Saturday, October 9, 2010
Homecoming day and 3rd class session
This morning, Oct 9, 2010, I seen red shirt,red pants,red hats,red body parts and red hair, all evidence of the badge homecoming game day here at Madison, Wisconsin. While that was going on outside, inside the computer science building it's the 2014 freshmen vs Photoshop. The 2010 freshmen stepped up to their computers with their game face on ready to face Photoshop in the Mac computers. The 2014 freshmen has bright minds and a can-do attitude on their side while Photoshop has a challenge of composition on its side. The freshmen need to figure out Photoshop's composition by using the tools and layers to take control of game ball (images). In order to make it even on both sides Chris allows the 2014 freshmen to take images (gameball) of themselves or any other images they wanted of the hallway and stairs. After the 2010 freshmen had their images, it was game time. Both sides were reminded of the rules of the thirds and the game was underway. The 2014 freshmen team started out the game by eliminating the background of their own image then replaced it with another background. It was half time when brake time came around and Photoshop had time to catch it's breath and get reorganized. But the freshmen had a new plan of action using more tools to create some awesome images (gameball) actions that Photoshop had not seen before and by the time the class was over the score was 2010 freshmen 20 and photoshop 10. The score would have been higher but the 2014 freshmen had to take time for their blog and that's where the 2014 freshmen shares some of their secrets since most of them were not able finish they can't tell all of their secrets but they will have time later. That will be another game day. :)
Ai III: A Different Perspective, Anyone?
The day started off with the first small class of the year - four people were missing. Nevertheless, those who did show up were quite tentative to Marc today. Marc lead the beginning of the class with a lesson on gradient mesh.
Prior to this lesson, Roxy was the only one who had learned anything about gradient... Her, what Cristina calls, "Aurora Borealis" image incorporated the gradient star, shown below.
Next, Marc covered gradients with the blend tool and gradient mesh. After the gradients, Cristina ran through a review of the Rule of Thirds and touched base with using hues/the same color palette. After running through the review, the perspective tool was introduced to the class.
When asked if the students had done anything like this before in art class, many nodded in confirmation, so like Brianna stated, "It will just be easier!"
With that said, the students were let loose to explore Illustrator on their own, with the guidance of the instructors, of course. As they started their cities, Alejandra pouted and exclaimed, "If I failed in art class, I'm going to obviously fail at this!" ... To solve this problem, Cristina walked her around the room like the Ghost of Illustrator's Present. As she walked around to get a sense of what a city would look like, she began to see what the grids were about, "Ohh, the grids make sense now..."
As the students were working, Kevin walks into the class. He had missed everything that was taught today, but rest assure, Marc brought him back up to speed as fast as he could, which was pretty quick.
After a couple of minutes, the students were on break.
During this time, Chou set up what was needed to continue today's lesson. He introduced the students to a new love for the internet: things you can get for free!
Before letting the students loose again, Chou showed them how to install brushes.
As some students spent time on finding brushes, others went ahead and completed their cities.
Prior to this lesson, Roxy was the only one who had learned anything about gradient... Her, what Cristina calls, "Aurora Borealis" image incorporated the gradient star, shown below.
Next, Marc covered gradients with the blend tool and gradient mesh. After the gradients, Cristina ran through a review of the Rule of Thirds and touched base with using hues/the same color palette. After running through the review, the perspective tool was introduced to the class.When asked if the students had done anything like this before in art class, many nodded in confirmation, so like Brianna stated, "It will just be easier!"
With that said, the students were let loose to explore Illustrator on their own, with the guidance of the instructors, of course. As they started their cities, Alejandra pouted and exclaimed, "If I failed in art class, I'm going to obviously fail at this!" ... To solve this problem, Cristina walked her around the room like the Ghost of Illustrator's Present. As she walked around to get a sense of what a city would look like, she began to see what the grids were about, "Ohh, the grids make sense now..."
As the students were working, Kevin walks into the class. He had missed everything that was taught today, but rest assure, Marc brought him back up to speed as fast as he could, which was pretty quick.
After a couple of minutes, the students were on break.
During this time, Chou set up what was needed to continue today's lesson. He introduced the students to a new love for the internet: things you can get for free!
Before letting the students loose again, Chou showed them how to install brushes.
