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Ideas and thoughts about the use of Flash and related tools within education

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Entries from October 2005

SchoolHistory.co.uk games search tool

October 30th, 2005 · 3 Comments

This is something I’ve had ‘nearly completed’ for ages, but I feel confident enough to allow others to use it now. With the copious number of history game topics that I’ve got on the SchoolHistory.co.uk website, together with the topics that other history teachers are developing using my ContentGenerator.net programs, I found that it was too tricky for students to find the games they were looking for.

SchoolHistory.co.uk games search

I thus developed a Flash-based menu system that would allow users to search and sort the various games until they found what they were looking for….

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Tags: About my sites · Flash experiments

Flash 8 promotional cartoon

October 30th, 2005 · 2 Comments

This brilliant promotional cartoon has been well publicised around all the famous Flash blogs, although it was initially broken up into six parts. The creators, Nectarine, have now posted the full version on their website. It is well worth a visit - a great way to show off the new features of Flash 8 in a funny and interesting way.

Flash promotional cartoon from Nectarine

http://www.nectarine.com.au/virtualstudios/flash8/

Watch carefully for all the hidden ….

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Tags: Other

Fling the Teacher generator

October 29th, 2005 · No Comments

I released the second beta version of the Fling the Teacher generator (version 0.8) two weeks ago. At the time of typing, there have been 376 downloads - which is really pleasing to see. Feedback has been very positive too. The Fling the Teacher generator is a free program, available for anyone to download once they have registered on the ContentGenerator.net forums.

Fling the Teacher

This article goes onto explain how the Fling the Teacher game has developed, how I produced an vastly overly-complicated solution for the Fling the Teacher generator and how I’m now finally approaching a usable, finished program for all to use. :)

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Tags: About my sites · e-Learning

Flash 8 file save & load: Interactive storyboards

October 29th, 2005 · 6 Comments

Interactive Storyboards

With the new Flash 8, I’ve been experimenting with the new ’save and load’ features. With all my Flash activities, one massive area that has been lacking has been the ability to save and load data. Flash is fantastic for building an interesting and eye-catching environment, ideal as it allows you to setup the screen exactly as you want - specific to students’ needs.

:cool: See all the new features in Flash 8 on the Macromedia website

However, unless the task can be easily completed in one lesson, the limitations of Flash are clear to see. Or rather, were clear to see.

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Tags: Flash experiments · e-Learning

Setting this site up

October 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I’ve obviously not set this site up to be some example of fabulous design. I wanted a bold red design, but aside from that I wasn’t too bothered. I’ve developed this current look using the brilliant Blix theme by Sebastian Schmieg. I hope he doesn’t mind his marvellous work being […]

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Tags: Ideas and thoughts

FlashICT.net

October 29th, 2005 · No Comments

This website is going to be a place where I can explain and experiment about my uses of Macromedia Flash in ICT.
It isn’t meant to suggest that my use of ICT is in any ways ‘Flash’ nor it is to suggest that I know what I’m doing.
In fact, that is probably the most exciting thing […]

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Tags: Ideas and thoughts