Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 29! Let’s all make our folders now.
- 6 academic weeks of school + 1 week of IRC Exams / Movies / Recognition Night
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 New Seats!
- Bags / art cups / decorations in the back
- Move the Tower only
- The faster (but safely) we do this, the more time you have for last looks.
- Quang and Ben you have dual monitors – everyone else back to singles.
10:30 Last Looks
Monochromatic Design and Usability
- folder called “webUsability”
DH28: Portrait Ratios
- lastNameDH_28.jpg
Week 28 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice 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.
11:30 DH 29: Eyes
In week 29 we are going to work on human eyes, focused on realism.
Everyone has the time to watch a short resource or use AI to come up with a sketching plan to learn this week. The shortcut is just drawing and not doing the learning, but remember our 4th quarter is a focus on you using the tools aviable to you to learn something new and different. AI, YouTube, Discord, etc.
I type this out and chuckle while I write it, but only you are going to lose out on this bit of new learning if you skip it. Work hard, watch a quick resource, and practice practicing.
Give me a deep study on a single eye.
11:35 Study Guide / Day 1
On Monday June 8th 2026 at 10:30 AM EST GAWD will sit for the Web Designer certification exam, run by the Web Professionals Organization.
This exam typically tests entry late college / entry level web designer and developers. It is a 3rd party assessment (I don’t make the questions nor grade them), and it helps give you another indicator that you are competent.
The format is multiple choice.
The content will range from Week 1 web work all they way to questions we just won’t get a chance to cover in a semester of high school.
Our pass rates are typically around 90%. This credential can go right on your resume, as well as on college applications to help differentiate yourself from the masses. …
… all you have to do is pass …
In addition to our weekly college projects, speed designs, and other in class exercises, we are also going to be doing daily prep work for the exam. It is a little HTML+JS+CSS I wrote up to try to:
- teach the of the “won’t get to” curriculum
- provide rote memorization for those types of learners
- provide gamification for those types of learners
- practice in the format of the final exam in June
- always open book, always open note
- gifts and advantages to promote time and accuracy
Today we are just going to be getting 100 points. Once you complete the daily Prep you raise your hand and show me the passPhrase which will show up on your screen.
Starting tomorrow increase the accuracy needed to complete the assessment, and by the time we are taking the exam in June we will be doing runs of 50 questions with 95%+ accuracy, easy.
11:55 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.
12:25 Attendance and Article
12:30 Web Design
- Review of Wave and Web Usability
12:50 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a dystopian novel by George Orwell that explores totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and the manipulation of truth through the story of Winston Smith in the superstate of Oceania, ruled by the omnipresent Party and its figurehead, Big Brother.
Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
DH29: Eyes
- lastNameDH_2(.jpg
Week 29 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “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 the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
