Week 3

Monday

Intro to Mindfulness

Today we began by considering the stresses that each of us bring with us to school each day - there are a lot of things happening in the world that may weigh on us, and in turn prevent us from giving our full attention during class.

We watched this video on managing stress.

And then students participated in a visualization activity. I read a script that walked them through a scene, they tried to imagine this scene in their mind. They paid special attention to imagining with all of their senses (which included colors, temperatures, smells, textures etc.).

By distracting ourselves in activities like this we can train our minds to better focus on the tasks we want to focus on! And take a break from thoughts that may be overwhelming or stressful.

Designing for Illustrator

We began to consider that in order to use the laser cutter to create cool designs we need to understand how to "communicate" with it and know the correct "commands"to get the result we are looking for.

Today we looked over a few examples of the types of cuts the laser cutter can make without worrying about naming them. Next time we will put on our detective hats and look for patterns to determine which colors (in our Adobe Illustrator design) are responsible for which outcomes from the laser cutter.

Tuesday - Team Building Chris and Carries team only

Turnstile

• Mission: get your team through the spinning ropes​ without touching!

All Aboard

• Mission: get as many members of your team to complete 2 jumps together at the same times as is possible.

Overpass

Mission: pass the weighted ball around your entire as fast as possible!

A few important take aways from our team building time:

• Building off of last weeks team building it is important to remember how important it is to show support for people on our team when they make mistakes. We all mistakes! We all deserve compassion and support!

• Being a good team mate means winning with humility and loosing with grace.

Wednesday

Time in computer lab today was spent giving students a little bit more time to work on

their first mini project in photoshop.

Thursday

Illustrator Basic Skills Quiz

Students showed how they have mastered the basic skills in Illustrator by creating their own version of "Shapey McShape-Face (see image below).Shapey has 1 eye made with the star tool, one equilateral triangle eye made with the polygon tool, 1 many-pointed star nose, 1 rounded rectangle for a mouth, a hair on the top of his head made with the spiral tool, and 2 ears made with the ellipse tool that have been modified with the Direct Selection tool (white arrow) to make them mushy and amorphous.

Pen Tool Certification

Students began taking their Adobe Illustrator skills to the next level by learning the Pen Tool. Students should complete level one and screenshot their work and upload image (command + shift + 4). Students are encouraged to watch a small part of the video, pause the video and then do the activity.

• Download exercise file by clicking this link http://dp.hightechhigh.org/~mvasquez/Pen_Tool_Pro_Cert_Exercises.ai

• Watch along with this video, remember to watch some, pause, and then do the activity.

Friday - Cardio Vascular Workout

We moved around a lot today. In our cardiovascular focused workout we performed 2 sets of 9 exercises, 30 seconds each set, with rest in between.

1. Press Jacks

2. Atlas Twist

3. March and Reach

4. Traveling Tire Twist

5. Frog Squat Reach

6. Arc Press lunge

7. Hop Overs

8. Balance Pull

9. Twist and Pivot

10. Side Reach Jumps

11. Crescent Chair

12. Globe Squatters

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