What's Going On? The week of May 27-May 30

I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend and is feeling refreshed!  We're down to our last three weeks of school and there's a lot going on!

Web 1
This week students will work on completing their last assignment before our final project.  Once our lesson 13 projects are complete, students will go through the process of hosting their web pages online using the free hosting accounts that we set up last week.  If students have not created their account yet, they need to visit 000webhost.com by Thursday's class.

Web 2
This week we will be working on our last two flash assignments before we tackle the final Flash
Animation project.  Students will use the drawing tools to create a picture of Donald Duck and they will be introduced to Action Script through the "Rocket" tutorial.

Fundamentals of Programming
This week we'll be working on our last two Java assignments before we start our final Java project.  Students will incorporate looping structures into Graphics in order to create a graphic design.

What's Going On? May 12th-May 16th

Web 1
This week we'll continue our look at Photoshop.  At the end of last week we saw a brief introduction about how Photoshop can be used to create web-ready images.  We will continue our study on web images and learn how we can best prepare photos for use on the internet.  This until will be especially helpful with the next two assignments and our final web site project.

Web 2
This week we'll continue our look at Flash Animation.  Although this program may not be the industry standard, we will still be learning about important concepts such as key frames and motion tweens.  By the end of this week we will create two simple animations.

Fundamentals of Programming
This week we'll continue our look at looping structures.  Students will start thinking about how looping structures and conditional statements can be used in larger programs.  This week we'll be laying the ground work to create a Rock, Paper, Scissors program where the user gets to play against the computer.

What's Going On? May 5th-May9th

Web 1
This week in Web 1 we will continue our work with lesson 11.  We have already talked about the tables portion of the unit and we will move on to talking about how we can create a responsive web page.  The notes and examples that we work through on Monday and Tuesday will be extremely helpful when students apply their knowledge on assignments 11A and 11B.  In these assignments we will be putting the finishing touches on the "Jenware" website.

Web 2
This week in Web 2 we will take a look and reflect on our JavaScript summative assessments.  We will also put together our JavaScript portfolio page for our website.  Once this is complete we will move on to our last unit for the year: Flash Animation.  We will start by playing with the program and then move into creating some basic animations such as making a ball bounce.




Fundamentals of Programming
This week we will continue our study of looping structures and talk about the function of the "while" loop.  We will compare and contract the "while" loop and the "for" loop.  By the end of the week, students will be able to determine which loop is best suited for each situation.

Once we have the basics of looping structures, students will put their knowledge to the test by creating some java applications.  By the end of the unit, students will be able to program a very simple "Rock, Paper, Scissors" game where a player plays against the computer.