PE3_Flash_Custom Presets

Not only can you use Motion Presets, I've learned you can make your own. After tweening your own custom animation, you can save that information as a custom keyframe. Overtime, I can see the value of building you own presets when you are doing repetitious work that you want to look a certain way but you don't want to  rebuild it everytime. Very handy.

PE2_ Flash_Motion_Presets

I've never used motion presets before. Essentially it allows you to integrate prerendered transitions for any and all graphics you so choose. Very similar to imovie but much more open ended in that you have complete control over where the graphics are placed and how they move on screen. Very handy tools.

PE1_Flash

I'm learning more about Flash in my limited knowledge of masking and revealing shapes. Linda.com has been very helpful in providing tutorials for these types of projects.

I went ahead and made my own project to take the technique further into a series of blue wavy lines that appear in a sequential animated format. Now all I have to do is review how to tween....

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BP_9_Discovering Web 2.0 tools

Xtra Normal is a fantastic website that offers users the ability to write scripts and turn them into pre-rendered character animation that delivers your choice of monologue or dialogue based on the scripts that you write. You can use it to inform or to tell a story. It can be used to entertain as well as educate.

You can set up your choice of scenes and characters to deliver what ever message you decide. In an educational setting, you can deliver lecture based information or "attention getter" activities into your classroom in new and interesting ways. The ability for you to control your content by adding animated expressions with background music or ambient sound opens almost unlimited possibilities in the different styles of content delivery.

For my personal use, I would enjoy using this resource for producing material presentations to my class for any occasion. I would provide students the opportunity to deliver group presentations to the rest of the class.

It can be used to recreate historical moments never before seen or heard to recapture the significance of those events. It will teach students about the work that goes into preparing scripts and developing scene based writing.

No matter what subject or what discipline you teach, Xtra Normal provides a very customizable resource for presenting easy to edit, quick video presentations for free or a nominal fee.