Yoko_Create

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These are the links to some other pages:

//Introduction:// The third stage of the Technology Desing Cycle is Create, and I have created my e-card using the Flash.

//ESLR's:// I was a Self-Directed Learner, who accept responsibility for my own learning, by taking a lot of time to make my e-card.

This is the link to my e-card animation: media type="custom" key="75015"

//Reflection:// During the third stage of the of the technology design cycle, which is the creating step, I created my own e-card according to my storyboard I made in the planning stage. I was able to make it in about four lessons, but I’m not satisfied about my work, because it’s quite different from what I have planned for the e-card and it’s shorter than what I’ve planned. I was planning to include an audio, but I didn’t have time for including it, and I also wasn’t able to include an object using shape tween, because although I tried to, the tween didn’t work properly. I asked Ms. Cofino and my classmates, but I still couldn’t do it well. Although I feel I’m not satisfied about my work, I think I did pretty well on it. Next time, when we’re going to make another e-card, I’ll try to make a satisfying work. I’ll try to conclude creating it.

I was able to meet some of the criteria that we listed in the investigate stage. Some of the criteria I met are: creativity, emotion, color, message, etc. The criteria I wasn’t able to meet are: animation, etc.

I was able to meet these criteria by following the instructions on the worksheet, and by checking on the criteria checklist. I thought I met most of these criteria, but when I got my e-card preview, I noticed that I didn’t achieve some of them. I know that I didn’t meet some criteria, such as animation (used all four types of tweens) and audio (background music or effects to enhance e-card), because I didn’t have time for including them. I really should plan what I’m going to do, in order to make my e-card. Next time when we have a similar project like this, I will try to do so that I can finish my work on time.

I’m not really satisfied with my final product, but I’m happy to finish making my e-card, although it’s different from what I’ve planned. This had happened, because I was working on my first key frame for quite a long time. I was working on one key frame for about two lessons, and I wasn’t really satisfied with it because I couldn’t make some of the tween work properly. For example, it was hard for me to make an object using color change and shape tween. I needed more practice on these tweens before I made my e-card, so that I was able to create an e-card like I was planning.

I feel it was difficult to create an e-card, because as I said earlier, I’m not familiar with some tweens, so I really should practice using a flash in order for me to make this part of the project easy. I mostly struggled using the color change and shape tween, so I should have asked Ms. Cofino to help me use them, and why I couldn’t use them properly. I have the flash software at home, so I can practice using it at home, maybe during my summer holiday so that I’ll be prepared for creating something using a flash someday.

I really enjoyed this part of the project, even though I struggled making the e-card. I never used the flash application before, so it was more difficult for me to get used to it. I think this helps me get to know more about computer, and maybe this is a good practice for the future. I don’t know weather I’m going to use this flash in the future, but if I’m going to, I think this is a good practice for using it, because if I didn’t have this project on making my own e-card, I would have struggled using it, because I don’t know anything about it for the rest of my life.

I learned how this flash application works: I learned what are key frame, layers, tweens, and other general strategies about flash. However, I now know that key frames are vital, tell the animation to start or stop, and I also learned that frame is the middle of the animation to change the length of an animation, and can be added or deleted. I learned that layers are for ordering each layer a unique movement, and must be on a separate layer, and that I can select any amount of frames in a layer using the sub-selection tool. I learned that tween is what happens between each key frames.

I feel I need to learn how to import an audio to my e-card to Ms. Cofino or other classmates who had put an audio to their e-card, because I don’t think you do the same way as importing an audio to an iMovie, and adding an audio to your e-card is one of the listed criteria in the extended criteria list. I also want to know how to add buttons, because it’s also in the extended criteria list, and I think my e-card animation will be more interesting if there are buttons during my e-card animation.