Flash

Hi guys!!
My name is Tinkerbell (well not really) and I am in year 10 currently completing my CIDA course.
At the moment we are practicing using flash, a cartoon animator thing, to make graphics move across the page. My CIDA project is based on fairies so I found a picture of a fairy to make fly across the page. Once I had mastered this I made her fly in a wobbly line, which caused quite a lot of problems but eventually we managed to get her flying about. After this we had to add a sound file to the animation. This was fun trying to find a suitable sound but downloading it was difficult because of the filters on the school system. When I had finally got this working I made her get smaller as she flew way to give a sense of distance. I then added a tree for her to fly around. This also was made to get bigger to add to the effect of distance.
I have decided that I don't really like flash and that I think it would look a million times better in Power point, but sir reckons that it'll look good when I finally master flash. It's been a difficult week in IT but flash is getting easier, lesson by lesson.
Talk to you dudes next week !!

What is DiDA?

What is DiDA?

DiDA is the Diploma in Digital Applications, a revolutionary suite of three paperless qualifications from Edexcel that focuses on the practical application of technology.

DiDA qualifications prepare students for the real world of work or further education. They are designed to stimulate students’ creativity and develop real-world, practical skills that will motivate learning across a wide range of subjects.
As a suite of qualifications, DiDA offers progression from the Award (AiDA), which is equivalent to one GCSE, to the Certificate (CiDA), and on to the full Diploma (DiDA), equivalent to four GCSEs.
The suite of DiDA qualifications is designed to:

• develop students’ ability to select and use digital applications appropriately and produce high quality outcomes
• promote the use of digital applications for achieving a goal, rather than for their own sake
• enhance creativity and communication
• equip students with some of the skills that they will need in the workplace or in further education or training
• develop project management skills
• free students’ work from paper, making it organised, searchable, dynamic and transportable
• and encourage students to reflect critically on their own and others’ use of digital applications.

Excerpt from the DiDA website: http://dida.edexcel.org.uk/home/aboutdida/