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Our 1st semester will focus on media creation, while or 2nd semester will focus more on coding.

Regardless of the lesson, FouloisTech.info should be your destination every time you come into class. This space will be used to provide announcements, lessons, and other resources.

  1. Objective:
    1. Students will be able to:
      • Work well around their classmates.
      • Properly operate a digital camera.
      • Select compositions that are pleasing to their aesthetic tastes.
  2. Announcements:,
    1. The last day for late work was Thursday, June 5th!
      1. Any missing work at this point will only be accepted for excused absences, within the time limits set by PGCPS policy.
    2. Previous Lessons: Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4, Lesson 6 & Quiz 1, Lesson 7, Lesson 8, Lesson 9, Lesson 10, Lesson 14, Code.org Wrap-Up, Photography
  3. Today's Lesson: Critiques
    1. Vocabulary:
      1. Art
      2. Positive Criticism
      3. Constructive Criticism
      4. Negative Criticism
    2. Today, we're critiquing our photos from our last class.
    3. Important things to remember:
      1. This was our SECOND photography lesson, and that one didn't give us a lot of time. Not everyone is coming to this with expert camera skills.
      2. EVERY photographer takes photos that don't work out. Every single one. The focus for today is not to point out everything that didn't work. It's to point out what did, and how things could be improved.
        1. Negative feedback puts people down. Constructive feedback helps them up. Let's be constructive.
      3. Not every photo is art.
        1. Is it a photo of someone else's art?
        2. What IS art?
    4. The process for today:
      1. We will look through the photos (sorted by camera) for ones we like and want to talk about.
      2. We will have an in-class discussion about what worked and how things can be improved.
      3. We will talk about the definition of art - THIS HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS!
        1. Artificial - A person made it.
        2. Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture - Focused on Visual Art, leaves out a lot of what we call art today.
        3. Something Creative - A more welcoming definition, but what is creativity?
    5. At the end of class, you have some questions to answer.