clear goal setting

Class Wednesday, January 24, 2018

 Today’s goals: Complete a survey about the second quarter Review what you’ve learned second quarter and 2nd quarter grading Discuss what’s coming up in third quarter Continue working on your webpage project  What You LearnedContinue reading

First Webpage Project Part 2

 Suggested Project Steps & Timeline: First and second days: Finalize your webpage topic and outline (sketched on paper) Second, third, and fourth days: Find, download, edit, and save images you want to use (for yourContinue reading

creative

First Webpage Project Part 1

 Today’s Goals Complete webpage project milestones #1 and #2 Coming up (next milestones): you will receive the project requirements and resources to help you  Webpage Project Milestone #1 Come up with a topic You areContinue reading

apples

Harvest of the Month Period 6 January 16, 2018

 Today’s goal: Create an infographic, interactive image, or collage to promote January’s Harvest of the Month, apples.  Key skills you’ll practice: graphic/visual design, use of digital media creation tools Harvest of the Month digital mediaContinue reading

Hump day

Class Wednesday, January 10, 2018

 Today’s goals: Finish your quote webpage (directions and helpful links here) Update your online portfolio Start thinking about a topic for your webpage project and look at pages created by former students  Today’s featured website:Continue reading

typography

Class Tuesday, January 9, 2018

 Today’s goals: Learn about web typography (how text is used in web design) Start creating a text-based webpage with a quote you like  Today’s featured website: http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/– Student-recommended site (thanks, Ivan!).  Typography in Web DesignContinue reading

button

Class Monday, January 8, 2018

 Today’s goals: Learn how to create and style buttons  Today’s featured website: https://studddent.com/– Curated list of student discounts.  Buttons Examples: Let’s look at some buttons on http://fontawesome.io/. Now you find some examples from different websitesContinue reading

2018

Class Wednesday, January 3, 2018

 Today’s goals: Review CSS animations Learn about 2 new CSS properties: border-radius and filter  Today’s featured website: http://makewordart.com/– This kind of design tool is something I grew up with.  Optional: Brighten up your computer desktopContinue reading

happy holidays

Class Thursday, December 21, 2017

 Today’s goals: Continue practicing basic CSS animations with the @keyframes rule and the animation property Learn how to change more than one CSS style in a single animation Learn about 2D transforms and the transformContinue reading