Monday, December 12th

Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Herr

Notes

Welcome to Week 14, doors locked immediately after school today due to Monday meetings.
Some may be interested to see how a turbo is made.

9:40 Attendance and Article

Upcoming Schedule to round out 2011:

Visitors -> where to access some of our work.

9:50 Site Maintenance

Check the Week 13 “What is due”
No new vocab this week, we are due for a review quiz. Vocab and Terminology from Weeks 11, 12, and 13 will appear on this Friday’s Quiz. For the Wednesday before vacation, if we get a class average of a 90+ we get a game day. If we get a 80+ we get a game afternoon. Less than an 80 we have a normal day of school.
In one last effort to raise your grade to as high as you want it to be, anything turned in late by 11 today I will include on the final progress report grade. Anything turned in after that will be updated, but it won’t be on the document sent to your house right before the holidays.

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

11:00 English with Mr. Bisson

Group 1 be in CAWD by 11am sharp

12:00 Lunch (30 Minutes)

12:30 Attendance and Article

12:30 Quiet Production Time

12:50 Week 14 Afternoon Design Assignment: Holiday Animation / Card.

Starting this afternoon you are going to act as a freelance animator. You are going to respond to a RFP (Request For Proposal from “CAWD Inc” that is in need of an Holiday Animation to be sent out.

As compared to a traditional high school project, this way of learning about a project and bidding to do the work more closely resembles the Design Industry.

First, the RFP:

Each student needs to read the RFP from the client, CAWD Inc. Once you understand the requirements, you need to create a a proposal. You will type this proposal up and pitch it to me on the other side of the room. Your proposal will need to be approved my myself and will be a stand alone grade.

Your proposal must be written in word / Google docs and include the following:

Date – date.
To – who are you proposing this to?
From – who are you?
Re – what is this about?
Background – tell me a little about you if I didn’t know you.
Proposal – what are you proposing?
Resources Required – what do you need to make this project a success?
Deliverables – What will you turn in / give to client and when?

An example Proposal:

When you think your proposal is done, print and bring to me. You will pitch your idea to me, I will approve if acceptable, or send you back to revise if “not there yet”.

Proposal has to be approved by the end of today and will be a stand alone grade in project.

Once I sign off on it, get to work on your approved proposal that fulfills the RFP’s requirements.

2:05 Dismissal