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In the last few years, web applications have evolved from HTML/CSS websites into engaging applications that provide a rich user experience. Adobe spotted this trend early and has developed technologies that provide some of the best user experiences possible. Adobe introduced the term rich Internet application (RIA) to describe these interactive web applications.
The two main Adobe technologies that allow RIA development are Adobe® Flex® and Adobe AIR™. RIAs can run inside the browser or on the desktop (using AIR). Examples of these applications are available in the Flex Showcase and the Adobe AIR Showcase.
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ColdFusion 8 Curriculum
Adobe is offering two new courses designed to teach experienced web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8. Introduction to ColdFusion 8 covers the basics and focuses on best practices and design, while stressing the importance of usability, code reuse, performance, and scalability. Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development teaches you to take full advantage of ColdFusion 8 when building web applications.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 curriculums
Help students take the shortcut to brilliant. Teach them career skills with free Adobe Creative Suite® 4 curriculums that have already been awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment. You'll find separate curriculums for design and print production, web design, and video design and production.
Flex in a Week training — for free
A great new resource is now available on Adobe.com. You can learn Flex in a week by going through a series of video training sessions at your own pace. Start with basics, and then move into more advanced techniques. Participate online or download and watch the sessions offline. If you have questions as you're viewing, ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum. To take advantage of this free training, just go to the Flex in a Week page and follow the easy instructions.
RIA teaching resources
These resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned, and book recommendations to put together a course on RIA design and development.
New Adobe eLearning Suite
The new Adobe eLearning Suite software offers a content-authoring solution for educators that enables them to create rich learning experiences that can be delivered via the Web, desktop, mobile devices, and learning management systems. Take a look at: https://www.adobe.com/education/solutions/hed/elearning/
For an overview of Adobe solutions for higher education, visit https://www.adobe.com/education/solutions/hed/
Adobe TV
If you've never checked out Adobe TV, you're in for a treat. This is your online source for expert insight into Adobe products, delivered on video, on demand. You'll find a full range of programs, from entertainment through instruction. Watch when and where you want.
Highlights
Everyday Timesavers: Web – Quickly Transform Photoshop Layouts.
Turn a Photoshop layout into a working web page faster than ever. Adobe Web Evangelist Greg Reis shows you how in Adobe Fireworks CS4.
Taming the Web – Wots O’ Widgets.
In this episode, Greg Reis shows you how to add custom widgets directly into Dreamweaver CS4—not encoding involved!
ADC Presents – Design and Develop Workflows
Doug Winnie showcases the cutting-edge flexibility your published content can have. Find out how to use XFL to transfer InDesign projects into Flash CS4 to create and fine-tune interactive animation.
Community
Join us at the Adobe Flex Facebook page
Creative Suite 4 makes its debut: Watch a replay of the launch broadcast
Your shortcut to brilliant is here! Catch a replay of the worldwide launch event for Creative Suite 4 and see how these tightly integrated software editions and services improve productivity and allow you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile projects.
Adobe Education at MAX 2008
This year at Adobe MAX, held November 16–19 in San Francisco, we offered educators new ways to engage with one another and learn about Adobe technology tools. We added education-specific sessions during MAX and held an education pre-conference day on Sunday that included education customer and industry presentations, followed by an evening reception. Find out more
Collaborate and create
Work with a team to design projects in Adobe Flex and AIR and get an opportunity to win recognition, travel, software, and cash.
2008 Cannes Film Festival student shorts
In May, Adobe was a sponsor of the 2008 Reel Ideas Studio Student Filmmaking program in the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. See the impressive work of these students in two locations. For a selection of films, visit Adobe TV, which is featuring a new video each week, and click Video Professional. To view all of the films, go to Reel Ideas Studio and click At the Theater.
Articles from educators
Designing Curriculum around Contrasting Roles
Steve Kurtz, Gordon Goodman & Nancy Doubleday (July 31, 2009)
RIT’s Department of Interactive Games and Media has developed a curriculum to help students find their educational path in the design or development role. Successive courses present both perspectives, with emphasis on team roles.
Students study Both Design and Develoment in Innovative Digital Design and Media Program
Wouter Verweirder and Klaus Delanghe
A new, innovative Bachelor’s program at University College West Flanders combines design, development, and integration, offering students an integrated approach to creating digital media.
