Blaisdell_Spring2015_Agenda

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Feb 2-6 Rules and Tools

 * Mon - Introduction
 * Course Outline - Course Overview, content and expectations
 * Requirements:
 * Your UserID and Password
 * Binder, Pencil and Paper
 * A good attitude
 * Shop Tour
 * What is Technology?
 * Let's consider TEN important technological concepts
 * Tue - Computers and Drafting
 * Lab Rules
 * Bookmark and add to toolbar this wiki and agenda page
 * Have you got your login?
 * Let's start with some computer basics- Handout and Handin folders - file management, the network, etc.
 * Technical drawing - drafting, orthographic and isometric drawings
 * [|What is drafting?]
 * Key terminology on the whiteboard
 * The Orthographic projection: top, front and right side views
 * Orthographics
 * Isometrics and obliques
 * Practice with Orthographic projections and Isometric drawings
 * Wed - Google Portfolios and Drafting
 * Finish Ortho PPT (12/26)
 * Now for some drafting practice!
 * Please complete Drawing sheets D8\D2\D27\D5\F1
 * This drafting package is due this Friday
 * Drawing sheets - finish all that are unfinished
 * Thu - Drafting and Portfolio Creation Day
 * Setting up Google Portfolios - See this link
 * How do we setup our Google Portfolios?
 * ** Please use ONLY the template for TIJ10 - Do NOT modify it yet!!!!!! **
 * Be sure to share your document with me (make me an owner) and disable others from creeping it. Lock down your security settngs
 * __Fill in the URL form__ so that I may link up your portfolio to our portfolio page
 * I will then link you to our class portfolio
 * Read "Controlling Pages" - Create and organize pages you thing will be used in this course
 * When you're finished setting up your portfolios, please complete and hand-in your drafting packages
 * Fri - Portfolio Design and setup
 * Has everyone created their Portfolio and sent me the link? Portfolio audit
 * Today we're creating the SHELL for our portfolios
 * See this link on setting up and controlling google sites
 * Splash Page - original ART (Don't just copy something from the web) - Academic work
 * Investigate Good and Bad design - read above
 * Create the links for the projects listed on Top LHS of this home page under hard and soft tech
 * Use numbers - see example site ||
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Feb 9-13 Portfolios

 * Mon - Portfolio Audits
 * Has everyone created their Portfolio and sent me the link?
 * ** Intro to Photoshop ** : Let's look at Photoshop
 * EXERCISE: Peer Portfolio Evaluation - what makes a Portfolio outstanding?
 * Check out the other portfolios and see what characteristics make the best portfolios.
 * Choose a set of portfolios from LAST SEMESTER in the gallery for Soft tech and see what makes the portfolio most appealing.
 * Tue - Happy face project
 * Create a page under softtech - Photoshop -called HappyFace
 * See this link and complete - Happyface - Post it to your web portfolio
 * Wed - Happy Face (Please Finish up) and your Banner
 * Assignment Audit - Happy Face - Design Principles - Let's see how everyone did!
 * Let's Start on the personal Logo project
 * Get your Studio photos shots for your personal logo - Be patient - We'll take the classes pictures and upload them to the handout folder - this may take 1/2 the period or so.
 * Thu - Photoshop Personal Logo
 * Learning through video - control the speed and content! Use your earbuds!
 * Complete the Personal Logo and post it to your portfolio - present it with ANECDOTES
 * Continue to get your Studio photos shots for your personal logo
 * Get your Studio photos shots for your personal logo - Be patient - We'll take the classes pictures and upload them to the handout folder - this may take 1/2 the period or so.
 * Fri - PD Day ||
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Feb 16-20 Photoshop & Portfolios
>> Use this to register for our class on schoology. PLEASE note your username and password (You may want to write these down as you will need them every time you logon.)
 * Mon - Family Day
 * Tue - Personal Logos - when complete post to your portfolio under a separate page (in Photoshop)
 * You may want to watch and listen to the tutorial on the wiki (Earbuds Please)
 * Wed - Complete the Personal Logo and post it to your portfolio - present it with ANECDOTES
 * This project should be posted on your portfolio under photgraphy or photoshop
 * Thu - Schoology
 * Copy this code: 9RQMC-CBZ8B
 * Use it to sign up for Schoology
 * ** Assignment Audit - Personal Logo - due by the end of the period **
 * Personal Logo check
 * Done? Create an avatar for Schoology using your personal logo
 * Fri - Portfolio Banner
 * Audit - Schoology & Personal Logos
 * Submit your personal logo using the SUBMIT upload tool in Schoology!
 * Read and complete the Banner Exercise
 * READ the Project decription and
 * Find your Photos in the appropriate HANDOUTS folder - Remember the AUP - Try to VIEW as THUMBNAIL to find your photo quickly
 * Create a "Photoshop" page to show the various versions of your banner you developed for this exercise! Your Banner should be done and added to your portfolio by the end of the period.
 * When your finished apply your new banner to your portfolio ||
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Feb 23-27 3D modelling

