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Flash CS4 real improvements for educators?

Andrew Field — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:10 +0000

I’ve put together a quick forum post suggesting why I think Flash CS4 is going to be a singificant update for schools. See the EffectiveICT.co.uk forum for the full post. Basically, I think the tweening improvements together with the new 3D tools will make the whole program so much better for students to use. I’ll [...]

Apple's famous ad now represents WWDC?

Andrew Field — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:28:47 +0000

Don’t get me wrong – my wife and I love the Mac and find Apple’s products brilliant. However, in response to my post yesterday about the lack of Flash Brian McBride made a great comment: It is about time someone runs down the isle past the memorized drones and smashes the Apple/Jobs screen with a [...]

Forget Silverlight – is the iPhone the Flash killer?

Andrew Field — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:41:06 +0000

With the latest details about the iPhone from the Apple WWDC today, it made me consider the main thing that I feel the iPhone lacks – support for Flash. With Apple rolling out the developers, the example apps along with all the marketing and “I want one now” encouragement, Flash is losing out. Where is [...]

Beta release of Teacher Invaders

Andrew Field — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:34:28 +0000

I’ll post in more depth as soon as I can, but this post is just to announce my delight with the release of my new (and free) educational game – Teacher Invaders. You can download the beta version just by registering on my ContentGenerator.net forums. I’ll upload an example game shortly so you can have [...]

Site updated

Andrew Field — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:38:07 +0000

After a long absence – basically because this site is the last website that I end up updating and I haven’t ended up updating many of my sites recently – I’ve updated this site. More to do with WordPress hacking exploits but also to do with the latest version of WordPress which continues to be [...]

(UK) Adobe Live

Andrew Field — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:19:41 +0000

Not an event I was able to attend because I was teaching, but it looked really good. A number of sessions have now been uploaded so you can watch it again. Not as wide ranging as actually being there, but some in-depth, interesting and detailed presentations are all online. http://www.adobelive.co.uk/livefeed.asp Also some very clever use [...]

Printing in Flash 8 – the hard way

Andrew Field — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:15:59 +0000

I've been developing a Flash-based application for my websites called 'Practice Paper' for over two years now. The first one was on my ReviseICT.co.uk site, which I then developed further to appear on my SchoolHistory.co.uk site. Basic printing was on offer, but it didn't work very well.

Last year I posted extensively about the issues I was facing - see this post, also titled 'Printing in Flash 8' - the basic conclusion was that if you printed text from Flash everything would work out fine unless you wanted to print more than one page. Then the trouble starts - I tried an exhastive number of solutions and not one worked....

Or did it? Well, in some respects - no it didn't at all.

Publishing tool of the century

Andrew Field — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:58:02 +0000

Flash – the publishing tool of the century Very interesting article from the Guardian [click the link above] – makes some excellent comments and helps explain why Flash is such a useful tool. It isn’t detailed enough to cover the uses in Education (which is what my blog is about) but it doesn’t take much [...]

Printing via Flash 8

Andrew Field — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:33:23 +0000

I’m having enormous hassle printing a dynamic movieClip from Flash. Basically I’m trying to develop my Practice Paper application further (more details later). This tool allows a student to be given a question and they type their answer. When complete, they press a button and are shown a model answer. For the whole thing to [...]

BBC praises Flash accessiblity

Andrew Field — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:07:00 +0000

As part of a well written piece about web accessibility I was very pleased to see the BBC identifying something that everyone needs to be made aware of. Far too often so called 'experts' say using Flash is a complete waste of time in terms of accessibility, unfairly criticising the technology.

In the short article the BBC identify how Flash can be used in a really positive way to make things more accessible.

Designing a more accessible web