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Category: Technology Concepts

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Today's to-do list includes the following items:

  1. Warm-Up: 
    1. Grade 6 (P4B)
    2. Grades 7&8 (P3B)
    3. (Remember that vocabulary words will likely appear on your next quiz.)
  2. Monthly Incentives
    1. Arts Department Incentive:
      1. Art Bucks are handed out to acknowledge good choices.
      2. Cutoff date to earn 30 Art Bucks is Wednesday, March 22nd.
      3. Incentive Day is Friday, March 24th.
    2. Monthly Media Arts Incentive:
      1. 30 minute "Arcade Day" at the end of the month.
        1. March's Arcade Day is scheduled for 03/29/2023.
  3. Q3 Project 2
    1. Resubmissions are due by Sunday, March 5th.
  4. Q3 Project 3
    1. Due Friday, March 3rd!
      1. Grade 6 (P4B)
      2. Grades 7&8 (P3B)
    2. Can be any project from this list that has a "TC" icon (Technology Concepts Icon) behind its name AND HAS NOT BEEN DONE BY YOU BEFORE!
      1. (You might really like the Interactive Storytelling project, but you are expected to do more in this class than JUST make games.)
    3. While you may pick a second project from the "Core" track, you are encouraged to select whatever eligible project looks the most fun for you to complete regardless of its track.
    4. Suggested work timeline:
      1. Hand in final revisions by Friday, 03/03.
    5. Critique day is Tuesday, March 7th!
  5. Q3 Project 4
    1. Due Friday, March 17th!
      1. Grade 6 (P4B)
      2. Grades 7&8 (P3B)
    2. Can be any project from this list that has a "TC" icon (Technology Concepts Icon) behind its name AND HAS NOT BEEN DONE BY YOU BEFORE!
      1. (You might really like the Interactive Storytelling project, but you are expected to do more in this class than JUST make games.)
    3. While you may pick a second project from the "Core" track, you are encouraged to select whatever eligible project looks the most fun for you to complete regardless of its track.
    4. Suggested work timeline:
      1. Wrap up pre-production by Thursday, 3/09
      2. Wrap up production by Monday, 3/13.
      3. Wrap up post-production by Wednesday, 3/15.
      4. Hand in final revisions by Friday, 03/17.
    5. Critique Day is Tuesday, 03/21!
  6. Other News
    1. All information that doesn't need a login for privacy reasons is now on https://fouloistech.info/ so parents can see expectations and project rubrics. Bookmarking this site will be useful.
    2. Please share any typos/errors with Mr. Smith so he can properly fix them.
  7. Exit Ticket
    1. Grade 6 (P4B)
    2. Grades 7&8 (P3B)
    3. Please do not write generic answers like "Today I worked on my project and I learned some new vocabulary." If you can't convince me you learned and did something new, you won't earn the points.