I bought my first computer, a Commodore 64, as a consolation prize for not finding a job as a teacher. I had taught 8 years before moving to East Texas where I worked at Lone Star Steel. The summer of my 7th year I looked for teaching jobs but there were none open. I wanted to learn to do something different but didn't see college classes and shift work going together, so I decided to buy a cheep computer and see what I could make it do. I bought a book of games to type into the computer to play, a book of BASIC for Kids (before the Dummies books), and began to try to understand how the commands worked. I have been "playing" with computers ever since and now I teach junior high and high school students, and senior citizens how to use them.
I enjoy Macromedia's Flash most of all, and learn more each time I expose my high school students to it. I have a page with the Flash / Help / Lessons done so that I can compare my students finished products to a standard. The most extensive Flash project that I have made so far is the "guitar scale pattern" . I also made a Valentines Card for my wife with Flash and it became a project for my Webmastering students. I have also changed up the pictures on a Flash puzzle for my granddaughters Kimberly and Kelly.
Other sites that I have worked on include Arte Berry's webspace which I set up originally for my Junior High Students to have a Chat room that I could have control of access. I have also posted a photo album of a pool deck and enclosure that I did 90% of the work.
I have moved the KNGR King Country website to a new host. Most of the original links were absolute (http://originalHostaddress/home) and had to be changed. One major Flash project had to be analyzed and reconstructed.
The flash project that follows was used to illustrate the use of the Binary number system to high school and junior high students. The pictures of electrical switches were used because like memory locations, switches can only be either "ON" or "OFF". As you count bigger numbers you simply add more switches. The first switch on the right is either = 1 or 0. The next switch is either = 2 or 0. The third switch is = 4 or 0. The fourth switch = 8 or 0.
The next project was the answer key for a test for high school students webmaster class. I showed the completed project to them, listed the elements necessary to complete the project and graded by compareing the listed elements of their project to the "key" .
Magnitizing a Nail Demonstration
Computer edited pictures on Facebook