CGA 118 Weekly Guide

Week of:	This Week in CGA 118 - Tuesdays
January 19th	Intro to the Course, Grading, Projects, Web SiteTheory and Concepts Review Color Models File Formats Backup and File Protection - Important ! How to Submit Files to the Elearning System
January 26th	Intro to Macromedia Flash - Chapter 1 Understanding the Macromedia Flash environment. Open a document and play a movie. Create and save a movie. Work with layers and the timeline. Plan a Web site Distribute a Macromedia Flash movie Quiz One - Chapter One
February 2nd	Planning a Flash Project Why do we need to plan? Planning, Producing, Testing, Launching Prior Planning Prevents Problems Paper Planning tool for CGA 118 Requirments for CGA 118 Projects Drawing in Flash - Chapter 2 Use the Macromedia Flash drawing tools. Select Objects and Apply Colors. Work with objects. Work with text and text objects. Work with layers and objects Quiz Two - Chapter Two
February 9th	Introduction to Project One Working with Symbols - Chapter Three Create symbols and instances. Work with Libraries. Create buttons. Assign actions to buttons.
February 16th	Animation Strategies Creating Animations - Chapter Four Create frame-by-frame animations. Create motion-tweened animation. Work with motion guides. Create animation effects. Animate text. Quiz Four - Chapter Four Files to Download for Today's Class: Ladybug.ai See What we are going to Work on.... Submit Finished Bug Animation as Lab Number One in the E-Learning System! Quiz Three - Chapter Three
February 23rd	Professional Development Day No Classes
March 2nd	Animation Strategies Creating Special Effects - Chapter Five Create shape-tweened animations. Create a mask effect. Add sound. Add scenes. Create an animated navigation bar. Assignment Due: Project One Planning Sheets Due Quiz Five - Chapter Five
March 9th	Creating Special Effects - Chapter Five Add scenes. Create an animated navigation bar. Preparing and Publishing Movie - Chapter Six Publish movies. Reduce file size to optimize a movie. Create a Preloader. Use HTML Publish Settings. Quiz Six - Chapter Six Deconstruction Lab Assignment Find a Flash Movie on Flashkit.com (http://www.flashkit.com). Download the file to your USB Drive. Write a one page paper on how the flash files was constructed using proper terminlogy. You will submit the paper to Professor Mary and present to the class on March 23rd the Flash Movie.
March 16th	Spring Break Please make sure you have taken quizzes ONE through Six....after March 23rd these quizzes will disappear!
March 23rd	Importing and Modifying Graphics - Chapter Seven Understand and import graphics. Break apart bitmaps and use bitmap fills. Trace bitmap graphics. Use imported graphics in a movie. Deconstruction Project Due - Presentations Quiz Seven - Chapter Seven
March 30th	Walking Guy Creating Complex Animations - Chapter Eight Plan for complex movies and animations. Create an animated graphic symbol. Create a movie clip symbol. Animate buttons with movie clip symbols. Introduction to Project Two Quiz Eight - Chapter Eight
April 6th	Project One Due at the Beginning of Class - Presentation Rubric Creating Action Scripts - Chapter Nine Work with actions. Work with targets and movie clip symbols. Create interactive movie clip symbols. Define variables Quiz Nine - Chapter Nine Super Hero File needed for Lab - please download
April 13th	SuperMan Lab Due Today Professor Mary Sick :-(
April 20th	Project Two Work
April 27th	Project Two Due - Presentation Rubric Professor Mary's Slide Show Examples
May 4th	Project Work Project Three Due - Presentation Rubric
May 11th	Pick Up Grades