I’m excited to be presenting two sessions at the eLearning Guild’s DevLearn 2009 conference in San Jose. Here are the sessions and links to their descriptions:
See you in San Jose!
I just published an article with O’Reilly’s InsideRIA about web analytics in Flash and Flex applications. It’s a pretty basic overview.
Check it out: http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/web-analytics-and-flashflex-dr.html
We just launched a new site for Sharp Media Interactive Development.
http://www.sharpmedia.com/
Post: http://www.sharpmedia.com/blog/2009/04/sharp-media-site-20-goes-live_13.html
Post on the official Google blog about using eye tracking studies to best position search results.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/eye-tracking-studies-more-than-meets.html
An interesting part of the article revealed that Google’s researchers have found that a lot of decisions made on Google’s searches are made unconsciously, after a preliminary scanning on results that happens almost instantaneously. This reminded me of some of the discussions in Malcom Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
Further, it’s interesting to see how usability/user experience testing is obviously a huge investment for Google searches.
I was approached not long before the start of 2009 about teaching an ActionScript 3.0 class at UVU. Besides the fact that it’s pretty daunting to come up with a curriculum for a three credit class in only a couple weeks, I’m really excited.
I made a wiki specifically for this class and classes like it, where I plan on posting all class resources (Syllabus, course materials, lecture outlines, outside resources). If you feel like dropping by and taking a look, please do. Whether you’re learning AS 3.0 or just feel like giving it a look over, it might be helpful for you. I’d love any feedback or constructive criticism you’d have to offer as the semester goes on.
EDIT: Forgot the link, here it is: http://dgm3780.cahlan.com
Made a post in my programming blog today about WA.
Pardon the video game lingo.
Below is the Google Docs presentation part of the class discussion I’m leading tomorrow in the “Advanced Topics in Flex” course at Utah Valley University.
I struggled with trying to figure out what to talk about in such a short time with folks who are just getting started.
See what you think. Let me know what you would have done differently.