Flash Workouts
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Israel Workshop Workouts
Workshop Workout 1: Create a Wiki 'Member Profile' page
Set up an account (by invitation only)
1. Click on "Log In/Create Account" at the top of the page.
2. Choose a nickname and a password.
3. Include your email address, so if you lose your password, it can be sent to you.
4. Now it's the time to Create a Member Profile Page! Look a few examples: Member Profiles
5. FOLLOW THESE STEPS:
1. Type your name into the "search" bar (located on the toolbar) and click "Go"
2. Create a new page, if one does not already exist. This page will be named after you.
3. Copy and paste the following questions in your bio page, then answer them:
* Name * Meaning of your name * Hometown and country * Favorite food(s) * Favorite music * Place in the world you'd most like to visit * Focus of study or favorite school subject(s) * Hobbies and things you like to do outside of school * Favorite technology ‘gadget’ and why * Describe when you started using computers * Describe what you use computers for * Describe what you like to do on the internet * Why do you want to participate in the GLOBALORIA Pilot Program? * What will you be doing in 5 years?
4. Add a current photo of yourself and another favorite photo. Tell us why you chose these.
5. Click "Show Preview" to see how your page looks.
6. Feel free to add other info and special touches to your page -- be yourself!
7. Click "Save Page" when you are done.
Send a Notification E-mail (Required Last Step!) When you are finished building your Member Profile Page, let us know it is ready by sending us a notification e-mail. This is REQUIRED from ALL participants. It is the final step in setting up your account. Please include the following in your e-mail message:
1. FULL NAME 2. YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS 3. YOUR DATE OF BIRTH 4. NAME OF YOUR SCHOOL 5. URL OF YOUR NEW (WIKI) BIO PAGE
Thank you for joining the Globaloria community of builders. We can't wait to hear from you, and to see your own Member Page!
Workshop Workout 2: Add Video to Your Wiki Page
If you have the time, you can pair up with a friend and film a short video clip to post on your Wiki Member Profile Page.
1. Use a digital video camera to film a 1-minute introduction. See links below for instructions.
2. Upload the video to YouTube.com.
3. Last, embed the video into your Wiki Member Page. You can do this by copy/pasting the code provided by YouTube into your Member Profile Page edit screen.
You'll need a free YouTube member login (sign up here).
Making and Optimizing Your Videos for YouTube
Workshop Workout 3: Design Analysis -- Critique a Flash Applet
Surf MyGLife.org/Israel – touch and click everywhere
Select 2 Flash applications
Write a review of each application from:
- a user’s point of view
- a producer’s point of view
Make sure to include:
- Short Overview
- Design Analysis
- Usability Analysis
- Suggestions for improvement – to make it more educational
- 2-3 things you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content) – so we’ll make sure to teach it!
Create a new Wiki Page for Project 3 - and link to it from your Member Profile
Post and See Workshop Workout 3 Submissions here
Workshop Workout # 3.5 (Overnight): Write Your Dream Ideas
Tonight, your job is to Dream Ideas… but in Flash… Write them down, sketch a few screens....in your head and on paper is OK. Bring them tomorrow morning with you. We’ll collect and share our ideas tomorrow.
Base your ideas on the MyGLife.org Flash applications… Think about your design ideas and how you may want to develop them during the workshop…(and afterwards)…what will users learn from your application? Try to teach them something new.
First Think Big. Then Think Small. As beginners, we can only execute a small piece of the big idea…but the big idea is our guide. Good night!
Post and See Workshop Workout 3.5 Submissions here
Workshop Workout 4: Project Development -- Team Project Ideas
Pick a Topic for your software -- an Educational Flash Application, inspired by the Flash applications on MyGLife.org.
Begin to define the purpose of your application.
eMail your team members and post ideas to the wiki by Thursday, October 26, and each day until the next session (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday before we meet at 5:00pm at Cisco).
