Wednesday, April 1st

Wednesday Class Hours: 10:05 – 1:45
Mr. Cronin

Notes

• Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit! Happy April 1st!
• Early release Wednesday. Callbacks when I hear:
  • Isaac to Public Issues @ 12:30
• Game Teams remember that you need 5 Beta testers for your game that aren’t adults & aren’t from GAWD. You source them. Beta testing is Thursday and Friday during Skills Production.

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Midweek Morning Meetings

Wednesday’s we will have our Midweek Morning Meetings.

You and I will meet 1:1 and we can:

• See what you are missing for assignments
• Go over the previous weeks T&E grades
• Go over anything you are pretty confused about so I can review

When not meeting with me – I want you working on Production.

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 WordPress Install

As we spoke of yesterday we are going to reinstall WordPress on your own site. We will do this 1:1 with me as I will walk you through the very very very easy process.

I am going to have your:

• database username
• database password

I will already have WordPress ready to install (with the multi language screen), which is pretty much the starting line to install WordPress (once you upload the free software).

Once you have it installed you move onto our GAWD project below for the week.

11:05 Web History/Copyright/Browsers in WordPress

This week we are going to continue our student of Web History, Copyright, and Browsers. We are going to work with a fresh installation of WordPress (practice), the 2025 theme (great support), and use AI to source information (the real world in 2026 and beyond).

Technical Requirements

• Fresh WordPress Install with Site Title of “Web History, Copyright, and Browsers”
• Static Page site – not posts
• Use of 2025 Theme– we are going to practice and get used to this theme, there is so much support for it.
• Lightbox plugin required, and all images clickable

Content Requirements

4 page site. Make sure the links in your navigation go in order of these pages. Start with “Tim Berners Lee” and end with “Web Browsers”. How can you change the order of your navigation? Look it up / ask AI.

• Tim Berners Lee
  • Include a photo of Sir Tim
  • Include a paragraph of information (at a minimum) – a general overview (use AI to get this)
  • Include a screenshot of the information from AI – whatever you copy and paste as text you must have a screenshot from the AI (show the AI) so we know where you sourced it from.
• Copyright
  • Include an image smartly related to Copyright
  • Include a paragraph of information (at a minimum) – a general overview of Copyright (use AI to get this)
  • Include a screenshot of the information from AI
• Free Image Resources
  • Include an image smartly related to Free Image Resources
  • Include a paragraph of information (at a minimum) – a general overview of free image sites (use AI to get this). What is the benefit? Why would use use these services?
  • Include a screenshot of the information from AI
  • Create an outbound link to a free image site that you choose, UnSplash as an example.
  • At the bottom of this page include an image that you directly saved from this site, and have that image directly link to the page on the free image resource.
• Web Browsers
  • Include an image smartly related to Web Browsers.
  • Include a paragraph of information (at a minimum) – a general overview of what a web browser is and include the browser market share in 2025. (use AI to get this, and you may need to revise your prompt as you go)
  • Include a screenshot of the information from AI
  • Have a sub heading and outbound link at the bottom that allows us to check out a different type of browser to install.

Nothing to upload for this project, we are simply going to go to your spot on the Web Server during presentations.

11:35 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.

12:05 Attendance and Article

12:10 Afternoon Practice & Production

Web History/Copyright/Browsers in WordPress

• Nothing to upload, we will just go to your spot on the GAWD Dev Server.

DH26: Final Still Life

• lastNameDH_26.jpg

Week 26 Agency

• lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg

Throughout this afternoon we can nuke and reinstall your WordPress Install so we can get you working on this weeks site.

12:40 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.

1:00 Afternoon Break (15 minutes)

1:15 Afternoon Practice & Production

Only 5 minutes as it’s Wednesday – Dailies at 1:20!

1:20 Dailies

1:25 “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.

1:45 Dismissal