- Task 3 ~ Improved Flash "rain drop" by Lidia & Candy
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/klyiu2/flashraindrop.swf
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/klyiu2/flashraindrop.html
- Thank you for your comments!
- We find this reference book "Flash 2004 Animation in Art" is useful. It is borrowed from the Kowloon Public Library.
- Reference book: Robert Firebaugh. Illustrating with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. "Explains how anyone can create professional looking vector graphics, regardless of artistic talent". "Covers a variety of illustration styles including solid fill art, cartoon, manga, photorealistic, and experimental". "CD-ROM includes tutorials and a tryout version of Macromedia Flash MX 2004".
- We also find this website is helpful http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html.
- Reference Book: Katherine Ulrich. Visual QuickStart Guide Macromedia Flash for Windows & Macintosh: Peachpit Press. "Teach yourself Flash the quick and easy way! This Visual QuickStart Guide uses pictures rather than lengthy explanations".
- Reference: Mayer, R.E. (2005). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Multimedia learning hypothesis: "People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone". "Learning as a process by which people build mental representations from words and pictures".
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Lesson 3 Reflection:
I am impressed by Lesson 3 "Information visualization is a process of transforming data and information into a visual form allowing someone to expore.
Flash is not easy to learn when I compare it with power point. When I ask some of my colleagues, most of them do not know how to use flash, even one of the IT assistants. The best way is to search some useful websites and borrow some reference books from libraries. The basic skills of making flash introduced by Daniel is useful during lesson 4 although he taught us in a little bit fast. I tried to use more than one week’s time to learn the basic skills through reading books and doing the “raindrop” task before the lesson 4, so I can understand easily when Daniel taught us about how to use FLASH, especially he reminded us to pay attention to the “button” function.
I agree with Mayer, 2005:
“People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone”.
“Pictures and words are qualitatively different, however, they can complement each other”.
“Visuals and text together take advantage of the full capacity of human for processing of information”.
I will try to use self-paced tutorils which you made for students to get basic ideas about Flash? http://www.learnactivity.com/FlashTutorial.zip
I will also make use of my Easter Holiday to make use of Flash to do my group's final assignment.
Thank you for your reminding.
Candy Yiu
Thank you for Daniel's reminding. I will try to use self-paced tutorils which you made for students to get basic ideas about Flash? http://www.learnactivity.com/FlashTutorial.zip
I will also make use of my Easter Holiday to make use of Flash to do my group's final assignment.
Candy Yiu
Dear Pui Man,
I agree with you that self-learning skills are required if we want to have great improvement in using Flash. So my group will make use of the Easter Holiday to pay more attention to the use of Flash.
Thank you for your information about factors which were affected the raindrop which consists of air resistance, gravity, velocity, size, angle, wind and angle, air pressure and surface tension and aero-dynamic forces.
At 5:43 PM, yiuLibrary said…
Dear Diana Chian,
I am impressed by your "Raindrop" which needs much technical skills to finish.
Dear Kit Ping,
Your powerpoint representation of raindrop gave me much ideas about the size and shape of raindrop. I will use it to do my flash raindrop again.
Thank you for your information.
Group Members: Lidia Ho, Candy Yiu
We make use of this Saturday to improve the Flash design of "Raindrop", we hope it is much better and now we have more confidence in using Flash.
The "Play (red square)" and "Stop (green triangle)" buttons are useful. The different shape and size of raindrops are described.
We look forward to receiving more comments about our improved flash "Raindrop". Thank you for your comments!
More about the improved FLASH "raindrop":
- We use the water cycle picture as the raindrop's background and its colour is light.
- We use four pictures to introduce the water cycle process. So when the mouse is near different picture, it will show you different numbers, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4. Then you will know the first process is "Evaporation", and the second process is "Condensation"...
- We use the flash to introduce the size and shape of raindrop from 1mm to 8mm. We also mentioned that the size of raindrop will be affected by air pressure.
Thank you for your (visitors') comments.
When I visit my classmate, Sophie Chow's blog, I strongly agree with her that “Flash is one of the most useful tools for presenting visual information". From my experience, the more functions of flash you know, the more visual information you would like and enjoy to present by flash.
Candy Yiu
Dear Dorothy,
I really appreciate your powerpoint presentation of raindrop, especially you tell us the reasons and show us the examples of different shape and size of raindrop. We learn much from your raindrop presentation.
Candy Yiu
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