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

Winter Break Photo Challenges!

 Winter Assignment 

 1 Challenge per weekday 

 10 total challenges 

- Google classroom assignment w/pdf of the challenges is live now - 

WED/THU: Pleasantville (cont.)

Learning Target(s)

• I can view the film Pleasantville as an informational text and take notes on the themes as they relate to modern media and my life.

Announcements 

• Study, study, study...

Agenda [100]

• FILM: Pleasantville!
• Movie seats IN YOUR ASSIGNED ROWS
• We will not be stopping the film during the showing
• ...unless John gets excited
• Pay attention to how the movie's themes (explained below) connect to your own reality
• You will be discussing the film for credit using evidence from the film

Themes in the movie Pleasantville

• Pleasantville is a movie of contrasts. What are some of the OBVIOUS contrasts they show between the 50’s and the Future? What are some of the film tricks they use to show LITERAL contrast (CONTRAST: The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something OPPOSITE, or REVERSE)
• The TV 'repairman say’s "I know what I'd feel like if my TV broke; like I'd lost a friend.". How would you feel if you had NO TV, and no Internet TV/YouTube/NetFlix/etc...
• Destiny--everything in Pleasantville is scripted, has a place. What about our lives? Do you ever feel like all the decisions are already made for you?
• Censorship: The mayor of Pleasantville say’s "It seems to me we must separate out the things that are unpleasant from the things that are pleasant.". In Pleasantville personal expression and differences are unacceptable and anything straying from what is known is feared. Think about your family at home, what happens when your ideas or opinions differ from your elders?
• Racism: "No coloreds." reads a sign in Pleasantville window. "Coloreds" are people who have become enlightened or who become passionate; they are rejected from mainstream Pleasantville. Why would the filmmakers use this obvious sign from the USA’s racist past? Is this movie about racism too, or just intolerance? Is this the way the world still is? Why or why not?

adapted from here... and imdb

TUE/WED/THU: Pleasantville, where nobody poops..

Learning Target(s)

• I can view the film Pleasantville as an informational text and take notes on the themes as they relate to modern media and my life.

Announcements 

• Study, study, study...

Agenda [60]

• Typing.com  [10]
• FILM: Pleasantville!
• Movie seats IN YOUR ASSIGNED ROWS
• We will not be stopping the film during the showing
• ...unless John gets excited
• Pay attention to how the movie's themes (explained below) connect to your own reality
• You will be discussing the film for credit using evidence from the film


• Introducing the film

The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire - Spiderman Trilogy), who has an almost obsessive interest in the series. Living with his divorced mother (Jane Kaczmarek), David sometimes has disputes with his ultra-hip twin sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon-Legally Blond).

She wants to watch MTV just when a Pleasantville marathon is about to begin. They struggle over the remote control, and it breaks. A strange TV repairman (Don Knotts) supplies their new remote, a potent high-tech device which zaps David and Jennifer inside of the Pleasantville TV world, where their new sitcom parents are businessman George Parker (William H. Macy) and wife Betty (Joan Allen).

As "Bud" and "Mary Sue," the teens take up residence in a black-and-white suburbia where sex does not exist and the temperature is always 72 degrees. Life is always pleasant, books have no words, bathrooms have no toilets, married couples sleep in twin beds, the high school basketball team always wins, and nobody ever questions "The Good Life."

What Pleasantville accomplishes is a social study of television; it contrasts 50s and 90s television's view of those eras. While the TV shows of early television depicted intact families and traditional values, 50s culture was probably more 'real.' Current television has almost done the opposite: presenting us with reality that is perhaps more harsh and false than real life now is.

Below are some general themes that we will use in our discussion for credit next class.  Feel free to jot down notes during the film but do not ask me to stop the film.

Themes in the movie Pleasantville

• Pleasantville is a movie of contrasts. What are some of the OBVIOUS contrasts they show between the 50’s and the Future? What are some of the film tricks they use to show LITERAL contrast (CONTRAST: The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something OPPOSITE, or REVERSE)
• The TV 'repairman say’s "I know what I'd feel like if my TV broke; like I'd lost a friend.". How would you feel if you had NO TV, and no Internet TV/YouTube/NetFlix/etc...
• Destiny--everything in Pleasantville is scripted, has a place. What about our lives? Do you ever feel like all the decisions are already made for you?
• Censorship: The mayor of Pleasantville say’s "It seems to me we must separate out the things that are unpleasant from the things that are pleasant.". In Pleasantville personal expression and differences are unacceptable and anything straying from what is known is feared. Think about your family at home, what happens when your ideas or opinions differ from your elders?
• Racism: "No coloreds." reads a sign in Pleasantville window. "Coloreds" are people who have become enlightened or who become passionate; they are rejected from mainstream Pleasantville. Why would the filmmakers use this obvious sign from the USA’s racist past? Is this movie about racism too, or just intolerance? Is this the way the world still is? Why or why not?

adapted from here... and imdb

MON: Critiquing our work

 

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can learn by critiquing my own work and listening to the suggestions of others
• If I have not done so already... today is the last day you can add photos to albums 1-3.  Album 4 closes tomorrow.

