JMay+Agenda+2009-09

Mr. May's Class Agenda

 * [[image:Week19.gif]] || Week of

January 11th, 2010

 * Monday - SUMMATIVE Completion
 * Tuesday - SUMMATIVE Completion
 * Wednesday - SUMMATIVES Due
 * Thursday - SUMMATIVE Review
 * Friday - Exams Begin ||
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January 11th, 2010

 * Monday - SUMMATIVE Fabrication
 * Submit AutoCad sketches to HANDINS
 * Tuesday - SUMMATIVE Fabrication
 * Mind your TIMELINES
 * Wednesday - SUMMATIVE Website
 * Remember to gather IMAGES of your process
 * Digital Camera pics of fabrication
 * SCANS of your rough sketches
 * Thursday - SUMMATIVE Website
 * Friday - SUMMATIVE Reflection ||
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January 4th, 2010

 * Monday - SUMMATIVE BEGINS
 * Tuesday
 * Summative
 * Research
 * Planning (4 sketches plus one final; AutoCad Plans)
 * Wednesday
 * Summative
 * Planning
 * AutoCad Sketches
 * Thursday
 * No class - Proceed to Academic Followup
 * Friday
 * Fabrication can start if planning is complete ||
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December 14th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Optional Units - Choice
 * Websites - continue dressing up your class website in anticipation of it's inclusion in the summative project
 * Robotics - study the instructional videos in the TIJ1O handouts folder
 * Tuesday
 * Shortened Period
 * Robotics - Finish Build
 * Wednesday
 * Robotics - Program Tankbot
 * Can you get Tankbot to drive in a square path on the floor to match the big tile pattern?
 * Thursday
 * Robotics - Program Tankbot
 * Can the Tankbot be given a "virtual cage"?
 * The "BotCam" footage
 * Friday
 * Shortened Period - Holiday Video ||
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December 7th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Christmas Cards
 * Six Successful printouts
 * SAVING properly in Photoshop
 * Last chance to repair resolution - how many pixels is 4x6" @200 DPI? Submit your technically PERFECT Christmas Cards, and Santa's elves may leave you a present under the Christmas bulletin Board
 * Done - time to make some WEB graphics
 * Tuesday
 * Christmas Card Gallery Update & Audit
 * Google Webpages - create your own website
 * Wednesday
 * Google Webpages - Add galleries to your webpage
 * Thursday
 * Google Webpages -
 * Add images and videos to [|your webpage]
 * Take a look at other on the [|class website]
 * Add CONCLUSIONS from your Hard Tech projects using INSERT DOCUMENT
 * Friday
 * Complete Google Webpages project ||
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November 30th, 2009

