Mostly Flash/Flex - Some Interactive Marketing, Photography, and Random Thoughts
I will be presenting again this year at TTIX. This year I will be talking on the GoCourse Learning System. The topic will be "Challenges and Advantages of Online Learning". This will be a fun and interactive session. Everyone attending will get a login and can test drive the system. For more details visit the TTIX website.
http://ttix.org/blog/challenges-and-advantages-of-online-learning/
Thanks,
Curtis J. Morley
Thanks to Thor for having me come present in the Multimedia Dept. The class was great. As promised here are the links to examples, applications, and books that I talked about.
Applications that I have been a part of
Rifle Builder - Shopping Cart application built originally in Flash 5
LDS.org/cm - The Original Interactive Sheet Music Player
MusicRain.com - Commercial Interactive Sheet Music
LogoMaker.com - HP Purchased LogoMaker in-part because of the success of this application.
Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Games - Click on the "Games and Coupons" button
RideHarder.com - New design by Element
SolutionOverview.com - Green Screen interactive video
BrainHoney - Learning tool for self publication, uses mashups and Facebook integration. upload whatever files you want and make a lesson or learn what you don't know.
Applications turned into web apps:
Photoshop:
http://www.flauntr.com/ -
http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome -
http://www.splashup.com/ - Fauxto now caled Splashup This is the most fully featured one I have found.
Mapping -
FlashEarth.com -
maps.yahoo.com -
Microsoft Word:
BuzzWord.com
Grant Skinner Spell Checker for text editing
Image seam carving:
http://swieskowski.net/carve/ - Neat example
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000652.php - Example with code
http://rsizr.com/ this one is amazing and you can do it yourself
Video Editing:
RichFLV - Flash Based Video Editing Tool done with Flash/Flex and published with AIR
Motion detection & Vid Cam like Minority Report etc..
incomplet.gskinner.com
Sheet Music Applications -
LDS.org/cm - The Original Interactive Sheet Music Player
MusicRain.com - Commercial Interactive Sheet Music
Books:
Adobe Digital Editions
Quicken:
mint.com - Web based version of Quickenfor money management
The Radio:
www.pandora.com - the music genome project
iTunes:
www.anywhere.fm/player
Outlook:
www.goowy.com/index.aspx - Flash web based Outlook knock-off.
Great Books For Flash, Flex, and ActionScript -
ActionScript
- Great Bridge between Flash and Flex - One of the best books for crossing over into AS3 from AS2 - By Collin Moock is the most comprehensive guide to ActionScript.(period) - Joey Lott provides some great examples on how to do things quick -This book rocks. the concepts are advanced but well taught. has produced one of the best longest running books for years. - A very advanced read but great for working with OOP (Flex only)Intermediate Books
- This is an excellent book for doing the sexy things in Flash. Heavy focus on animation and cartoons and is a great resource for col effects - Great book for learning both Flex and FlashBegining Books
- Very well done book for quick tips and reference - Love the format of this book - Phillip is great. I really enjoy seeing him at conferences and reading his new letter that he gives me every time I see him. I was able to review this book before it was published. Phillip is and always will be a fantastic teacher of Flash. - Great reference for getting started in Flex.Books not to buy
- Only buy this book if you have never used Flash. The games are good BASIC games but the graphics are horrible and the examples don't really teach the prinicples behind game design. - You might as well buy the Dummies book(see below) if you are going to buy this one. Not a good place to start. Not comprehensive. Not well written. - This book should not be allowed to be called CS3 because some of the examples are not even using AS3. If you own Flash 8 then you will want this book but not for CS3. - You are not a dumb, but may feel like it after spending any money on this book. They do have good cartoons though.Thanks,
Curtis J. Morley
BRAINHoney
We will be presenting the Beta of the next wave in education at the NECC conference in Atlanta Georgia. This educational revolution is called BRAINHoney. We are excited to demo this new online collaborative learning community & the tools that bring rich multimedia lesson development into the hands of everyone, everywhere, at anytime.
If you are at NECC please come see the full demo presentation and sign up to be one of our Beta testers. We are also giving away iPods. BRAINHoney is a product of agilix inc. & can be found in the conference program. If you are not going to be at the conference & would still like to get one of the limited spots on the BRAINHoney Beta team, then please post a comment here & we will contact you.
As always Happy Flashing & Happy Learning.
Today I will be a guest speaker at BYU and will be talking about Google Analytics in Flash. I will be showing the students the power of using analytics and Flash. I will also be talking briefly about Omniture analytics and Flash. My talk will be centered around the capabilities of fine tuned tracking with Flash and what data should be tracked. I will also talk about the class that I am about to release that is built for Google Analytics and Flash.
Stay tuned and Happy Flashing.
I am presenting at the ID+SCORM Conference April 6th. I am going to be giving a sneak-peek of our Flash based learning community tool. My Session is at 3:00. Hope to see you there.