Fredrik_create

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**Introduction:**
During this part of the project we made our Flash animations. It took us four to five classes to make. You can see my flash animation at the top of the page. I found this the part of the Tecnology cycle fun because in other parts of the cycle you only plan for the Create part of the Technology cycle.

**ESLR reflection:**
During this part of the technology cycle I met all the ESLRs. I was an Effective communicator when asking questions to my friends and writing my reflection. I was a Self-directed Learner when making my e-card because I used my time wisly and effectivly. I was a Critical Thinke when i had to think of a way to insert audio into my e-card and when I had to remember how to insert all four tweens. I was an Involved Citizen because i helped my class mates when they had problems with making their e-card. Finally I was an Achademic Achiever because my Final product ended up good.

Here you can view my e-card: media type="custom" key="72653"

**Reflection:**
I found that it was extremely fun to make an e-card using flash. I feel that I met all the criteria we made in our class during the investigate page. I also included Extended Criteria such as adding audio, a detailed background and my audio was easy to understand. I did many things for my e-card to meet the criteria. Fist of all when I was inserting my tweens I realized that it was very hard to insert a pivot point, which I wanted to have. I had to find other places to insert my tweens. The easiest tween for me to insert was the motion tween because I used it all the time. The other tweens I barley used and only used them once. This was because my flash animation did not need a lot of the three other tweens. One thing that I did for extra criteria was inserting audio, which was a bark, done by Farouk. At first I thought it would be hard to insert but it took very little time. All I need to do was get Farouk to bark which I recorded in Garage band. Then I had to import the file into flashes library, which was easy for me to do because I have done this on other programs before. Finally I needed to make a new layer for my audio and then drag it in. I am very happy with my final product because it ran very smooth and met all the criteria. I think that I put in all my effort and it will give me a good grade. I found it very easy and very irritating at times. It was very easy when I everything was working the way I wanted it to. It also was easy to draw because the computer helped move the drawing to the way I wanted it to look like. Sometimes it was irritating because when I was sometimes inserting tweens they did not work. It had a dashed line not a line with an arrow. I had to try to do it over and over again for about 20 times. On the last time I used the tutorial sheet even though I thought I knew how to add tweens. I also got other people to try it and it didn’t work. I did this to see if the computer didn’t like me. I enjoyed this part of the project the most. This is always the same in everything I make in IT because I like making things. I also liked it because I applied what I learnt into my final product. During this part of the project I learnt one thing that I didn’t learn while doing the tutorial worksheets. I learnt how to insert audio into my e-card. Ms. Cofino taught me how to do this and it helped me when I inserted my audio of Farouk’s bark. I also need to move it around in my layer so that it would play at the right time my person jumped back. To become a more advanced user of flash I would have to know how to do a few more things. First of all I think that I should know how to make buttons because then I can make my e-card more interactive. Another thing I think I would need to be better at is drawing with a mouse because my drawings were very shape oriented. This I could learn buy taking a course outside of school. Finally I would want to know how to insert a pivot point and make my things half rotate. This would be helpful because in my Flash in needed this to show my person walking.