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Flash Lessons - Each lesson includes reading, videos, and sssignments. Try to stay with the schedule. Usually 1 lesson a week. Some assignment may take more than 1 week.

The Book - Adobe Flash Professional CS5 - Classroom in a Book. This is a great tutorial book. Each lesson provides basic concepts and hands on lesson. The lesson will us combination of book reading, videos and assignments to learn.

Not all lessons are ready. Each semester the lessons change.

Weekly Lessons Concept   Homework
Lesson 1: What is the Adobe Flash application and how is it used.

This is an introduction to the Flash application. Also beginning to drawing.

Chapter 1

Send 3 Flash web site examples.

Lesson 2: Understand Flash and Begin Drawing
This lesson is an introduction to Flash and How to begin drawing in Flash. Chapter 1

Practice Drawing

Heres the links from week 1


Lesson 3: More Drawing and Begin Animation

Practice drawing graphics. - check out the chat

Chapter 2 Chapter 2 and Bird drawing.
Lesson 4: Making graphics with symbols Learn to work with layers and the timeline. Symbols Chapter 3 Chapter 3 and Fall leaf
Lesson 5: Mask, and beginning Motion Presets. Mask, and beginning Motion Presets. Chapter 4

Chack out Chapter 4 and try a talking mouth.

 

Lesson 6 - Making Web Ad

Making a Flash animated web ad.

 

Making web ad

Lesson 7 - Making Slide show Making slide show in Flash. Take 2 weeks to complete this. Try to catch up. Chapter 5 Making slide show
Lesson8 Intro to Programming

Video of Intro to programming - making a slide show. This is not how to use a external photo. this is after import photo.

 

Chapter 6

Program a slide show.

 

 

  1. Research into background slide show. we will do example of this on
  2. Nice slide show example
  3. Another Slide show example
Lesson 9 programming basics This is introduction to programming   Tell target
Lesson 10 - Working text Yes working with Text Chapter 7 Text example
Lesson 11 - Video and Flash

Video and Flash

Chapter 8

Video examples - do the book

Lesson 12 - Making final Flash site Yes this is working on final web site. Chapter 6 Yes you should make your own version of chpater 6 in the book.

 

 

 
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