Whereever you are, I'll always remember you Preparation
To be able to make swf file, we need some software for example if we want to make a website, we need dreamweaver 8 software, there we can easier to make it and more practical beacause we just change the title or the other changing as we need. As we want to make an education programme that using flash animation we just need some pictures for backgrounds . So that we need flash 8 software to make it., We can use front page or dreamweaver as its editors. Internet explorer is ver important as a media tester.
The important of flash animation in teaching method is it can be used as a teaching aids therefore all the teachers can explain the teaching matery easily and more interesting . It is more practical because it can be put into the CD so that it can be taken anywhere easily . We don't need to take some complicated teaching aids. Actually the students are very keen and more antusiatic because it is more interactive and easy to carry out. With the flash animation the teaching learning process is more lively because we can hear some music and listen to some instructions given. We can also insert the instruction voice to the CD so that the teacher can a little bit save their energy.
To insert flash into website
Eventhough there are many applications to manage a web but until now there hasn't been aplication as good as dreamweaver as a supporter for flash. It also supports for HTML editing manually. Moreover dreamweaver can manipulate movie flash using ation script so you can ad interesting elemen to your web. As dreamweaver there is also another programme for editing a website namely microsoft frontpage 2000 which is very support to flash though we should use plug in. Adobe golive is another one to edit flash. It can edit as well as its originale file. Flash will make an HTML document as it publishes to swf file. You can open it in the notepad or as a new web file. The last option is we will export a movie flash into a gif animation or Java applet. more than swf file. On this way can produce the bigger picture but it doesn't mean it can be opened in the any browser without any plug in and edited by a web software.
The voice and script
Without calculating the picture, with flash you can also impot the format of voice MP3, WAV, and AIFF. These can be inserted into flash. The easiest way is by using standard of object action that can be managed for the first pallette. If you want a little bit complicated, use the standard language of web namely Java script. This will lead you to make detail of flash picture. Action script can also be able to make a form for many purposes. from simple respon until complicated shopping. More explanation you can visit this.http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Preloader
Browser usually needs time to upload all the movie flash depens on the internet traffic and the speed of modem of the users. When it has been a long time there has been nothing in the screen, the browser people will leave you. Of course it is very dissappointing. That's why we should insert the preloader Actually preloader is also a short flash movie. We should make some interesting thing during the uploading time. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Action Script
We shouldn't be influenced by the complicated of action script which can only be manage by a programmer. But eventhough we must understand the most important thing in it. i e : link part which can be identified by href, The title, at the top of page opening and closing command that we know as tag. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Making Puzzle
We can make a croosword puzzle in flash that can be used by our students to entertain them. In sudying English it is very useful to enlarge the student's vocabulary. Just make some boxes in flash as many as we need. Then make some letters. A for example . It must be change into the the symbol choose movie clip. ad the action script on press start dragg, on release stop dragging. you can do that as many as possible. By dragging the letter A to the blank box. Continue doing this for letter B. and so on.visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Filling the blank space with word to comple the passage.
The same with the above explanation but the letter is changed by a word. It has the same action script. I think it is easier than those already mentioned above. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Making flying word or paragraph
Change the word or paragraph into a movie clip. ad the action script on release play. In the line 12 of the timeline insert key frame. move the picture in the direction you want. Don't forget to create motion tween, and stop the action frame. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Making a conversation by two people.
Draw or insert the two people. Make two call outs. The first people will speak at line 12 of the frame of the first layer, and the second people will speak at line 50 of the frame of the first layer. Do the same for the next dialogue. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
Distance Learning
During holidays many teachers give the task for their students. Eventhough they are in Bali Island they can still doing their task. In fact their school is in Semarang Central Java Indonesia. How can it be ? Of course they are using internet that can be accessed by people round the world. The task is made in the flash programme and uploaded in it. The matery of the task is difference with those of the answersheet. They are in the different files.The student can fill their names, etc , answer the questions, and send it through e-mail to their teachers. After reading e-mail the teacher can print it or just save it in their flash disk. They will make correction later. Finish correcting, the teacher uploaded the student answer in the internet and the student see the mark they get. visit this http://eddy-setiawan.blogspot.com in the google box below.
