by Joel Riddle

This morning we started with a refresher course on Flash. It helped... a lot. Previously, we had been using templates. Just importing new images and changing content paths. Today, we actually built a template from the ground up including some action script. Suddenly, the confusing Flash timeline made sense. We're just using the program for shells so I'm sure we haven't even scratched the surface yet but it was a good session.

Later in the morning, Sr. Online Editor Todd Holzman had us "webify" a radio script. NPR lingo for turning a radio script into a print page for the web. It was hard and I think most of the class came away with a new respect for what the web folks have to do. Again, it became obvious that what's good on the radio isn't always good for the web.