- Go to Edmodo and play a classmate's Flappy Bird Game
- Give the following feedback: Was it Fun? Why was it Fun / Not Fun?
Agenda:
- Continue your code.org course.
- Complete Stage 2: The Maze
- Complete Stage 5: The Artist
- Stage 7: The Artist 2
- Stage 9: The Farmer
- How games Make Kids Smarter
- Open your Google Doc called Passwords 15-16. Keep it open in a tab.
- sign up for Gamestar Mechanic.
- Complete the Quest, Addison Joins The League (5 episodes)
Extra Time:
Coding & Game Design -
- Minecraft Hour of Code
- Star Wars Hour of Code
- Mess with the infinity play lab.
- Try the Tynker Level Editor. w00t!
- Try Kodu... it's 3d.
- Go flex your new skillz in Scratch.
- Bored? Advanced? Check out Stencyl.
- Typography in Illustrator (also works in Photoshop) (Follow Along and do what I do!) - font list
- Raster vs. Vector
- Intro to Photoshop (Follow Along and do what I do!)
- Design something: PSA poster or Typographic Logo / Label
- [5] You will use observations of examples of effective and ineffective design to develop strategies to improve communication, sustainability, and useability.
- [6] You will use the relationship between color, typography, layout, and tone to design for a specific audience and purpose.
- [7] You will employ good typography and color theory to design for impact and readability.
- [11] You will develop an understanding of programming & computational concepts.
- [12] You will develop fluency with computational concepts (i.e. sequence, loops, events) and practices (i.e. iterative and incremental development, testing and debugging, reusing and remixing).