Week 11
Monday * March 21
Enhancing packages with movie clips and dynamic text.
- LAB Work on movie clip symbol exercises: (1) sliding panel; (2) pop-up data panel; dynamic text (these are not in the book; no need to bring the bring book and CD this week).
- LECTURE 1 Examples of maps and overlay data in Flash journalism packages.
- LECTURE 2 Planning a news package with maps.
DUE 9 a.m. Monday (via e-mail): Flash 3 (multi-part package with external MP3s)
READ Maps on news websites -- an overview, by Paul Bradshaw
EXAMINE Haiti, territorio devastado (El Mundo) -- in particular, please go to the middle section and look at the selections in the box at lower right:
Notes * * *
If you are interested in using maps in digital formats, you should look into taking a course or two in UF's Geography Department. Check out their computer labs. Courses vary a lot depending on available faculty and grad assistants, but you certainly could add some VERY useful skills (such as how to use GIS) to your repertoire here. They have been welcoming to our students in the past.
Supplemental * * *
- Files for students (download): This 900 KB zipped file contains several FLAs and a PDF with exercises for learning about movie clips and building sliding and fading information boxes.
- Building and Controlling a Sliding Panel in Flash CS4/CS5 (AS3): Two working examples are shown here.
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GIS, by Megan Taylor. Megan graduated from our Journalism program in 2008 and is now a Web developer in New York. This post includes a lot of very helpful advice on how to create news maps.
- 8 Beautifully Designed Maps, a blog post with links, by Mark S. Luckie.
- My Delicious bookmarks tagged "maps": Not only Flash!