EduTechnorama

This week I’ve been attending the Adobe MAX conference. This is the second one I’ve been to and I’ve really enjoyed myself. I’ve always lamented with my classmates, colleagues, and professors that when it comes to teaching and learning, the tools will change and evolve, but the theories behind learning with the assistance of technology will be relatively stable. Having said that, I really like how Adobe has handled and carried themselves as they’ve had the responsibility of ensuring the opportunity for usesrs of the web to have good experiences. Good technology companies find ways to define and proliferate their mission and even though Adobe has a notorious reputation for creating really bloated software, for the most part they’ve handled their recent success since the acquiring of Macromedia who in my opinion had the previous responsibility for success in evolving user experience on the web. (more…)

I’ve alluded in a previous post about the fact that the typical request-view-reload experience for web pages is capable of becoming a thing of the past with the advent of properly programed and usable web experiences via what has been coined as Rich Internet Applications. What this means is that your typical desktop user experience for a program reports an immediate response in updating the UI (user interface) so that the interactions signal to the user that they are getting something done in the browser. Read on for more of what I mean…

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