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Draft Ideas for Lesson Task
(4 lessons)

Lesson #1: Declarative/Concept Lesson
Goal: Learners will identify and briefly describe the major components that are part of the Flash MX
interface.
Target Audience: EIPT students
Media types needed: Computer with Flash MX installed

Description: The lesson will first cover the four main components of the Flash MX interface (timeline, stage, tools panel, and properties inspector). It will then cover all of remaining panels such as the Library panel, the Actions panel, the Align panel, the Reference panel, the Components panel, the Answers panel, the Color Swatches panel, the Transform panel, and the Info panel. There will just be a brief definition of each component and describe how they are going to be used.

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Goal: Learners will understand the differences between the three types of symbols (movie-clip symbol, graphic symbol, and button symbol) in Flash MX.
Target Audience: EIPT students
Media types needed: Computer with Flash MX installed

Description: The lesson will first describe what a symbol is and how it can be used in the Flash MX environment. It will then explain the architectures of a graphic symbol and how it can be used, the architecture of a button symbol and how it can be used, and the architectures of a movie-clip symbol and how it can be used in Flash MX.


Lesson #2: Principle/Procedure Lesson
Goal: Learners will be able to determine the distance between two points on a Cartesian coordinate.
Target Audience: High school students
Media Types needed: None
Time: 1 hour
Description: The lesson will first review on a Cartesian coordinate, and then show the following steps to finding the distance:

1. Find the x and y coordinates of the first point
2. Find the x and y coordinates of the second point
3. Subtract the second x coordinate from the first x coordinate
4. Multiply your answer by itself (ex: If your answer was 5, then 5*5 would be 25).
5. Subtract the second y coordinate from the first y coordinate
6. Multiple your answer by itself
7. Add the two answers that you have from multiplying
8. Find the square root of your number
9. You will then have the distance

Distance = square root (squared(x2 - x1) + squared (y2 - y1))

Lesson #3: Cognitive Strategy/Problem Solving Lesson
Goal: Debugging a flash scripts written in ActionScript.
Target Audience: Flash MX Level III Students (Intermediate to advanced flash users)
Media types needed: Computer with Flash MX installed
Time: Two hours
Description: There are two types of bugs: compile-time bugs (syntax errors) and run-time bugs(logical errors). Finding and correcting bugs takes time, patience, and organization.

Steps to finding compile-time bugs:
1. Press the Check Syntax button in the actions panel.
2. If there are no errors, then you have no bugs.
3. If there are errors, check the output window and find out what the syntax error is and where is it located in the script.
4. Read the syntax error and form a hypothesis of the error.
5. Use the hypothesis to make predictions
6. Test those predictions by pressing the check syntax button again.
7. If there are still errors, then go back to step 4.

Steps to finding run-time bugs:
1. Observe.
2. Form a hypothesis.
3. Use the hypothesis to make predictions.
4. Test those predictions.
5. If your predictions fail, go back to step 2.


Lesson #4: Motivation/Affect/Psychomotor Lesson
Goal: Learners will set-up a network that will connect two computers to a router.
Target Audience: Freshman college students enrolled in an introduction to networking course.
Media Types needed: At least two computers with a NIC card already installed, a router or hub, and Ethernet cables.
Time: One to two hours

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Goal: Learners will set-up a cable-modem in which will allow two computers to be connected to the
internet.
Target Audience: Freshman college students enrolled in an introduction to networking course.
Media Types needed: A cable-modem box, cable-modem ISP service, a hub or router, two personal computers with a NIC card already installed.
Time: One to two hours