Announcing: Adobe Education Seminar Series

At the Adobe Education Leader Summer Institute this past July, I gave a presentation entitled Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus which dealt with what the University of Denver is working on in regard to the Flash Platform, focusing upon our work with CourseMedia™. I received a good deal of positive feedback from both Adobe employees and fellow AELs (Adobe Education Leaders) in attendance.

A few weeks after the event, I was contacted by the Adobe Education team to gauge my interest in being part of a seminar series they were putting together around how universities are implementing video solutions across campus. DU CourseMedia™ will be one of the points of focus in the upcoming seminar series.

Please learn more and register for the event to join us through Adobe Connect for the following sessions:

1. SESSION 1 – Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video (September 9)
2. SESSION 2 – From Concept to Distribution: Products that will help you capture, edit, and distribute your video online (September 16)
3. SESSION 3 – Making it all happen: A discussion of how to implement a video solution at your institution (September 23)

I’ll be presenting on both the 1st and 3rd sessions along with Sandy Balzer, John Schuman, and Nick Hippe from Adobe. DU’s Leslie Trumble will also be joining us in presenting Session 1 to contribute her unique perspective on faculty usage through her work at the Visual Media Center.

Register!

Contribute to My FITC at Adobe MAX Presentation

This involves the more unorthodox and experimental part of my demonstration…

Mess with Midge and feed my data logs!

CourseMedia™ Interview with Dr. Devin K. Joshi

I just posted a video on the Adobe Education Leader weblog showcasing a lot of the neat tools we’ve built into the University of Denver CourseMedia™ system. Most people never see this stuff since it’s all behind closed doors due to copyright and soforth.

Check it out!

Runtime Armatures in Flash CS4

I have such terrible luck with Runtime Armatures in Flash CS4. It’s really not funny anymore.

Most recently stumbled across the following compilation error (fatal warning?) when working with the “New Flash Component” feature of Flash Builder 4:

Warning: 5002: The main timeline’s frame scripts have been ignored because a compiled clip contains a definition for fl.livepreview.LivePreviewParent. To override the fl.livepreview.LivePreviewParent definition, place a custom class file within your classpath.

Obviously, Flash is generating code for the Runtime Armature which is conflicting with code for the Flash Component for use in Flash Builder. Ugh…

I’m working on some demos for my FITC presentation during the MAX unconference in October. This is by no means a show stopper but what an annoyance… Half the time when working with Runtime Armatures in CS4, Flash will just totally crash and burn. I have great luck with Armatures during authoring- the runtime stuff just always seems to bite me.

Bug filed:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-22221

UPDATE: I have confirmation that this is fixed in Flash CS5.

“Shudderflowers” is Complete!

With the completion of Shudderflowers, An Early Morning Letter, Displaced now presents the first in a series of new tracks on MySpace Music:

Waning Flower falls at track #5 on the new release and is very similar to previous work. The styles on this collection vary a bit from what has come before and they will all have representatives over the next few weeks.

Waning Flower
fevered sleep deprives the child of these waning flowers
seal these things within burning memories
conflagration of the soul

Shudderflowers is scheduled for a September release through Fractured Vision Media.