 * Monday - Banner Exercise
 * Read and complete the Banner Exercise
 * READ the Project decription and
 * Find your Photos in the appropriate HANDOUTS folder - Remember the AUP - Try to VIEW as THUMBNAIL to find your photo quickly
 * Create a "Photoshop" page to show the various versions of your banner you developed for this exercise! Your Banner should be done and added to your portfolio.
 * When you're finished apply your new banner to your portfolio
 * Tuesday - Finish Banner Exercise and Apply it to your portfolio
 * Audit - Schoology & Personal Logos
 * Submit your personal logo and Banner using the SUBMIT upload tool in Schoology!
 * Wednesday -
 * Begin learning Anim8or using the Saucer Model Project - Intro
 * Saucer Modelling: Materials and Lathing
 * Thursday - Portfolio Audits and Saucer Modelling Continued
 * Complete the Personal Logo and post it to your portfolio - present it with ANECDOTES
 * Your project isn't complete until submitted to your portfolios with Anecdotes
 * Saucer Modelling: Extruding the fins and creating Rayguns
 * As you work through the Anim8or process Please Read and follow the WIKI
 * Anim8or is complicated and it's easy to get stuck - follow step-by-step!
 * Friday - Build a Scene! Take a picture! Add LIGHTING
 * The ultimate aim of this project will be to insert your saucer into another Photo using Photoshop
 * Next week: You will present your Saucer on your portfolio
 * Read and prepare both solid and wireframe Blueprints
 * Build a Scene! Add LIGHTING Take a picture!
 * Post the above to your website portfolio! ||
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Mar 2-6 Photoshop Saucer

 * Mon - Photoshop Saucer Assignment
 * Continue the Photoshop Saucer assignment
 * After completing the Rayguns, Scene and Lighting, prepare Both a solid and wireframe Blueprint
 * Place a copy of this Blueprint on your portfolio under the "Photoshop" page
 * The Photoshop Saucer project will be due at the end of class on Friday Mar 6. Be sure to work efficiently during the week to finish!
 * Tue - Continue the Photoshop Saucer assignment
 * Watch the RESOLUTION - use the CROPPING TOOL if need be
 * Wed - Photoshop Saucer continued
 * Resolution Check
 * you need a WELL COMPOSED photo -
 * Continue the Photoshop Saucer assignment and submit it to the appropriate HANDINS folder when done.
 * Thu - Continue Photoshop Saucer
 * Fri - ** Photoshop Saucer is Due at the end of the Period **
 * Please submit to Schoology AND your portfolio!
 * Be sure to size it appropriately!
 * There are two projects: 3D Modelling and Photoshop saucer
 * For both - submit to Schoology AND post to your portfolio - Create your anecdotes on your web portfolio.
 * For 3D modelling Schoology requests the Anim8or file. For Photoshop saucer, submit a jpg. ||
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Mar 9-13 Animation

