BTLC Workshop Beyond the Basics for Adobe Flash CS3 for Educators
(Target Audience: ALL who have a basic understanding of Adobe Flash CS3) This course will provide a hands-on demonstration of the features and capabilities within Flash that will enable you to create buttons, begin using Action Scripts and create Flash-based quizzes. Participants should already be familiar with the use of the time line, tweening, objects, symbols, layers and sound in Flash.
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Adobe Flash CS3: Beyond the Basics
Reference links
Buddy2 – http://www.buddyproject.org
Buddy Teaching and Learning Center – http://www.btlc.org
The Writing Site - http://thewritingsite.org/
What do you already know? What are your expectations?
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Explore how students and teachers have used Flash as a productivity tool
Explore examples of students using Flash as a productivity tool:
a site created by a second grader: go there now...
several examples of students using flash: go there now...
middle school examples of student work: go there now...
elementary example of a history project: go there now...
high school student examples: go there now...
Explore examples of teachers and schools using Flash as a productivity tool:
displays an introduction for teaching searching strategies: go there now...
displays classroom projects: go there now...
creates an interactive map of the district's resource: go there now...
banner on a teacher's web site: go there now...
a school web site example: go there now...
an example of an ESL/EFL teacher using flash: go there now...
this is a kindergarten teacher's use of flash: go there now...
visit this teacher's section on flash projects: go there now...
select the titles that are followed by (F) to see an ESL/EFL teacher using Flash to produce quizzes: go there now...
Explore third party sites using Flash as a resource tool for teachers and students
scroll to the bottom of the page and select to view the Flash versions: go there now...
here is an example of teaching music: go there now...
visual and auditory phonetic displays of English & Spanish: go there now...
an interactive history web site by PBS: go there now...
an interactive site on the human body: go there now...
audio animated stories for the elementary student: go there now...
resource website for PreK-6th grade: go there now...
an example of math problem solving: go there now...
an online story book with music and animation: go there now...
read-write-think uses flash for K-12 student interactive work: go there now...
visit the two columns title "on-line story" and "on-line activity" for pre-school examples: go there now...
Knowing your working environment Workshop Activities: buttons
- Visit the ONLINE handout for this workshop
Activity one: button states, types and rollovers
Activity two: rollover buttons with text
Activity three: duplicating and aligning buttons
Activity four: adding sound to buttons
Activity five: adding invisible buttons
Workshop Activities: Movie Clips
Activity six: defining and creating a movie clip
Workshop Activities: Action Scripts and Behaviors
Activity seven: Adding Stop and Play functions to Buttons
Activity eight: Creating web page links
Activity nine: Targeting Web Pages within Multiple Scenes
Activity ten: Exploring Static and Dynamic Text
Activity eleven: Loading Dynamic Text from an External Source
Activity twelve: Creating a Slide Show Using the UILoader
Activity thirteen: Adding Multiple Videos to a single stage area
Workshop Activities: creating quizzes with Flash
Basic facts about quizzes with Flash
Activity fourteen: creating a quiz
Link to Macromedia's tutorial on how to edit the quizzes
References
Yeung, R. Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Hands-on training.
Peachpit press: Indianapolis, IN, 2004.
Resource websites:
Flash Kit Flash Loaded Games in a Flash Case Study for Schools using Flash and DreamWeaver PDF:
Creating Projects: Learning and Serving through Project
