Flash and Moodle integration
After researching ways of integrating Flash and Moodle I found two ways:
1. Using Flash Learning Interactions. This is a good approach if you plan to use only the prebuilt learning interactions. All you need to do is
1.1 follow instructions in the Help files for creating a SCORM compliant learning interaction
1.2 Download the Reload editor from www.reload.ac.uk. Open the editor, create new package, select the folder where you have your html and swf, add them as resource by drag and drop to the right pane Resources item. Then package it and upload it to Moodle
2. Use the ExternalInterface in Flash together with ADL Javascript methods. This gives you better control of development your own interactive content. Read more here:
http://flashforlearning.com/2007/04/13/scorm-12-and-externalinterface/
Flash Media Server introduction
This week I held two lectures in how to setup and use the Flash Media Server, including Components and some basic coding. At the first lecture I showed examples and talked briefly about the server, showed the Management console etc. After the first lecture the students had a hands-on tutorial, which can be found under The Pages.
The second lecture focused on principles such as protocols, compression, lag handling etc and explanation of code classes. Requests for more hands-on introductions came up on the second lecture so I adapted the lecture a bit and showed how to e.g use an IP number instead of localhost, and some further explanation about how the application folder relates to the RTMP URI.