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How to Prepare for the End of the Flash

Magic EdTech

These organizations have been developing Flash content for education since Macromedia offered Flash 1.0 In a former life as a product of FutureWave Software, Flash was known as SmartSketch, graphics editor pen computing on the Mac. In 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash. rendering Flash an anachronism. .

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10 Reasons to Join The eLearning Guild

Web Courseworks

Colleges were just starting to offer Photoshop courses and were just including HTML and Macromedia in their curriculum. The eLearning Guild pens a newsletter called Learning Solutions Magazine , the industry’s oldest and most trusted source of practical information on enterprise-wide learning. Professional Development.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

But it wasn''t until 2004 that the term took wing when pen-source advocate Tim O''Reilly promoted the idea at the O''Reilly Media Conference. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and transformed it into Adobe Flash. Yes, the Web 2.0 as we all know it was introduced only a decade ago. From the read-only environment of Web 1.0,

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Rapid Content Authoring Tools: Market, Mayhem and Reality

eLearning 24-7

Macromedia Authorware and similar products. Macromedia Director. HTML and Javascript. The Macromedia set typically would toss in Director, which created an equally impressive array of course capabilities, but a deep learning curve. Eventually, Macromedia Dreamweaver came into the picture. That was pretty much it.