WED/THU: Photoshop Day 9

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can begin to understand some of Photoshop's subtleties
• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

Announcements 

• Still want to apply for SMASH?  See John ASAP
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011
• Progress reports in 08 class days
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Agenda [100]

• Typing.com [15] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [85++]
• Making Basic Selections
• Fine-tune a selection
• Retouching an image: 
• Learn how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools in Adobe Photoshop CC.
• Use color
• Learn how to work with brushes and color in Adobe Photoshop CC.
• Add text and shapes
• When you add text and shapes in Adobe Photoshop CC, they remain editable, and you can customize them down to the smallest detail.
• Combine Images
• One of the most powerful aspects of Adobe Photoshop CC is its ability to combine images to form imaginative composites.
• Apply Filters
• You can add quick effects to an image using filters in Adobe Photoshop CC. Filters can also be combined to create unique results.
• Make sure you bring headphones next time because you just finished all of the guided lessons!

TUE: Photoshop Day 8

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can begin to understand some of Photoshop's subtleties
• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

Announcements 

• 6:00 PM: State of the Union Address - Discuss it for credit next class!
• Video on any major TV network or streaming video on the Web by clicking here
• On the radio - look on the AM dial, or @ 88.5 and 91.7 on the FM dial
• Audio on the web: State of the Union special coverage from the BBC & NPR.  
• TODAY AFTERSCHOOL PHOTO OPPORTUNITY FOR EXTRA CREDIT - this event has not happened for 150 years
• Come photograph the "Super Blue Blood Moon" from 4:30-5:00 PM @ Lake Merit for extra credit
• EXACT TIME FOR THE MOONRISE IS 4:53 PM
• TOMORROW: 
• Get up @ 4:30 AM Wednesday to see it turn BLOOD RED with a total lunar eclipse - Get up @ 5:30 to see just the end of the show. Send me a selfie AT THAT TIME for extra credit
• "Californians will be treated to the total eclipse phase from start to finish... The umbral eclipse begins at 3:48 a.m. At 4:51 a.m., totality will begin, with best viewing between about 5 and 6 a.m. local time. [The moon is fullest (totality) at 5:27.] The totality phase ends about 6:05 a.m."
• EXACT TIMES FOR THE ECLIPSE STUFF
• Still want to apply for SMASH?  See John ASAP
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011
• Progress reports in 09 days

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [50++]
• Making Basic Selections
• Learn selection basics
• Use a selection to edit part of an image.
• The Quick Selection and Lasso tools
• Fine-tune a selection
• Learn the Select and Mask workspace
• Up Next...
• Retouching an image: 
• Learn how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools in Adobe Photoshop CC.

MON: Photoshop Day 7

NO, the vinyl screen is NOT staying 

(sorry for the smell)

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can begin to understand some of Photoshop's subtleties
• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

Announcements 

• TUESDAY AFTERSCHOOL PHOTO OPPORTUNITY FOR EXTRA CREDIT - this event has not happened for 150 years
• Come photograph the "Super Blue Blood Moon" from 4:30-5:00 PM @ Lake Merit for extra credit
• Get up @ 4:30 AM Wednesday to see it turn BLOOD RED with a total lunar eclipse - Get up @ 5:30 to see just the end of the show. Send me a selfie AT THAT TIME for extra credit
• Still want to apply for SMASH?  See John ASAP
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011
• Progress reports in 10 days

Agenda [65]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Checking Powerschool [10]
• Our first Photoshop assignments [45++]
• Adjusting Image Quality
• Adjust brightness and contrast
• Adjust image exposure
• Adjust color vibrance
• Adjust the intensity of colors
• Adjust hue and saturation
• Adjust the shade and depth of colors
• Learn about adjustment layers
• Work with layers that adjust what is below them
• Making Basic Selections
• Learn selection basics
• Use a selection to edit part of an image.
• The Quick Selection and Lasso tools
• Fine-tune a selection
• Learn the Select and Mask workspace
• Up Next...
• Retouching an image: 
• Learn how to remove unwanted objects, add objects by cloning, and fix other imperfections in your images with retouching tools in Adobe Photoshop CC.

FRI: Photoshop Day 6

1st Period CLICK HERE before typing

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'
• We can begin to understand some of Photoshop's subtleties

Announcements 

• TUESDAY AFTERSCHOOL PHOTO OPPORTUNITY FOR EXTRA CREDIT - this event has not happened for 150 years
• Come photograph the "Super Blue Blood Moon" from 4:30-5:00 PM @ Lake Merit for extra credit
• Get up @ 4:30 AM Wednesday to see it turn BLOOD RED with a total lunar eclipse - Get up @ 5:30 to see just the end of the show. Send me a selfie AT THAT TIME for extra credit
• Still want to apply for SMASH?  See John ASAP
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [50++]
• Working with Layers ...continued
• Add images to a layered design
• Bring more images into a design, each image on its own layer.
• Unlock the Background layer
• Learn how a special Background layer works.
• Adjusting Image Quality
• Adjust brightness and contrast
• Adjust image exposure
• Adjust color vibrance
• Adjust the intensity of colors
• Adjust hue and saturation
• Adjust the shade and depth of colors
• Learn about adjustment layers
• Work with layers that adjust what is below them
• Up Next...
• Making Basic Selections

