The Flash Kit CDAll you need

for a long project with Flash 4

Prices -Single user CD: . .£15 . . plus £2 P&P. Site licence for lessons and software: . . £50 for Primary three form entry or less, £75 for Secondary six form entry or less, and Special School £30 . . 10 or more copies for students to buy and use at home . . £5 ! Contact Geoff Dellow ( please remove "REMOVE" which has been added to avoid spam).

What's on the CD:

Introduction by Dr Geoff Dellow

The Flash 90 day trial for both PC and Mac is situated in its own folder on this CD

Interviews with

Lynette De Souza describes how Flash was used with a Geography project with Year 4 at Newbury Park Primary School, Redbridge.
Jo Jones recounts her experiences using Flash for the first time with Year 5 at Grove Primary School, Redbridge
Steve Bowsher discusses work in a lunchtime computer club at Grove Primary School
John Davitt Journalist, Author and Educator

Lessons

Brief Overview. Creating a symbol or character called SUE
Our first animation and editing SUE
Adding a second symbol or character called TOM on a new layer - lines and fills, changing shapes avoiding the paint brush.
Changing the size with the scale tool, animating TOM as well as SUE. Regulating which symbol moves over the other.
Adding sophistication and complexity to SUE using shape tweening.
Adding sophistication to SUE (continued) making a smooth cycle. Managing two layers
Animating a Rotation of TOM
Altering SUE's path.
Adding TOM 2, a new version of TOM, on a new layer. Alternate ways of tweening. Getting more complicated!
Adding and animating text.
Modifying the size and colour background of the movie.
A recap, then an alternate version of TOM 2 is added following a simple guide layer
Dangers of making the guide line too complicated
The point of rotation - using a pivot point for a leg or an arm
Sophisticated colour fills - transparency and gradients
Aids to what is happening - What has not been covered - a future CD

Use of a Template in the classroom

First
Second
Third

Working files

You will also find the Flash files used in the above movies as well as well tested templates to use for your first lessons in the classroom with Flash4, when you may have as many as 35 children to manage! see this work using the walk.fla template

Those who have just bought the above CD (and any others!)- you may wish to join a Forum or discussion list where ideas for projects and methods of introducing Flash into the classroom and Computer Club are discussed. This list will give guidance to ways of learning more about Flash but it is not intended to dwell on techniques that might be used solely for web site construction.

We shall be very supportive to those that are venturing into teaching IT with a little concern and apprehension - we've all been there !

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