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Exploration

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Animation

Interaction

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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

• A Dancer's Journal
• Design a Panda Habitat
• Shakespeare: Subject to Change
• Windward
• DNA Interactive: Timeline, Code, Mainpulation, Genome, Applications, Chronicle, Inside Cancer
• Stupid.ca
• Arizona Opera, Dallas Symphony, San Francisco Symphony
• Dinosphere Activities
• Lewis and Clark as Naturalists

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, PBS Stories, 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:
  • Canoe Map by M. Witt
  • Digital Tutorial by M. Gish
  • Ecard by J. Delph
  • Harriet Tubman by K. Mosbaugh
    Mole by B. North
  • Photoshop by A. Hurford
  • Storybook by (Storyboard) A. Goben
  • Time for Tea (large file) (Storyboard PDF) by J. Colvin
    SRC Tutorial by A. Denham
  • Tutorial by P. Slater
  • Virtual Aquarium by M. Burkhart
  • Virtual Library Tour by L. Colbert
  • Word Wizard by L. Hopper

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

• Explore Animation in Flash: Stop Bullying
  How Cells Divide, Moving Targets, How Stuff Works Animation Tour, Inside Tunnel Harry, Olympics, and Peter's Flash, Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation.
• Explore beginner examples:
• A Apple (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson, Spring 2006
  Aquarium (.swf & .fla) - J. North, Summer 2006
  Beer Brewing (.swf & .fla) - M. Witt, Spring 2006
  Birthday Card (.swf & .fla) - L. Colbert, Spring 2006
  Green Eggs and Ham (.swf & .fla) - K. Mosbaugh, Spring 2006
  Ladybug (.swf & .fla) - K. Martinez, Summer 2006
  Nice Day for a Drive (.swf & .fla) - J. Heaphey, Spring 2006
  Eclipse (.swf & .fla) - M. Burkhart, Spring 2006
  Jazz (.swf & .fla) - J. Colvin, Spring 2006
  Orange Tree (.swf & .fla) - D. Smith, Summer 2007
  Peanut Butter & Banana (.swf & .fla) - A. Hurford, Spring 2006
  Perspectives (.swf & .fla) - K. Brooks, Summer 2007
  Powerlines (.swf & .fla) - K. Pizarek, Spring 2006
  Relative Position (.swf & .fla) - B. North, Summer 2006
  Science Channel (.swf & .fla) - Denham, Summer 2006
  Summer Reading (.swf & .fla) - L. Soper, Summer 2006
  Sunflower (.swf & .fla) - A. Kelly, Spring 2006
  TechKnowledge (.swf & .fla) - M. Gish, Spring 2006
  Valentine's Day Card (.swf & .fla) - J. Delph, Spring 2006

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: Hip Hop Timeline, 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, Build Your Own Snowboard, Create a Sculpture, 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 & .fla) - A. Goben, Spring 2006
  3 Little Pigs (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson, Spring 2006
  4 Year Old (.swf & .fla) - A. Denham, Summer 2006
  Biomes (.swf & .fla) - J. North, Summer 2006
  Butterly Quiz (.swf & .fla) - K. Martinez, Summer 2006
  Dog Quiz (.swf & .fla) - M. Burkhart, Spring 2006
  Frog and Toad (.swf & .fla) - B. North, Summer 2006
  Hilton Head (.swf & .fla) - K. Mosbaugh, Spring 2006
  Library (.swf & .fla) - K. Pizarek, Spring 2006
  New Hampshire (.swf) - P. Slater, Spring 2006
  PAi-Gow (.swf & .fla) - A. Hurford , Spring 2006
  Phantom Planet (.swf & .fla) - L. Colbert, Spring 2006
  Shapes (.swf & .fla) - M. Witt, Spring 2006
  Spanish (.swf & .fla) - D. Smith, Spring 2006
  States (.swf & .fla) - Sweeney, Summer 2006
  Summer Safety (.swf & .fla) - L. Hopper, Summer 2006
  Time (.swf & .fla) - J. Heaphey, Spring 2006
  Trim Tree (.swf & .fla) - S. Eley, Summer 2006
  Valentine Card (.swf & .fla) - J. Colvin, Spring 2006
  Wild and Tame Animals (.swf & .fla) - L. Soper, Summer 2006

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

• Explore Sound in Flash: Alive Canada
  My Diary, Mars CloseUp, Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation, Community Club, A Tribute to Mopsey, Listen to The Nightingale, Brave No World Jukebox, Polygon Dissection Gallery, and Cat Empire.
• Explore Video in Flash: Inside 911
  Apollo 11, Storytellers and their Tales, Superbowl Commercials
• Explore beginner examples:
• Australia (.swf & .fla)- J. Heaphey, Spring 2006
  Birds of Indiana (.swf & .fla) - J. North, Summer 2006
  Birthday (.swf & .fla) - M. Witt, Spring 2006
  Coyote (.swf & .fla) - M. Burkhart, Spring 2006
  Escape (.swf & .fla) - A. Goben, Spring 2006
  Jamaica (.swf) - A. Hurford, Spring 2006
  Library (.swf & .fla) - J. Delph, Spring 2006
  Preschool (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson, Spring 2006
  Stella (.swf) - L. Colbert, Spring 2006
  Stink Cat (.swf & .fla) - D. Smith, Summer 2006
  Thunderstorm (.swf & .fla) - B. Moline, Summer 2006
  Where are You? (.swf & .fla) - M. Gish, Spring 2006

Try It!

• Add Fireworks Sounds (Workshop Handout Pages 11).
• Find Sounds - locate sounds
• Play Up, Up, and Away (MP3 music clip).

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Publishing

Explore the Possibilities

• Explore beginner expansions:
• Animation Techniques (.swf & .fla) - animation - A. Denham, Summer 2006
  Book Club (swf & fla) - forms and email - M. Gish, Spring 2006
  Color Wheel (swf & fla)- Advanced practice with tweening and motion - K. Mosbaugh, Spring 2006
  Cannon Game (.swf & .fla) - B. North, Summer 2006
  Dancers - Take a still graphic from a website and animate it. - N. Cavallaro, Spring 2006
  Flash Tutorial (.swf) - J. Heaphey, Spring 2006
  Random Rockets (swf) - Created a movie clip that occurs at random places on the screen. - M. Witt, Spring 2006
  MicroGame (swf and fla) - M. Burkhart, Spring 2006
  Morphing Letters (.swf & .fla) - S. Jackson, Spring 2006
  Ipod (swf and fla) - Explored uses for mouse-over. - A. Hurford, Spring 2006
  Old MacDonald (swf) - Explored coordinating bouncing ball, lyrics, photos, and music - L. Colbert, Spring 2006
  Party Invitation (.swf & .fla) - K. Pizarek, Spring 2006

Try It!

• Save as SWF
• Embed in web page (Workshop Handout Pages 4 & 12)

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Integrating

• Find Animation, Interaction & Multimedia Elements in Conservation Central (Smithsonian's National Zoo),
  African Voices (Smithsonian National Museum of American History), and Within These Walls.
• Scholastic’s Interactive Skill Builders

Explore/Evaluate • Graphics • Animation • Interaction • Multimedia • Publishing