I’m not an instructional designer, however, I do teach and have an expertise in the technologies used to produce eLearning, so, hopefully, you’ll find these tips useful!

I will be presenting at this year’s BYOL: eLearning 2009 in Salt Lake City. I have been invited to present training sessions on Adobe Actionscript and Adobe Flex. The BYOL conferences have a unique concept– The session are in-depth and hands-on. Participants will go through what are essentially technical training sessions in all areas of eLearning. Other presenters are discussing everything from Captivate to enterprise LMS systems to the design of eLearning courses.

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I am pleased to provide this video preview of the upcoming series: Creating an Mp3 Player with Actionscript 3.0. If you’ve ever wanted to dive deeper in to Actionscript 3.0, this video series will be a great way to learn more advanced language constructs, and truly understand Actionscript’s object oriented approach.

This video series will start with creating a very simple MP3 player that just plays a song. As features like volume and pan controls, ID3 tags and a song timer get added you will learn a lot about Actionscript and creating Actionscript based Flash movies.

This video series is appropriate for beginning or intermediate flash users.

This first preview video shows you how to set up your Flash movie and how to use the Sound and URLLoader classes to get your first song to play.

This entire video series will be available soon from LearnToProgram.tv.

I was please to be invited to speak at eLearning Devcon 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. My session on Adobe Flex went very well. I was happy to see the session was well attended and the two hours allotted went very quickly. We covered the basics of the Adobe Flex platform and built three very small applications using Flex Builder.

The audience was mostly non-programmers, however they seemed to adapt to the basic concepts used in the MXML and Actioncscript 3.0 well. I have posted the exercises done during the session here. If you use the exercise files you must use the import command in Flex to import the entire project folder. You will then be able to open the source file which contains the MXML and the Actionscript code

This tutorial will take you through creating your first application with Adobe Flex. Adobe Flex is a great environment for creating Rich Internet Applications. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to write both some MXML code and some Actionscript code to develop a simple, interactive Flex application. Instructions for downloading your free Flex trial in the tutorial

Adobe Flex is a platform and you are not required to own the Flex Builder software to use it. The Flex Builder software is, however, highly recommended. The Flex Builder is a modification of the freely available Eclipse IDE. You will need the Flex Builder software for this tutorial.

Idea Media Interactive sent me to Washington DC to teach Adobe Flex at a leading consulting company.