If you've ever harboured a secret desire to become a Flash animation whiz, journalism educator Mindy McAdams may well have your candy.
Here's a note she posted to online-news:
Flash Journalism: How to Produce Multimedia News Packages, by Mindy McAdams (me!), started shipping in early April from Focal Press, a division of Elsevier. The book aims to instruct any journalist with little or no knowledge of Flash. It can be used in a classroom or used on your own. All you need is this book and a copy of Flash MX or later.
Publisher's page:
http://books.elsevier.com/focalbooks/default.asp?ref=4457&isbn=0240806972
Companion Web site:
ISBN: 0-240-80697-2
520 pages
Full color
Price: $49.95
I tried hard to make this "not just another Flash book." One thing you can count on: Every exercise in every lesson has been test-driven by novice Flash students in my journalism classes at the University of Florida.
The book includes six case studies (150 pages) from various journalism organizations. See the sites examined in the case studies here:
http://flashjournalism.com/examples/case_studies.htm
Mindy McAdamshttp://mindymcadams.com/