Only words

My students have a habit of drawing a circle in Flash. Then they
animated the circle to bounce around the stage. I'm trying to get them to
do something a little more interesting with the software. For this
assignment I asked them to chose a word a convey its meaning through
the motion.

"It took forever!"

These are the students' second animations. They were created keyframe
by keyframe in Flash. They told me, "It took forever!" to make these animations.

Blogging

My Design for the Web student's first assignment was to create their own blogs. This image is from a blog about doodles done during boring classes.

http://zzzleepzzz.blogspot.com

First Animations

The students made their very first animations EVER. They created flipbooks
by hand and I showed them how to animated them in Flash.

Package something FREE

For the final project in Design 1, the students had to package something that was free. They packaged everything from anger to dust. The most popular free thing to package was religion.

Censor Your Type

I handed out pages from Tropic of Cancer to the students. The instructions were to Censor Your Type.

Nothing Lasts FOREVER

My first Fall semester is over and the Spring semester has just begun. Being a professor is a lot of energy. I am enjoying it. It was nice to have a break. I have some past projects from the fall semester that I still need to post.







This project was from Design 1. I asked the students to create type that changed over time.