As some students spent time on finding brushes, others went ahead and completed their cities.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
2nd session of Fall 2010
Today the Badgers are at home playing against Austin Peay and the day is traditional feeling like a fall football day. The tail gaters are cooking up some breakfast outside with their grills. For the student’s 2nd session of the fall they received a Photoshop breakfast from Chris. Chris starts out with Lit Wayne image from last class session and they added a tattoo to Lit Wayne’s body and finished up removing the tats he already has. Then Chris topped off the Photoshop eggs with a photography equivalent lesson so that the students know they have some control over the outcome of an image before a picture is taken by a camera. The student’s coffee was the sweet smell of a quick quiz which they performed well in. The toast of the day was their posting of the image they modified and the original image with a few comments. Their bacon was the idea of taking pictures using their own digital camera. My omelet will be seeing the images they produce through their camera to see what they see.
Ai II: A Colorful Day in Illustrator
The day started off with a foot in color theory... which most of the students already had previous knowledge about. As the class went through The Basics of Color Theory slides, it was pointed out that the "complementary" colors mean they are compatible with each other, like green and red whereas "complimentary" colors mean... you're liking something, and that something is... color? -- Just a little spell check in case the students decide to use this in their blog today ;)
Anyways, to get back to the main lesson in class, the color theory went -for the most part- pretty okay. The students were lost when it was time to talk about RGB -- which isn't exactly the primary colors that we had told them just earlier in the slide -- RYB. But with physics, light's primary colors and CYMK were explained... but left the students a little confused. But rest assure! Chou informed the students that "it will get easier as we keep doing this" which led to the next portion of the day: Spiderman! Nah, it's live paint and live trace =)
As Chou began his lesson plan, he explained the difference between rastor and vector images... Which led to Chou bringing an image into Illustrator to live trace it (bitmaps into vectors) and taking it back old school, Chou explained how live paint is just like the programs that they used in elementary school...
After Live Trace and Paint was over and done with, Chou grabbed the pen tool and started tracing... which looked pretty easy, but from my experience, it's not! Nevertheless, now the students know how to bring bitmaps into Illustrator and vectorize it! And if not vectorization... They now know how to manually trace things.
After the lecture, the students were let loose to trace and paint their own cartoon images.
But... wait! What about colored bitmaps?!
Rest assure, tracing options are now explained: Simple trace is just for black and white. Color 6 limits the number of colors Illustrator can produce when "tracing."
Ok. Now back to the student's projects.
As the students spent time on their seasons, they focused on the background a lot more so than the last year's group did. The quickness of finding the symbols and making backgrounds seemed to be easier for the students now. No one had questions about how to add symbols and live trace and paint came easy for them so everything seems to be on the right path!
The rest of the class consisted of the students saved their work, discovered the wall, did their own thing, and headed out to lunch.
Anyways, to get back to the main lesson in class, the color theory went -for the most part- pretty okay. The students were lost when it was time to talk about RGB -- which isn't exactly the primary colors that we had told them just earlier in the slide -- RYB. But with physics, light's primary colors and CYMK were explained... but left the students a little confused. But rest assure! Chou informed the students that "it will get easier as we keep doing this" which led to the next portion of the day: Spiderman! Nah, it's live paint and live trace =)
As Chou began his lesson plan, he explained the difference between rastor and vector images... Which led to Chou bringing an image into Illustrator to live trace it (bitmaps into vectors) and taking it back old school, Chou explained how live paint is just like the programs that they used in elementary school...
After Live Trace and Paint was over and done with, Chou grabbed the pen tool and started tracing... which looked pretty easy, but from my experience, it's not! Nevertheless, now the students know how to bring bitmaps into Illustrator and vectorize it! And if not vectorization... They now know how to manually trace things.
After the lecture, the students were let loose to trace and paint their own cartoon images.
But... wait! What about colored bitmaps?!
Rest assure, tracing options are now explained: Simple trace is just for black and white. Color 6 limits the number of colors Illustrator can produce when "tracing."
Ok. Now back to the student's projects.
As the students spent time on their seasons, they focused on the background a lot more so than the last year's group did. The quickness of finding the symbols and making backgrounds seemed to be easier for the students now. No one had questions about how to add symbols and live trace and paint came easy for them so everything seems to be on the right path!
