 Ben will give Constructive Criticism. No Critiques tomorrow as we only have 1 project to present.
11:30 DH26: Pots and Spoons
This week we are focusing on Pots and Spoons. These will get us continuing to work with the ideas of curves, shading, shadows, and composition.
The minimum requirements are 1 pot and 1 spoon.
Here is a resource that would hit the requirements:
I have more art supplies if you need, from different weight pencils, to kneaded erases, etc. Just come see me if interested.
Really notice the value contract between white and black that the artist uses in the video – we want to see this value contrast in your work!
Save your file as (lastName)DH26.jpg.
11:35 Web Design
- Review of Flexbox (we have to become all knowing, just have to pound it in)
- The Inspector
- CSS Box Model
- Padding
- Margins
- Borders
- box-sizing – why don’t they make this default?
- Background images
- background-size
- background-position
- Classes vs. ID’s?
Any extra time we may start our Wednesday project….
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
- DH26: Pots and Spoons
- (lastName)DH26.jpg
- Week 26 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.
2:45 Dismissal
