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TechWorks · Teacher guide · LL 1.3.1

BertyBot's LogoLab

Grades 6–8 · 8–10 class periods. Looking on the floor, a mark bench for original text and shapes, and paper copies. Files stay on the device. Real trademarks are not copied.

Print pacing + keys

How to run it

  1. Project a lesson. Students talk with sentence frames, then write.
  2. Send them into the matching Studio game (phones, laptops, or a shared machine).
  3. Hand the paper copy the same day. The performance task is the design brief — drawn, not generated.
  4. Famous real logos (the apple, the swoosh) stay in talk and in memory sketches. On-screen marks are original lab brands, invented logos that are broken on purpose, and joke cousins that tease a famous idea. Students name the real brand — they do not trace it.
  5. Turn on ES and larger type whenever the room needs it. Read-aloud lives on lesson titles and glossary cards.

Chromebook and Windows 11

  • Use Chrome or Edge. No extra app, no Flash, no download. Full-screen the tab if you are projecting.
  • Touch, click, or press number keys 1–9 to pick answers. Enter submits the fake-logo clinic.
  • Shared Chromebooks keep one scoreboard per browser profile. Sign-in is the Tech Room pill. LogoLab never asks students to type a name.
  • XP stays in this browser. A verified, active kid also leaves a short mark when they save. It is not an account login inside LogoLab.
  • Start class with the home warmup: 45 seconds to sketch today’s lab brand from memory, then peek. Do now timers sit on every lesson.
  • Exit tickets can stay on paper or be typed on the device (notebook on the brag board). Word drill practices glossary terms with keys 1–4.

XP on this device

Grade is not Bank. XP is brag on this Chromebook — it does not post to TechWorks desk, TechCash, or a 3/2/1. Current 0 · high 0. Resetting clears lessons, floor bests, stars, and XP. Teacher mode, ES, and large type stay.

Open brag board

Floor dump is counts only — no names.

Changelog

  1. LL 1.3.12026-10-01

    • What’s new: a finished mark posts one TechWorks score.

  2. LL 1.3.02026-10-01

    • What’s new: the bench opens first, and Check scores reads, contrast, balance, and shape.

  3. LL 1.2.152026-09-26

    • What’s new: the plate is named for a screen reader, and the job checks are announced.

  4. LL 1.2.142026-09-26

    • What’s new: Save PNG also writes a shop-named file, and the inks stay up during the job.

  5. LL 1.2.132026-09-26

    • What’s new: Today’s job stays open, you can stamp a shop name, and the home list speaks Spanish.

  6. LL 1.2.122026-09-26

    • What’s new: Today’s job is an optional card — one word, one shape, then save.

  7. LL 1.2.112026-09-25

    • What’s new: the plate note sits at the top, so a stamp at the bottom stays visible.

  8. LL 1.2.102026-09-25

    • What’s new: Save lands on the plate, edits clear it, and the first ship shows +12 XP.

  9. LL 1.2.92026-09-24

    • What’s new: the first stamp says it’s on the plate, and the Fabric.js line fits this screen.

  10. LL 1.2.82026-09-24

    • What’s new: the empty plate says start with Big word, and Save says the file landed.

  11. LL 1.2.72026-09-24

    • What’s new: polish — Layer, Delete, and Save sit on the first screen, and Center parks the stamp.

  12. LL 1.2.62026-09-23

    • What’s new: the plate is white, with Duplicate, Rotate, Bigger, Smaller, and Outline.

  13. LL 1.2.52026-09-23

    • What’s new: Layer up and Layer down move the selected stamp.

  14. LL 1.2.42026-09-23

    • What’s new: the shop floor opens again. Studio loads instead of jamming.

  15. LL 1.2.32026-09-23

    • What’s new: polish — Save PNG is a real file on this Chromebook, and Type word opens it without a double-tap.

  16. LL 1.2.22026-09-23

    • What’s new: polish — stamps stay on the plate, and the XP slip sits under the header so it doesn’t cover Save.

  17. LL 1.2.12026-09-22

    • What’s new: polish — new stamps land beside the last one, and Save finishes the word first.

  18. LL 1.2.02026-09-22

    • Mark bench. Text and shapes with Fabric.js (MIT). See LICENSE and NOTICE.
    • Save SVG or PNG on this Chromebook. Nothing is uploaded.

  19. LL 1.1.12026-09-22

    • Chromebook pass. Fonts live on this door — no Google Fonts fetch.
    • Header taps are 44px. Blur is off so mid and low Chromebooks do not hitch.

  20. LL 1.1.02026-09-20

    • Chip on the floor. English changelog on the teacher pad.
    • XP writes are atomic — a closed tab cannot save a lesson without its XP.
    • Hall names are alias or first name only. Never a last name.
    • Warmup uses the Solvay school day (America/New_York), not the Chromebook’s clock zone.
    • New floor station: Optical QC — which mark still reads at stamp size.
    • Press ? for keys. Enter replays a finished studio. Voices wait for Chromebook speech.
    • Factory ranks and punch-card brag board. Grade is not Bank: XP is brag, not a 3/2/1.

  21. LL 1.0.02026-09-18

    • BertyBot’s LogoLab: six stations, shop-floor games, joke cousins, paper copies, XP on this device.
    • House die is a stencil B. Real trademarks stay in memory, not on screen.

Pacing

  1. Day 1 · 1 period

    A logo is a promise

    I can name what a logo is for and sort marks into six types.

  2. Day 2 · 1 period

    Simple lasts

    I can explain why a simple mark still works when it is tiny or far away.

  3. Day 3 · 1–2 periods

    Shape, space, and secrets

    I can find negative space and say how it helps a logo mean two things at once.

  4. Day 4 · 1 period

    Color talks

    I can choose a small palette and explain what the colors are asking people to feel.

  5. Day 5 · 1 period

    Letters can be pictures

    I can tell a wordmark from a lettermark and judge whether type fits a brand.

  6. Day 6 · 1–2 periods

    The critique lab

    I can critique a mark using design words — and stay kind to the designer.

  7. Days 7–10

    Paper brief, critique, gallery

    Constraints on the wall. Peer frames. Rubric. Optional one-color print of finals.

English learners

  • Content objective and language objective posted together.
  • Pre-teach 5–7 words with the glossary. Star them. Cognates (contrast, palette, symmetry) are labeled.
  • Oral rehearsal with frames before any written exit ticket.
  • Allow a home-language note in the margin; publish in English.
  • Visuals first: every idea has a mark, a diagram, or a fake logo.
  • Heterogeneous pairs for studio games; the talk is the assessment as much as the score.

Materials

Pencils, black markers, two colored markers, tracing paper, 8.5×11 copies of the brief and critique sheet. Optional: a one-color copier for the “does it survive in black?” test.

Standards

  • VA:Re7.1.7Explain how the method of display, the location, and the experience of an artwork influence how it is perceived and valued.
  • VA:Re8.1.7Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood.
  • VA:Re9.1.7Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.
  • VA:Cr1.2.7Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
  • VA:Cr2.3.7Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
  • VA:Cn11.1.7Analyze how response to art is influenced by understanding the time and place in which it was made, the available resources, and cultural uses.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.6Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.
  • WIDA.ELD-SI.4-12.ExplainEnglish learners can explain how things work using visual supports, sentence frames, and home-language resources.

Fair use note

Lab brands and joke cousins are original study marks made for this class. Real company logos are not copied here — they are owned, and a weak tracing is worse than none. Cousins tease an idea so you can name the real brand from memory.