The rest of the class consisted of the students saved their work, discovered the wall, did their own thing, and headed out to lunch.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
First of class Fall of 2010
During the time America was remembering the 9/11 attack on the twin towers the day was a little wet in Madison but the students attending their first ITA fall class seemed be excited. After AJ’s introduction of their schedule for the fall and spring the student were divided into lab or homeroom.
Chris led the freshmen pack into the world of Photoshop by giving them a quick review from summer camp’s Photoshop class. To start the class off they were questioned about what they knew about Photoshop and if any of them used Photoshop since the summer. It was nice to see many of class were making use of their new knowledge in Photoshop outside of class. Also, I notice the lack of assistance needed by the majority of students and I think I can hazard a guess that they remembered or used it quite bit from the summer camp.
The surprise of the day was when the freshmen received their printers during class but the bigger surprise came to them when they realized they had to haul it all day. Poor thangs, but it seem to only fuel their excitement about ITA and enforced the program’s seriousness about their success in education.
Chris led the freshmen pack into the world of Photoshop by giving them a quick review from summer camp’s Photoshop class. To start the class off they were questioned about what they knew about Photoshop and if any of them used Photoshop since the summer. It was nice to see many of class were making use of their new knowledge in Photoshop outside of class. Also, I notice the lack of assistance needed by the majority of students and I think I can hazard a guess that they remembered or used it quite bit from the summer camp.
The surprise of the day was when the freshmen received their printers during class but the bigger surprise came to them when they realized they had to haul it all day. Poor thangs, but it seem to only fuel their excitement about ITA and enforced the program’s seriousness about their success in education.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Switching rooms for hardware
Mon, Aug 9, 2010
The class had hands on experience with dismantling and assembling the hardware components of a computer in room B109. Now, we're in room B207 with AJ revealing the function of each hardware starting with the power, how other hardware communicate and the versatility of a computer through the use of the motherboard. The analogy AJ is using to describe the function of a computer is the central nervous system of humans. Such as, the spinal cord connects to the brain. The revelation from AJ, he stated that rats can laugh if a person tickles it!! That one came from left field :O
After the rat thingy, AJ informed the students about the different regions of the motherboard. Such as, the low level control (BIOS), north bridge, processor socket, RAM, South bridge, Serial ATA for hard drives and PCI controller Interface, and IDE for disk drives. Oooohh! Bus is another word for a connection.
How would you describe the main purpose of the motherboard? versatility - hard drive can run different programs at the same time. Like a house, say a person wants to view the tv but everyone in the house is watching it in the living room. So, that lone person can take the equipment to the basement and plug in the components to an outlet and watch a tube, there we have it.....versatility.
Why do computer have to prioritize processes? Take keyboard for instance, it is highly prioritize because if people are able to type on the keyboard of a computer while the computer process other programs, it makes people happy since they don't have to wait to keep working.
The north bridge has direct access to the CPU. What else is connected to the motherboard on a computers. Everything! :)
Cristina continues the lecture with the SATA drives, optical drive, CPU, PCI slots, Graphics card. Then it was right to the mighty compatibility exercise! And she was not playing cause she wanted all of to the student to pass the test for tomorrow, also, she reminded the class to open the attachment to her emails. Because students have not been opening their attachments to the emails.
Now, we're back in room B109 and Ann has the students go over a quick review game of jeopardy on the power point program before their Permit Road Test. All the students have their thinking caps on while taking the test.
The class had hands on experience with dismantling and assembling the hardware components of a computer in room B109. Now, we're in room B207 with AJ revealing the function of each hardware starting with the power, how other hardware communicate and the versatility of a computer through the use of the motherboard. The analogy AJ is using to describe the function of a computer is the central nervous system of humans. Such as, the spinal cord connects to the brain. The revelation from AJ, he stated that rats can laugh if a person tickles it!! That one came from left field :O
After the rat thingy, AJ informed the students about the different regions of the motherboard. Such as, the low level control (BIOS), north bridge, processor socket, RAM, South bridge, Serial ATA for hard drives and PCI controller Interface, and IDE for disk drives. Oooohh! Bus is another word for a connection.
How would you describe the main purpose of the motherboard? versatility - hard drive can run different programs at the same time. Like a house, say a person wants to view the tv but everyone in the house is watching it in the living room. So, that lone person can take the equipment to the basement and plug in the components to an outlet and watch a tube, there we have it.....versatility.
