Matt Stephens (dandt_matt)

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Adobe Generation Task 2

This month I am participating in the Adobe Generation ANZ Program for teachers.



The first course is called Digital Creativity in the Classroom.

From the Course Home page:

 "This course is all about Digital Creativity. Photo imaging, animation, video and web design, all set in the context of the classroom."

"We will learn key digital skills and how to build a learning resource online for your students. We will share our best practice and expertise to help you develop your knowledge and understanding. We will work with Photoshop, Flash, Premiere and other Adobe tools. We will meet professionals from industry and find out more about their use of digital media within industry as well as hearing how other teachers have engaged and succeeded.

Each week the course will build upon a specific element of digital design and introduce you to new digital skills."

(http://anzmoodle.adobegeneration.com/)


Below is my attempt at Task 2 - A Flash animation about my department.




I have written a post about Adobe Flash in the past (here and here) and consider myself to be reasonably adept at using Flash. I still find it quite difficult to achieve what I can picture in my mind and my one piece of advice would be to keep it simple..!

I am looking forward to a session on game development in Flash because it would be great to learn how to apply actionscript to my animations effectively.







Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Adobe Generation Task 1

This month I am participating in the Adobe Generation ANZ Program for teachers.



The first course is called Digital Creativity in the Classroom.

From the Course Home page:

 "This course is all about Digital Creativity. Photo imaging, animation, video and web design, all set in the context of the classroom."

"We will learn key digital skills and how to build a learning resource online for your students. We will share our best practice and expertise to help you develop your knowledge and understanding. We will work with Photoshop, Flash, Premiere and other Adobe tools. We will meet professionals from industry and find out more about their use of digital media within industry as well as hearing how other teachers have engaged and succeeded.

Each week the course will build upon a specific element of digital design and introduce you to new digital skills."

(http://anzmoodle.adobegeneration.com/)

Below is my attempt at task 1 - Inspired by the HOPE poster by Shepard Fairey


I loosely followed a tutorial on YouTube featured here.