Agenda for March 21 - Continue Flash

I have checked your folders and I want to thank everyone who worked hard on Monday. I can see evidence of completed Flash Tutorials and the beginnings of Ad Banners for several people.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. I will go around and make sure each of you have the beginning of your ad banner planned out which was your homework that was due on Monday.
2. Anyone who is not finished with your Flash Tutorial, needs to do that first before beginning on your ad banner. If yours is too challenging, then choose another one.
3. Continue working on your Ad Banner. Remember, you can choose which tools you use for this project. The directions are on a previous blog entry, you just have to read them.

As we discussed last week, class time is precious, so you need to do the preparation outside of class so that you can use the programs while you are in this room. I only received two emails on Monday with questions from students, so the rest of you should be ready to get down to work as soon as class starts!

Blog Entry #10: Flash Banner

On the next blog entry you will post your Flash Banner you have created and write a description of how you developed your banner. Describe all of the Flash and Photoshop tools and effects included in your original animated ad, you should use at least 10 tools. Don't forget to describe why you have created this and why you are posting it on your blog. Who is your audience and what is the message? Assume the reader doesn't know the assignment.

Your finished blog entry will also have your ad banner inserted. Here are the directions for how to get your flash banner onto your blog. You'll have to upload it at school, but you can complete the rest of the blog entry at home if you run out of class time. This needs to be posted to your blog by Midnight on Thursday, March 22.

Agenda March 13 - Flash Ad Banner

Today we will first finish the tutorials that you started last time. Hopefully we will be able to share some of these by the end of class today.

Here are the directions for the Ad Banner that you will complete.

You want to maximize your class time use of the program that you don't have at home! By next class, Monday, March 19, you will have to have written down the following:

1. topic

2. exact size of ad banner (not wider than 500 px. A vertical ad might be 200 X 600. A horizontal ad might be 150 X 500 px)

3. What type of animations? Think about the 10 t00ls you might use from Flash and Photoshop.

4. What text will you include?

5. What pictures will you include? (find these photos before class)

The entire Ad Banner will be due on March 23 at midnight and it will be posted on your blog. That will give you three full classes to complete it. More about that blog entry to follow soon. Juniors going on retreat may have until Monday night, March 26.

Agenda March 8 - Flash Practice

4th block is a day behind 2nd block, so 4th block will need to look at the agenda from last class for what we are doing today.

2nd block will first try to challenge themselves and add another feature to your animated face you created last class. Try to make eyebrows that stay still the whole time, eyebrows that go up as the eyes move, a tongue that sticks out as the face smiles, etc.

Then you will use a tutorial from this website to make another effect. Most of these effects include pictures, not shapes that you have drawn, so you will see how to use those as well. There are so many things you can do with Flash, as you will see by browsing through this massive list of tutorials! A note that 2nd period realized is that you have to be very careful in following the directions and sometimes the directions are not perfectly clear. If you have ActionScript in your tutorial, when you start your Flash Document, choose ActionScript 2.0 rather than ActionScript3.0 **unless your tutorial specifically says to use 3.0.

We will share these at the beginning of next class from your network folder. Every student should complete at least one tutorial, no repeats. Once you have decided what tutorial you want to do, sign up on this document. There are 26 pages of tutorials, so don't just look at page 1!

Agenda March 6 - Flash!

Don't worry 4th block - we will finish your website that you didn't get to finish due to the Tornado Early Dismissal last Friday.

Changing gears from Website creation, we will work with Flash for the next couple weeks. Flash is used to make animations on many websites including these:

• I Am a Teacher and a Leader
• FX Networks
• Palio Healthcare

Today we will make an animated face after looking at the basic interface of Adobe Flash Professional.