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.