Putting Flash into your Course Updated Spring 2004

New Templates (2004) download the zip files and open the FLA in Flash MX Audio Controller CLOZE CLOZE for right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew) Concentration: Graphic-Graphic Sound-Graphic Sound-Sound Text-Sound Text-Text Drag-Drop: Text-Sound Text-Text Sentence Mix Video Controller

Flash Resources:

• Flashkit (sound effects, audio loops)
• Actionscripts.org (scripting help)

Flash MX notes:

• Best Practices for Using Flash (under development)
• The "Manual" 26-page PDF file
• Scripts for Templates
• Unicode in Flash MX:
  • Overview:
  • Setting your default language in Windows 2000:
• Templates:
  • Text drag-drop matching | (zip file) |
  • Graphics concentration | (zip file) |
  • Text concentration | (zip file) |
  • Sentence mix | (zip file) |
  • Sound-Picture matching | (zip file) |
• Import text from an external text file
  

Recommended Helper Programs:

• Sound recording and editing
  • Audacity- Cross-platform
  • CoolEdit - Windows
• Graphics Editing
  • GraphicConverter - Mac
  • Paint Shop Pro - Windows

Flash Version 5 Skills and Concepts (Files are in PDF format)

1. A simple button
2. Playing sounds when clicking on a button
3. Setting audio compression
4. Simple animation using tweening
5. Making an object rotate 360
6. Putting an animation in a button
7. Rollover effects using tweened movie clips
8. Making a SWF file for distribution & "Publishing" a Flash movie in a web page.
9. Making a draggable object.
10. Dynamic text (for keeping score).

Flash Version 5 Templates

• Sound - Picture matching
• Drag & Drop matching
• Concentration
• Sentence Mix

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