Week 1 Agenda

6:00-6:30pm: Welcome and orientation.

• Instructor's background and fallability
• About the textbook
• Background of Flash
• Course site outside of Blackboard
• Distraction of the Week
• "If it was easy, everyone would be doing it"
• Webster's Facebook Group

6:30-6:45pm: Take pictures, create Flash Gallery with Fireworks (only so I can learn your names, not to post publicly, I promise)

6:45-7:15pm: Introduction to Flash.

• Space and Time: Objects and Animation
• The Flash CS4 Interface, what's the same, what's new?
• Creating new files
• Adding Layers
• Editing Keyframes
• Panels
• Libraries
• Properties Inspector
• Flash Help and other learning resources
• Online resources
• Adobe Creative Suite integration

7:15-7:30pm: Break

7:30-7:45pm: Free "Lab" time to explore Flash, ask questions.

7:45-8:15pm: Get Acquainted with Blackboard, set up accounts, post questions, comments to discussion board

8:15-8:30pm: Begin Lab 1: create file to upload as a Blackboard Assignment.

8:30-8:50pm: Wrap-up, Q&A, preview of next week's lesson.

Assignments

Read the Syllabus.

Complete the Student Information Survey on Blackboard

Read textbook: Ch. 1

Lab 1: Get Acquainted With Flash and Blackboard.

Related Resources for Week 1

GCCCD Blackboard site

GD222 Course Files

• Download sample files in zip format for the Flash CS3 Professional Visual Quickstart Guide. These files will be useful for the Flash CS4 VQG.

Flash CS3 Classroom-In-A-Book Sample files

• I encourage your to download and explore a 21 Mb zip file containing the Start and End files for the start and end files for Lessons 1 thru 6 of the Flash CS3 CIAB in Flash CS3 format. I have created several video tutorials to accompany these files.

Jeff Sale