2-1-24

Welcome to February.  By the end of the month we will have gained one more hour of daylight.

Here’s what we get to do today:
1. login to tinkercad.com.
2. open the circuit design that we started in our last class.
3. we will add a second LED and wire to the button.  Then…

Arduino:
1. we start a new circuit design in Tinkercad.
2. together, we will program an Arduino to make LEDs blink under our TOTAL control and add comments to the program.

Assignment: Arduino: Blinking Multiple LEDs 

Next Assignment: Arduino LED countdown

1-25-24

Website group:
Today, we will explore using HTML and CSS to create website buttons.  Click here for details and today’s work. 

Part 1: HTML/CSS buttons – we will build some buttons together.
Part 2: create a two page website using CSS buttons.
>website should have two pages
>the topic of your choice
>place an image and text on each page
>use buttons to link to the two pages together

Photoshop group:
Hybrid Animal – this is one of my favorite Photoshop creations!  You get to blend two (or more) animals together!

1-18-24

Photoshop group:

  1. Follow this link for your next Photoshop assignment: Tattoo Effect
  2. Then you get to make an amazing double-exposure in Photoshop.

Web design group:

We continue our work in Adobe Brackets.  Please open the page that we started creating in our last class.

-linking to an external site
-adding an image
-linking to another web page of your own
-changing font and font size

Then you can begin work on your Dream Website.  This is a three page website about the topic of your choice. Follow the assignment link for sample starter code and lots of code resources. 

1-16-24

Tesla robot folds a shirt…or does it?

Photoshop group

  1. Login and access your Google Drive – follow this tutorial.
  2. Finish your two Time Travel images and turn them in on Canvas.  Each image should be a jpg file.  Click here to learn how to save as a jpg in Photoshop.
  3. Follow this link for your next Photoshop assignment: Tattoo Effect

Web design group

  1. Login and access your Google Drive – follow this tutorial.
  2. Launch Adobe Brackets – installed on your computer.
  3. Together we will work through:

Basic HTML tags
Linking to external websites
Adding images
Linking pages

1-11-24

Please put your phone in the phone hotel as you enter class. 

Tech News: The Rabbit R1 AI assistant is getting lots of attention. First 10,000 sold out FAST. Short video here, short demo here and full website at rabbit.tech

Everyone:
-learn how to sign into your Google Drive and access files on your computer

After considering your votes for our next work, I have decided to split us into two groups:

Photoshop Group:  

1. Today we will explore essential tools in Photoshop: Select subject, Magnetic Lasso,  Quick Masking and Layer Masking.

Let’s get started by downloading these two images: Ironman Lincoln

2. On your own: Photoshop Time Travel

Web Design Group- while I am working with the Photoshop group please do the following:

1. Follow this link to enroll in your CodeHS Web Design course.  

2. Once you area enrolled in your Web Design course, do the following on your own: -take the short Web Design pretest.  It’s ok if you don’t know the answers to these questions.  This is just to check your current knowledge.

-start the lesson sections 2.1 and 2.2

3. We will work together to talk about the structure of a website and discuss HTML.