Hi everyone. Unfortunately I’ve been sick all weekend. I was feeling better but my cold is back with a vengeance. Hope to see you on Tuesday.

Block A – Business Computers

• Ch. 12 in textbooks – tutorials and activity (see Moodle)

Block B – PREP

Block C – Animation

• Butterfly Animation tutorial for Adobe After Effects (if not already done)
• Text animation for Adobe After Effects

Block D – ICT

• Continue with game development
• Be prepared to demo something to your TOC
• I want 2 levels fully functional for play testing by this Friday
• All 5 levels are due on April 27 (next Friday)

Happy Friday!

Block A – Business Computers

• Present Technology Prezis

Block B – PREP

Block C – Animation

• Headphone check
• Butterfly Animation tutorial for Adobe After Effects

Block D – ICT

• Continue with game development
• Should have something to show (basic play test) by Monday

Block A – Business Computers

• 10 mins of keyboarding practice
• Work on Prezi assignment 3 – technology compare and contrast
• Be ready to present Prezi’s tommorrow

Block B – PREP

Block C – Animation

• Present “A Day in the Life”
• (As time allows) Butterfly Animation tutorial for Adobe After Effects

Block D – ICT

• Continue with game development
• Should have something to show (basic play test) by Monday

Hi everyone! Unfortunately my sore throat turned into a REALLY sore throat and cough this evening so I will be taking today off to recover. I hope you have a good day. I plan to be back on Thursday.

Block A – Business Computers

• 10 mins of keyboarding practice
• Work on Prezi assignment 3 – technology compare and contrast
• choose two competing technologies to make a presentation on (ex. iPhone and Blackberry, Xbox and PS3, Mac and PC, mouse and trackball)

Block B – PREP

Block C – Animation

• Last day (I mean it!) for “A Day in the Life” assignment
• Those that are done, work on the Butterfly Animation tutorial for Adobe After Effects (you may have to log in as library to get the program to work. Some students had this problem yesterday)

Block D – ICT

• Work on Game Design Document (GDD) on Google Documents
• Game Designer – Work on the GDD in detail (perhaps the story, characters, monsters etc.)
• Artist – Discuss with the Game Designer what the characters/world will look like. Begin creating assets for the game.
• Programmer – Discuss with the Game Designer what style of game it will be (side-view, maze game, scrolling shooter, etc.) and begin doing research on how to make that style of game. Use tutorials.

Block A – Business Computers

• Begin Prezi Assignment 3 (posted on Moodle)

Block B – PREP

Block C – Animation

• Work on “A Day in the Life” assignment
• Due this week, discuss deadline.

Block D – ICT

• Work on Game Design Document (GDD) on Google Documents
• Game Designer – Work on the GDD in detail (perhaps the story, characters, monsters etc.)
• Artist – Discuss with the Game Designer what the characters/world will look like. Begin creating assets for the game.
• Programmer – Discuss with the Game Designer what style of game it will be (side-view, maze game, scrolling shooter, etc.) and begin doing research on how to make that style of game. Use tutorials.
• Link to the TED talk we watched today: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

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