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Explore/Evaluate • Graphics & Objects • Animation • Interaction • Multimedia • Publishing
Flash Quick-Start Workshop
Want to learn Flash, but don't have much time? Take the QuickStart Workshop. Each section provides opportunities to explore the possibilities and try a quick, hands-on activity with Flash. Use the Workshop Handout (PDF document) to complete the activities.
Explore and Evaluate
Explore the Possibilities
Explore by Categories
- Games: Orisinal, Save the Egg
- Movies: Stop Bullying, The Elements
- Exploration: Crocs, A Prisoner's Sketchbook, Great Barrier Reef, Iraq Navigator, ISS, and Underground Adventures
- Storytelling: ABC Book Nonreaders, All About Sea Otters, Snow Babies, and Star Fall
- Inquiry: BBC Science Clips, Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits, Edheads Weather, Fly the Glider, Out on a Limb
- Q&A: Food Technology, Math Activities, Physical Education, Take a Regional DARE!, Test Your Vowel Power, Sandcastle Quiz, and Spellits
- Tutorials: Freedomknot, Galileo's Experiments, Hands on Crafts, and Spinning Stories, Telling Tales
- Persuade: Store Wars, The Meatrix
- Explore some beginner projects:
Try It!
- Go to the Projects page and explore the possibilities.
- Use the criteria on the Evaluation page as you analyze the projects (Workshop Handout Pages 2-3).
- Let's try making a really simple project: A Website Banner (Workshop Handout Page 4).
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Graphics and Objects
Explore the Possibilities
- Puppets Personality
- Notice the way images are used in How Caves Form, Resonance in Strings, My Journey Home, Sense of Scale, How the Body Works, Volcano Under the City, Pathways to Freedom, and Destination Modern Art
- Notice the way maps are used in America on the Move, Anatomy of Nyiragongo, Biodiversity
- Spectrum of Life: Cladogram, Dogs Around the World, Exploration Map, Explore the Scablands, Horatio's Drive, Imaging with Radar, Mapping Attitudes: Correct English, Mystery of a Megaflood, Theban Mapping Project, Viking Deception, and War in Iraq
Try It!
- Use Graphic Tools (Workshop Handout Pages 5)
- Create a Graphic Object (Workshop Handout Pages 5)
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Animation
Explore the Possibilities
Try It!
- Make Balloon Rise (Workshop Handout Pages 6)
- Modify Balloon Path (Workshop Handout Pages 6)
- Create and Animate Fireworks (Workshop Handout Pages 7-8)
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Interaction
Explore the Possibilities
- Seek out Immersive Environments:
Simulation: BBC Interactive Body, Villainy, Make a Tidepool, Making Vaccines
Gaming: Nobel Prize, MyPyramid.gov
Tutorial: Edheads Virtual Knee Surgery
- Putting it All Together
- Notice the Text in NOVA’s Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
- Notice the Illustrations in Ology
- Notice the Maps in Theban Mapping Project
- Find the Information Focus in Einstein's Big Idea, Nathaniel Hawthorne, San Francisco Symphony, Name that Bug, Women of Our Time, and Kids Collecting.
- Find the Information Organization in Anatomy of the Concorde, Firework, Glacier, Jetliner, Katrina, Nyiragongo, Photo 50, Rover, Yamato
- Notice the Slide Show approach: Build a Rice Patty, Deciphering Buddha Imagery, Glacier Lodges, Canyon Tour, Pacific Tour, Grand Lodges, Gallery of Auroras, Pillars of Creation, A Sense of Scale, Smashing Pictures
- Notice the Timeline approach: A Brush with History, Caravan Kingdoms, How Is Sex Determined?, On Time, Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, Military Medicine through Time, MFPPL, and Whistler Interactive
- Notice the Tools approach: Forces Lab, Artist's Toolkit, Design a Parachute, The Drake Equation, Let's Make a Microbe, Loads Lab, Infinite Secrets: Pi, Materials Lab, Read Write Think Student Materials, Room Planner, Thumb Piano Tunes, Invention at Play: Cloud Dreamer, Puzzle Blocks, Tinker Ball, Word Play
- Explore beginner examples:
3 Little Pigs (.swf) - A. Goben
3 Little Pigs (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson
4 Year Old (.swf & .fla) - A. Denham
Biomes (.swf & .fla) - J. North
Butterly Quiz (.swf & .fla) - K. Martinez
Dog Quiz (.swf & .fla) - M. Burkhart
Frog and Toad (.swf & .fla) - B. North
Hilton Head (.swf & .fla) - K. Mosbaugh
Library (.swf & .fla) - K. Pizarek
New Hampshire (.swf) - P. Slater
PAi-Gow (.swf & .fla) - A. Hurford
Phantom Planet (.swf & .fla) - L. Colbert
Shapes (.swf & .fla) - M. Witt
Spanish (.swf & .fla) - D. Smith
States (.swf & .fla) - Sweeney
Summer Safety (.swf & .fla) - L. Hopper
Time (.swf & .fla) - J. Heaphey
Trim Tree (.swf & .fla) - S. Eley
Valentine Card (.swf & .fla) - J. Colvin
Wild and Tame Animals (.swf & .fla) - L. Soper
Try It!
- Link to Hot Air Balloon website (Workshop Handout Pages 8-9).
- ActionScripts (Workshop Handout Pages 8-10).
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Multimedia
Explore the Possibilities
Try It!
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Publishing
Explore the Possibilities
- Explore beginner expansions:
- Animation Techniques (.swf & .fla) - animation - A. Denham
Book Club (swf & fla) - forms and email - M. Gish
Color Wheel (swf & fla)- Advanced practice with tweening and motion - K. Mosbaugh
Cannon Game (.swf & .fla) - B. North
Dancers - Take a still graphic from a website and animate it. - N. Cavallaro
MicroGame (swf and fla) - M. Burkhart
Morphing Letters (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson
Ipod (swf and fla) - Explored uses for mouse-over. - A. Hurford
Old MacDonald (swf) - Explored coordinating bouncing ball, lyrics, photos, and music - L. Colbert
Party Invitation (.swf & .fla) - K. Pizarek
Try It!
- Save as SWF
- Embed in web page (Workshop Handout Pages 4 & 12)
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