My friend Jim Bunetta and I are working on a possible redesign for his website, Mesa Old West Days. It is an annual western festival celebrating Mesa Arizona. I designed a flash animation of the horse and rider that was created by El Vaquero Muerto, whose site is http://elvaqueromuerto.com/
Here is the link:
*Art provided by El Vaquero Muerto. http://elvaqueromuerto.com/
I recently found a great article about the top 5 elearning skills for 2011 at http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2011/02/. Eric Matas writes about what he thinks will be the 5 most important skills to have, since groups of people will need to be able to focus on doing more with less.
One thing that I found most interesting though is the idea of mobile development. As we know, the conversion of flash into code that can be easily exported for use on hardware like the ipad and iphone and even the internet is rather limited currently. Adobe has seen the importance of being able to convert flash into HTML5, and as result, they have a new tool released called Wallaby that will make this transition easier. The utilization of Dreamweaver and Wallaby are making it easier to convert assets from Flash into HTML5 for easy redeployment. I think we will see much more of this in the future.
See the link here:
This is a practice flash banner that leads to Demian’s site.
For Week 5 of my Instructional Design I course, I completed the following in Flash CS5:
I like Lynda.com a lot, but one thing that I personally wish they would do is start from the beginning of a learning module and really show you step by step how to draw exactly the assets they are working with.
I found this site to be really helpful as it seems to do just that. It is based on CS3 but there is good stuff to learn on it and I should also note that these tutorials are for Adobe Flash.
Check the link out below:
http://ocw.usu.edu/instructional-technology-learning-sciences/interactive-multimedia-production/AndyWalker/course-content.html
