Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Welcome to Week 26! Let’s make our folders now.
- How is everyone? Haven’t seen some for a week. Life good?
- 3 weeks until vacation, 2.5 weeks until our Skills presentations.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 End of Quarter 3 last looks!
While I already have your work from last week (that we will present today at 11) I wanted everyone to understand that we are now in the 4th Quarter. All the work we do today, and present today, is 4th quarter work.
I want to give everyone the chance to look one more time at their Q3 Gradebook and turn anything in, right now, that you want credit for. The quarter ended last week, but due to my wife’s surgery I am allowing right now as the last gasp, hail Mary to get work in. At break I will copy down any stuff that is there and incorporate to Q3.
10:20 Client work & Images
- Unsplash is a resource we will lean on heavily in the 4th quarter when doing client work. Let’s explore what is there for a couple different business types, ending up with our Client Work topic for Q4 – and we can see what we have to use.
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 DH26: Final Still Life
This week we are going to work on our final Still Life sketch, wrapping up Quarter 3.
As this sketch may get you into college, earn scholarships, etc, I am going to give you a simple prompt:
Based on the learning that we have had regarding composition, lighting, and texture – draw the best still life of your life.
When we present next week we will pull up your Baseline Still Life (DH19) and compare side by side. The more improvement we see in the before / after, the higher the grade.
Save your file as lastNameDH_26.jpg.
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
- table review, with nth selector for styling
- hover nth
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
DH26: Final Still Life
- lastNameDH_26.jpg
Week 26 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
