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<b>Project ROME for Education</b> lets students and educators express, collaborate and communicate ideas using graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation in a simple, unified content creation and publishing environment to enhance the learning experience.
From the Adobe Educational Leaders' Blog: http://blogs.adobe.c...oject-rome.html
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Adobe has a new all-in-one content creation and publishing tool parked in a cloud. Project ROME is revolutionary and a true paradigm shift for content creation and publishing applications. ROME can be run as anAdobe Air application or accessed directly from a light-weight internet cloud (browser-based web application). The application is light-weight, but incredibility rich and diverse as a creation tool. Adobe has extracted some of the best tools from various Adobe applications like Flash, Premiere, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator and suspended them into a one-stop creative experience for the end-user. Join the new and growing cultural revolution for creative educators! Project ROME can be run from a simple Netbook laptop to a high performance desktop computer, the choice is yours. Project ROME is available through Adobe Labs probably for a limited time. I would encourage all educators to sign-in and reach for the stars, pushing the boundaries of the creative process.
I've heard lots about the tool in recent weeks but this is the first opportunity I'd had to experiment with it. Seems like a very flexible tools to allow educators to generate their own learning content - presentations, media and interactive tools. You can output to .swf and 'interactive' .pdf (i.e. a .swf file embedded in a .pdf). Certainly something to keep a very close eye on. If Adobe get the pricing right then it could be extremely useful for all teachers.
Project ROME for Education - http://rome.adobe.com/education (For educator evaluation only)
Project Rome For Education Pilot Program – Institutions interested in a pilot, apply today
Project ROME - http://rome.adobe.com
The aspect that particularly appeals for me is that here is a tool that shows how Flash-based tools are developing beyond the core Flash application installed on a school network. We're trying to look for an online solution for all of our curricular uses of ICT and Flash is a major stumbling block. We want students to be able to continue to develop high-end skills in Flash, but this requires an installation of the core Flash application. Hopefully, if solutions like ROME are adopted, we'll see an online equivalent of Flash in the future. Something that offers the same functionality and tools for students but without the need to be tied to a local installation. This looks very promising.
