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I attended FlashCamp this weekend (except Sunday) at Adobe’s San Francisco offices. It was really cool of Adobe to create a free event filled with tons of goodies, great food (including free beer), free massages(!) and even free licenses for Flash CS4! I admit I think I ate too
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For many involved in the SCORM 2.0 project, the hope is that we can transform the SCORM 1.x caterpillar into a SCORM 2.x butterfly; that the gestation period of SCORM 1.x has ended, and soon SCORM 2.0 will emerge from its cocoon and dazzle the
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After all my ruminating on SCORM 2.0 the last couple of weeks, it was interesting to read about the latest news regarding the ECMAScript standard. It was even more interesting to read some of the reactions, including those from Adobe’s Dave McAllister (link no longer available) and Yahoo’
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I submitted my white paper for SCORM 2.0 today. I don’t see it listed on the LETSI site yet, but I’m hoping they received it and that it will be added soon. I wanted to share a few things about my experience writing that paper. First of
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Most e-learning developers don’t care about SCORM and only (begrudingly) learn enough to get the job done. I don’t blame them. The other day I was reading some old Drupal community posts (circa 2005) about adding SCORM functionality to Drupal. One comment stood out: SCORM was the big
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The transition is almost complete: I have ditched my Windows-based PC for a MacBook Pro. My reasons? Well, I could write a whole bunch of fluff about how as a developer I need to be able to test my work on multiple operating systems, and a Mac (with BootCamp and/
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Before I get to my point, I’d like to give you some background information. For better or for worse, I’m something of a perfectionist. I’m also something of an idealist; this combination makes life very difficult sometimes. When I embark on a project, I’m usually driven
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Question: Why don’t more e-learning developers use standards? I don’t know for sure, but I have a number of guesses. Here’s a quick list off the top of my head: * Lack of knowledge about standards * Confusing or obtuse documentation * Competing standards * Misconceptions about cost effectiveness * Difficulty / Lack
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Today Rapid Intake announced a new service named Unison. Not having used the service, I won’t pretend to know whether it’s a worthwhile service or not. It’s certainly an intriguing idea, and with its oft-mentioned low price, it’s guaranteed to get some industry buzz. Out of
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This post was triggered by BJ Schone’s question “How do you build e-learning courses?“ So, here’s my question: How do you build your e-learning courses? Do you build them from scratch (ex. HTML, JavaScript, etc.)? Do you use an authoring tool for the whole course structure? This is
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For 2008, I resolve to be more resolute when working on my resolutions. And for once I don’t mean screen or print resolution! I mean actively working towards achieving one of my MANY professional and hobbyist goals. 2007 was a great year… I had quite a few happy moments,
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A computer is born, and another computer dies (“I’m not quite dead!” he says in his best Eric Idle imitation). (Mac) Hi, I’m a Mac. (PC) And I’m a PC. I’m sure all of you know this commercial by now. As with many other geeks around