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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 lesson are ready yet. Each semester the lessons change.
Weekly Lessons Concept Flash CS5 Book 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.
  I am still revising the Lesson below.    
Lesson 4: Making graphics with layers Learn to work with layers and the timeline. Learning Frame-by-frame animation   Make an example like bill clinton talking
Lesson 5: Working with bones, Mask, and beginning Motion Presets. Working with bones, Mask, and beginning Motion Presets.  

No new assignment for this lesson. Check out the latest links from all the students.

 

Lesson 6 - Making Slide show.

Making a slide show.

 

Making slide show

Lesson 7 - Making web ad. Making a Flash animated web ad.   Making web ad
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.

 

 

Program a slide show.

 

 

  1. Research into background slide show. we will do example of this on April 6.
  2. Nice slide show example
  3. Another Slide show example
Lesson 9 programming basics This is introduction to programming   Tell target
Lesson 11 - Final Project explained

We will review how to make a final project. Click Here to view some samples from this summer. These are just some samples. There are many more on the sever.

 

Think of making final project.

Lesson 12 - Ending it all. This week we have some great handouts on Programming Please read these handouts and go back to try the programming lesson again.    
Lesson 13 - video in Flash. How to use Video files in Flash.   No assignment, but you should practice the lesson.

 

 

 
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