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Thursday, August 28th

Thursday, August 28th

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

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

  • Today is our first real day – regular day
  • Parking Passes – are free – you need to sign up on the CTE website
  • Labor Day is Monday – remember you have a three day weekend coming up
  • ESRB ratings – let’s see what is good for GAWD

10:10 Handbook

The CTE Handbook is a guide to help understand the culture and expectations at CTE. The main points I want to cover are:

  • Behavior – Kindness and Respect (Page 8)
  • Harassment & Bullying (Page 12)
  • Drugs / Alcohol / Tobacco & Weapons (this does not sound like our students – Page 20)
  • School Closings and Drills – (Page 30)
  • Technology Usage / AI / Academic Honesty(Page 42)
  • & Let’s Talk Cell Phones….

10:20 Grading in GAWD2

Grading in GAWD 2 – I’ll be grading your work based on four weighted categories. Transferrable Skills (20%), Projects (40%) and Literacy in Practice (15%) and Photography (25%). Let’s discuss what Transferrable Skills are.

Rubric For Grading Transferrable Skills / Employability Traits

10:30 Our Schedule

Our Schedule – I’ll do my best to explain the flow of each GAWD day. A visual schedule can be found by following this link. Let’s also look at the CTE block schedules.

  • Branding & Media for the Web
  • Digital Photography & Photo Manipulation
  • Motion Graphics and Visual Effects
  • College/Career Planning
  • Project Management Techniques (Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
  • Introductory Programming / Game Programming
    • IRC Unity Certification: Programmer
    • IRC Unity Certification: Artist
    • IRC Unity Certification: VR Developer
  • Web Applications (JS, HTML, CSS and modern frameworks)
  • Accessibility, UX and UI
  • Modeling for Game Engines
  • 2D & 3D Animation & Character Animation
  • Game Design & Development

10:50 Morning Break (10 minutes)

11:00Agile Project Management

A typical KanBan board – one of many Project Management Tools

Today’s modern office setting, especially in the technology production and design fields is based on solid project management practices. Companies like Dealer, EASports, Zynaga, Google, General Motors all work in teams formed for specific purposes.

The goal of these teams is to deliver ideas to market in the shortest amount of time with the greatest user satisfaction. How do they do it? Simple – Project Management

Presentation Materials Slide Deck

Definition: The Agile Approach
Is a practice that enables teams to produce high quality work and complete projects early and often. The proven standard for software development.

Today we’ll look at one framework called Scrum and use a tool to help complete our activities.
A KanBan board.

Activity – Air Force Airplane Factory – Instructions will be provided.

Quality Control Report

Activity #2 Trello

Create an account with Trello (https://trello.com/en-US) using your school gmail account. The style of board you will be making is called a KanBan board. You will probably need to just use the login with Google Option

Create a KanBan board for (some suggestions to work with)

  • College Planning / Application Process
  • Personal Project
  • School Project
  • Champlain College Portfolio Requirements

The point of this activity is to get familiar with the tools available for breaking down a large project into small deliverables. Break your KanBan board into 3 columns: To Do, In Progress, Complete.

11:55 Lunch

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

12:25 English w/ Mx. Yopp – Room D105

Word Cloud of literacy terms

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 Speed Design

For our first speed design – we’ll do it together!

1:45 Independent Production & Guided Support

This is a good window to make sure all of your systems / programs are working. Please complete the checklist from yesterday.

2:10 Dailies

2:15 Independent Reading

book covers
  • Reading Rubric
  • A reading assessment that will get you reading books you love … What Color Reader are you
  • Short Discussion….

2:40 Dismissal and Departure

GAWD Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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A little about GAWD:

Serving high school students interested in Gaming, Animation, and Web Development in North Western Vermont.

Students continue at:

University of Vermont Ringling School of Art and Design Northeastern University Rochester Institute of Technology Concordia University

Students find careers at:

Dealer.com Union Street Media Rovers North Prudential Investments DockYard
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