 * Mon - Finishing up both the 3D modelling and Photoshop saucer project
 * Please finish both the 3D Modelling and Photoshop Saucer Project
 * Submit both to Schoology and your Portfolio as described in class on Friday and above.
 * Tue - Animation Introduction
 * What is Animation? Check out this NFB short
 * Salad Fingers is done in Flash
 * Animation - general - Setup and Frame-by-Frame
 * Wed - More Flash
 * Getting started with Flash
 * Setting up
 * Frame-by-frame animation Try the bouncing ball exercise (first frame by frame then tween)
 * Thu - Working with Flash
 * Tweening, Symbols and Rendering
 * Bouncing Ball Exercise - Finish this up and post to your portfolio
 * Begin your Splash Page Animation
 * Fri - Splash Page Animation
 * Continue working on your splash page animation ||
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 * || ** March Break ** ||
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Mar 23-27 Finishing Animation

 * Mon - Finishing Flash
 * Typography
 * Continue working on your Splashpage and Bouncing Ball Exercises - Post to your portfolio under Flash Animation
 * Tue - Flash
 * Continue Splashpage animation
 * Finished with the Splashpage animation? Try Logo project or StarTrek
 * Wed - Flash
 * Splashpage - logo project - StarTrek Project
 * Thu - Flash
 * Splashpage - Logo project - StarTrek Project
 * Fri - Flash
 * Today is the Due date for the Splash Page Animation
 * Completed more than one Flash project? Post them to your portfolio under Animation - Flash ||
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Mar 30 - Ap3 Soft tech Summative

 * Mon - Summative
 * Introduce the SoftTech Summative Project
 * We'll be working on this all week- If you haven't finished Flash, do this first.
 * Pick a content area - Must include at least three of the technologies we've covered
 * When finished must be uploaded to both to Schoology and Your portfolio (under soft tech summative)
 * If in doubt about your topic, ask!
 * This Project is due Next Tuesday (After Easter weekend)
 * Tue - Summative
 * Wed - Summative
 * Thu - Summative
 * Fri - Good Friday
 * ** Happy Easter! ** ||
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Apr 7-10 Hard Tech

 * Mon - Easter
 * Tue - Finish up Soft tech Summative
 * Be sure to load your summative up on Schoology and your portfolio
 * Look over your entire Soft Tech Portion of the Portfolio
 * Check for dead links, incomplete projects etc.
 * Wed - ** Summative is Due at the end of the Period **
 * Please have your summative loaded up to your portfolio and submitted to schoology
 * Summative should have it's own page under soft tech
 * As marks are due, there can be NO extensions, NO exceptions.
 * Please see that ALL other projects for the term are loaded onto your portfolio as well!
 * Thu - Begin Hard Tech and wrap up Summative
 * Review @Orthographics
 * Exercises D2, D8, D3, D27, D29, M02
 * Thu - Begin Safety
 * Fri - Safety ||
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Apr 13-17 Safety & SketchUp

 * Mon - General Safety Test and Review
 * Make a folder in your directory for Hard Tech Projects
 * If you haven't done so, Mod your portfolio to reflect 3 hard tech projects;
 * Spin top, Picture frame and Treasure box
 * After review write the safety test in Schoology
 * Quick Sketchup Interface Tour - __//**Tutorial**//__
 * This exercise will get you started in Google Sketchup
 * Please complete Exercises 1-3
 * Tue - Band saw Safety and Demo
 * Safety test - Schoology
 * Continue working in Sketchup
 * Saving Sketchup files as an image - Tutorial
 * Wed - Drill Press Safety and Demo
 * Continue working in SketchUp
 * Thu - Mitre Saw Safety and Demo
 * Safety Test - Schoology
 * Continue working in SketchUp
 * Fri - Disc and Belt Sander Safety and demo
 * Safety test - Schoology
 * Continue working in Sketchup ||
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Apr 20 - 24 Safety, SketchUp and Plans

