[Yr11 Information Technology] Outcome 2 help

[Meadows, Roslyn M]

Hi all

If you want to use Flash (or any other Adobe/Macromedia app) you can
download the trial version and use for 30 days. I have done this in the
past - if your computers are reimaged at the end of the term you can use
it again the following term/semester with another group. Just need to
bribe the techs into doing an "extra-ordinary" install. 

It is one of the few apps that the kids will happily download at home
(gamemaker being another) and learn by themselves - often the best kids
in the class end up better than me (not necessarily saying much!)
because they have so much more time to play, so I use this fact and get
them to help each other.

There are some great basic tutorials in Practice IT Book 2 which get the
kids started really quickly on it - and great tutorials also within the
Flash Help menu.

Cheers
Ros

Roslyn Meadows
Bentleigh Secondary College
9579 1044
0412 614 062	
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[mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kim Gration
Sent: Monday, 3 September 2007 12:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Outcome 2 help

Hi there folks,

I must admit up front that I have little working knowledge or sufficient
licences of Flash . . . so it was not really an option for us.

I have just started the task today with my students and we are using
Adobe
PhotoShop 5.5 in combination with a shareware product called GIF
Construction Set Professional . . . neither of them are particulary new
products!

GIF Construction Set Pro is a basic program to learn and use, though it
is
a little clandestine and is limited in what you can do with it compared
to
a bells and whistles product like Flash.

Basically, the process is as follows:

In PhotoShop:
- create a new file with a width of 24 cm, height of 16 cm and 72
pixels/inch resolution (i.e. roughly the printable size on an A4 page).
- put your first shape in the middle of the screen (e.g. a circle by
using
the circular marquee tool, click the Edit menu, select Stroke, a stroke
width of 2 pixels, then click OK).
- save this file as a given name (e.g. DFD1) as a GIF or JPG into a
precreated folder.
- put a label inside the shape using the text tool.
- save this file as the next in the sequence (e.g. DFD2) into the same
folder.
- draw your next item (e.g. an arrow, another shape etc.) and resave and
so on, incrementing the number on the end the filename each time until
you
have finished the DFD.
- each time you save you are creating an additional frame for the
animation.

Open GIF Construction Set Pro and:
- choose Animation Wizard from the File menu, choose all the defaults
(except for loop continuously and delay (e.g. 1 second)) until you get
to
the window where you choose the files that you require in the animation.
- click the Choose File button, navigate to the precreated folder and
select the first file (e.g. DFD1), click OK, then the Choose File button
again, select the second file (e.g. DFD2), click OK etc. You may need to
alter the file type setting (e.g. if you had saved as JPEG in PhotoShop)
as you do this.
- once you have chosen all the files you want to use in the animation,
click next and then finish.
- the animation will be produced for you. You can preview it using the
cool black sunglasses icon in the shortcut bar. When happy with it
simply
save and you're done.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kim

-- 
Kim Gration
ICT Manager
Myrtleford Secondary College
http://www.myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au


> I'm really stuck on what to do with the following - Annotate visual
> representations of networks to show storage points, processing points
and
> security points and, where appropriate, animate the representations to
> show data flows.
>
> Can someone please share what they are doing for the "animate" part?
I'm
> desperate for some ideas!
>
> Thanks
>
> Kim Hewlett
> Technology Coordinator
> Wheelers Hill Secondary College
> e: hw at whsc.vic.edu.au
>
>
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