[vet-mm] A great flash site my students found

[Chris Russell]

Hi
My experience using - mini review
Ref: http://www.cartoonsmart.com/     Flash animation tutorials delivered as quicktime screen demos.
I purchased the lip-sync lesson hoping it would be a great class resource especially with Year 12 groups.
The 2005 experience - so far
I found due the range in learning styles many students were not willing to focus on a teacher led identication of the key points and then work through the preparatory segments. Many students are in a hurry as usual and wanted to cut to the chase - instant success. 
As a result they become confused, lost and negative about the tutorials. 
I ended up as usual having to slice up the content to communicate the key points which meant dedicating more time to developing yet another resource rather than reducing my prep time.
The clarity of instruction offered by the cartoonmsmart narrator can lose students because too much information is provided in rapid fire with jokes thrown in some tutorials.

Positives - The cartoon smart tutorials are fine for the more independant, capable learner and do look visually enticing
Some great short lesson freebees are offered by the cartoon smart site.

Alternatives - atomiclearning.com is good but can be expensive if your site licence needs are large and your budget is unusally small. (which is unheard of in most schools...)

I have found making your own tutorials using Snap X Pro 2 (Mac) or Capture Cam (Win) (or check out the Macromedia product) allows a trainer to tweak quicktime demo lessons to match the climate of the class in relation to this form of self-paced learning.
My intention is to get more confident students to record and narrate their keystrokes/moves as a means of building a varied Flashetc lesson bank using a motion screen capture program. 
This info is nothing new to the experienced trainers but for those who have just started teaching Multimedia and Computer Arts it may help save time and reduce the need to distribute reams of paper notes. - Plus environmentally sound. 
Hope this helps someone

Regards
Chris R
Box Hill Senior Secondary College 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Travers, Graham J" <travers.graham.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>
To: "VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List" <vet-mm at edulists.com.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:53:10 +1000
Subject: RE: [vet-mm] A great flash site my students found

Thanks for that Greg. I've found it handy. Another site worth looking at
is
http://www.cartoonsmart.com/

Click on the freebies and there's about a dozen swf files together with
their fla file. There's stuff on lip-synching, etc.
I'm just about to try it out with my year 9/10 class

-----Original Message-----
From: vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Greg Gebhart
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 2:55 PM
To: 'VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: [vet-mm] A great flash site my students found

My students told me about this web site. Its useful when teaching flash.
They really like it as it was built by students their own age.

http://www.superflashbros.net/ 

Greg Gebhart

Lowanna College




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