Adobe Launches the latest version of it’s creative suite, which includes products such as Flash and PhotoShop. There a number of amazing new features, including iPhone App creation in Flash, and 3D content and photo manipulation tools in PhotoShop. Check out these videos for a taste!
The discussion around Acrobat Connect Pro continued with Andrew Chemey highlighting a few ways in which Adobe products can integrate with an existing LMS to: enhance your offering or increase productivity.
He mentioned that Captivate and Presenter output can be tracked by an LMS using either the AICC or SCORM (which uses a structured ZIP format called SCORM-PIF) eLearning standards. If any of our team don’t yet know what SCORM is, please yell out as I think it’s vitally important you understand the 10,000 foot view. These products are also able to include quizzes and other interactions. Although these products are nice, they seem to be much better suited to those looking to deliver PowerPoint style content, online. They don’t hold a candle to the level of multimedia, animation and quality components that our clients and us are accustomed to seeing in courses. (More …)
This session was delivered as a showcase of the capabilities of Acrobat Connect Pro. Put simply, the Connect product is a framework for delivery of real time communication applications. There a bunch of pods (the small applications that run inside a session) that are available out of the box for a variety of video conferencing and virtual meeting scenarios. These include text based chat, pre-recorded and real-time video, voice chat, desktop sharing… and the list goes on.
Summed up by Terry Shane, the iPhone has been so successful because of what the platform (device and App Store) makes possible. He believes that Connect Pro is the iPhone of web conferencing.
Steve Howard was discussing the advantages that the eLearning Suite has over the products individually. There are a host of features that become available when certain combinations of the Adobe products are purchased together.
Some of his favourites included the speech analysis included in SoundBooth and the Adobe colour pallette creator Kuler (which I’ve seen our designers using already).
Adobe CEO Mr. Shantanu Narayen was able to relate the four straight-forward observations Adobe have made back to their strategy.
