Unit 4-Choose Your Own Technoventure
As we wrap-up this semester, we learned that our eyes were bigger than our stomachs when it came to picking and choosing everything we wanted to learn and/or master! In exploring the results of student surveys, these are the different applications we wanted to explore in the final weeks of the school year. You can pick and choose not only from the options below for what you want to learn the remainder of the semester, but there is also choice within each of the options below.
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Each of these microgrids is inspired by Alice Keeler's "Badge Game" template. So, instead of a singular grid we are all pacing through at the same time at different rates, I will be tracking your individual progress below!
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The tracking document looks a little different for this unit compared to others. You will ONLY check the completion box for your quests when you have submitted whatever evidence is required for the task. These grids are also your one-stop shop for everything you need to access your learning. You will find links to specific slides of instructions, screencast tutorials, or templates in the application you are learning. As always, if you need assistance, flag me down!
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Option 1: Google Gooder
Option 2: Let's a(DO)be It!
In this choice unit, you will explore a variety of tools in the Google Suite of applications, and go from amateur to master in each of them in a matter of clicks! If you find a specific application you want to do a deeper dive in to, or an application I have left out that you want tutorials for, let me know!
Many of you loved exploring the creative potential you could unleash with Canva! While you are not working towards a specific certification in this micro-unit, you can work through a variety of different Adobe tools and templates through your FREE Adobe Express account!
Option 3: Tinker Time!
Option 4: Check out Them Pythons!
Several of you expressed interest in learning the basics of 3D modeling. Tinkercad is a free and easy-to-learn option to explore how you could create items to be replicated in the real world. Students who choose this option will complete a brief TinkerCAD tutorial series and then choose design challenges which pique their interest!
Some of you did not want to quit explorations of coding! The specific language that several of you requested to learn was Python, which Rimmey knows very little about! Thank goodness for Khan Academy! Students who pick this area of exploration will work through KA (linked to our Google Classroom) to learn the ins and outs of python!