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Tech Concepts, Smith, 10-03-2018

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Warm-Up:

  • What is required to produce a media artwork that conveys purpose, meaning, and artistic quality?

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Objective:

  • Students will ask themselves meaningful questions to refine & complete artistic work.

Today's Agenda

  1. Guided Instruction
    1. Warm-Up Review
    2. Homework Review
      1. Describe your ideal Technology Concepts project, complete with a four line rubric that avoids subjectivity.
    3. Critiques
      1. Remember that CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM is advice for how to make something better.
        1. Not pointing out problems.
        2. Not saying "Try harder" or other unspecific statements.
      2. Critique Pop Quiz
        1. May help mitigate Assessment scores.
        2. Each group of "Constructive Criticism" sentences has only one choice that earned credit.
        3. Do your best.
          1. You can keep taking the quiz until you earn an A. Stopping before then means you didn't want an A.
          2. Scores will be entered into SchoolMax TODAY.
    4. Project 2: Coding
      1. Grades are posted.
      2. Resubmissions are due by 10-13-2018.
        1. Projects that have earned a zero are not eligible for resubmission.
    5. Project 3: Coding, Continued
      1. ► 25% Project includes bug-free code created by the student, rather than copy/pasted from other sources.
      2. ►25% Project contains a minimum of 25 lines of code. [Class Choice]
      3. ►25% Project includes a BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END. [Class Choice]
      4. ►25% Project is either a 1:30- 3:00 minute song (Sonic-Pi), A 2-5 page webcomic (html) or an animation 0:30-1:00 TRT. [Class Choice]
  2. Independent Work
    1. Homework & Journal Checks
    2. Project Pre-Production
      1. List steps needed to complete your goal.
        1. Do you know the programs you will use?
        2. Do you know the code you need?
        3. Will this require work that isn't coding?
      2. Start working your way through them.
    3. Project Production & Post-Production
      1. Dependant on project scope determined by student.
  3. HOMEWORK
    1. List 3 things you've learned about learning code. (Not ABOUT coding, but about the process OF learning coding.)