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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 curriculuma

Help students take the shortcut to brilliant. Teach them career skills with free Adobe Creative Suite® 4 curricula 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

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: http://www.adobe.com/education/solutions/hed/elearning/

For an overview of Adobe solutions for higher education, visit http://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

3D in Flash

In this video, Doug Winnie demonstrates how to create realistic 3D animation in Flash Professional CS4 and Flash Player 10. Animate an object’s rotation and position quickly and easily.

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 - AMF Data Wizards and Flash Builder 4

Duane Nickull continues his series of tutorials on Flash Builder 4. In this video, he writes a simple app to show changes in how AMF is used to talk to and from remote data services.

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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.

Articles from educators

Geovisualization: Leveraging the Opportunities of Geographic Information

Alan MacEachren & Scott Pezanowski (Dec. 23, 2009)
Alan MacEachren and Scott Pezanowski discuss how Flash and Flex enable geographically aware analytical and presentation tools in Penn State’s GeoVISTA Center.

Designing for Interactive Performance

Rick Toh (October 02, 2009)
Rick Toh empowered a group of designer/developer students to exercise their creative powers in developing interactive animations as visual accompaniment for a performance of the Singapore Wind Symphony.

Wayfinding + Rich-Media Mashups: What Art Students are Doing with Flex, ActionScript 3.0 and TouchScreensDesigning Curriculum around Contrasting Roles

Jason Diehl (September 02, 2009)
Art Institute faculty Jason Diehl embraced the introduction of ActionScript 3.0. He introduced it and Flex in coursework to help Art Institute students create some innovative wayfinding projects accessible both on the Web and via touch-screen kiosks.

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 Development 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.