By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
Writing a 500-page fully illustrated book is a lot of work, so forgive me if I bask a bit.
It is clear that the lessons have been well tested on many students because the author seems to know just where people are likely to get stuck. Lots of tips and warnings help readers past the hurdles. [...]
This site has very nice animated tutorials with voiceover instructions: gotoAndLearn.com. The tutes are all in the listbox labeled “Select a tutorial”; the first basic video tute is at the very bottom of the list, so scroll to find it.
The site is from Lee Brimelow. He also has a nice “Basic Flash Preloader” tute here. [...]
From The New York Times (”As Internet TV Aims at Niche Audiences, the Slivercast Is Born,” by Saul Hansell, March 12, 2006):
Slivercasting refers to a video channel that “is broadcast only on the Internet, which enables video to reach a much larger worldwide audience at a much lower initial cost than a satellite channel.”
… the [...]
For intermediate Flash users only: I created a PDF for my students and put it online here; it explains how to use Scenes when authoring in Flash. It also explains a bit about using the bandwidth profiler.
We are on Spring Break now, so the students’ fourth Flash exercise is not due until two weeks from [...]
The Web site for a Food Network TV show: Eat This.
How appealing is this? Look at the little notebook at the bottom of the page. Check out the way the text on the right side supplements and enhances the video on the left. And look at the SIZE of that video! Wow!
Technorati tags: Flash journalism [...]
A student asked me this recently. He had seen the phrase “rich media” in an article and thought the author was trying to coin a new phrase. I’m familiar with the phrase through Macromedia (now part of Adobe), which has long used the term to refer to Flash Web sites that incorporate databases.
This week, a [...]
From an article in AsiaMedia (March 7):
“Blogging is more of an individual process, where you might write about personal issues in your daily life or comment on an issue that is important to you,” said Lam Oi-wan, editor of citizen media site InMediaHK (in Chinese only). “Bloggers don’t normally go out and report something, whereas [...]
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