ICTCM - Flash Workshop

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Flash Learning Studio

"Macromedia's Flash is ... well ... no flash in the pan." These words in a recent review are right on target. In just a few years Flash has become the premier Web animation tool. Much of what can be done with Flash can be done with JavaScript or more particularly Java. But what makes Flash ubiquitous is that it is both an authoring tool and a file format. And its power is eclipsing other tools. For a general tool to create interactive application in minimal time, Flash is at the head of its class.

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Basic materials and references

1. Using Flash (Powerpoint->html) - PDF version
2. The Power of Flash
3. The windows panels
4. The Tools
5. The Timeline
6. Using Flash to teach mathematics  (in pdf)
7. A survey of online course basics

First Examples

Here are a few examples require no or just a little programming.

8. Basic tween animation - the Clown I - Source
9. Basic tween animation - the Clown II - Source
10. Basic tween animation for math - Source
11. Multiple animations - Source
12. Importing a Maple animation - Source
13. Can one = two? Morphing -yes - Source
14. The rolling ball - Source
15. The car morph - Source
16. Making a marquee - Source
17. Fake car morph I - Source  —  Fake car morph II - Source
18. Tracking the mouse - Source
19. Motion along a catenary - Source
20. Motion along a parabola - Source
21. An animated button - Source
22. Sine graph - Source
23. Scary story
24. Using sound descriptions- Source
25. The foil method - Source
26. Rules for exponentials and logarithms - Source
27. Rules for exponentials and logarithms - with variable entries
28. Evaluating a function - Solving a function - Source

Examples:

These examples require a little more programming.

29. Exploring continuity for piecewise linear functions.
30. Exploring continuity for piecewise quadratic functions.
31. Displaying combination in an animated motion.
32. Contolling an animation with a movie clip. - Source
33. Making a moving planet. - Flash code - Flash movie
34. Making an object follow the mouse. - Source
• Application: Drive test 1.0 - Source - basic model
• Application: Drive test 1.1 - more advanced
35. Quadratic solver
36. What is the area?
37. Practice with division
38. Making triangles
39. Linear Grapher - Quadratic Grapher - Linear Grapher
40. Quadratic Grapher -new and improved
41. Bouncing ball - with graph
42. The car quadratic - showing acceleration, initial speed and distance
43. Fractions
    1. Identifying fractions from tiles
    2. Adding Fractions
    3. Visualizing improper fractions    Source
    4. Writing improper fractions    Source
    5. Finding fractions on the number line
    6. Finding decimals on the number line
    7. Matching fractions to their decimal equivalents 
    8. Matching fractions to their decimal equivalents - with tiles 
44. Compound interest with graph - Source
45. Statistics examples
46. Function grapher and solver
47. Flash Calculator
48. Digitizer
49. Shadow's from the sun   Source
50. Flash examples
51. More Flash examples
52. Prey-Preditor model
53. Viscous Fingering
54. A little physics?
55. Collision - Source
56. Collision 2 - Source advanced version with more features such as draggable targets.
57. Embedding sound: Gun1 - Gun2
58. Embedding video

Tutorials:

1. Making a motion with Flash (Tweening)
2. Making a button.
3. Making a button control an animation (with movie).  —  Project — Source
4. Making motion with Action Script.
5. Making a clock.
6. Adding fractions
7. Converting AVI files to Flash SWF format (from TechSmith)
8. Using Flash with Camtasia (from TechSmith)