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eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4?

Upside Learning

APRIL 7, 2009

Adobe’s CS4 suite is the second major release since Adobe acquired Macromedia. The new Adobe CS4 suite has some new exciting and time-saving features in all its products. If you have been bugged by previous Flash versions not allowing you to publish for latest Flash Player there is some relief here.

Flash

Flash Flash Player eLearning Developer Macromedia

Can Captivate 9 Save Adobe?

LearnDash

AUGUST 20, 2015

Sure, people that are already using Adobe products will likely just pick their LMS, but I wonder if it will have the ability to pull people away from other system? Our relationship goes back a long way too as I can recall the days of using Captivate when it was owned by Macromedia. Time will tell.

Adobe

Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate Macromedia

How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

JULY 10, 2019

This is nowhere more visible than with the 2020 mandate to end flash support.For edtech companies and ed publishers, it’s a case of “objects in mirror are closer than they appear.”. These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 What exactly is Flash?

Flash

Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Macromedia Flash Player

Learning Flash

Tony Karrer

JUNE 23, 2010

My posts around the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash and my post from a CTO perspective that I Cannot Bet on Flash for new development stirred up quite a bit of response. And that Flash provides things that you can’t do in HTML/JavaScript. However, there are some pretty amazing things you can do without Flash.

Flash

Flash Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authorware HTML

We're All New at This

ATD Learning Technologies

OCTOBER 3, 2012

At the time, King was one of the leading people at Macromedia (soon to be Adobe) working on making integration with SCORM happen in products like Flash and Captivate. With us was Tom King, who helped create Authorware. Click here to read full version.

Macromedia

Macromedia Authorware ADL SCORM

In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A product called Macromedia Flash (being used with web sites) became a go to for course development. If you didn’t know Flash nor have an instructional design background, options were limited. Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. It was developed to tap into Flash (a huge plus). It was 2012.

Instructional Design

Instructional Design Authoring Tools Instructional Instruction

The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

JUNE 10, 2019

Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Director died alongside CD-ROMs, taking Shockwave with it, but Flash hung around. . Flash to HTML5. Delivery —What form will you expect delivery to be in?

Conversation

Conversation CD-ROM Flash to HTML5 Conversion Content

10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

APRIL 24, 2014

It''s a product of years of human ingenuity and innovation. 2005: The Rise of Flash Video. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and transformed it into Adobe Flash. Developers who worked with it discovered just how flexible Flash is. Flash didn''t require a lot of bandwidth as older methods would have used.

CD-ROM

CD-ROM Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Tools Flash

Happy birthday Flash

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Today I sat down to write a short column for a magazine on the use of Flash as a delivery medium for e-learning. While searching for some history, I came across this Flash History by Rick Waldron. Anyway, Macromedia acquired this product, renamed it Flash 1.0 So, happy birthday Flash.

Flash

Flash Macromedia Calendar Search

Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Rapid eLearning

MAY 18, 2015

In 2007, most of the options for creating interactive elearning required Flash. If you wanted to build courses, you were required to either learn Flash or hire a Flash programmer. But along came the PowerPoint-to-Flash products. They enabled people to create their content in PowerPoint and convert it to the Flash.

Rapid eLearning

Rapid eLearning Free Flash PowerPoint

Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

It exports to HTML 5 as well as Flash, although I'm not sure they've perfected this yet. This is a big deal, because iPads and iPhones don't support Flash. It is about time to move on from Flash anyway, because you hardly see it on everyday websites anymore. So what's special? Animation tools includes.

Authoring Tools

Authoring Tools CD-ROM Authorware Macromedia

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). One of the other major advantages of Flash is that is supports close designer-developer collaboration. Is there a competitor to Flash? Is there an alternative to Flash?

Blended Learning

Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Compliance Training

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). One of the other major advantages of Flash is that is supports close designer-developer collaboration. Is there a competitor to Flash? Is there an alternative to Flash?

