Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Happy Tuesday!
- At this point I am accepting any missing work until the end of our semester which is Friday June 5th. I need anything in by Friday June 5th before we read at the end of the day that you want credit for. I have to send grades to all your different schools!
- Here is Week 34:
Monday – Sub / I am out- Tuesday – Today – Critiques and start of Final Capstone
- Wednesday – Mid morning meetings / Final Capstone / Likely Final Callbacks
- Thursday – Final Day of Capstone Production / English / Cronin gone in PM
- Friday – Capstone Final Presentations in AM / English / Last Looks for GAWD in total in PM
- Here is Week 35, and our FINAL week of school (4 day week)
- Monday – Certification Exam in AM / We host some middle school kids for exercise in the PM
- Tuesday – GAWD goes to the movies / chill in PM
- We pay for tickets
- You pay for concessions if you want them
- We may / may not be back for lunch, have a big breakfast
- Wednesday – Migrate and backup all data from GAWD computers. Get copies of all work off the computers, remove any games or accounts, etc
- Thursday – Chill in AM / Recognition night rehearsal / Recognition Night starts at 6:30 or so this night in the Rink!
- Normal hours of our school days to end the year – make sure you are on-time!
- We may be hosting Peyton for one more game test session – this would be OPTIONAL – but he is really appreciative of the feedback and just wants one more game test session before the end of the year with feedback. Optional. Thursday.
- Wednesday morning we are going to play some GAWD2 games they have been working on. NOT OPTIONAL.
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Critiques of work uploaded Monday
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.
Lets grind through it all.
Final Portfolio
- Hosted on your WordPress Install
Capstone First Draft
- folder called lastNameCapstoneFirstDraft
DH33: Final Portrait
- lastNameDH_33.jpg
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Capstone Final Draft
Take feedback given to you by class and continue to develop your Capstone into your Final Capstone Presentation. Remember that this should be your best project of the year, something you would be proud to show a college or studio.
You will be presenting your Final Capstone on Friday morning immediately after our article.
In this presentation you will:
- Come up and introduce yourself
- Explain what your topic was for your Capstone
- Show off your project
- Show the before
- Show the after – we want to see development / refinement
- Take a short Question and Answer session from the gallery
- Students will be randomly selected to ask a question about the project / process, anything beyond yes no questions.
- Students in the gallery will also be getting good conversational practice being humans.
On Thursday there will be a “finalCapstone” folder for you to upload your assets to for a Friday presentation.
For now – work and improve!
11:35 Study Guide
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 Capstone Final Draft
12:50 Jobs
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson tells the story of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and his impact on technology, animation, and design. The biography explores his creativity, leadership, and work with Apple and Pixar, helping create products and films that changed modern culture.
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 Capstone Final Draft
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
