1. FITC Toronto 2006 The Design and Technology Festival

2. Presentations Beyond Usability: Building Meaningful Learning Applications Convergence: TV, Broadband, and Flash Playing with Yourself (for fun and profit) Making a VJ tool with Flash Keynote: Flash and the Adobe Engagement Platform

3. Beyond Usability: Building Meaningful Learning Applications Speaker: Kristin Henry from GalaxyGoo Website: http://www.galaxygoo.orghttp://www.galaxygoo.org Non-profitable organization that creates experimental open source learning applications

4. Does Animation Aid Learning? Not totally true! According to research, animations are not more effective than a series of still images. However, people learn better through interaction with information. Why? People need to looks more closely at the materials.

5. Examples of Interactive Learning Tools The Cell Learning Tool Sine Curve Visualization Tool For more examples, visit: http://www.galaxygoo.org/tour_general.html http://www.galaxygoo.org/tour_general.html

6. Convergence: TV, Broadband, and Flash Speaker: Robert Reinhardt from Schematic Company website: http://www.schematic.com/ http://www.schematic.com/ Schematic is one of the nation's leading interactive agencies that provides award- winning design, user interface, and technology solutions for the Web, advanced devices and television.

7. Future = Web on TV? If we can do it on a cell phone, we can do it on TV. North Americans’ favorite entertainment is still watching television. TV screen is bigger! Some uses: interactive television, streaming online video, play games.

8. Microsoft Media Center What if you really want to try it out? Get an XBOX. For more information, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediac enter/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediac enter/default.mspx

9. Playing with Yourself (for fun and profit) Speaker: Grant Skinner Website: http://gskinner.com/site2_5/http://gskinner.com/site2_5/ experimentations can help to advance yourself and your career options. http://www.gskinner.com/talks/play/

10. Making a VJ tool with Flash Speaker: Mario Klingemann Experimental work: http://incubator.quasimondo.com/ http://incubator.quasimondo.com/ Blog http://quasimondo.com/ http://quasimondo.com/ Lecture Slides http://lectures.quasimondo.com/ http://lectures.quasimondo.com/

11. Flash and the Adobe Engagement Platform FlashLite2 - a lighter version of Flash Player that is suitable for mobile devices - http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/ Flex - development environment for developers who don’t want to deal with the design side of things. - http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/http://labs.macromedia.com/flexproductline/ Adobe Apollo - allows developers to create and deploy desktop applications and content using a combination of Flash, HTML and PDF

12. Can I Pursue Happiness in Design? Think about ideas and content freely – with the deadline faraway. Work without interruption. Using a wide variety of tools and techniques. Travel to new places. Work on projects that matter to me. Having things come back from the printer done well.

13. Presentation Summaries are available online at: http://jacquelinetong.com/nfblog