Let the Fireworks begin as the special effects popup into the sky for
all to see. Popup
menus with Fireworks.
Friday, April 27th lab: Koala Bear puzzle.
Sounds Good example for
assignment on Flash and Audio.
Sounds Good example for
assignment on Flash and Audio.
Flash Assignment: Flash Sounds
(MP3 sounds) played along with animated movie clip symbols from
Wednesday March 11th. We covered this example in class. It is due
by the end of the first week after spring break.
You can have until Wednesday, the 2nd Wednesday after spring break, if
needed for the animated and audio assignment.
Sound
One Who ya gonna call?
Sound
Two
Ghostbusters!
Sound
Three Show the Channels
Some MP3 files to practice Flash audio with.
After Effects Animating Text files.
Please do NOT download the QuickTime Movie Aqua 3D Text_comp proxy.mov
file. You ONLY will need two .psd files and one .aep file!
VIP: After Effects assignment one reading,
watching
and writing activity.
Due on Monday, 02/02/2009 at start of Lang 213
class.
Updated with a new question on late Friday
afternoon!
It is a prelab assignment to prepare you for the lab.
Special Effects with Flash using
invisible buttons. You received this as a handout on Friday 01/30 in
class #8.
Review also
01/21/2009 Wednesday - CLASS #5 handouts and example:
Special
Effects with
Flash symbols. MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER event is not as well known as
MouseEvent.CLICK but it can be useful. Invisible buttons! Lots more to
cover on this in StudioIT 3 ITT 138 lab on FRIDAY February 6th.
VIP: After Effects assignment one reading,
watching
and writing activity.
Due on Monday, 02/02/2009 at start of Lang 213
class. It is a prelab assignment to prepare you for the lab.
Technical interlude:
Slide show on IP
numbers, subnet masks, octets and binary numbers to get a feel for
computer networks and how the internet and TCP/IP protocol set works.
This was introduced a bit on Wednesday, 01/28/2009 in class.
tracert and traceroute and ping were demonstrated. hops and IP number
addresses.
Files for After Effects first class.
Shape Tween StudioIT 3 lab
material.
Get your Flash is Shape with Shape
Tweens - follow-up review of Friday lab class with published Flash
movie and another new JPEG snapshot.
Reminder: Lang 213 (02/13 = Valentine's Day eve) computer lab for the
next 12 Monday classes. Adobe After Effects
- 01/21/2009 Wednesday - CLASS #5:
Special
Effects with
Flash symbols. MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER event is not as well known as
MouseEvent.CLICK but it can be useful. Invisible buttons! Lots more to
cover on this in StudioIT 3 ITT 138 lab on FRIDAY January 30th.
- Email note: No textbook required and hands-on
computer lab class schedule for Lang 213 and ITT 138 (Studio IT 3).
- Flash CS3 assignment due on Friday in StudioIT 3 (ITT 138) lab class.
- VIP: Week one readings and video tutorials required for doing assignment one.
- Schedule of Lang 213 and StudioIT 3 Monday and Friday lab classes and of the final exam period.
- Class SYLLABUS screen snapshot of the most relevant portions. You will get the entire syllabus as a handout during class.
- VIP: Flash CS3 and Flash CS4 email note. UNI will not get Flash CS4 installed until sometime this summer, so we will focus on Flash CS3 in our hands-on classes.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite for taking 810:023 that is
officially required is out of date and does not apply for
the spring of 2009 offering of Microcomputer Systems.
Any ONE of the following is enough to satisfy the prerequisite.
-
810:021 Computer Skills and Concepts is a sufficient background and
prerequisite.
- If you
have had previous experience with Flash or Dreamweaver or Photoshop in
a graphic design class, that would satisfy the prerequisite.
- Similar web development classes using Front Page or other packages or
writing HTML directly would be enough of a background.
- Send email to jacobson@cs.uni.edu if you have any questions and/or
if you wish to have the prerequisite hold lifted for your student ID number.
You might also be interested in the
Maya 3D Graphics and Animation class.
810:088 section 11 is a 9 MWF class.
This class is part of the Certificate in Computer
Applications - 4 classes, 12 credit hours, designed especially for
non-CS majors.
