- Log into My Big Campus. Keep it open in a tab.
- Go to My Big Campus and participate in the posted discussion titled, "What most schools don't teach".
- Click on "Join with Code" in the upper right hand corner: gveraeok!! (...sorry Klingon Tourettes...) you will need to join the "Seventh Grade CIT" group in order to post.
Agenda Part 1: Visual design
- Bell ringer
- Log into Google Apps. Keep it open in a tab.
- Click here to join our class and STOP!!! Watch this.
Agenda Part 2: Bonus
- Optional Visual design bonus - Option 1: Make your blog #awesome \o/
- Optional Visual design bonus - Option 2: PSA Poster
- This week in App-a-week: Adobe Photoshop.
Objectives:
- [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).