1. Do Research about your software topic;
2. Communicate further about your topic with your teammates on your team wiki;
3. Communicate further about your topic with your teammates via email;
4. Write tech specifications for your topic and post on the wiki;
5. Design a few screens for your software; you can do it digitally or scan your sketches on paper too;
6. Establish roles and responsibilities of team members: Producer, Programmers, Writers, Designers, Researchers
7. Find a fun way to present your team work (using PPT) on the evening of October 29th. Good luck!
Post and See Preliminary Team Project Presentations here
Workshop Workout 5: Content Modification -- Customize Jigsaw with Photoshop and XML
http://www.myglife.org/israel/en/contribute/tutorials/flash/jigsaw
Post and See Workshop Workout 5: Customizing Jigsaw submissions here
Workshop Workout 6: Flash Tweening
In this tutorial students learned how to make a simple Flash animation. The animation will contain a transition between two frames called a “tween.”
MyGLife Activity:
http://www.myglife.org/israel/en/explore/gravity
Tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/tween.htm
File: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/code/tween_start.zip
Post and See Workshop Workout 6: Tweening Submissions here
Workshop Workout 6.5 (Overnight): Flash Animation - Illustrate Dream Ideas
1. Tonight, your design project is to tell a short animated story with Flash Animation.
2. Use your fresh knowledge of Motion Tweeining ...
3. Give it a fun Name!
3. Upload it on the Israel-Wiki in the Morning.
Post and See Workshop Workout 6.5: Dream Tweens here
Workshop Workout 7: Create a Flash Slideshow with Buttons
1. Create an interactive SlideShow
2. You can use mdlp's Presentation files to guide you.
Presentation source File By mdlp Presentation demo by mdlp
3. Upload it on your Member Profile Pages
Post and See Workshop Workout 7: Flash Slideshows here
Personal Design Workouts
Personal Workout 1: Creating a Timer with Actionscript
To help you understand more about the way Flash works, the Globaloria team recommends browsing through the Tutorials:Flash sectionof MyGLife.org. Become familiar with the various online lessons we have posted for you!
We are going to explore together a new Flash technique every week. These techniques will be very specific experiments that you can build and tweak for use in your BIG design project. The first Flash Recipe that we will explore is a timer that you can use in your applications. Click here to start building your own Flash timer. شكر
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Personal Workout 2: Animating with Flash
This one will make all the designers in the group very happy...
Weekly Workout #2: Making Flash Animations (Due November 23).
Give it a try -- you will be creating smooth, engaging animations in no time. Animation is one of the strengths of Macromedia Flash; you can use it to create catchy text effects, online cartoons, and other cool types of moving art (all of these things would look great in your next project ;).
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Personal Workout 3: Adding Sounds to Your Flash Apps
This week's Flash Workout will help you take your favorite music and sound effects (even stuff you record.....like your own voice, or your cat meowing) and put them into your Flash games and apps. You could make a little mp3 player of all your favorite sounds: your family, your street, your school....anything! This workout will teach you a few different ways to make it happen. I have recommended some places to get sounds if you don't want to record any.....maybe your crazy high-tech phones have a microphones built-in? (i definetely know they have big SPEAKERS.....you could throw a mini-party with those things!). Check it out, and start making beautiful music with Flash today!
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Personal Workout 4: Making It Smaller (Optimization)
This week's Flash Workout is a very useful one: it will be a great help to anyone trying to keep the filesize of their work very SMALL, without losing too much QUALITY. Keep in mind that any website is made up of many (GODOL! -thanks ifat) smaller images, sounds, scripts, and other file formats....pretty soon it can add up to LONG DOWNLOAD TIMES for your internet audience. After you finish this workout, you will be a pro at MAKING IT SMALLER.
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Personal Workout 5: Cool Art Effects Pt. 1--Masking
In this week's Flash Workout, you are going to learn one of my favorite effects in Flash and Photoshop. It is called "MASKING," and it is like taking a stencil and placing it over an image or movie so that only certain parts are visible. It is an awesome effect, and it is used to make some of the coolest websites and applications on the internet. Let's do a 5 minute workout....and you can learn this cool trick to use in your own artwork.
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