Why do computer have to prioritize processes? Take keyboard for instance, it is highly prioritize because if people are able to type on the keyboard of a computer while the computer process other programs, it makes people happy since they don't have to wait to keep working.
The north bridge has direct access to the CPU. What else is connected to the motherboard on a computers. Everything! :)
Cristina continues the lecture with the SATA drives, optical drive, CPU, PCI slots, Graphics card. Then it was right to the mighty compatibility exercise! And she was not playing cause she wanted all of to the student to pass the test for tomorrow, also, she reminded the class to open the attachment to her emails. Because students have not been opening their attachments to the emails.
Now, we're back in room B109 and Ann has the students go over a quick review game of jeopardy on the power point program before their Permit Road Test. All the students have their thinking caps on while taking the test.
Many Uses of Computers: Hardware
The day begins! Cristina introduced the class to the basic outline for the day and then invited Elizabeth to introduce herself. AJ went around and had each of the students introduce themselves and then zoomed off into a lesson on the Motherboard and hardware.
AJ likened the motherboard system to both the human nervous system and city structure. A memorable moment was when AJ explained one difference between the nervous system and a computer, in that a computer won't know when something's wrong with it, it will just keep working and trying to make it work. He said there were certain viruses once that would disable the fan on a computer, so the computer would keep working, working, working without a fan . . . and eventually it would start on fire! Josh in the back joked about how crazy it would be if we just exploded when we got sick . . . he also kept insisting his name was "Thorax the Impaler" or "Doom".
Soon followed a fun discussion - why would someone create a virus? We talked about people using it for advertising and stealing personal files, what a trojan horse is . . . Viruses, viruses, viruses! It was great :)
After introducing a comparative computer parts exercise and then explaining that she would send further information this evening in powerpoint form.
After a very short break, the students found themselves in B109 for an hour of taking apart computers! Maddie covered:
North Bridge:
- CPU
- RAM
- the video card (kind of a part of the North Bridge)
South Bridge:
- The optical drive
- The hard drive
- SATA cords
- IDE cords
- The floppy drive
- the power source
- the heat sink
Great job Maddie! That's a lot to cover! Everyone had fun trying to figure out how the pieces came out of their plastic/metal racks and how to put them back in. Yeah! By tomorrow everyone will be a pro and pass with flying colors on their permit test
After returning to their own room, Cristina did an optional review of powerpoint during break (clever use of time Cristina!) Then AJ introduced the permit test and everyone took it for the last half hour of class, when they were finished writing their blogs. Yeah hardware day!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Meeting B109 with Cake!
The class began with an introduction of B109's intern, Keke (even though she's been in their classroom for the past couple of days, some of the students didn't know her name yet), so it was a good refresher for the B109 class.
After Cristina's introduction, Chou stated his name ... about three times.. and as he was doing this, Ian raises his hands, gets called on, and says, "Can I call you Chou-baka?"
"I get that a lot, so sure," replied Chou.
After a moment of silence, Cristina stated, "You know, in Japanese 'baka' means 'idiot.'"
And the class burst with an "ahhh-I-see" face and a little laughter.
After Chou, came AJ's introduction which started with an, "I watch Star Wars all the time."
Next came, Rodney, who the students knew pretty well already.
When the instructors were done, the students re-introduced themselves and then AJ officially began the day's lesson... Yes, baking cake again!
Like yesterday's blog for B207, AJ went through the PowerPoint and worksheets.
Meanwhile...
After Cristina's introduction, Chou stated his name ... about three times.. and as he was doing this, Ian raises his hands, gets called on, and says, "Can I call you Chou-baka?"
"I get that a lot, so sure," replied Chou.
After a moment of silence, Cristina stated, "You know, in Japanese 'baka' means 'idiot.'"
And the class burst with an "ahhh-I-see" face and a little laughter.
After Chou, came AJ's introduction which started with an, "I watch Star Wars all the time."
Next came, Rodney, who the students knew pretty well already.
When the instructors were done, the students re-introduced themselves and then AJ officially began the day's lesson... Yes, baking cake again!
Like yesterday's blog for B207, AJ went through the PowerPoint and worksheets.
Meanwhile...
