Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Happy Birthday Maxx!
- Everyone switch to the ehs wifi just for this morning. We need to see the adds! (Then we can go back to the CAWD wifi where the ads are blocked.)
- Prep Update – from now on I am going to ASK the person going from the winning team what THEY want as a game. Lots of points, lower accuracy, or less points, greater accuracy. So Sebastian, are you repping your team today? Let me know before English what you want without anyone else hearing!
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Deep Dive on some sites in the Wild
This morning we are going to look at a sites and see how they are dealing with Web Accessibility.
Brennan’s Portfolio Site. Former student that took 1st in the Nation in Animation. Let’s view the source code, run with WAVE, Bug Hunt.
This is the DCM program at CTE’s website. Looks … kinda like our Dayplan. Let’s explore, run with WAVE, Bug Hunt.
What is the moral of the story? We may never get to “perfect” accessibility rankings, but will do our best and design with accessibility in mind. Remember the act of “trying your best”, putting in a good faith effort, responding to accessibility concerns, all go a long way when an issue emerges.
10:30 Game UI with a focus on Accessibility
Check the Wednesday Dayplan for specifics.
10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)
11:00 English
11:55 Study Guide
The Winning Team MJ (6 min), Caleb (3 min), and Sebastian vs. The Field.
- If The Field wins, everyone has their score minimum cut in half. Show me and go to lunch.
- If The Field wins, the Winning Team stays until 11:55, but does not have to do the Study Guide.
- If The Winning Team wins, The Field has to complete the study guide and stay until 11:55.
- If The Winning Team wins they go to lunch immediately.
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
