April 6–10

Prerequisites to this week

Before you can even start working on this week's homework, you need to do several things.

1. You need to log in to your metroed.net email address. I posted instructions how to do this on March 25. That was two weeks ago. Several of you have not done this yet. 
2. You need to download Adobe Illustrator. Using your metroed.net email address, you should get the special deal where you can use Adobe Illustrator for free for the rest of the school year.
3. You need to create a list of app icon sizes in Google Docs and HTML. This was due a long time ago.

Assignment 1: App Icon Export

You will learn to export an app icon in several different sizes for use in your app. I give you a sample icon you can use for this assignment. You could work on an icon you think might be appropriate for your final app, but at this point, we don't really know what your final app will be. If you have Xcode, you could also insert your app icon into an app project.

There are short videos that show you how to do all this. This assignment should take you only 20 minutes or less to finish.

Assignment 2: Resume in HTML

You will put your resume into an HTML page so you can insert it into your portfolio. (Bonus question: why can't you just insert your Google Doc resume into your portfolio?) There are videos that show you how to do this. This assignment may take from one to two hours depending on how complicated your resume is and how much detail you wish to have in the styles.

Assignment 3: Participate in Google Hangouts

We will hold class virtually. Each class will meet two times for 90 minutes.

PM Class	Monday	12:30–2:00 pm
AM Class	Tuesday	8:00–9:30 am
PM Class	Wednesday	12:30–2:00 pm
AM Class	Thursday	8:00–9:30 am

Your participation in the Google Hangout is just like your participation in our normal classroom. It is required, and we will take attendance. Your absence will impact your grade negatively and will be reported to your counselor and home school.

I sent a hangouts invitation to your preferred email. If you did not receive the invitation, let me know.

Assignment 4: Participate in Canvas

We are going to be using Canvas as a chat room. You may have received an invitation to Canvas and you may have had a problem logging in. So here are the most recent instructions, which seem to work for several classes. (Thank you to Chris for being the test subject in our class.)

1. Visit this link: http://svcte.instructure.com/
2. You do not need to sign up.
3. You need to log in using your metroed.net email address, not any other email address.
4. That's all!

After logging in to Canvas, you really should see only a few things. You may see some announcements. And you should see some discussion forums. Your assignment is to log in to Canvas every day (except Hangout days) and contribute something to the discussion. Let us know how you are doing. Let us know what you are working on. Let us know if you are having a problem. Help someone else solve their problem.

AM Class	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
PM Class	Tuesday	Thursday	Friday

Your participation in Canvas is just like your participation in our normal classroom. It is required, and we will take attendance. Your absence will impact your grade negatively and will be reported to your counselor and home school.

Make sure to let me know if you have any problems logging on or if you can't find the discussion forums.

How can we help?

At least one person in the PM class sent me a full-blown HTML web page with helpful hints and links. At least one person in the AM class sent me a poster/meme to benefit homeless people. I definitely want to see how you can take the skills you learned in this class and use them to help others at this difficult time.

Spring Break

Our spring break will be next week, April 13–17. For this reason, all your work this week is due at 11:59 pm on Friday, April 10.