Choosing to Succeed

A Blog by Mrs. G about Finding Intrinsic Motivation

Wouldn’t it be different to view information and school in a proactive way?

Do you know what people who strive for success think about? They value information.

Steve Jobs (Apple, Pixar) values information. He saw knowing something about computers as a way to change they way people apply information and spend their time. He was a part of creating the personal computer, the concept of having an information computing machine in your house.

Successful people see knowing information as an edge on everyone else in that field. Competitive people think that way too. The good, confident, people share what they know with others.

Intelligent adults read a lot because they figured out that how much a person knows about “what’s going on in the world around them” is part of their self value.

Information is now at your fingertips. Everyone should have something(s) they find interest in and strive to know a lot about it.

What do you think the magazine industry strives upon? It strives upon people wanting the inside information about their interests.

You can tell negatively tell yourself that you have to be here. You can tell yourself that you are forced to choose classes. Or, you can remind yourself that you chose this class. Out of all the electives offered you chose this class. You are empowered to feel the way you feel. The powerful thing to realize is that you have a choice to control the thoughts that control your feelings. You have a choice when a feeling comes over to you to control thought to change your feeling. Don’t let the outside world control you. You control your world. Don’t let a challenge fail you. You can mentally prepare to pass the challenge.

When given information do your best at learning it, compete against yourself. That is what “challenge yourself” means!

Mrs. Giambra

Flash Day One

Please answer these questions:

Number your answers

1. What do you think Flash can create?
2. What company creates the Flash application and who are they owned by?

Finding Final Project references

There are tasks in the Final that you will need to review while completing this project. Yes, you are allowed to refer to tutorials to complete these tasks. Professional Flash programmers are constantly looking up the steps to creating animation as they are creating a vision.

You will be assigned a number.
You are doing this to help everyone in the class.
When you attempt to create animation or actionscript you can simply come here and get the page numbers for that tutorial.

I will not be able to help you much. That is why you are helping each other.

The tasks that need page numbers are:

1. Bitmap inside text
2. Masked Bitmap
3. Adding event sounds to movie
4. Frame by Frame Animation
5. Motion Guide Tweens
6. Adding Action to Buttons
7. Adding Stop Action to Frame

Working with Bitmaps in Flash

Answer the questions below in one comment and label your answers with #1 #2...
These questions are worth 9 points. You must answer them all before we move on....
If you refuse to answer any you lose points.
1. What three file names did we mentioned were bitmaps?

2. What characterizes a bitmap?

3.What is an example of a bitmap?

4.Compare the Import to Stage and Import to Library command?

5.In yesterday's tutorial, we positioned both the cat cat's and the parrot's registration points and set their x and y positions the same. What would happen if we did not do that?

6.How do you get to the info panel for a stage object?

7.What does compressing in Flash do to a bitmap?

8.How you acces the bitmap's properties in Flash?

9.What part of a mask layer is the actual mask?
10.***Extra credit: What can you do to a bitmap after you turn a bitmap (photograph) into a vector?

Reflecting on the sounds and buttons we have made

In this past tutorial we have learned how to make buttons, use buttons from the library, and insert sounds.
But did we really learn it? How well? I mean the textbook is like the output and we are the input into the Flash program. We could do it four times, but do we really know the purpose of a frame label or why we put the name of a label into a 'Go to And Play' dialog box?
Could you create a button and script it without help?


Another way to make our learning concrete is not only when we apply our skills but analyze them in conversation.

Think, think for a minute about how you made buttons and sounds in this last tutorial. Tell me in two sentences a detailed explanation of something you learned in the tutorial.

A good example:

I learned that you put a button's sound on a layer in it's timeline not the scene's timeline.

A bad example:

I learned how to make a button. ( this example is bad b/c it does not tell the reader anything about HOW a button is made, got it?)

Please blog as other and type in your name

Adding Interactivity to a Flash movie

Please helpkick off our discussion. When finished please read your classmates responses and give them thanks and encouraging words for their contributions.

Question#1 What are some of the applications (uses) for Flash?



Question#2What does it mean when a Web site or movie is interactive?

things to remember when making an animated banner

Comment and Explain in your own words the key steps to performing these tasks:

motion tween


frame by frame animation


animating two or more objects on the stage

animated objects must be converted to what?

What should you do if you want a copy of a symbol but want to change it to make it different?



Describe some of the motion tweens you have created our in recent tutorial and case studies.