 * Monday
 * LAST CHANCE to complete Saucer Attacks
 * Introduction to Photoshop - What is RESOLUTION
 * Tuesday
 * What are Layers?
 * Happy Faces - due by the end of the period
 * Wednesday
 * Audit Happy Face Submission
 * Complete Happy Faces
 * Instead of Business Cards - Start "Christmas Cards"
 * Thursday
 * Work period for Christmas Cards
 * Can you put yourself into the picture?
 * Friday
 * Christmas Cards due! Show and tell in the final 15 minutes ||
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November 23rd, 2009
>> Rendering an AVI Movie >> IF you have completed your animation - you may try editing it
 * Monday
 * Saucer Attack Animations
 * Adding a Texture Mapped Earth
 * Extending the Scene
 * STORYBOARDING
 * Tuesday
 * Using MULTICAMS - Creating different "Shots" with multiple cameras
 * Establishing Shot - Panning
 * WingCam Close Up (Child Objects)
 * Panning Shot
 * Wednesday
 * Saucer Attack - Adding believability with enhancements
 * Rotate Earth
 * WingCam Zoom, bob, weave
 * Animating Scale
 * Adding Dashboard Lights
 * Thursday
 * Saucer Attack - Editing in Adobe Premiere Elements 4
 * Adding SFX & Music
 * Adding Credits
 * Friday
 * Saucer Attack Animations are DUE by the end of class ||
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November 16th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Treasure Box completion
 * Complete the CONCLUSION for the Treasure Box exercise - be sure to SHARE your conclusion with the teacher
 * Anim8or if you're done
 * Tuesday
 * Treasure Box completion
 * Complete the CONCLUSION for the Treasure Box exercise - be sure to SHARE your conclusion with the teacher
 * Anim8or
 * Bouncing Ball - Elementary movement
 * [|Eggplant Tutorial] - Intro to advanced MODELING and INTERFACE
 * 1) How Modifiers behave
 * 2) Draw the modifier from STATIC end to DYNAMIC end
 * 3) Be sure the modifier "Fences In" any points that you want to modify "ABOVE" the fenced area
 * Wednesday
 * Complete the CONCLUSION for the Treasure Box exercise - be sure to SHARE your conclusion with the teacher
 * Anim8or
 * Bouncing Ball - Elementary movement
 * Thursday
 * Complete the CONCLUSION for the Treasure Box exercise - be sure to SHARE your conclusion with the teacher
 * Anim8or
 * Bouncing Ball - Elementary movement
 * Friday
 * Anim8or
 * Complete Bouncing Ball and submit the AN8 to the handins folder
 * Saucer Attack - Create a simple scene with your Flying Saucer, a planet and a panoramic starfield background
 * Try animating the CAMERA as well as the SAUCER ||
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November 9th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Treasure Box - Creating the lid
 * Tuesday
 * Complete the Treasure Box!
 * Wednesday
 * Remembrance Day
 * Thursday
 * Soft work on Treasure Boxes - no power tools
 * Begin conclusion / reflection on Treasure Boxes
 * Review Anim8or - we will go back into animation next week!
 * Friday
 * No School! PD Day ||
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November 2nd, 2009

 * Monday
 * Audit of 3D Saucer Models
 * Complete Anim8or Flying Saucers
 * Treasure Box Fabrication
 * Tuesday
 * Audit of 3D Saucer Models
 * Treasure Box Fabrication
 * Wednesday
 * //Take your parents to work day//
 * Thursday
 * Treasure Box Fabrication
 * Getting jiggy with the 45 degree cut
 * Friday
 * Refine your 45's with the disc sander
 * Be sure the sides match up - dry fit
 * Cut your floor piece
 * Assemble with Carpenter's Glue
 * Submit Treasure Boxes - next week? ||
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October 26th, 2009
> Mr May is away today - hopefully you're reading this from the computers in room 202. Here's what you need to do today:
 * Monday
 * Evaluation of Yo Yo's
 * Planning & Research
 * Fabrication
 * Reflection & Conclusions
 * Treasure Box
 * Tuesday
 * Begin ANIM8OR 3D Modelling
 * Click on the link and complete the first two pages of the Anim8or Flying Saucer tutorial
 * You can download a copy of the Anim8or program right to your H: drive, or use the copy on the MAY - APPLICATIONS handout folder
 * READ CAREFULLY - and do your best!
 * Wednesday
 * Anim8or - fine tuning and solving problems
 * Lathing Rockets
 * Flipping Normals
 * Thursday
 * Continue with Anim8or and add fins and ray guns
 * Why we name colours
 * Friday
 * Continue with Anim8or and create Scenes
 * Submit Saucers to HANDINS folder ||
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October 19th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Yo Yo Roundup
 * Hand in your Final Product
 * Complete the Design Process for the Yo-yo - Log into your GoogleDoc Account and make a new document
 * ** 7. Conclusion / hand-in project **
 * 1) // Write up a report about the project. It should include; //
 * 2) Your successes
 * 3) Your problems
 * 4) What you would do differently
 * 5) What you have learned
 * 6) What advice would you give someone that is about to start the same project.
 * 7) Submit the document by SHARING it with your teacher
 * AutoCad in class demo:
 * Template Standards for AutoCad Projects
 * Using Guidelines
 * Treasure Box
 * Begin the Design Process for the Treasure Box project
 * Tuesday
 * Audit of Yesterday's Submissions
 * Treasure Box Plans - Submit by the end of the period
 * Wednesday
 * Audit of Yesterday's Submissions
 * The Router Table
 * Treasure Box Plans - Dimension changes based on stock
 * 24" length x 3 3/4" x 5/8"
 * Thursday
 * Remembrance Day Permission Forms Due
 * Router Table Safety Document
 * Hand in Treasure Box Plan - measure stock
 * Friday
 * Shortened period
 * Dressing Lumber - a tour of the main workshop
 * Table Saw to rough cut
 * Planer to size thickness and create parallel faces
 * Mitre Saw to rough cut length
 * Jointer to square one edge to the faces
 * Table saw to
 * square the last edge and fine cut the depth of the stock
 * create a groove for the "floor" panel ||
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October 12th, 2009