- The class will have a heavy projects emphasis. The
projects will
have a
focus on developing new software skill with graphics and animation and web presentation software and presenting information on your web page or in class exercises that helps you and the other students grasp different aspects of microcomputer systems (hardware and software) and computer networking. The planning for the course will be done over Christmas break.
- There will be no textbook for the class. There will be many handouts
and
web links to information and reviews/previews of each class and lab available from the class web page. There are lots of resources available with the software we will be learning. Many of the assignments will have products so that there will be 20 different practice quiz pages each created by yourself or your classmates which are questions about the material you have learned in class and think is important.
- It is expected that in every topic area covered in the class, there
will
be some portion of the class with no background in that specific area.
- In other words, there will be students who have no graphics
software
experience. No problem. This is a focus of the class, but we start with
the basics.
- There will be students that have no web publishing software
experience. Don't worry. You will learn step by step.
- There will be students that have no hardware concepts
experience or background on how a computer operating system or
network works. Smooth sailing here as we start with the basics.
- The class will be
taught accordingly. With each topic area listed above, it will be covered
as if you are a beginner in that topic area or skill set. Thus you need
not worry about any specific deficiency. For areas you do have a
background, you will find there will be some review.
Outline of topics covered and estimated time for each
area
- Adobe software (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks): (15 class sessions) will be held in the Studio IT computer labs on the 2nd floor of the ITTC building. In this laptop lap the focus will be on developing skills with Dreamweaver and Flash and Fireworks that can be applied to web page projects. Projects will include at least one group project and presentation.
- Dreamweaver - 2 lab periods.
- Flash - 12 lab periods. Buttons, Animations, ActionScript basics, Masks, Guided path animations, special effects. Interactivity with Flash. Writing an interactive self-grading practice quiz using Flash over concepts related to the class.
- Fireworks/Photoshop - 1 or 2 class periods.
- Adobe After Effects: (12 class sessions) - we will use Lang 213 computer lab for Adobe After Effects focused classes.
You will be able to use the 30 day free trial version of either Adobe After Effects CS3 or Adobe After Effects CS4. I will concentrate most of the assignments for After Effects within a 3 or 4 week long period.
- Creating and managing layers in Adobe After Effects. 6:27 minute video tutorial also web published.
- Applying Effects in After Effects. Brainstorming feature. 5:37 minute video with html published page.
- Animating Text. 3D text effects. Publishing the effect to your web page. 7:32 minute online Adobe video also published as html.
- Painting and masking using Adobe After Effects. 12:18 minute online video also html published.
- Working with keyframes in the timeline. 8:32 minute tutorial. No Adobe published text version.
- Using the Puppet Tool. Animating a character. 7:16 minute online video and html published tutorial.
- Handouts and other web resources and book excerpts.
- Using ethereal software to sniff network packets and learn how networks work. Computer Science department laptops in the 322 ITT classroom. How networks work from the local area networks and internet service providers to the internet and the world wide web. Network security. About 4 class sessions.
- Group presentations: (2 class sessions).
- Midterm exam: (1 class session). Extensive study guide provided.
- Troubleshooting basics (1 class session). Fixing your computer. How to most effectively call or email a help desk when you have a problem. Ghostbusters movie lessons and symbolism for computer troubleshooting and computer programming or effective applications software use for complex and challenging tasks.
- Scanners, digital cameras: (1 class session). How a scanner works.
- Vector graphics and raster graphics concepts and hardware. Color - RGB graphics. RGB triplets. Hexadecimal specification of colors. Phosphors, pixels, how computer monitors and displays work. Video adapters, LCD panels, 3D Graphics Accelerators, video hardware. (5 class sessions).
- Magnetic secondary storage basics. How a hard drive works. (1 class session).
- CPUs, Computer generations, Microprocessor history and directions, fetch/execute cycle, how a computer works using a very simple model of a computer. (2 class sessions).
- Memory. RAM, ROM, L1 cache memory, L2 cache memory. Transistors. (2 class sessions).
- Quizzes - two quizzes will be given and each will take about half of a class period. (1 class session total). May decide to have one or both of these be take home or be in-person grading by appointment.