Flash Final

Final Project Notes

• When you bring in a graphic from elsewhere, it will have a white background, so you either have to trace it and save it as a movie clip, or if you cut it out with the magic wand in photoshop, you can just save it as a photoshop file. But JPG files will always end up with the white background instead of transparent.
• To get a movie to play more slowly, you can change the frames per second in the properties menu.
• You can make one flash file that will link to another flash file. For example, a list of buttons that can be clicked to make your movie play.
• Tweener has open source code you can use to help with flash code.
  

Mayer's Principles - Summary
Applying high quality multimedia design improves learning:

• Spatial Contiguity Principle - When corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other on the page or screen
  
• Temporal Contiguity Principle - When corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively
  
• Coherence Principle - When extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included
  
• Modality Principle - From animation and narration than from animation and on-screen text
  
• Redundancy Principle - From animation and narration than from animation, narration, and on-screen text
  

Individual Differences Principle Instructional Implications:

• Individualization: Pros - Addresses multiple learning types; Cons - Learner Classification risk, Unbalanced instruction

• Multiple Methods: Pros - Allows each learner type to filter out information; Cons - Creates redundancy, Violates coherancy
  
• Pre-Training: Pros - Prepares low knowledge learners for the multimedia presentation; Cons - Requires more time/resources up front
  

Flash Lectures 6 & 7

Modality Principle
Students learn better when words in a multimedia message are presented as spoken text rather than printed text.

Having pictures and text at the same time is overload for the eyes. (Particularly if it is a movie and you have limited time to process what you are seeing.) You only want one thing at a time per channel (audio and visual).

Redundancy Principle
Students learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and text.

Redundancy Effect:
A situation, experience, circumstance, or condition where eliminating, reducing, or getting rid of redundant, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, extra material, objects, bits and pieces, or examples results in better, improved, increased, more successful performance than when the redundant, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, extra material is included or kept.

*BETTER*
Redundancy Effect:
Eliminating redundant material results in better performance.

Flash Lectures 4 & 5

Buttons
Expand "Action" -> Type "on (" and a list of choices will open for you
Complete code: on (release) {play();}

To highlight both the shape and its outline, you can use the lasso tool.

Easier way to create a path of motion:
Use the motion guide layer to draw the path you would like it to take.
"Ease" in the property box can change the speed of the motion.