Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Friday!
- Everyone enjoy your weekend and wrap up any work you don’t finish up today! We have 3 weeks of “academic school” left… we got this.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 XXAMP Installation
Next week we are going to use XAMPP and get some hands on practice with PHP and Databases. XAMPP is a popular PHP development environment for local installs and learning.
PHP is a coding language that lives on a web server. It isn’t good practice to learn on the live GAWD website, as if you make an error while learning (everyone makes errors) you could nuke the site.
So we will install XAMPP on our local machines to get a mini web-server, so we can get some practice.
XAMPP fights with the way EWSD installs their software and runs security. We are going to have to roll with it. In essence, it never closes – just crashes. But it only crashes when we try to close it, so it is functional.
But it OPENS AOK.
Today we will install the software.
10:30 Accessibility Review
- Goals of Web Accessibility Review
- Altruism vs. Lord Business
- WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
10:40 Game UI with a focus on Accessibility
Check the Wednesday Dayplan for specifics.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 English
Trevor and Adrian you can go to lunch directly from English at 11:55!
11:55 Study Guide
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
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years–as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues–Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
1:20 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)
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
Game UI with a focus on Accessibility
- in folder called lastNameAccessibleGameUI
DH 32: Ear
- lastNameDH_32.jpg
Week 32 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “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 2:39 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.
2:40 Dismissal
