04/04: Dresden Elementary Career Day
Category: Travel and Leisure
Posted by: bwoods
Today was a very interesting day for InnoShare, we were invited to the Dresden Elementary School Career Day where my wife teaches. I was a little nervous at first, Isaac and I had to tell 6 different classes what we do on a day to day basis and why we love our job. But not only that, but we had to do it for a full 30 minutes for each class. I was nervous, what in the world do you tell kids about web design? We do so many things that I have honestly never done the same thing twice in the 6+ years I have been in this industry. Now, these are 3rd, 4th and 5th graders and mostly what I do on a normal basis is work with clients, design sites and program. I don't even want to begin explaining the logistics of programming to a 3rd grader. I can literally see their eyes closing even thinking about it.
So, I did the same thing I do every time I work with kids, I think back hard to the days I was in their shoes and i think "what would I want to do if I were them?". After much self reflection I put together a solid list of topics to touch on and decided to show them something fun, Photoshop! What kid doesn't love to see a faked picture of themselves in Egypt or in front of the Taj Mahal? So, I shot a couple pictures of their teacher "Mrs. Woods" at the house,then Photoshopped her into some well known locales and even the new Horton Hears a Who Movie. I then showed them off for the class to see with a few SpongeBobs and the Mayor of Whoville. They loved it and had a BLAST! Afterward, we took their class picture in front of a curtain and put them into one of the backdrops I was using, in only a couple minutes, which they really got a kick out of, seeing themselves in front of the Pyramids and in New York, was a perfect activity for the kids and kept them awake.
After that, I taught them how to play a great designers game that my dad taught me called Scribble. The first person draws a scribble and the second person draws an image from that scribble. We played that and they all wanted to draw on our Wacom Tablet so they could see it on the computer and the projector.
All-in-all we want to thank Dresden Elementary for letting us come out and show off some of our work and have fun with the kids. We had an amazing time and the people who ran it were on the ball. Everything ran amazingly smoothly and I have always loved all the Faculty and Staff there. They are such a great group of young teachers who are just itching to be their best and help anyway they can.
Check out the pictures below to see a few of the career day pictures:
So, I did the same thing I do every time I work with kids, I think back hard to the days I was in their shoes and i think "what would I want to do if I were them?". After much self reflection I put together a solid list of topics to touch on and decided to show them something fun, Photoshop! What kid doesn't love to see a faked picture of themselves in Egypt or in front of the Taj Mahal? So, I shot a couple pictures of their teacher "Mrs. Woods" at the house,then Photoshopped her into some well known locales and even the new Horton Hears a Who Movie. I then showed them off for the class to see with a few SpongeBobs and the Mayor of Whoville. They loved it and had a BLAST! Afterward, we took their class picture in front of a curtain and put them into one of the backdrops I was using, in only a couple minutes, which they really got a kick out of, seeing themselves in front of the Pyramids and in New York, was a perfect activity for the kids and kept them awake.
After that, I taught them how to play a great designers game that my dad taught me called Scribble. The first person draws a scribble and the second person draws an image from that scribble. We played that and they all wanted to draw on our Wacom Tablet so they could see it on the computer and the projector.
All-in-all we want to thank Dresden Elementary for letting us come out and show off some of our work and have fun with the kids. We had an amazing time and the people who ran it were on the ball. Everything ran amazingly smoothly and I have always loved all the Faculty and Staff there. They are such a great group of young teachers who are just itching to be their best and help anyway they can.
Check out the pictures below to see a few of the career day pictures:
