More Color,
Reflection
& Portfolios
More Color,
Reflection
& Portfolios
Continue learning colors codes, & reflection
on school and marketing yourself.
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Basics of HTML & CSS
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Typing
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Revisiting Portfolios
Basics of HTML
We will continue the same organization scheme we used before the break; keeping the week's work in slides.
Make a copy of these slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ciwYLVux_5xvoeGVrl976oaKgFbCFlDdPDjFDk3CvH8/edit?usp=sharing
Today's typing practice:
https://shaunwegs.github.io/2024/focs/typing/d/10-2.html
If you haven't watched the videos on Color Codes yet (or you don't remember anything from them), watch them first.
Today's color activity:
Can you get a perfect score on this color activity?
https://madebyshape.co.uk/hex-test/play/
Add a screenshot of your score to today's slide.
We've been talking a bit about the IB Expo. At the IB Expo, you can see our upperclassmen discussing some of their projects. This is part of what sets IB apart from more regular schools. I'd like to talk with you a bit about that and a bit about why you should consider IB if you haven't decided already.
If you plan on attending a university or college in Texas, IB could be very beneficial to you.
In middle school/high school, you have a certain requirement to hit, and if you reach that requirement, you have an A, you get your diploma, etc. After high school, it often doesn't work that way. Universities only accept so many students, there isn't a specific requirement that magically means you'll get into any school- instead they are choosing which students look best to them. Employers are the same way; they are only going to choose whichever candidates look best to them.
Whatever you decide to do in the future, you want to think about how you're standing out against your peers.
We've also talked some about portfolios, and we'll continue to. Portfolios are how you can help demonstrate how you are different than your peers and why a school or company should choose you over someone else. No matter where you go to school next year, whether you're in IB or not, you should consider developing your portfolio.
1a) How do you want to stand out from your peers related to college/university/career?
1b) How do you intend to actually do this?
2a) Do you think IB DP or CP could help you with this?
2b) Do you intend to pursue the IB DP or CP?
MIT isn't the only school where you can submit a portfolio, there's also:
These are just the ones I found this morning. There's probably more out there. As also mentioned, there are other sorts university programs that also allow submitting a portfolio. Almost all the arts and design programs expect it (like Brown, Stanford, London, and Otis College) , but there are others too:
Rice (Click on the School of Architecture or Humanities link)
University of Washington (in Washington)
3a) As you think about high school and what comes later, what would you like your portfolio to communicate to potential schools or employers?
3b) What could you add or develop for your portfolio for this?
4a) How is your portfolio looking right now?
4b) What is your next step in developing your portfolio to help you for your future?
Before you leave today, can can you correctly guess today's Hexle? https://www.thehexle.io/
Add a screenshot of how you did on today's Hexle.
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