FlashICT.net

An article in the e-Learning section of The Guardian 15th November covers the Interactive Storyboards that I’ve been developing further recently.

“Andrew Field, head of ICT and a history teacher at Neale-Wade community college in Cambridgeshire, gave a virtual presentation on his interactive storyboard….”

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I make a great deal of use of the ‘escape’ and ‘unescape’ commands within Flash. To find out more you can read the relevant Flash online documentation.

When working with data saving and loading tasks, such as with the Interactive Storyboard developments but more specifically with my ContentGenerator.net applications, I use them to enable special characters such as é â ä à to work in my games and applications. This has been a great solution to entend the potential use of my applications.

However, I’m encountering a rather strange issue….

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Using the tools I developed for the SchoolHistory.co.uk games search, I’ve now launched a simliar feature for my ReviseICT.co.uk website.

Unlike SchoolHistory.co.uk’s wider remit, the ReviseICT.co.uk website is much more focused upon just interactive games and activities so I hope that the dynamic Flash menu will become central to the website. As additional games and exercises are added, I just update a .swf datafile and the various menus across the site will all be updated.

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I’m putting together some new pages for my ReviseICT.co.uk website. These are pages that will help keep the content organised into topic areas now more and more games and activities are appearing.

However, I wanted to add a small function to make a random computer related animation appear on at the bottom of each topic screen (just like the one above). I’ve done this in the paste such as on the Neale-Wade website and it was just a simple little piece of JavaScript. Easily done. Or so I thought….

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My ContentGenerator.net programs all make use of Macromedia Flash - both with the finished .swf files that they produce but also for the actual interface within the generator program.

I’m working towards the finished release of the free Multi-choice and Fling the Teacher programs, together with upgrades to the existing commerical products - Penalty Shootout, Walk the Plank and the iDG (Interactive Diagram generator) . However, I’m also looking for ways to make them of more practical use in the classroom.

One way which I’ve thought of today might actually appear a bit of a backwards step - but on reflection, I think it will be really positive….

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I’m delighted to briefly mention that my ContentGenerator.net website has been chosen as the ‘Site of the month’ on ‘NQ Online - part of Learning and Teaching Scotland‘ - the website for secondary teachers of National Qualifications in Scotland.

On http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/resources/weblinksdirectory/ they’ve posted that:
“This multiple choice quiz generator is easy to use and fun for teachers […]

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