Full Sail University creates a Flex application to facilitate educator response time
Bill Bain and Jason Madsen (October 14, 2008)
Two educators figured out a way to develop an application that helps aggregate students' questions into a portal during their lab periods, enabling instructors to help students more efficiently.
How do you know that they know? Building valid assessments in Adobe Captivate
Frank Nguyen (May 27, 2008)
Frank Nguyen describes how to use Adobe Captivate® to align eLearning assessments with learning objectives.
Flash is just a fancy comic book — teaching visual thinkers to code
Mark Badger (May 19, 2008)
Mark Badger finds ways to teach visual thinkers how to code in ActionScript® for Adobe Flash®.
Q & A with Scott Mahoy
Steve Anderson (April 14, 2008)
Steve Anderson of USC interviews Scott Mahoy, creative director for the Labyrinth Project, about his design philosophy and use of Flex.
Teaching object-oriented programming in a Flash
Sean Morrow (April 14, 2008)
Sean Morrows of NSCC talks about what Adobe Flash and Flex have meant to his Web Development program.
Flare: Visualization tools with Adobe Flash
Jeffrey Heer (March 10, 2008)
Jeffrey Heer of UC Berkeley shares insights about improving decision-making with interactive visualizations powered by tools built with Adobe Flash.
Q & A with Will Carter
Will Carter (March 10, 2008)
Veronica Paredes of USC interviews Will Carter about his trajectory as a web/mobile developer and his tools of choice.
Adobe Flash and Flex — which makes the most sense for your project?
Erik Loyer (March 10, 2008)
Erik Loyer of Song New Creative shares his rubric for determining what kinds of projects need Flash and which need Flex.
A technology tool to facilitate citizen journalism
Mike McKean (February 25, 2008)
Professor Mike McKean of the University of Missouri Columbia talks about a campus competition using Adobe AIR to spur innovation for enhancing citizen involvement in journalism.
Rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex in your classroom
Yakov Fain (November 1, 2007)
Yakov Fain tells why he teaches Flex in his NYU classroom.
Q & A with Erik Loyer
Yakov Fain (November 22, 2007)
Steve Anderson at USC interviews Erik Loyer of Song New Creative.
Student Showcase
Student Rep RIA Application Contest Winner: Cesare Rocchi
(May 1, 2009)
Congratulations to Cesare Rocchi, a student at the Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, for winning the recent Student Rep RIA Application Contest. He entered his application, Posty, which simplifies microblogging.
Flash for surface computing
Manvesh Vyas (November 13, 2008)
Manvesh Vyas shares how to set up your own surface-computing platform based on Adobe Flash and how students at Georgia Tech's SynLab create interactive surface applications on different platforms.
Top ten Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students
Areez Gangji (September 9, 2008)
Areez Gangji researched ten Flex and AIR applications that can help students organize their notes, connect with others, edit photos, tame their media, and share documents.
Building a rich Internet application to distribute course content
Frank Garofalo (July 31, 2008)
Frank Garofalo worked with three other students to create an AIR application for his senior project that streamlined delivery of the course content for all students and faculty.
Designing reverberating interactions
Lee Byron (May 19, 2008)
Lee Byron and his team of Carnegie Mellon students used Adobe Flex to develop a video-messaging service that enables flirting.
Direct from Adam Hosp and Nick Leonard
Adam Hosp and Nick Leonard (April 14, 2008)
Hosp and Leonard developed an AIR application that lets users distribute their favorite news articles, images, and videos to their social networks.
Direct from Jonathan Coffman
Jonathan Coffman (March 10, 2008)
Jonathan Coffman shares information on the project his team developed for Adobe AIR that helps newspapers support citizen news input.
Direct from Tyler Travitz, MFA candidate at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Tyler Travitz (February 25, 2008)
Tyler Travitz at RIT shows off his independent study project created with Flex.
Direct from Harald Koebler — the Flex developer for SPIELERKABINE.net
The Flex developer for SPIELERKABINE.net talks about his award-winning Web 2.0 project.
Free Flex Builder 3 Professional
If you are a current student or faculty member at an educational institution, you can get Adobe Flex Builder™ 3 Professional software free.
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