Associate professor Byung Lee is offering three high-level Flash workshops for students interested in gaining interactive media skills starting at 8 p.m. on April 7, 14 and 21 in McEwen 207. Sessions will last at least one hour, and some prior Flash experience is required. Because seats are limited in computer labs, students are free to bring their laptops.
Session 1: April 7 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. Naming variables and actionScript: Many Web pages are passive, not interactive with users. In this session, students will make objects on their Web pages monitor what users are doing. Again, the Web page objects, such as buttons or movie clips, can be made to know whether users clicked some buttons, pressed some keys or wrote some letters. In response to users’ responses, they will display different information.
Session 2: April 14 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. Drag and Drop items in Game: Users are bored with being bombarded with a huge influx of information. They want to play with it. They want to manipulate it. Let them do that. In this session, students will make objects on the Web page draggable and droppable. Flash knows whether one object collides with another object. So students can make a game, in which, for example, users are allowed to drag a picture with an orange image to a card with a word of “orange” and they will be rewarded. If they drag it to another card with a word of “apple,” they will be asked to do it again.
Session 3: April 21 (Tuesday) 8 p.m. Gather Information from Users: Many companies are hungry for feedback from its user. When they put out a Web page on the Internet, they may think they did a great job. How can they know? To be successful, they need to know what’s on users’ minds. In this session, users’ feedback will be stored in a database for analysis of web producers or can be displayed on the webpage for other users.