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

[tony at star.melb.catholic.edu.au]

Chris,

I agree with your review of the CartoonSmart material.

I use a bit of the CartoonSmart stuff purely as a resource ONLY
and NOT as the first point of learning/contact with Flash.

It's only made available for students who may require a little more
supplementary/complementary work for whatever reason.

Cheers,
TJ


At 03:36 PM 9/6/2005, you wrote:
>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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