3-415 - The Year in Review

3-415,

Please comment with your reflections on the year & look forward to next year.

Use these questions as a guide. You do not need to answer them specifically or in order, just use them to help form your thoughts and guide your writing...

• What was your favorite part of the year? Be descriptive...
• What one thing did you learn that stands out the most? Why was it so meaningful?
• What activity (field trip, Opera, project, etc) was most memorable & why?
• What are you looking forward to about the summer?
• What are you looking forward to about 4th grade?

 

Every comment should be at least 2 paragraphs and written with proper sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation.

 

 

Remember - Comment as "Name/URL" and use your first name and last initial (proper capitalization, no URL)- please respond in full and complete sentences - double check your work before posting your comment.

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3-415 - History of Typography

3-415,
When we are typing we are entering our text using a particular font, or style of writing. But fonts aren't just fonts, they are "typography" or the art or technique of arranging type in order to make language visible.

Before computers there were typewriters and before that, handwriting. In order to make writing universally legible there needed to be typography.

Watch the video below and answer the questions as comments...

The History of Typography - Animated Short from Ben Barrett-Forrest on Vimeo.

The questions...

• What did you learn about typography?
• Do you remember any of the typography style names? Which was your favorite?
• What did you think about the style of video?
• Did you like the way the video looked and was animate?

Answer these questions in full and complete sentences as a comment below...

Remember - Comment as "Name/URL" and use your first name and last initial (proper capitalization, no URL)- please respond in full and complete sentences - double check your work before posting your comment.

3-415 - Twitter

Students of class 3-415,
Last week we did our first lesson about Twitter and how to post a tweet. Today we did a quick review.

I would like you to comment with answers to a few questions. This is a bit of a quiz on some of the terms we learned last week as well as a personal reflection.

Here are the questions (the first 6 are short answer, the last 2 are extended response)...