 * Monday - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
 * Tuesday
 * Shop Work - Yo-Yo Completion
 * Design Insights from those completed
 * Use the scroll saw for FINISHING cuts
 * Bandsaw is better - but demands more skill and CARE
 * Don't make relief cuts TOO deep or they mar the final product
 * To make the yoyo fly more smoothly
 * Sand the INSIDE of the flywheel so the string doesn't catch
 * Keep the gap less than 1/4 inch - more like 1/ inch
 * Keep the flywheel BIG and keep BULK around the outside edge
 * Repair a bad circular cut using the DISC SANDER and JIG
 * Use of a "JIG"
 * A "Jig" is a fabricated guide to help you perform more accurate cuts, drilling or disc sanding - kind of like a stencil, but it can be more flexible.
 * Wednesday
 * Yo-Yo
 * Smoothing and Beveling using the Jig
 * Thursday
 * Complete the Yo-Yo
 * Debriefing Report on the Yo-Yo: Create a GoogleDoc
 * Step by Step instructions on the process you used and decisions you made
 * Observations of what worked well, and what you would like to have done differently
 * Advice for next semester's students
 * SHARE the GoogleDoc with your instructor for assessment
 * Friday
 * Treasure Box Planning
 * AUTOCAD planning
 * Design Process ||
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October 5th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Material Fee Update
 * Prepare Yo-Yo plans for marks
 * Submit to Handin folder with appropriate names
 * Print and show to teacher
 * Yo-Yo manufacturing
 * Find group
 * Pencil in cut lines
 * Rough Cuts using bandsaw
 * Relief Cuts using the bandsaw
 * Scroll Cuts
 * Tuesday - Mr May is away**:**
 * **Final outstanding Material Fees will be collected tomorrow (Weds)**
 * **If not done, complete and hand in your Yo-Yo plans**
 * **AutoCad Challenge - Design a "Treasure Chest "**
 * **Pursue the steps in the Design Process to come up with a design**
 * **Consult the Treasure Box Reference Images to see what's expected**
 * **Find an efficient design based on our resources, and use AutoCad to illustrate it from the top, front and right angles**
 * **When complete - drag a COPY of your plan to the appropriate hand in folder (be sure toname it appropriately FIRST)**
 * **Wednesday**
 * **Shop work - Yo-Yo**
 * **Thursday**
 * **Shop work - Yo-Yo**
 * **Friday**
 * **PA Day - no classes** ||
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September 28th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Class Material fees
 * Complete the in-class AutoCad Tutorial
 * Done?
 * Try using Autocad to design a Yo-Yo from 3 views
 * Try creating a rough floorplan of your home
 * Hands On shop work
 * Tuesday
 * Yo Yo Project?
 * Complete the in-class AutoCad Tutorial
 * Done?
 * Try using Autocad to design a Yo-Yo from 3 views
 * Try creating a rough floorplan of your home
 * Hands On shop work
 * Wednesday
 * Complete the in-class AutoCad Tutorial
 * Yo Yo Project?
 * Use the DESIGN PROCESS
 * Hands On training
 * Thursday
 * Complete the in-class AutoCad Tutorial
 * Yo Yo Project?
 * Use the DESIGN PROCESS
 * Friday
 * Yo Yo Project?
 * Use the DESIGN PROCESS
 * Printing from AutoCad
 * Big School Photo ||
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September 21st, 2009

