Job Opportunity teaching Flash and More

Student Assistants Needed for Youth Camps

Summer Academy @UGA is looking for student assistants to help with three technology camps this summer. Assistants will meet with instructors before camp begins, to make sure they understand the material being presented. They will then provide individual attention during project time and for students who need extra help during camp. The pay rate for this position is $7.25/hr. You must be an enrolled UGA student, though you do not need to be currently taking classes. The camps we need help with are listed below:

Animation & Graphics: June 22-26, Mon-Fri, 8:30am-Noon (17.5 hrs/week)

Students will learn the basics of illustration and animation using the Adobe Creative Suite. Applicants should be familiar with Adobe Flash.

Moving to CS4

The good news is that the software hasn't changed all THAT much as long as you stick with actionscript 2 with new version of flash that you now have.  You may have to look for some of the interface features, for example the property inspector and library both look a little different, but most things work more or less the same.  That said, by all means don't stop with the book that I put together for  class; that's just the beginning!  

Did you receive documentation with the software? That may be a good place to start. Dreamweaver, for example, used to come with some great tutorials built in. I know that the new version of dreamweaver now has a really easy way to put in dropdown menus and probably handles css better and Flash now has a (supposedly) better way of tweening that I haven't used yet so there are new things worth learning.  

As for books, I have had good luck with the missing manual series for dreamweaver, and always buy the latest "Flash Bible" whenever I move into a new version of Flash. 

And, of course, there is a lot of good stuff online that can be found by googling.