[senit] Write your own art software in SLD

Hi Geoff, I agree that Flash is a powerful and flexible media with

Geoff,

one of the most significant issues with unsupported software, is that  
it may not work fairly soon.
but more than this, it wont integrate with present or future  
technologies.
this means one is building in obsolescence, anything produced is  
already out of date.
SVG being open, doesn't have this issue, it already integrates well  
with social networks, online games  and more.

for instance last week I attended the Joost developer day and  
witnessed an SVG front end for online TV with social games, chat and  
more all in the one application.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet

On 21 Nov 2007, at 15:12, Geoff Dellow wrote:

I have had a very fruitful exchange of emails with Steve.

I would like to clarify a couple of points for the benefit of this forum

On 19 Nov 2007, at 08:38, Steve Lee wrote:

> Hi Geoff, I agree that Flash is a powerful and flexible media with
> which some very effective movies and interactive applications can and
> have been created. It seems especially effective for 'cause and
> effect' training activities so your offer of assistance is of great
> value.

It is also of far great value in enabling the student himself to  
create material of his/her own which is the point that this community  
keep missing - as far as I can tell.

If 5 year olds can benefit so much from DOING Flash then so can so  
many of your students.
>
> Flash was there first and is so common that many assume it is part of
> the Open Web but in fact it is proprietary to Adobe. They can in
> theory change the rules for using it at any time. Adobe do publish the
> format so third parties can create programs that use it, giving us a
> choice and a measure of protection from sudden changes in costs. They
> could change their minds.

Things have now got to such the stage that Adobe will find it hard to  
Charge for Flash 4 unless they upgrade it and call it an education  
version and then it won't be above £300 for 17 licences.

They have admitted that they have in effect abandoned Flash 4 and we  
are free to use it unsupported as long as we can get it to work.  
(This is because the Mac version will not work with the new iMacs  
with intel processor, however there are no problems with Windows XP  
( and even on Vista in certain circumstances)

So what's holding you back.

Especially as there are clear  well written tutorials (so I'm told)  
on simple uses of Flash 4 with more and more coming out every day!

See http://www.tygh.co.uk/chrismas.html for all you need for your  
first project with many more projects available. Join the happy band  
of teachers that are now creating there own projects and tutorials  
at  http://flashteachers.blogspot.com

Our numbers are up to 60 (from one in June ) and climbing at the rate  
of at least five a week  - who can tell how much higher when it's all  
out there on line - for free!

Best wishes

Geoff