Tuesday, September 16th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Happy Tuesday!
Tonight is the CTE Back to School Open House! 6-7:30, drop in and say hi! I would love to meet your friends and family. Show them some of your work, explain Blender – etc. Don’t arrive at 7:25! I want to get home to read books to my daughters….
Missing work note…
Remember going forward we will have Premiere based Speed Designs!
FreeSound.org accounts – create them now.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Premiere

Intro to Premiere Pro review
Text
Timelines
Bins
Importing
Ken Burns Effect
Exporting
Sound
I hate webp files, not due to the technology, it’s just due to the incompatibility. Let’s walk through the issue and a duct tape workaround.
- Maybe this will work?
- Neat – it looks like a PNG file – let’s try it!
- Drat.

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

11:30 Premiere

Open House Portfolio!

Family coming in, let’s create “Demo Reel” – a production with your work so far. Here is the rough progression:

Title (text)
- Week 1 (text)
  - Week 1 work (images and animations)
- Week 2 (text)
  - Week 2 work (images and animations)

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 Blender

Graph Editor Review

12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.

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

DH3: Theme Park Design Competition

lastNameDH_3.jpg

Week 3 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.