Hanisa_Investigate



__**Introduction:**__ Investigate is the first step on the Technology Design Cycle. This step, we did four different things;reseachr of what makes a good e-Card, make a Tutorial, complete a sheet on tweens, and write and reflection.

__**ESLR's:**__ During this part of the project,I was an effective communicator because during this step i communicated with others, asking them mfor help, ideas, and opinion.

__**Files:**__ Take a look at my [|brainstorm]! My Research!

Here is my Tutorial media type="custom" key="74451"

__**Reflection:**__ During this part of the project I learned a lot of things because I haven’t done anything with flash animation or e-card. So this is definitely something new to me. I think its going to be a challenge to me, because I have no idea what to do or expect. I hope that I wont fall behind, remembering last year when we did iMovie.

First what we did was to research 5 or more e-card animation. Then we had to record our notes about these animations. The notes are why animation is an example of good animation techniques. On the rubric for the research, it says that if you wanted to get a better grade do six search, which I did. However, I did mine wrong because it said clearly techniques for a good animation, but what I wrote comments like “ its funny”. So then I had to write the research again. I didn’t mind, because I did a mistake, and I think it’s a good thing to fix my mistakes.

Next we did the brainstorm. It was really wasn’t that hard. This is where you put down all our ideas on what our want to do with our e-card. I had three ideas, and they are valentines day, happy birthday, miss you, and happy Halloween. Out of one of those I’ll choose to make my e-card. We had made criteria for a successful flash animation. All the different type of things we have to do to make a good e-card.

We had already had a practise on how to do a flash animation, which I don’t think was hard, but not easy for sure. I have a problem of flowing instruction step by step. So, I hope that when it comes to the time that we’re actually creating the flash-animation I’ll know what to do. We did the practise before we did the criteria, if we did it before, and used to different things, our practise animation wouldn’t look so simple. During the practise, I learned many different ways to make animation, and their tools.

After did finish the practise, we had to do a work sheet on Shape Tween. There were two pages, each side teaches us different ways, to make different shapes do things. One page was to teach you how to rotate shapes using motion tween and at the back was to teach you how to make objects move, also using motion tween. The other page was to teach you how to change the colour of an object using shape tween, the back page was to teach you how to mane an object change shape also using shape tween. I have completed it quiet quickly, because obviously it wasn’t that hard, though there were few tools that I didn’t know how to find it.