What's Going On? November 23 and 24th

Thanksgiving Week
This is just a reminder that we have a shortened week this week.  Since we will only be in school on Monday and Tuesday of this week we will be running a "Monday" style schedule on both days.

Fundamentals of Programming
This week students will be working on their "creative projects" for animation. Students have the opportunity to work on their own or with a partner to create a project that uses several of the animation components we have discussed so far.  So far some of the students have been creating some amazing apps: from Thomas' agar.io app, to Bill's treasure hunting app, to Ben and Mike's "breakout"-style game students have been busy creating some nice animations.  Students will have both class days this week to continue work on the creative project.

Programming the Web 1
This week we will start our study of lesson 10.  This week we will talk about different ways to set up a website including using a fixed width layout and a liquid layout. We will talk about the advantages of different layout styles and we will try to create some templates.  During this lesson students will be introduced to negative margins.  Students will need to read chapter 16 in the textbook, complete our reading guide, our weekly lesson review questions and web assignments 10A and 10B.  Since this is a short week, we will continue will this lesson after we return from Thanksgiving break.

Programming the Web 2

This week students will continue their work on their formative assessment form for the St. Mary's Neonatal page.  Once this form is complete, students will work on a form to include within the online portfolio site.