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Media Arts, 01-28-2020 (Q3 Day 1)

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Warm-Up:

  • Refine your rubric if you did not do that for homework. If your rubric was approved, make a list of what you need to do TODAY to make worthwhile progress in the hour we have together.

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Objective:

  • Students will organize and develop artistic ideas and work (Anchor Standard 2) to understand relationships between Media Arts and Language Arts.

Today's Agenda

Business

  1. Fundraising

    1. We are now up to NINE (9) Raspberry Pi computers for the class!
      1. (Plus two Raspberry Pi computers and three of my old gaming PCs I brought from home, but I'm not counting those.)
    2. Let's try for Raspberry Pi #10! FUNDED!
    3. Let's try to get another camera while we're at it!
  2. Grades
    1. Q2 grades are published.
      1. If you are happy with your grade, please keep that momentum up for the second half of the year.
      2. If you are not happy with your grade, please take stock of the choices that led you to that grade and work hard to make the second half of the year be better.
  3. Schedule
    1. 02-07: Q3 P1 Due
    2. 02-21: Q3 P2 Due
    3. 03-06: Q3 P3 Due
    4. 03-20: Q3 P4 Due
    5. 04-03: Q4 P1 Due

Learning Opportunities

  1. Q3 Project 1
    1. Today is a planning day for those who didn't finish on Friday and a work day for everyone else.
    2. See the overview from the 25th for more information.
  2. Podcasting: The Media Behind the Arts
    1. Bi-Weekly Schedule
      1. Segment recordings due 01-09. (Note: We will not be critiquing these until after they have been combined into a single recording.)
      2. Final combined edit published 01-17.
      3. Segment recordings due 01-24. (On hold as we recover from the Film Festival.)
    2. Your contribution will be a project grade!
      1. 5 pts: Dialogue is well spoken and free of verbal filler.
      2. 5 pts: Dialogue focuses on the chosen topic and stays within the time requirement.
      3. 5 pts: Audio recording is free of distracting background noise.
      4. 5 pts: Any outside works included are used with permission and cited properly.
    3. Segments
      1. Every Episode
        1. Episode Host
          1. Intro, Outro, & Segment introductions
        2. School News
          1. Sports
          2. Events (Concerts, Dances, etc.)
          3. SGA
        3. Local News
          1. Sources must be cited! (CNN is reporting that...)
        4. World News
          1. Sources must be cited! (CNN is reporting that...)
      2. As needed
        1. (Remember as an audio only format giving advice will be difficult.)
        2. Coding
        3. Inkscape
        4. Title Cards
        5. Computer Basics
        6. Game Design
        7. Video Production
          1. Pre-Production
          2. Production
          3. Post-Production
        8. Bullying
  3. Exit Ticket (Auto-posted to Google Classroom at 3:40pm.)

    1. What progress did you make today on your first Media Arts project of Q3?
      This assignment is not eligible for late submission or resubmission.
  4. HOMEWORK
    1. 01-24: Refine your rubric draft if it is not already approved.
    2. 01-27: There is no homework tonight.