http://udon.nudoru.com flash, elearning, random thoughts Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:08:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was finally able to record a round of my SCOMaster game! Recap - It's a multiplayer WiiFlash game designed to be played with teams in an instructor lead classroom setting. The object is to assemble a learning program structure the fastest - but watch out, because your opponent can ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/11/10/scomaster-gameplay/ Casey's gone back to school and things are settling down with the new baby, so I'm finding myself with a little free time again. When I posed the Creating a Flash WBT Framework post, I had planned to follow it up shortly with a few learning interactions, but I never ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/10/30/as3-learning-interactions-what-should-i-do/ I don't get to use Photoshop for illustrations very often anymore, so it's fun when I do. I created this little thing to replace some uglier images on the same theme in a WBT we're working on. Origional is here. http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/08/13/useless-little-photoshops/ I've been playing around with using gestures with WiiFlash as an alternative input scheme. As a first step, I've taken the Flash Gesture recognition code from Didier Brun and modified it to work with a Wii remote instead of the mouse. It works pretty well - some of the letters ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/08/06/170/ It's been quieter than usual around here be cause on July 9th, our son Gabriel James was born. Casey went to the hospital with chest pains - and it turned out that she was in labor! After 14 hours of labor, Gabe arrived, 3 weeks early, at 11:21am. He was pretty ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/08/06/we-had-a-baby/ After a week and a half I finally finished my first real WiiFlash game - SCOMaster. It's a competative, 2 player learning game designed to be played in a group setting. It illustrates the concepts of assembling a course in an LMS system. Bonus points are awarded for content reuse ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/06/26/scomaster-wiiflash-mulitplayer-learning-game/ In February, I posted about using the Wii remote as a virtual mouse in Flash. While that approach seems to work just fine in a simple single player application, I found that it breaks really badly when you another player to it. I just completed my first two player WiiFlash ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/06/26/wiiflash-tip-4-revisiting-wii-mouse-in-a-multiplayer-scenario/ I'm presenting to the Bank's Flash Community of Practice this Thursday on how to create a basic Flash WBT that includes SCORM  tracking. Below is the PPT deck that I'll be using and below that is the sample file. SCORM and Flash WBT Overview This is an example file of a Flash ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/05/23/creating-a-flash-wbt-timeline-on-the-timeline/ I'm releasing the source code to the 2nd WBT framework that I created for Wachovia in mid-2004. Essentially, it works just like the example demo that I posed a few days ago: 1) an array of page IDs and 2) pages are movie clips in the library attached as the ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/05/22/flash-template-2-release/ I put together part 1 of what I plan on being a multi-part series documeting the creation of a Flash WBT framework for creating SCORM compliant courses. This first once starts with an interface created in Flash CS3 and goes though the steps of adding the code to make it ... http://udon.nudoru.com/2008/05/20/creating-a-flash-wbt-framework-part-1/