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As Keke was working silently on her blog post, Ann comes knocking at the door asking for Keke's assistance. Ann looks at Cristina and asks, "Is Maddie with Michelle all afternoon because we're going to be needing an intern." With a confused look, Cristina replied, "Shes.. supposed to be with you." Ann didn't see Maddie that afternoon, but about 10 minutes later, Keke comes knocking at B109 with a relieved look, "She was with Michelle."
The lost Maddie had bumped into Michelle who decided to check up on her internship!
Thanks Michelle for clearing things up down in the labs! We were worried that Maddie had disappeared!!
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As Keke was working silently on her blog post, Ann comes knocking at the door asking for Keke's assistance. Ann looks at Cristina and asks, "Is Maddie with Michelle all afternoon because we're going to be needing an intern." With a confused look, Cristina replied, "Shes.. supposed to be with you." Ann didn't see Maddie that afternoon, but about 10 minutes later, Keke comes knocking at B109 with a relieved look, "She was with Michelle."
The lost Maddie had bumped into Michelle who decided to check up on her internship!
Thanks Michelle for clearing things up down in the labs! We were worried that Maddie had disappeared!!
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As the instructors and interns were falling into place, the students in B109 began working on their worksheets... silently.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Day 3: Baking Cake? At ITA?
AJ started the class with each student playing something from Youtube... simultaneously~!
He stated, "It was interesting to see what all of you guys were playing all at once," or something of that sort =)
Next, they had a moment of silence...
Soon after this, AJ began answering various questions about the past few days.
Most of these questions regarded Blogger... how to organize their blogs... how to upload images to their blogs, and just... where is the picture of me?!
After he answered all of the questions, AJ started making cake.
In a web site, the recipe is the website, the codes are what you follow, and the finished cake product? That's your actual website!
AJ then proceeded to "dip [his] little pinky" into HTML codes with the students.
Somewhere along the line, Josh stated that, you need more [of something], but AJ cuts in, "Just one." Nevertheless, Josh stuck to his statement just to hear, "Just. One." From AJ once again!
"You just need one.... You'll see in a bit" Said AJ as he moved through his lesson plan.
As AJ went through his PowerPoint, he asked the students to point out attributes, tags, properties, and values.
The students moved onto doing "the easiest but most helpful" worksheet! ... As the instructors went around the room to see how they were doing the worksheet, the students seemed... to think they were doing it wrong! Most likely because it really was an easy worksheet! =)
Even as they were doing it perfectly right, there was something in their mind (you could see it on their face) that told them that they weren't... As instructors walked around, the student would stop and look up for a confirmation. They were indeed confirmed.
They (Chou and AJ, who AJ stated that, "combined, we have been teaching web design for over 15 years!") even had the students stare at the tags for ... about 10 seconds. Just to get it stuck in their heads.
As AJ was going through the PowerPoint, he said, "Raise your hand if you think this is totally boring," and Sterling's hand went up.. without hesitation. After a "heh," AJ told Sterling to stand up for the next slide.
After AJ finished explaining HTML, he moved onto CSS.
As AJ explained, "Control Vs. Reach," he moved one person side to side, this was lots of control, less reach. Then he moved the whole first row, this was internal: less control, more reach. Finally, he moved the whole class side to side (external: way less control, far more reach!).
AJ's finishing sentence as he moved on was, "You guys are all web pages and this whole room is the site."
When it was time to work with links, AJ changed his first link, "Batman 1" to black. As he did this, he said, "Batman is black," which lead to a bunch of laughter bursting in the room. Vicky goes, "that's what I was thinking too!" As Kursat said, "What? I don't get it...."
Like Kursat, AJ had stated that he didn't get it either... or rather, he didn't think it was as funny as the students thought it was!
[The whole scene in general was just funny i.e. everyone's laughter and expressions as the scene unfolded.]
AJ then went through his Thailand website and when a picture of him pop up, the students stated..."You had that much hair?!" Which was pretty funny because everyone else who knew AJ would've probably said, "Where did your hair go?!"
Anyways, as he got to the "Puppet's Page" it was missing! AJ told them that they were going to make it for him!
There were many responses from the audience... "Noo.." came right out of Vicky's mouth as soon as AJ reminded them they were going to make a webpage!!
The day ended smoothly with all of the students working on either the Thailand website, or making their own site.
