Flash For Learning

I’ve registered the domain name flashforlearning.com, which is the domain name this site will be transferred to in the next several weeks. Think of the .com as a “dot community.”

With over a month since this site has started, I’m still hoping to collaborate with the friends made at FlashForward who helped dream up this project. So far, there hasn’t been a lot of activity (other than an occasional post or e-mail from me). I’m still going to promote and encourage community involvement, but until the feedback loops are in place for a self-sustaining online community (and the systemic feedback loops are in place to keep the system perpetuating and correcting itself), it appears I’ll be posting the majority of content here.

So barring opposing activity by the four other people viewing this site so far, I’m going to focus this project squarely on the use of Flash for e-Learning. Now that involves two huge domains: Flash and Education. The sweet spot is where these two domains overlap, but anything in those two domains has a place in this project. So everything from what we’re learning about making Flash games to Constructivist theory and its implications for online-enabled learning are fair game.

Post away… or keep watching for flashforlearning.com.

After a long wait for deployment, my work on a plug-in example that clearly demonstrates the use of ActionScript classes in Flash to work in a Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 Run-time Environment is finally released on ADLNet.org:

This content package demonstrates the development of SCORM conformant content using a plug-in technology, (Macromedia’s Flash AND Director) for experienced developers familiar with SCORM.

The PITE is designed to provide content developers with relevant information on implementing SCORM 2004 projects using a plug-in technology.

The content is primarily for the developer audience and is organized by plug-in technology. The content is the same for both sections, Flash and Director, but with the addition of code specific to the technology to aid the developer in reuse. The technologies are implemented using the Data Model elements, Comments from Learner, Objective and Interactions as examples.

The source code for both Flash and Director examples is included for adaptation and implementation into your own SCORM 2004 projects.

PITE will run in the SCORM 2004 Sample Run-Time Environment (RTE) Version 1.3.3 and is available in the Downloads section of ADLNet.org.

Rock on, e-learning peeps!