Blended Learning

Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools

What is eLearning?

Coassemble

OCTOBER 16, 2020

One of the first versions of an authoring tool was known as RoboDemo, a product of eHelp that featured basic flash tools and video recording. eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia. Once complete, Adobe converted the authoring tool in what is known today as Adobe Captivate.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning eLearning

What is eLearning?

Coassemble

OCTOBER 16, 2020

One of the first versions of an authoring tool was known as RoboDemo, a product of eHelp that featured basic flash tools and video recording. eHelp was acquired by Macromedia in 2003, and then in 2005, Adobe acquired Macromedia. Once complete, Adobe converted the authoring tool in what is known today as Adobe Captivate.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning eLearning

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

JUNE 15, 2009

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). One of the other major advantages of Flash is that is supports close designer-developer collaboration. Is there a competitor to Flash? Is there an alternative to Flash?

Blended Learning

Blended Learning eLearning Developer Blended Authoring Tools

It’s time for upgrades, and a Poll

eLearning Development

OCTOBER 17, 2008

This is a huge upgrade, and the first time Adobe has released a unified upgrade for all the Adobe and former Macromedia products. Flash CS4 Professional. Articulate Presenter is arguably the most popular PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool available. It’s also an easy way to create Flash animations from slides.

Upgrade

Upgrade Poll FLV Macromedia

7 reasons why the new Articulate Storyline is a Game-Changer for eLearning

mLearning Revolution

MAY 2, 2012

I have been a fan of Articulate for a long time even as I worked for Adobe on the Captivate and eLearning Suite products. No wonder they have thousands of superfans, who rave about their products and who recommend them to their peers via Social Media Networks. HTML5, Flash and Mobile Learning.

Articulate

Articulate Adobe Captivate Flash to HTML5 Conversion Games

Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 19, 2010

While the assumption would be that all the products are alike, or that fee based tools are superior to their free counterparts, nothing could be farther than the truth. Is it PowerPoint converted to Flash? Microsoft Word converted to Flash? Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director.

Authoring Tools

Authoring Tools Authoring Market Tools

The Year in Learning: 2019 Edition

The Learning Dispatch

JANUARY 3, 2020

that is, Macromedia Flash.). Brent Simmons advises to never give an ETA (estimated time of arrival) for software products. Aili McConnon writes in the New York Times about the growing importance of augmented and virtual reality in real estate. Can we use it training? As I was reading Craig Mod’s marvelous meditation on fast.

Diversity Training

Diversity Training Authoring Tools Custom eLearning Development Virtual World

The brand new Captivate 9 puts Adobe years ahead of the competition

mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 21, 2015

I really like the idea that Adobe built Prime from the ground up using new technologies such as HTML5 and not Flash. As someone who worked on RoboDemo when it was an eHelp Corporation product and later at Macromedia and Adobe, on the Captivate team, I couldn’t be happier to see Adobe taking this great product in the right direction.

Adobe

Adobe Adobe Captivate Captivate Authoring Tools

The Building Blocks of a Successful e-Training Program

ICS Learning

AUGUST 26, 2013

You have many important decisions that need to be made ranging from issues related to the use of technology to required facilities to instructional design to software development and media production. Phase 3: Content Production. Prototypes – are the step after the paper design but before the programming or production phase is started.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Authoring Tools Compliance Training Simulations

eLearning Learning

eLearning Development: What’s new in Flash CS4?

Can Captivate 9 Save Adobe?

Trending Sources

How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Learning Flash

We're All New at This

In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

10 Great Moments in eLearning History

Happy birthday Flash

Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

What is eLearning?

What is eLearning?

Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

It’s time for upgrades, and a Poll

7 reasons why the new Articulate Storyline is a Game-Changer for eLearning

Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

The Year in Learning: 2019 Edition

The brand new Captivate 9 puts Adobe years ahead of the competition

The Building Blocks of a Successful e-Training Program

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