 * Mon - Sanders test and Scroll saw Demo
 * Tue - SketchUp and Finish ALL safety tests -
 * If you haven't got 85% on ALL tests, go back and study and rewrite the one's you've missed
 * Quick Sketchup Interface Tour - __//**Tutorial**//__
 * This exercise will get you started in Google Sketchup
 * Please complete Exercises 1-3
 * Wed - SketchUp - Exercise 4
 * Saving Sketchup files as an image - Tutorial
 * Also... grouping objects...making components and drawing to size...
 * Please complete exercise 4
 * When you finish exercise 4, save a copy as an image file and save it to your hard tech portfolio under Page "SketchUP"
 * Thu - Drawing From Scratch and Making Plans
 * For today let's make a complete plan for the object that you drew in Exercise 4
 * Use the plan template (download)
 * Use ALL the appropriate dimensions (enough to build) Use inches
 * Create the 3 standard orthographic views and add an isometric view
 * When done, add this "blueprint" to your exercise 4 page on your portfolio
 * This will be marked in schoology under "iso-ortho exercise"
 * Fri - Making plans (Spin Top and Exercise 4)
 * Finish exercise 4 (see above)
 * Start your Research for the Spin Top Project -
 * When complete, start your drawings (you need a complete plan with dimensions to build)
 * After the research and plans, create a procedure list ||
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Apr 27- May 1 Making Plans and Tops

 * Mon - Finish up Exercise 4 - Due today (see the wiki above)
 * If complete start Making Plans as discussed Fri
 * Tue - Making Plans
 * Research, Planning (Plans 2D graphic) and procedure list - All on Portfolio
 * Wed - Making Plans Continued
 * Thu - Continue making the plans - ** LAST DAY!! **
 * If everyone is ready (Plans complete, posted to portfolio, procedure list complete) we can start in the shop tomorrow. Save plans as JPG and post to portfolios.
 * You'll need a printed copy of your plans to take into the shop (Print to printer next door - 202)
 * Fri - Getting stock (115)
 * Got your wood?
 * Got your plans? ||
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May 4-8 Top Construction

 * Mon - Top Construction
 * Tue - Top Construction
 * Wed - Top Construction
 * Thu - I'm AWAY today - Grade 7 Cedarview Tech Day
 * Take this opportunity to create your Procedure List and upload it to your portfolio on the planning page
 * Consider which tool to use, in which order to use them and to accomplish what?
 * Make any changes to your drawings now that you have a better idea what you're actually building
 * Everyone should have a procedure page - "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there!"
 * Fri - Top Construction Continues ||
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May 11-15 Top Constrcution

 * Mon - Top Construction
 * Tue - UBUNTU - all morning
 * Wed - Top Construction
 * Thu - Last day Top Construction
 * Fri - Top SPIN OFF day
 * Let's test those tops ||
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May 18-22 Finish Tops

 * Mon - Victoria Day - off
 * Tue - Spin Top construction
 * Wed - Spin Top Construction -
 * Wrap up construction (final details)
 * Top testing
 * Thu - Top Testing and Portfolio Wrap up
 * Finish up those portfolios (add a photo of your finished top)
 * Fri - Begin Picture Frames
 * Your
 * Design on sketchup (decide first 4x6 or 5x7)
 * figure out what your dimensions will be and draw using the orthographic template ||
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May 25-29 Treasure Box Summatives

 * Mon - Design on Sketchup and Post to portfolio
 * Tue - Box Research and Design
 * Wed - Box Research and Design
 * Thu - Box Research and Design
 * Fri - Getting Stock and finishing designs
 * If all are ready (plans, portfolio, research, procedure, etc.) we can go get stock
 * You must know your thicknesses! ||