Student Blogs

Kathleen Andrews
http://www.crazykatems.blogspot.com/

Gabriela Beristain
http://mpclass.blogspot.com
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk36584/

Kayla Bryant
http://kaylabryyy.blogspot.com

Shawn Casler
http://shawniecas.blogspot.com

Vanessa Faljean
http://shortandloud.blogspot.com

Rachael Finley
http://chupamedia.blogspot.com

Amelia Gajary
http://ameliaville.blogspot.com

Christopher Gately
http://tapedeckandcreedence.blogspot.com

Philip Govia
http://philgovia.blogspot.com/

Jeffrey Huntley
http://lynx1427.blogspot.com/

Ryan Kerr
http://dangerkerr.blogspot.com

Christopher Leth
http://sulorian.blogspot.com

Christopher Ludewig
http://chrisl-lair.blogspot.com/

Bryan Sharp
http://sharpmedia.blogspot.com

Danielle Tagerty
http://dtags262002.blogspot.com

Emily Wray
http://multimediaimaginings.blogspot.com

Jennifer Zumot
http://jn2daz.blogspot.com/

Free Sounds

Here's a good search engine for sound files on the internet:

http://www.findsounds.com/

Monday's Class

First thing: I want to talk to each of you about your final Flash project. Be sure to have any idea when you come in (print out a paragraph for me to read before I talk to you).

Second thing: I want to be able to show everyone in the class your 6-word projects, so get me that link before Monday. If you are having troubles, you can debug while I am having the Flash project talks. So you have to at least have your FLA working by the start of Monday's class so I can show them by the middle.

From this point on in the semester, the class is entirely driven by you -- i.e. I will only show you stuff that you want to learn more about. If you don't ask questions, then you won't learn anything, etc. I like a lot of the Flash work coming in so I hope to see it get better and better!

Some things we can go over: video, using variables, conditional statements ("If something is true, then go to frame x, if it is not, go to frame z, etc."), etc.

6 Word Short Story

Kate Andrews
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34272/6word.html

Gabriela Beristain
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk36584/6%20words/index.htm

Shawn Casler
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk28893/multimedia/dreams.html

Vaness Faljean
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33686/SIXWORD/

Rachael Finley
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31764/flash/sixword.html

Amelia Gajary
http://www.geocities.com/fishloveskevin/6words.html

Chris Gately
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk26181/sixword.html

Ryan Kerr
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk21024/flash/

Chris Leth
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33550/short_story/6_word_story.html

Chris Ludewig
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34812/6wordstory.html

Bryan Sharp
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32516

Emily Wray
http://internethallway.com/6word/

Jennifer Zumot
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32590/Flash_Projects/6_word_story_2.html

Jabberwocky Flash Piece

The story so far...

http://www.arras.net/jabberwocky_flash.html

Final Flash Project

On Friday, I'd like everyone to come in with an idea for their final Flash project.

Basically, you have several options:

1. Convert your Dreamweaver hypertext project into Flash. This is a good option for those of you who wanted to do more complicated forms of interactive narrative in your Dreamweaver project.
2. Convert your Lulu book project into Flash. This is an interesting option because you can play with illustrating your stories, or just coming up with user-friendly (and eye-friendly) computer "readers" -- things that are like books but with more options.
3. Create a Flash game. Obviously, you should keep your game concept pretty simple since you only have a few weeks to complete it.
4. Create a longer animated Flash poem, like your 6-word project.
5. Create a Flash documentary, including sounds and video, on some subject you are interested in (like your favorite movie star or Nicholas Sparks). You can find resources on the web and import them all into Flash to create a nice interactive documentary.

For all of these projects, I can show you some advanced ActionScript and other Flash features to make things work.

There are also some very good Flash resource sites where you can download Flash files and modify them to your liking. They also have tutorials about animation and design. A lot of these might be seem too advanced for you but if you hunt around and open files, you'll discover that many of them are understandable.

http://www.flashkit.com

http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/resources

http://www.actionscript.org/index.php

http://www.hotscripts.com/Flash/index.html

http://www.flashadvisor.com

(Just type "Flash Resources" or "Flash Tutorials" and you'll hit tons of them.)

Here are a bunch of Flash games to look at:

http://www.flash-game.net

IMPORTANT: review the "final portfolio" page of the blog:
http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/04/final-portfolio.html

If you are missing any of these elements you will be marked down. Also, remember that I am grading not just on the fact that you "got it done" but that it looks good.

All of this has to be done by April 30th (I had said April 27th before, but I probably won't get to look at it until April 30th anyway). That's about 2 and a half weeks from now, after which is something called SUMMERTIME.

Lastly, where are the rest of those Flash quizzes? I only have seven.

Flash Quiz

Here are the sound effects you will be using in your quiz today.

http://www.arras.net/stockton_sound_effects/

What I'd like you to do is:

• start a new Flash file, set the stage size to 400 x 400
• use only the Arial font, set for 96 point
• set the stage color to black
• make a button out of each of the letters (I will give you your words) with the normal color of the button being white (the rollover color can be anything you want EXCEPT white)
• attach one of the sounds above to the rollover of the button
• animate the letters as you wish, trying to give your interpretation of the word
• email the .fls (NOT the .swf) to me at stefansb@stockton.edu

By the way, I got the sound effects from a really excellent Flash site called Flash Kit, which has tutorials and other downloadable files that you can play with and reuse.