He stated, "It was interesting to see what all of you guys were playing all at once," or something of that sort =)
Next, they had a moment of silence...
Soon after this, AJ began answering various questions about the past few days.
Most of these questions regarded Blogger... how to organize their blogs... how to upload images to their blogs, and just... where is the picture of me?!
After he answered all of the questions, AJ started making cake.
In a web site, the recipe is the website, the codes are what you follow, and the finished cake product? That's your actual website!
AJ then proceeded to "dip [his] little pinky" into HTML codes with the students.
Somewhere along the line, Josh stated that, you need more [of something], but AJ cuts in, "Just one." Nevertheless, Josh stuck to his statement just to hear, "Just. One." From AJ once again!
"You just need one.... You'll see in a bit" Said AJ as he moved through his lesson plan.
As AJ went through his PowerPoint, he asked the students to point out attributes, tags, properties, and values.
The students moved onto doing "the easiest but most helpful" worksheet! ... As the instructors went around the room to see how they were doing the worksheet, the students seemed... to think they were doing it wrong! Most likely because it really was an easy worksheet! =)
Even as they were doing it perfectly right, there was something in their mind (you could see it on their face) that told them that they weren't... As instructors walked around, the student would stop and look up for a confirmation. They were indeed confirmed.
They (Chou and AJ, who AJ stated that, "combined, we have been teaching web design for over 15 years!") even had the students stare at the tags for ... about 10 seconds. Just to get it stuck in their heads.
As AJ was going through the PowerPoint, he said, "Raise your hand if you think this is totally boring," and Sterling's hand went up.. without hesitation. After a "heh," AJ told Sterling to stand up for the next slide.
After AJ finished explaining HTML, he moved onto CSS.
As AJ explained, "Control Vs. Reach," he moved one person side to side, this was lots of control, less reach. Then he moved the whole first row, this was internal: less control, more reach. Finally, he moved the whole class side to side (external: way less control, far more reach!).
AJ's finishing sentence as he moved on was, "You guys are all web pages and this whole room is the site."
When it was time to work with links, AJ changed his first link, "Batman 1" to black. As he did this, he said, "Batman is black," which lead to a bunch of laughter bursting in the room. Vicky goes, "that's what I was thinking too!" As Kursat said, "What? I don't get it...."
Like Kursat, AJ had stated that he didn't get it either... or rather, he didn't think it was as funny as the students thought it was!
[The whole scene in general was just funny i.e. everyone's laughter and expressions as the scene unfolded.]
AJ then went through his Thailand website and when a picture of him pop up, the students stated..."You had that much hair?!" Which was pretty funny because everyone else who knew AJ would've probably said, "Where did your hair go?!"
Anyways, as he got to the "Puppet's Page" it was missing! AJ told them that they were going to make it for him!
There were many responses from the audience... "Noo.." came right out of Vicky's mouth as soon as AJ reminded them they were going to make a webpage!!
The day ended smoothly with all of the students working on either the Thailand website, or making their own site.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Day 2: Room of Silence
All of the students came to class at 12:30pm. They went to work on the To-Do-List yesterday finishing their Google Presentation, adding labs on their G-mails etc. Ann started off the day going over the Learn@UW Quiz. There are still five students that do not have access to Learn@UW, their names are listed on the Google Doc.
Some surprising results from the quiz:
* All of the students have PCs
* Only one student didn't check their e-mail yesterday
* The students did not remember Cristina or Chou
Afterwards, Chris began the introduced the Photoshop activity. The students were all engaged in looking at the Photoshop examples. A part of the reason the students was engage was because of Chris enthusiasm and love for Flash.n After going over the main slides on the Photoshop and Illustrator PowerPoint, he went over the To-Do-List PowerPoint. Chris went through every part of the to-do-list and then showed how to use the tools in Photoshop. The entire instruction took about 22 minutes. The students then had 18 minutes to work. ** Note for next year, shorten the lecture and allow them to work longer ** When the students were working, about 6-7 students (Aaron, Dale, Roxana, Tatiana, and Josh) had issues with using the rectangle tool to fix the board. They couldn't remember the steps to use the rectangle marquee, click the move tool, click alt, then move the selection. Once that problem was solved, at the end of 15 minutes, the students were able to work independently.
