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Tech Concepts, Smith, 5-9-2019 (Day 12)

Warm-Up:

  1. What makes this class easy? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER!
  2. What makes this class hard? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER!

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Today's Agenda

  1. Warm-Up
    1. (See above)
  2. Objective
    1. Students will generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work to demonstrate understanding of PGCPS technology rules. (Anchor Standard 1)
  3. Guided Instruction
    1. Important Dates
      1. 5-17: Project 3 Due
        1. 5-21: Project 3 Critique
      2. 5-31: Project 4 Due
        1. 6-3: Project 4 Critique
      3. 6-7: Culminating Activity
        1. 6-11: Culminating Activity Critique
      4. 6-14: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
    2. Progress Report grades are published!
      1. Congratulations to everyone who is earning an A, keep up the good work!
      2. If you are not happy with your grade, you have 2 more projects to pull it up! (Homework is 10%! Critiques are 20%!)
  4. Google Classroom
    1. Work that is not in a journal OR uploaded on time to the correct location in Google Classroom WILL NOT BE graded.
  5. Independent Work
    1. Project 3
      1. Approved rubrics are here.
      2. Rubric for students whose proposals were unfinished:
        1. Attack of the Clones
          1. GIMP (& Other Image Editors) Crash Course
          2. Clone Yourself With GIMP!
    2. Homework Review:
        1. 5-3: Write a line item that defines and limits the media for Project 4. It CANNOT BE a slide presentation or video.
          1. Example from Project 2 Rubric:
            ►25%: Work is a video between 3-5 minutes Total Run Time (TRT).
        2. 5-7: Rewrite your homework from 5-3, and add TWO (2) of the rubric line items listed below.
          1. Project includes at least one special effect.
          2. Project showcases work by the student that involves their major.
          3. Project showcases work by the student that involves one of this year's 9 week classes (NOT TECH!)
          4. Project includes at least 3 properly cited sound effects (not songs) taken from the YouTube Audio Library.
          5. Project includes at least 3 properly cited images taken from commons.wikimedia.org.
  6. HOMEWORK
    1. Rewrite Lines 1-3 of your rubric using the requirements listed above, then add a final fourth line that mandates the topic of your project.