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In the last few years, web applications have evolved from HTML/CSS websites into engaging applications that provide a rich user experience. Adobe spotted this trend early and has developed technologies that provide some of the best user experiences possible. Adobe introduced the term rich Internet application (RIA) to describe these interactive web applications.

The two main Adobe technologies that allow RIA development are Adobe® Flex® and Adobe AIR™. RIAs can run inside the browser or on the desktop (using AIR). Examples of these applications are available in the Flex Showcase and the Adobe AIR Showcase.

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Adobe Creative Suite 4 curriculums

Help students take the shortcut to brilliant. Teach them career skills with free Adobe Creative Suite® 4 curriculums that have already been awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment. You'll find separate curriculums for design and print production, web design, and video design and production.

Flex in a Week training — for free

A great new resource is now available on Adobe.com. You can learn Flex in a week by going through a series of video training sessions at your own pace. Start with basics, and then move into more advanced techniques. Participate online or download and watch the sessions offline. If you have questions as you're viewing, ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum. To take advantage of this free training, just go to the Flex in a Week page and follow the easy instructions.

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These resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned, and book recommendations to put together a course on RIA design and development.

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Creative Suite 4 makes its debut: Watch a replay of the launch broadcast

Your shortcut to brilliant is here! Catch a replay of the worldwide launch event for Creative Suite 4 and see how these tightly integrated software editions and services improve productivity and allow you to produce richly expressive work in print, web, interactive, video, audio, and mobile projects.

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Adobe Education at MAX 2008

This year at Adobe MAX, held November 16–19 in San Francisco, we offered educators new ways to engage with one another and learn about Adobe technology tools. We added education-specific sessions during MAX and held an education pre-conference day on Sunday that included education customer and industry presentations, followed by an evening reception. Find out more

Collaborate and create

Work with a team to design projects in Adobe Flex and AIR and get an opportunity to win recognition, travel, software, and cash.

2008 Cannes Film Festival student shorts

In May, Adobe was a sponsor of the 2008 Reel Ideas Studio Student Filmmaking program in the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. See the impressive work of these students in two locations. For a selection of films, visit Adobe TV, which is featuring a new video each week, and click Video Professional. To view all of the films, go to Reel Ideas Studio and click At the Theater.

Articles from educators

Full Sail University creates a Flex application to facilitate educator response time

Bill Bain and Jason Madsen (October 14, 2008)
Two educators figured out a way to develop an application that helps aggregate students' questions into a portal during their lab periods, enabling instructors to help students more efficiently.

How do you know that they know? Building valid assessments in Adobe Captivate

Frank Nguyen (May 27, 2008)
Use Adobe Captivate to align eLearning assessments with learning objectives.

Flash is just a fancy comic book — teaching visual thinkers to code

Mark Badger (May 19, 2008)
Mark Badger finds ways to teach visual thinkers how to code in ActionScript® for Adobe Flash®.

Q & A with Scott Mahoy

Steve Anderson (April 14, 2008)
Steve Anderson of USC interviews Scott Mahoy, creative director for the Labyrinth Project, about his design philosophy and use of Flex.

Teaching object-oriented programming in a Flash

Sean Morrow (April 14, 2008)
Sean Morrows of NSCC talks about what Adobe Flash and Flex have meant to his Web Development program.

Flare: Visualization tools with Adobe Flash

Jeffrey Heer (March 10, 2008)
Jeffrey Heer of UC Berkeley shares insights about improving decision-making with interactive visualizations powered by tools built with Adobe Flash.

Q & A with Will Carter

Will Carter (March 10, 2008)
Veronica Paredes of USC interviews Will Carter about his trajectory as a web/mobile developer and his tools of choice.

Adobe Flash and Flex — which makes the most sense for your project?

Erik Loyer (March 10, 2008)
Erik Loyer of Song New Creative shares his rubric for determining what kinds of projects need Flash and which need Flex.

A technology tool to facilitate citizen journalism

Mike McKean (February 25, 2008)
Professor Mike McKean of the University of Missouri Columbia talks about a campus competition using Adobe AIR to spur innovation for enhancing citizen involvement in journalism.