 * Monday
 * Speedtest results update
 * Complete D-3 & D-5
 * AutoCad Intro
 * HOMEWORK: COmplete the Drafting Package through F1 & F3 - we willcheck it in tomorrow's class
 * Tuesday
 * Take up Drafting Packages questions for page D29, D3a, D5a, D8, F1a,
 * HOMEWORK: Complete D3b, D5b, F1b, F3 for submission tomorrow
 * Wednesday
 * Speedtest results update
 * Hand in your Drafting Packages for marks
 * Continue the AutoCad Tutorial
 * Thursday
 * Speedtest results update
 * Continue the AutoCad Tutorial
 * HOMEWORK:
 * Class Material fees - please bring in a cheque by Monday's class
 * Complete the home Speedtest exercise by tomorrow's class
 * Friday
 * Class Material fees - please bring in a cheque by Monday's class
 * Complete the in-class AutoCad Tutorial ||
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September 14th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Safety Test Review
 * Safety Test
 * Google App Logins
 * Computer Memory
 * Tuesday
 * Computer Memory & GoogleDoc exercise
 * Imperial vs Metric Systems
 * Measurement and Drafting exercise
 * Wednesday
 * Take up the Safety Test
 * Take up the Drafting Package pg1
 * Work on page2 of the Drafting Package
 * Thursday
 * Happy Birthday Mike!
 * Test back - re-write tomorrow
 * Safety Passport updated and posted
 * Take up Drafting Package pg2
 * Friday
 * Safety Test #2 - Study - The notes are posted on our Tool & Safety page
 * Complete and check Drafting Package page D-29
 * Complete D-3 & D-5 ||
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September 7th, 2009

 * Monday
 * Holiday
 * Tuesday
 * Hand Tools
 * Disc Sander Notes (#4)
 * Computer Intro - Input, Storage, Processing, Output
 * Read Computer Hardware, Software


 * Wednesday
 * **Complete the Computer Assignment - "About Me"**
 * **Disc Sander Notes (#4)**
 * **Practical**


 * Thursday
 * **Drill Press Safety (#5)**
 * **Cordless Drill Safety Notes (#6)**
 * **Belt Sander Safety Notes (#7)**
 * **Scroll Saw Practical**


 * Friday
 * **Written Safety Test:**
 * **Glue Gun, Band Saw, Scroll Saw, Drill Press, Cordless Drill, Belt Sander** ||
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September 1st, 2009
Welcome & Course Overview Lab Rules Band Saw Notes (#2)
 * Monday
 * No Classes
 * Tuesday, Sept 1 2009
 * Wednesday Sept 2 2009
 * Homework - read from home - make note of specific unsual rules
 * Shop Safety - Clothing
 * Course requirements:
 * UserID and Password
 * Binder, Pen and Paper
 * 2GB Thumbdrive
 * Earbud headphones
 * GLUE GUN Safety notes (#1)
 * TEST next Friday**
 * **Take notes on paper - specifically**
 * **Computer Basics**
 * **Thursday Sept 3 2009**
 * Computer Basics
 * Server Exercise
 * Friday Sept 4 2009
 * Scroll Saw (#3)**
 * **Band Saw Quiz (Timbits)**
 * **Continue Server Exercise** ||
 * || * Monday
 * Tuesday
 * Wednesday
 * Thursday
 * Friday ||