Monday, September 8th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

Week Two (Officially) and it is a 5 day week
CCV – if you have homework, stay on top of it. Can you get into Canvas?

10:10 Monday Mail

Each Monday we’ll do a quick mail check. Only takes a moment and people in the school community may be trying to communicate with you. GAWD takes care of business, so go check that email. While you are at it, check your grades in PowerSchool.

10:12 Group Project – Sweatshirt

Let’s have a quick scrum meeting about our sweatshirt project.

Managing Media with Adobe Bridge – More Tools to work with

This morning we’ll look at Adobe Bridge. Specifically:

How Bridge works with your hard drive
Sorting, viewing, previewing, rating, ranking
What files bridge can see
Importing images from SD card
Batch processing (renaming, touch up, resizing)
I’ve got some practice files are located in the public folders. Make a copy of the folder (Called Bridge Sample Files) and paste on your desktop.

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00 How a DSLR Camera Works

Let’s look at some basic camera controls and learn a little more about your DSLR camera.

A DSLR camera, which stands for Digital Single-Lens Reflex, is a type of digital camera that uses a mirror and prism system to provide an optical viewfinder, allowing the photographer to see exactly what the lens sees before taking a photo. Key features include interchangeable lenses for versatility, a digital sensor for capturing images, and excellent image quality due to the larger sensor size compared to simpler cameras.

This Week’s Photo Assignment – 25 Free Photos

Using the Automatic Setting on your camera, go out and take some pictures.
Your goal is to take in focus images. The subject is your choice.
Select your favorite 25 photos and arrange in a slideshow using Google Slides.
Filename:FirstName_Lastname_25FreePics
This project is due Tuesday, September 16th

11:30 Passion Project in GAWD2 – Let’s Unpack the concept

One of the best things about technical high school is the access you have to technology, equipment and expertise in your field of study. Also, you get to make some really cool stuff.

Passion Projects (or story of 20%) goes back to 3M. (3M makes scotch tape, sticky notes and piles of other things that stick). Art Fry, a scientist at 3M had an idea to put an adhesive on the back of a piece of paper. The goal was to create a bookmark that was not permanent. He called it a Post-It-Note. Fry came up with the idea during 3M’s 15% time, which was time during the workday to explore rainbows and unicorns. Actually it was time that could be used to hatch their own ideas. Google later adopted a similar policy – calling it 20% time. Gmail is just one example of a passion project that came from Google’s 20% time.

Each week, there is production time in the afternoon (for many of you) and post CCV class on Fridays. If you are complete with your work, this is the time to work on your passion project. Last year this might have been referred to as an Agency project. The difference is this year your Agency work is not a weekly assignment it is a weekly update!

Passion Projects are not limited to what we are currently doing in class. If you want to explore environmental lighting in Unity, create laser cats in After Effects or explore f curves in Blender, it’s up to you. Become the expert in your area of interest.

Each week, like your agencies last year in GAWD, I’ll ask you to share your learning and the progress of your work. Your passion projects are not “one off” quickie items. It should be a path /documentation of learning. You’ll share your plans for a passion project on Monday, September 15th. right after morning break.

For example – let’s say you are working on modeling skills in Blender or learning how to use geometry nodes. On the share out day, a good presentation would include:

Renders of your models or a live example(s)
A list of resources you used to help you (Tutorials, authors, links)
Techniques you learned that you’d like us to know about
What you want to work on next or what’s next on your learning path

Another example – let’s say you love cars and photography. Your passion project might include building a portfolio of work, learning techniques on how to take good automotive photos, practicing those photos by attending car shows / rallys. On the share out day, you might show us:

A portfolio of your work so far
Techniques you learned
Resources you used to assist you / people you spoke with or worked with
Types of equipment you used
A sharable tip for the rest of us
What you plan to do next on your learning path

Presenting work to each other is not only educational but also a great way to practice and improve your speaking skills. Have a growth mindset, don’t let your insecurities define you.

I’ll work with each of you to help determine what your passion projects will be. S

11:55 Lunch

*Creative Commons Attribution 4.0* – Animal Style Burgers from In-n-Out

12:25 IRC Learning Session – Unity Certified User – Artist Certification

An IRC is an Industry Recognized Credential. You have (and will again) earn the Certified Web Designer certification which is an IRC. I’d like to test a new credential through Unity. We’ll start with the Artist Certification path… but when you finish you can go for the programmer certification

Artist Certification

The Unity Certified User Artist certification will test your 2D and 3D digital artistry within Unity. This certification demonstrates knowledge that includes managing the basic aspects of dealing with art assets, scene content design, and using tools within Unity to assist in experience creation.

Programmer Certification

The Unity Certified User Programmer certification will test the basics of C# programming within Unity software to create interactivity in games, apps, AR/VR, and other experiences. This certification demonstrates entry-level knowledge that includes debugging, problem-solving, and interpreting the API, creating and evaluating code, and navigating the Unity interface. In the course you will build a 2D side scrolling game.

This is my first year testing out this platform, we’ll do it each Monday afternoon.

To redeem an access code:

Log in to your student account at www.gmetrix.net using your the sign-in with Google Option (make sure you are signed in to the browser with your school account)
In the menu select the Redeem Code icon.
Enter the code in the window that pops up and select Redeem.
- Be sure to include the hyphens, and if you copy/pasted the code, be sure to delete any spaces that may have been added to the beginning or end of the code.
Once you have redeemed a code, it is tied to your account, and you can access the courses on it without redeeming it again the next time you log on. As long as you log into the same account, you can access this content from any device.
I recommend you make a bookmark to the Gmetrix page.

Access Code is found in the stream on Google Classroom. I’ll put it up at lunch today.

Today you we’ll get started with the Artist Course. It will give you a good overview of Unity basics.