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My lifeā€¦in elearning

Learning Visions

15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS. We had moved away from proprietary and were now using Macromedia Director. We created custom elearning programs in Flash. It sounded really glamorous to me. We are adapting as we speak.

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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 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and renamed it Flash. Developers first discovered how to use Flash to build interactive websites and then the program evolved to using it to build games, movies, and experiences.

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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. Using a multimedia computer, they were able to utilize video, audio, graphics and animation programs so that they can better interact with the computer''s interface. Yes, the Web 2.0

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Storyline and ZebraZapps: seriously powerful, seriously simple

Clive on Learning

This is a big deal, because iPads and iPhones don't support Flash. Michael was, of course, the creator of Authorware, a highly powerful tool from the CD-ROM era, which Adobe eventually gave up on after they inherited it from Macromedia. You can incorporate as much interactive logic as you like without programming.

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Using Silverlight/Expression Blend for eLearning Development

Upside Learning

Over the last ten years or so, major elearning developers have preferred to use tools like Flash, Authorware and Director from Adobe (earlier Macromedia). This implies the use of tool separate tools, always ā€“ one to create and edit graphical content and another to write the program logic which manipulates the graphics and environment.