This is a Powerpoint presentation I recently shared with teachers in Australia via an adobe Connect session. The presentation documents how I teach kinetic typography to my grade 11 animation classes. They are totally new to kinetic typography but they have had prior experience with Photoshop and Flash, the software I use for kinetic typography. It walks you through...

1. a brief intro about the concept of typography complete with a few examples that help build understanding

2. a brief walk through the steps I go through in my classroom

3. and a few additional notes / observations and last but not least,

4. there are student samples to watch and discuss.

Although the presentation starts with thoughts and text I actually begin in class by showing the examples from Vimeo that are listed on one of the slides. That gets them intrigued and on-track (especially the Cave Johnson Lemons piece). Get them engaged and then - let them lose. It is a serious challenge to build one of these pieces but so worthwhile once completed. BTW - these pieces could be constructed around absolutely any subject at all, which I why all of them are clicked on in the descriptor.

Also - although the more interesting examples are a bit complex to build, simpler ones could be constructed... and therefore made accessible to younger grades.

Este recurso explica con contenidos interactivos, ejemplos, ejercicios, actividades de aprendizaje y evaluaciones de seguimiento el Sistema de Gestión de Eventos en ActionScript 3.0.

El sistema de Gestión de Eventos de ActionScript, se ha pensado para facilitar la programación para las plataformas de Adobe® Flash® Player y Adobe® AIR™.

El modelo de eventos se basa en un enfoque verdaderamente Orientado a Objetos y basado en estándares internacionales, adicionalmente se integra cómodamente a la lista de Visualización.

El estándar en el que se basa es DOM (modelo de objetos de documento) de nivel 3.

This project was undertaken by students from Midhurst, England as part of their advanced studies in computing technology and follows a scenario set by the OCR exam board to produce an animated robot character that has to perform a few simple moves using tweened animation.

The pupils had to firstly design their robot in Illustrator before importing it into Flash to work on the animation.

Resources to support this process are included here and include example fla files and a step to step guide to support the students through the task.

Given current changes in the Adobe product portfolio, this project would now work well in Edge Animate, but as the school did not have access to this, Flash was used and proved to be a productive tool for the purpose.

I would like to introduce a draft of what a four-year Adobe curriculum could potentially look like. This is in response to the question at http://edex.adobe.com/resource/c2eda9/.

Disclaimer: Several of the products on this list I have never used, or know only slightly. If the community would like to take ownership of this curriculum outline and fix it up, please do!
Year 1: Basic artistic competency.
Year 2: Advanced artistic competency.
Year 3: Basic programming competency.
Year 4: Advanced programming competency.

This resource allows learners to better understand the impact of shutter speed on captured digital images. It emulates what a photographer will see in the viewfinder with the relevant display of the shutter speed and the aperture. It allows the user to rotate a control dial to vary the shutter speed and aperture variables, maintaining the reciporcal values to result in the same exposure value. The user can then click (fully depress) the shutter button to see the resulting previewed image briefly.
Learners can then assess the difference at slower and faster shutter speed values.