WED/THU: Photoshop Day 6

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• A small pause for some VR and such

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011

Agenda [100]

• Typing.com [10] 
• The world and news of VR [05]
• What 1st period did, and when you might get to do it too...
• An apropos diversion [85]

TUE: Photoshop Day 5

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [50++]
• Working with Layers
• Understand layers 
• Learn what layers are and why they are so useful
• Learn layer basics
• Change layer order, create a new layer, change layer opacity, and delete a layer.
• Resize a layer
• Change the size of the content of selected layers.
• Add images to a layered design
• Bring more images into a design, each image on its own layer.
• Unlock the Background layer
• Learn how a special Background layer works.
• Up Next...
• Adjusting Image Quality

MON: Photoshop Day 4

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos
• ICE Raid?  510-241-4011

Agenda [65]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [55++]
• Changing Image Size 
• Resize an image
• Set the Resolution
• Crop and Straighten
• Expand the CANVAS
• Working with Layers
• Understand layers 
• Learn what layers are and why they are so useful
• Learn layer basics
• Change layer order, create a new layer, change layer opacity, and delete a layer.
• Resize a layer
• Change the size of the content of selected layers.
• Add images to a layered design
• Bring more images into a design, each image on its own layer.
• Unlock the Background layer
• Learn how a special Background layer works.
• Up Next...
• Adjusting Image Quality

FRI: Photoshop Day 3

UNIT Learning Targets

• What is REAL and how can we tell?
• How is reality manipulated by technology?
• How can WE manipulate reality?

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can continue to explore Photoshop 'basics'

This Weekend

• Possible ICE Raids
• Put this number in your phones AND write it down AND share with family and friends
• 510-241-4011
• This number will put you in touch with lawyers and response groups that will respond to any immigration action.
• California, Oakland, and Envision Academy are all sanctuary sites.
• DON'T spread rumors about raids - do THIS instead:  5 Ways to Fight ICE Raids With Power, Not Panic [click here ]
• The Women's March to protest the current political realities
• NOT a school event
• Text John if you want to try to meet up with him and his family and his dog
• March starts 11AM 

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [50++]
• Changing Image Size [Multiple Times]
• Resize an image
• Set the Resolution
• Crop and Straighten
• Expand the CANVAS
• Next Up...
• Working with Layers

WED/THU: Photoshop Day 2

UNIT Learning Targets

• What is REAL and how can we tell?
• How is reality manipulated by technology?
• How can WE manipulate reality?

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can explore the Photoshop interface

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [100]

• Typing.com [15] 
• Our first Photoshop assignments [85++]
• Fundamental Photoshop [Multiple Times]
• Open Images
• The work area
• Zoom, pan and move
• Undo and History
• Save, Save As, & changing file TYPE

TUE: Hour of Code w/ special friends

Good morning YoungStars!

I woke up sick (don't ask)

Be nice, turn in lots of work.

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can quietly work on improving our typing and coding skills

Announcements 

• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the instructional videos

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10-60] 
• Grading for today
• If you continue typing your grade will automatically be recorded.  
• If you do Hour of Code lessons EMAIL a pdf of your CERTIFICATE to john@envisionacademy.org in order to get credit.
• If you do "Human Resource Machine" please tell the teacher to make a NOTE of that fact 
• hourofcode.com/us/learn [50]
• You MAY Use Headphones for ALL Videos


Below here you will find the resources I selected for you last time, including the Human Resource Machine which you download and RUN from the download folder - don't drag it into Applications.


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The Newest!:



• Wonder Woman:  a block based tutorial with scenes from the film
• The Google Doodle: oodles of fun
John's personal favorite!



• Human Resource Machine from Tomorrow Corp: DOWNLOAD the Mac version and run it! (There is a lot of math logic in this one and it really doesn't need headphones to have fun with)

The Classics: familiar characters in a drag and drop environment
• Minecraft is entirely block based 
• There are now TWO Minecraft Tutorials - one entirely new in 2016
• Angry Birds is block based too
• Star Wars let's you use blocks or javascript directly
• Frozen is more artistic and has some geometry in it

Cool tutorials using modern WEB Technologies: 
• Photobooth is a working photo booth in HTML
• Build and animate a character using HTML/CSS/Javascript


You Should Use Headphones
for ALL Videos

Cool game making tutorials with really clear step-by-step instructions that don't need a video
• Brick Breaker
• 2-Player Cannon Game



You Should Use Headphones
for ALL Videos

 Other Cool Tutorials:
• Make it fly - blocks but with way more options
• Done a LOT of SCRATCH/Block programming?
• Want to learn to build a web page with CSS & HTML in an hour?  Then click here!
• Think you already know how to code and don't want the training wheels?  Build an iPhone Game!
Still think you are a boss?
• If the following doesn't scare you: "To be able to position items on the screen correctly we need to know the size of the screen. Go ahead and create a class-scope variable int screenHeight; right above the line@implementation GameplayLayer but below the #import lines." Then click here.

