1. TC 310 The Computer in Technical Communication
Dr. Jennifer Turns
Week 9, Day 1 (6/2)

2. Looking back / Looking forward
Day
Emphasis
Monday
Definition, examples, analysis
Wednesday
Audience analysis, more examples
Holiday
Preliminary designs, formative eval
Flash / Learning Portfolio /Course eval
Open House, Due date!

3. Day 19 By the end of class, students should be able to: What we’ll do…
Answer questions about professional portfolio
Begin assignment 10 (learning portfolio) with confidence
Use Flash to create simple animations
What we’ll do…
Revisit professional portfolio
Discuss learning portfolio assignment
PLAY with FLASH
Complete course evaluations

4. Taking Stock of Learning
Use Software Tools. Use modern software tools to accomplish common TC activities including presentation management, word processing, graphics design, diagram design, page layout, web development, online help development, and animation.
Learn New Software Tools. Use skills developed throughout the course (particularly an understanding of tool functionality and strategies to get oriented in a new software program) to quickly come up to speed on new software tools.
Identify Effective TC Solutions. Identify criteria for judging the effectiveness of TC solutions (e.g., document, diagram, etc.) and use these criteria to evaluate TC solutions.
Describe Personal Design Processes. Describe and use design processes that lead to effective solutions for a wide range of TC professional activities.
Create Effective TC Solutions. Create effective TC solutions by using the software skills learned in the course as well as the knowledge of what makes TC solutions effective and a personal awareness of design process issues.

5. Taking Stock of Learning
Publish
Publish your “submission portfolio” in E-portfolio.
Explore
Explore your own submission portfolio
Explore the submission portfolios of others
Brainstorm
What progress relative to the course learning objectives?

6. Taking Stock of Learning
Learning Portfolio - Key Requirements
Develop in E-portfolio
Six pages – one devoted to each learning objective, and one wildcard page
Each page has attached artifacts and approximately 300 words
The portfolio has overview text

7. Computer Animation - Warmup
The process of computer animation shares much in common with the manual animation process.
How does the manual animation process work?
What do you expect to find in a tool for computer animation?
Manual animation
Cells
Backgrounds and foregrounds
Cycling through cells
Continuous
What are some things that computer animation could do for you that may be difficult with more manual animation?
Manipulating more layers
Interpolating behavior between cells – rather than having to hand create each of the between images
Permitting jumping back and forth in sequence of events – rather than linear, could indicate that someone could replay a part of the animation.
Interactivity – permitting user/audience to control the playback of the animation.
Expect to find
Something akin to cells – frames
Layers
Play back

8. Flash Tutorials (within Flash)
Lessons
1 – Overview
2 – Drawing
3 – Symbols
4 – Layers
5 – Type
6 – Button
7 – Sounds
8 – Animation
Flash for
Director users
Photoshop and Fireworks Users
Freehand and Illustrator Users
Compare this with other tools we have used:
What similarities?
What unique features?

9. Flash Tutorials (within Flash)
Lessons
1 – Overview
2 – Drawing
3 – Symbols
4 – Layers
5 – Type
6 – Button
7 – Sounds
8 – Animation
Flash for
Director users
Photoshop and Fireworks Users
Freehand and Illustrator Users
PLAN:
Today: Focus on these tutorials
Thursday: Other tutorials

10. Lesson 1 - Basics Topics Toolbar Screen Timeline “Assets” area Panels
Application
Create a new flash file, in preparation for play…

11. Lesson 2 - Drawing Application Topics
Lines, rectangles, ovals
Stroke and fill
Modifiers
Pencil tool
Paint, fill, bucket, gradient
Line properties
Erasing
Selecting – lasso, polygon
Reshaping
Scaling, rotating, transforming
Application
Using a combination of drawing tools (and imported images), create a background for an animation.

12. Layer 8 – Animation & Tweens
Topics
Running the animation
Keyframes
Tweens
Motion
Size
Rotation
Motion along a path
Color
Shape
Application
Use a layer other than your background layer to create an animated sequence.
Play your animated sequence.
Note: The online help discussion of animation provides another entry point for understanding animation, keyframes, and tweens.

13. Flash – Design Challenge
Create a playful “demo” using Flash.
Be prepared to share your creation.

14. Looking back / Looking forward
Day
Emphasis
Monday
Definition, examples, analysis
Wednesday
Audience analysis, more examples
Holiday
Preliminary designs, formative eval
Flash / Learning Portfolio /Course eval
Open House, Due date!