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 later this year – next week we are off on Friday
- ESRB ratings – let’s see what is good for GAWD
- Adobe Creative Cloud – Sign In using your ewsd school account (choose sign in with Google)
- Download Illustrator and Photoshop from the Apps section
10:10 The 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
- Harassment & Bullying
- Drugs / Alcohol / Tobacco & Weapons (this does not sound like our students)
- School Closings and Drills
- Technology Usage / AI / Academic Honesty
- & 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 (65%) and Literacy in Practice (15%) and Photography is it’s own course – based on total points.. 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)
11:00 Agile and Project Management
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.
Activity #2 Trello
Create an account with Trello 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
12:25 English w/Mx. Yopp
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
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
2:40 Dismissal
