Thursday March 22, 2012 Blog Post
After seminar last night I realized I didn't do a good enough pre-assessment for my Alien Storyboard Unit Plan, so I implemented one for both classes today.
Today went by quickly. I spoke to PJ in the beginning of first period. I asked him if I could speak to him in the hallway for a minute. He kind of smirked but looked slightly embarrassed. I asked him if he was going to do the project or not and he quickly said he would do it his own way. I asked him what he meant and he said he would do it in his style. I came at him nicely and just said that I was fine with him making it his own as long as he could do a series of his drawings. I asked if he could do 6 drawings and a title page or 7 total drawings he could put in the book everyone else is going to be making. He agreed to do that and drew out six boxes on one page in his sketchbook. I told him he could use images he already drew since he had already created characters. Seemed to go okay. He got right to work and worked the duration of the class.
The rest of the day flew by quickly. The graphic design class researched 5 billboard images and we put them onto the server and named them, Erin1, Erin2, Erin3, Erin4, Erin5. Jamie was impressed to see how they labeled them. I had each student pick out their favorite billboard from values.com and 4 others from different sites. I had them each show their selected images and discuss which one was their favorite. It was neat to see that a few of them selected similar images. I called my friend who works at Lamar and got the specs for the size billboard space we are getting and figured out the image requirements. Next class we will be setting up the document to be the correct size. I gave them a rubric today to explain how this project was being graded. Step 1 was research, so everyone got a 100% on that part for locating 5 billboard images.
The latex lesson, we continued our critique and continued with a second task. The students are going to create 6 x 6 pieces on the illustration board for an art show called "6 x 6" at a museum in Rochester. Jeff showed it to me and each piece that gets submitted gets accepted. It's a fundraiser for the museum. All the pieces go online and are for sale and you can tell when someone purchases it. It has a red sold dot on it. They all sell for $20. The deadline is right after I leave so I'm going to have both my classes participate. I think this would fall under service learning as well. I'm having this class do something they've already done with the latex process, to continue to learn about it before doing something completely original. One girl wanted to do one of her pieces to represent anger, I told her that sounded great.
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