Want to learn a bit more about Director? Adobe is offering an eSeminar this week (June 20) and next month (July 24). From the Adobe site:
Please join us for a live, interactive, one-hour online seminar to learn how Director MX 2004 from Adobe is being used to quickly create online and downloadable games, multimedia training and educational content and multimedia applications.
They will answer questions about how Director can help you:
- Author once and deploy anywhere
- Create content using the media of their choice
- Publish content across platforms
- Create sophisticated interactivity with a choice of scripting languages
- Utilize extensible authoring and playback environments to obtain features and functionality not provided “out of the box”
- Tap into the strength and power provided by a robust 3rd party Xtra developer community to extend the functionality delivered to the client
June 17th, 2007
“Company” of course means the one I work with 🙂
For the second time in three years we (ExploreLearning) won the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. The award was in the Science Instructional Websites (Grade 9-12) category.
I’m over on the right side. Do I look like I enjoyed the open bar at the start of the evening? It was a rather fun evening, at least as far as I can recall…
June 13th, 2007
I enjoyed my time at the conference two weeks ago in Boston. I managed to catch a Red Sox game while there, meet up with a few Director folks, and drink a bit of beer.
Most of the sessions I went to were associated with gaming in education. The phrase of the day in eLearning is Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS). They are pretty much what they sound like. Immersive. Learning. Simulation.
A common form of immersion is taking place in massively multiplayer online games. Director is a tool that can be used to create these. Sites created with Director such as Habbo Hotel and MaidMarian were shown. Phosphor was also shown as an example of an amazing 1st person shooter for the web. Many people pointed out that Director really is the best tool for developing 3d web-based worlds.
During several sessions the speakers pointed out that the next version of Director will be coming out later this year. I was hoping the Adobe booth would have CS3 kicking around, but alas, even they didn’t get a copy to play with. While talking about Director I noticed a few people were also asking about an update to Authorware.
It was an interesting experience for me, since I’d never really thought much about the resources involved with the corporate side of eLearning (since I’ve always been on the K to college world). A lot of companies, and a lot of money. A bit shocking compared to the K-12 side of things.
The highlight of the conference though was probably due to Media 1. Their raffle prize was flying toy helicopter. Needless to say, the cute little helicopter now zips through the office near the end of the day. No critical data has been lost 🙂
April 25th, 2007
For the second straight year ExploreLearning won the Codie for the Best Science Instruction Solution.
All the ‘Gizmos’ on our site are created with Adobe Director. Go Gizmos. Go Director.
April 18th, 2007
This week the Game Developers Conference is going on in San Francisco. If you are there you should drop by booth number 857 WH to chat with some Director folks and talk about the product announcement. Hanford Lemoore will also be at the GDC, and will be taking part in a session on March 8 (Thursday). Don’t miss it!
Next month the e-Learning Guild will be holding their 2007 Annual Gathering. Adobe will also be at that one to talk about Director. I’ll be there to chat about ExploreLearning does with Director. Stay tuned for more info on the session. I think my voice already got recorded and put up there. I haven’t been brave enough to listen. Phones and me…not always the best situation. I’d much rather be in front of a class, or digging through some Lingo 🙂
March 5th, 2007