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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. What exactly is Flash?

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

The Macintosh, with its free HyperCard program, also helped a generation of tech-savvy teachers make their own software and tutorials for students. Commercial software companies were quick to develop computer-based educational materials and learning games as well. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and transformed it into Adobe Flash.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

But are you leveraging every tool at your disposal to do so? This is because, unlike other software industries, eLearning only got recognized for its potential recently, unlike website development or general content creation. . Other shifts in software that helped evolved eLearning. The evolution of the authoring tool.

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What is eLearning?

Coassemble

But are you leveraging every tool at your disposal to do so? This is because, unlike other software industries, eLearning only got recognized for its potential recently, unlike website development or general content creation. . Other shifts in software that helped evolved eLearning. The evolution of the authoring tool.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). Installation Our experience started with the installation of Silverlight and associated tools.

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

Rapid eLearning

These tools didn’t get their start in 2007. Articulate Presenter was around well before eHelp (one of the leading companies) was purchased by Macromedia that was purchased by Adobe. Understand the types of tools on the market. Many organizations make the mistake of creating a checklist of features to compare tools.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Elearning development tools: only Adobe? Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). Installation Our experience started with the installation of Silverlight and associated tools.