FRI: Photoshop Day 1

Turn in your 10 Winter photos NOW 

if you have not already.

-or-

UNIT Learning Targets

• What is REAL and how can we tell?
• How is reality manipulated by technology?
• How can WE manipulate reality?

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can turn in our Winter Break Challenges
• We can begin to learn the BREADTH of things Photoshop is useful for

Announcements 

• SLG Field Trip to Poetry Slam NEXT MONDAY on MLK Day
• permission slips DUE TODAY
• 11th grade not here for 2 weeks
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10] 
• or finishing Uploading our 10 Winter Challenge Photos to Google Classroom and then Typing.com

• Our first Photoshop assignments [Ongoing++]
• Fundamental Photoshop [Multiple Times]

WED: Photoshop Unit Introduction

UNIT Learning Targets

• What is REAL and how can we tell?
• How is reality manipulated by technology?
• How can WE manipulate reality?

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can turn in our Winter Break Challenges
• We can begin to learn the BREADTH of things Photoshop is useful for

Announcements 

• SLG Field Trip to Poetry Slam NEXT MONDAY on MLK Day
• get permission slips from John or Mariah
• FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
• Not on SLG? There is a meeting at the end of January to plan the Spring activities.
• 11th grade not here for 2 weeks
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [100]

• Typing.com [15] 
• or finishing Uploading our 10 Winter Challenge Photos to Google Classroom and then Typing.com
• New Seat Auditions [10]
• Grab your stuff
• Push in your chair
• Find ONE or THREE person(s) who you think will HELP you do HIGH-QUALITY WORK (remember this is the hardest unit of the year)
• When you have your pair or foursome go line up quietly outside the door. Stay in a single file line and don't let anybody cut you.
• I will place your group on the seating chart and we will see if you made a good choice.  
• I will reseat you if you are not on-point
• This is NOT a group PROJECT and your technical & artistic grades will be on your own work
• Your behavior grade, however, will be determined by this group as a whole.
• Introduction to Photoshop [Ongoing++]
• Why we learn Photoshop [05]
• How we learn Photoshop [05]
• What is Photoshop CC? [10]
• How difficult is this? [05]
• The Icons (Cheat Sheet!) [10]
• The Video tutorials, how we will use them, and how you will be graded [10]
• WE watch
• WE do - once or twice
• YOU Practice until YOU can do ALL of the individual SKILLS
• YOU come to office hours if the class is moving too fast or you just need extra help.
• YOU rewatch the tutorials as many times as it takes
• You complete multiple Photoshop projects that demonstrate you have learned the required skills

• Our first Photoshop assignments [Ongoing++]
• Fundamental Photoshop [Multiple Times]
• Downloading work files
• What if the tutorial does not have work files?
• Unzipping and properly storing work files

TUE: Introduction to Photoshop [Clean Computers]

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can turn in our Winter Break Challenges
• We can begin to learn the BREADTH of things Photoshop is useful for

Announcements 

• Welcome back!  
• I was very pleased with the grades so many Freshmen received across so many classes - good job kids!
• SLG Field Trip to Poetry Slam NEXT MONDAY on MLK Day
• get permission slips from John or Mariah
• FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
• Not on SLG? There is a meeting at the end of January to plan the Spring activities.
• 11th grade not here for 2 weeks
• Block Switches @ Semester Break
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com [10]
• Uploading our 10 Winter Challenge Photos to Google Classroom [20]
• We will NOT be uploading the one BEST into the album today
• When you are finished submitting you may move on to the next task
• Checking our Grades [??]
• Your Semester 1 grades and your for-real GPA are now live in Powerschool.
• When you are finished checking your grades you may move on to the next task
• Organizing our old PERIOD Drive [05]
• Organize all of your files into your folder
• Move your folder to the "OLD" folder
• CREATE the OLD folder if necessary
• When you log out your period folder should only hold TWO things
• The Movies folder
• The OLD folder
• When you are finished checking your grades you may move on to the next task
• Type.com until we continue
• Introduction to Photoshop [Ongoing++]
• Why we learn Photoshop [05]
• How we learn Photoshop [05]
• What is Photoshop CC? [10]
• How difficult is this? [05]
• The Icons (Cheat Sheet!) [10]
• The Video tutorials, how we will use them, and how you will be graded [10]
• WE watch
• WE do - once or twice
• YOU Practice until YOU can do ALL of the individual SKILLS
• YOU come to office hours if the class is moving too fast or you just need extra help.
• YOU rewatch the tutorials as many times as it takes
• You complete multiple Photoshop projects that demonstrate you have learned the required skills