I admit that I'm not the greatest
Flash designer out there. However, I enjoy using
Flash and am intrigued by all it has to offer.
I'd love to be given the chance to experiment
with it and see if it can provide a solution for
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UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing e-Thank You Card
The Advancement Office approached me in Spring 2007 about creating an online thank you card for donors. The Office had seen several examples on other college websites and wanted to create something similar. I scanned the older black and white photos into Photoshop, and manipulated them to have a softer, sepia tone. I inserted these and other digital pictures into Flash. The music was ripped from a 1950s-era record, so the quality is not perfect, but we decided to use it because it's of the School of Nursing Choir. At the end of the card, users can choose to email the URL to a friend, or replay from the beginning.
This card was emailed to hundreds of School of Nursing alumni, and has generated a lot of positive feedback.
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UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing Jeopardy
In early 2007, a faculty member came
to me with a request to create an online Jeopardy-style
game for her class. At the time, she was using
a large corkboard with paper questions that she
carted around campus. An online game would not
only be easier for the faculty member to transport,
but it would also be available for students to
play outside of class.
The category titles and questions are imported
via an XML file. This makes it easy to swap out
one set of questions for another. The timer attached
to each question is Actionscript-based.
Future plans for the game include an automated
scoring system and the ability to choose between
2 and 4 teams.
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Time Pie Chart
The CITES team and I were given the task
of creating a recruitment web site for adult learners
who are considering going back to school part
time. We intend to provide several interactive
components to retain the viewers' interest. One
such component is a pie chart. The viewer can
enter up to eight tasks, as well as the percentage
of time spent on each. The goal is to display
how they spend their time visually, and to help
the viewer determine whether their responsibilities
can be shifted to accommodate going back to school.
Actionscript was used to create the mathematical
functions that display each portion of the pie
chart.
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Sexual Reproductive Health Across the
Lifespan
I was approached by a faculty member
at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing about
designing creative modules for one of her courses.
The purpose was to present information in an eye-catching
way and to (hopefully) retain the students' attention.
Each tab in this filing cabinet opens a page
with basic information, objectives for each section,
and links for further reading.
The information on each page is imported and
displayed via an XML file and Actionscript.
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The Digestive System
The faculty member who asked me to create
the reproductive health module liked it so much,
she subsequently asked me to create a second module
about the digestive system. When the user clicks
on an organ, more information appears to the left.
This information is imported via an XML file and
Actionscript.
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The Autonomic Nervous System
The same faculty member who asked me
to create the above two modules also asked me
to create a third module about the autonomic nervous
system. Each segment of the "neuron"
opens a pop-up window with more information.
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Dedication Day Slideshow
UNC Chapel Hill's School of Nursing completed
an addition to their building in April 2005, and
held a celebration called Dedication Day. Faculty,
staff, students and alumni came to the commemoration.
I created this slideshow using Flash and XML.
The XML file lists the location of the pictures
and their accompanying captions, and this file
is loaded into the Flash slideshow "skin."
This method was much easier than importing each
picture into Flash and created a caption for it,
and it will be easier to update in the future.
Instead of opening the Flash native file, all
I have to do is add a line of code to the XML
file. It was my first experience using XML with
Flash, and my coworkers and I were pleased with
the results.
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Resources & Links Menu
CITES decided that a complete reorganization
of the Resources & Links section of their
web site was in order, and I was tapped to do
it. Before I created this menu, the viewer was
greeted with a long page full of links and text.
I wanted to create something that was not only
nice to look at, but did away with the boring
page of text.
With the redesign of the CITES web site, this
menu is no longer being used. To see it in the
context of the old site, click
here.
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Interactive Diagnostic Algorithm for
Anxiety Disorders
This feature was designed for the Anxiety
Disorder section of MentalHealthCME.com.
Its flow chart design allows the user to answer
several questions regarding a patient's health,
and it in turn provides a likely diagnosis.
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Screening Instruments for Social Anxiety
Disorder
This feature provides information on
several screening instruments for social anxiety
disorder, selected for their format and usefulness
in primary care. It can be seen in the Anxiety
section of MentalHealthCME.com.
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Test Your Knowledge: Seven Cases
This is a multiple-choice feature that I developed
for the Anxiety courses on MentalHealthCME.com.
The user can select a case, then after reading
the patient's information, can select from a list
of potential conditions. The user is notified
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Lungs Graphics
These two animations are featured in TobaccoFreePatients.com,
and they illustrate what happens when one quits
and does not quit smoking. The first image shows
the lungs clearing up post-quit. The second shows
the creation of lung spots and tumors if the patients
does not quit. |
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Kicking the Habit
This animation was done for TobaccoFreePatients.com.
It's just a basic movie showing a cigarette being
flung into a garbage can. |
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TPA Realty
This animated slideshow provides pictures and
links of various homes sold by TPA
Realty in Tuxedo, NY. |
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