After break, Chou introduced the illustrator activity. From 2:10 - 2:25 he went through the examples on the PowerPoint slide and then demonstrated how to make one penguin. Some concepts that Chou illustrated while doing this:
* Grouping
* Transform
* Symbols
* Send to Back
* Clicking the space bar to move the stage
* Tools and triangle at the end to show other tools
* Creating a new symbol
After the students immediately started clicking and dragging body parts to the screen. All of the students were working in silence for Illustrator. It was very eerie because the class was so silent. A lot of the students went beyond what Chou taught them. For instance, both Ian and Aaron drew their own symbols. Natalie did her own artistic filters. The total time the students had to work was about 40 minutes.
During the 20 minutes of free work time, 9 people worked on the PacMan activity and 6 people worked on the Penguin activity. Chou taught the students how to Save For Web. Each student saved both their Photoshop and their Illustrator project. Rodney introduced the blog for that day. He expanded off of the questions and explained the importance of writing in a paragraph form.
Some surprising results from the quiz:
* All of the students have PCs
* Only one student didn't check their e-mail yesterday
* The students did not remember Cristina or Chou
Afterwards, Chris began the introduced the Photoshop activity. The students were all engaged in looking at the Photoshop examples. A part of the reason the students was engage was because of Chris enthusiasm and love for Flash.n After going over the main slides on the Photoshop and Illustrator PowerPoint, he went over the To-Do-List PowerPoint. Chris went through every part of the to-do-list and then showed how to use the tools in Photoshop. The entire instruction took about 22 minutes. The students then had 18 minutes to work. ** Note for next year, shorten the lecture and allow them to work longer ** When the students were working, about 6-7 students (Aaron, Dale, Roxana, Tatiana, and Josh) had issues with using the rectangle tool to fix the board. They couldn't remember the steps to use the rectangle marquee, click the move tool, click alt, then move the selection. Once that problem was solved, at the end of 15 minutes, the students were able to work independently.
After break, Chou introduced the illustrator activity. From 2:10 - 2:25 he went through the examples on the PowerPoint slide and then demonstrated how to make one penguin. Some concepts that Chou illustrated while doing this:* Grouping
* Transform
* Symbols
* Send to Back
* Clicking the space bar to move the stage
* Tools and triangle at the end to show other tools
* Creating a new symbol
After the students immediately started clicking and dragging body parts to the screen. All of the students were working in silence for Illustrator. It was very eerie because the class was so silent. A lot of the students went beyond what Chou taught them. For instance, both Ian and Aaron drew their own symbols. Natalie did her own artistic filters. The total time the students had to work was about 40 minutes.During the 20 minutes of free work time, 9 people worked on the PacMan activity and 6 people worked on the Penguin activity. Chou taught the students how to Save For Web. Each student saved both their Photoshop and their Illustrator project. Rodney introduced the blog for that day. He expanded off of the questions and explained the importance of writing in a paragraph form.
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Hurray Hurray! It's the first ITA day!
And so it begins! The first day of the freshman camp began with both classes in the room, overflowing onto the floor. Everyone introduced themselves, to cheers for their prospective schools (La Follette High School all seemed to end up on the floor while East was all on the left of the room . . .) Afterwards, the class played the 'drop the blanket game in order to quiz the students on one another's names.
Ann began the lecture overviewing the camp schedule, talking about the basics of approaching new technology. What questions should one ask? She also asked the students to share their first memories of technology or to think of where they use technology in their daily lives.
Chris explained file organization and the importance of naming things correctly. AJ dropped in for a minute and explained that we don't use spaces when organizing files because, if we want to upload them to the internet, the spaces create confusion for web addresses.
The class finished off the day by blogging - Ann and Elizabeth went around and filled in empty spaces on the class excel spreadsheet and helped the students get pictures up on their blogs - all in all, a great first day!
After a brief break, the class came back for the "To-do" list of the day. The students worked to set up a gmail acount, to sync their wiscmail with their gmail, to create a blogger account and write a blog. A few students had to call the helpdesk to reset their passwords.
Chou kindly came in to get the second break started as all the instructors were running around helping students and didn't notice. This was our monitors off break and everyone went out to the hallway to talk and buy food.
Ann explained the need to be back in the room at the right time at the end of this break. Chris explained the PLC (Professional Level Certification) Program. And then Elizabeth set the class a bloggin' for their first two blogs at ITA!
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