I learned a lot this week while working on our second assignment to create an instructional video. I became more familiar with the Flash components by watching the tutorials posted online. I took notes while watching them and was able to refer back to them when I was creating my video.
I also found a really good resource online for me to use as well: http://flash.editme.com/ . This site is divided up nicely and gives a nice concise explanation of how to do different things in Flash. I am definitely going to use this throughout the quarter. I finally caught up on my reading for class this week.
I found out something interesting about how I read. If I start from the back of the chapter, and read the last sections first, it is easier for me to understand. I have no idea why this is, but I think it might have something to do with my needing to know the "end results" before blindly reading what leads up to it. While reading from beginning to ends of chapters, I find myself frustrated with concepts and ideas that the text talks about because they don't seem to apply to anything.
However, when I read from end to start, it is sort of like peeling an onion. The Onion as a whole object gets peeled back layer by layer until the core is left (the beginning). If I am given just a core, and don't know what it is about, I lose interest very quickly. It sort of is just a nothing that frustrates me because its existence doesn't even make sense in my brain. So I figured out that perhaps I understand things by unfolding them, knowing that each layer of the concept or object has to be in that place in order to make it whole. How the events or parts make up the whole don't make sense to me unless I understand what that whole actually is.
Its been a really good week!
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