Teaching with Technology: Flash

Please click on the links at right and below to view demonstrations of Flash
as an instructional tool.

Note: When the Flash page opens, you may view it full screen by pressing F11, and F11 again to return to your original browser size. Click on the browser "back" button
to return to this page.

Are there complex, dynamic, interrelated concepts and ideas in your course?
Do you frequently need to explain or demonstrate how one thing or idea impacts others and what happens to the whole system as a result? Animation is a great way to reveal complex course content or information sequences in a fundamentally engaging yet thoughtful manner for students, regardless
of discipline.

Macromedia's Flash software makes it possible to incorporate pedagogically meaningful animation into any course. It can also organize large amounts of data into easy to access units or segments.

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1000
The World at the 1st Millenium
From Charles Malody's Humanities Course


Instructional Flash
Examples
Planet w/Orbiting Satellite
by Jerry Dotson, Flash instructor

How it works: to find out about the pictured artist, click "Quick Facts."
To sample the artist's work, click on "the Classic Paintings." To move to the next artist, click blue arrows at lower right.

How it works:
click an answer, click next.
Results calculate and display
at end of quiz.

How it works: read text on left when animation window opens

How it works: choose an aspect of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, then click buttons on each side of the page to display at page center versions of the image by different artists.

Questions?
NSCC Teaching and Learning Center
Professional Development for NSCC Faculty and Staff
TLC Workshops For Staff Diversity Conferences About the TLC
Art History Tutorial
by Coryl Celene-Martel,
NSCC Instructional Technologist
Scored Art History Self-Quiz
by Coryl Celene-Martel,
NSCC Instructional Technologist
Charles Malody's World at the First Millenium Website
Jerry Dotson's Orbit Animation
Art History Tutorial Model
Art History Quiz Model
Hybrid Art Quiz Model
Hybrid Art History Quiz
by Coryl Celene-Martel,
NSCC Instructional Technologist
How it works: Quiz could be administered in the classroom; click through the quiz, content is revealed interactively, answers recorded in a Word document.
Students turn in Word document
at end of class period.