brainstorming for the learning proposal
i've only just discovered google trends and it's helping me to decide where i want to go with my learning proposal for my DMT class... not only do i want to learn something completely new, but i want to have some sort of assurance that whatever i choose will be a technology with some legs.
at this stage i'm leaning towards adobe flex for a few reasons: (1) i find the whole web 2.0 thing both incredibly inspiring and utterly daunting; (2) the google trends charts for adobe flash and flex are still promising; (3) i skimmed some online job listings and found a decent amount of demand for flex and a high amount of demand for flash; and (4) after looking at some samples of flex-based websites, i'm interested to learn more about RIAs (or, rich internet applications).
the only thing holding me back is my dislike for Flash that can be traced back to when "flash intros" were all the rage. yuck. i stayed away ever since just hoping that it would crawl into a ball and die. but now, years later, here i am, eating my words and entertaining the idea of jumping on the flash/flex bandwagon...
oh, and one more thing, i have a pretty good idea about what flash is, but flex? notsomuch.
note to self: research how flex relates to flash, and... just what the heck is flex anyway?
2 comments:
Yep. right there with you on the flex thing. No idea.
The google trends things is brill though. V.helpful - thanks
another good google application that you might find helpful is their notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook). initially, it didn't make much sense to me, but i created one for each of my classes (using the add-on for firefox here) and have since found it to be quite handy as it allows me to browse the web and effortlessly save links or clippings of interest while also being able to scribble my own thoughts on the items, all without having to change applications or find my post-it notes.
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