Homework:  

• 10 PHOTO CHALLENGES due when you return from Winter Break

Announcements: 

• Semester One ends in 3 Class Periods!
• Get your act together...
• Want to raise your grade?  Check typing.com AFTER 3:45 on the LAST DAY of the WEEK and look at your position on the leaderboard - are you below the midpoint?  Find some time before midnight Sunday to type some more.  Look at the time spent statistic, you can see how long you need to type to go to the top of the list.

Agenda: [65]

• Typing.Com+ [15]
• Upload & Critique [50]
• Photo Walk IV - The Town
• Be prepared to DEFEND the 'best' picture that you uploaded
• Did you NOT take the city pictures?  You need to do so TODAY!  To get an idea of what we were focusing on  Here is every photo John took on the 4 Town walks - can you see how I modified the technique to capture the picture I was trying to make?
• If Time 
• More typing for a grade

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• IF you did not already do this: 
• Go to your Google Classroom and UPLOAD FIVE TECHNIQUE PHOTOs from the City Walk
• Here is the list of techniques and tips
• UPLOAD ONE PHOTO from the City Walk
• P5 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/etIioiKf8xgaTB4z2
• P4 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/kRs8A0qq3E7Qoo093
• P3 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/OwSWCUC7lQOeN2Nv1
• P1 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/rP9EnQEfpTGXgsw72
• UPLOAD TWO PHOTOs from the Portrait Walk
• P1 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/KKiURlYGLhsn0MFm1
• P3 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/EY1DfX62LzJjfRWH3
• P4 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y3vkk1i6gk7ExH362
• P5 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/DX5ud5iobHNNqKDn1
• UPLOAD ONLY ONE PHOTO from the LAKE WALK
• P1 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/LeAesbYf5HRDcfqa2
• P3 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/C3JHtm9OosmcLunH2
• P4 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2pdyAVlQfVsuPAA52
• P5 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/X0Dg3nfBmE89rmzJ3
• UPLOAD ONLY ONE PHOTO from the 5-Photo Challenge
• P1 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2SKGhY5TnuorKbF13
• P3 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/n8QxJtuYdcnqdYAj1
• P4 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/gKoo5LlB9uExojFt2
• P5 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/yV8RdLarovCG3NSF3

FRI: Critiquing our work

 

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can select my best work from Photo Walk IV and 
• SUBMIT 5 SEPARATE & DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF TECHNIQUE to my Google Classroom
• submit the single one BEST OF THE FIVE above to the correct Google Photos album.
• I can learn by critiquing my own work and listening to the suggestions of others
• If I have not done so already: 
• I can select my best work from the 5 Photo Challenges and submit it to the correct Google Photos album.
• I can select my best work from Lake Walk last week and submit it to the correct Google Photos album.
• I can select my best work from the Portrait Walk last class and submit it to the correct Google Photos album.

Homework:  

• Take photos all the time

Announcements: 

• Cool Stuff on Monday's smoking topics can be found HERE
• Be prepared to go OUTSIDE every class
• Semester One ends in 4 Class Periods!
• Get your act together...
• Want to raise your grade?  Check typing.com AFTER 3:45 on the LAST DAY of the WEEK and look at your position on the leaderboard - are you below the midpoint?  Find some time before midnight Sunday to type some more.  Look at the time spent statistic, you can see how long you need to type to go to the top of the list.

Agenda: [60]

• Typing.Com+ [10]
• Checking PowerSchool and making a plan for the weekend [10]
• Upload & Critique [40]
• Photo Walk IV - The Town
• Here is every photo John took on the 4 Town walks - can you see how I modified the technique to capture the picture I was trying to make?
• 5 Technique Photos to your Google Classroom
• Here is the list of techniques and tips
• 1 'best of' photo to the correct Google Photos Album
• P5 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/etIioiKf8xgaTB4z2
• P4 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/kRs8A0qq3E7Qoo093
• P3 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/OwSWCUC7lQOeN2Nv1
• P1 Album #4 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/rP9EnQEfpTGXgsw72
• If Time 
• More typing for a grade

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• IF you did not already do this: 
• UPLOAD TWO PHOTOs from the Portrait Walk
• P1 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/KKiURlYGLhsn0MFm1
• P3 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/EY1DfX62LzJjfRWH3
• P4 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y3vkk1i6gk7ExH362
• P5 Album #3 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/DX5ud5iobHNNqKDn1
• UPLOAD ONLY ONE PHOTO from the LAKE WALK
• P1 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/LeAesbYf5HRDcfqa2
• P3 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/C3JHtm9OosmcLunH2
• P4 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2pdyAVlQfVsuPAA52
• P5 Album #2 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/X0Dg3nfBmE89rmzJ3
• UPLOAD ONLY ONE PHOTO from the 5-Photo Challenge
• P1 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/2SKGhY5TnuorKbF13
• P3 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/n8QxJtuYdcnqdYAj1
• P4 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/gKoo5LlB9uExojFt2
• P5 Album #1 - https://photos.app.goo.gl/yV8RdLarovCG3NSF3