Good show...our online class went well. I hope you all concur and if you have any thoughts regarding how it might have been made more effective, please share them with me.
Our syllabus calls for us, during class 7, to work on our Powerpoint projects, complete them, and view them in class as a group. I know that some of you have either begun them, or substantially completed them.
I'm going to poll the group as you come into class to get a feel as to the portion of the class that fits the above. If you haven't begun yours, that is as it should be and everyone will have time in class to work on their projects.
At the onset of class, I'd like to go through 6 or 8 short tutorials, much as we did with Windows Movie Maker. They'll deal with formatting, text, saving in different formats, and spell checking, etc.
I lied to you. There are roughly 25 tuts that I'd like you to see, but time will not allow for that many. So I think I'll let you see the list of topics in order, then run them allowing you to zone in on those that you would consider germane to you.
So, once we finish going through the tutorials or currently, I'd like you to spend the rest of the class working on your Powerpoint creations; either starting them, finishing them up, or polishing them. Please remind me to discuss what your method of delivery would be and how we might publish them as we did your movies.
Once you begin to work on your projects, I'll come around to offer help to anyone who might need it. Please remind me to view yours if it's finished, when I come.
If we can pull it all together, we'll plan on running them during the beginning of class 8. The second half of class 8 with be devoted to creating Webquests.
Just a little aside: as I was viewing the Powerpoint tutorials I grew nostalgic for an old friend no longer around and long forgotten by many. It's name was HyperCard (notice the signature mid word capitalization that can still be found on so many logos today). I see so many features within Powerpoint that were first introduced to us in HyperCard.
Sample Home cards and stack using HyperCard
(notice the hyperlinked buttons)
A little background from Wikipedia: HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written by Dan Winkler, a programming language for manipulating data and the user interface. Some HyperCard users employed it as a programming system for Rapid Application Development of applications and databases.
It had just about everything-sound, graphics, and it could run laserdiscs with it. You could make interactive lessons. Non linear lessons that in essence, tailored themselves to the viewer. You could even pprogram with it using its unique languages, HyperTalk and HyperScript. It was an exciting program and the kids loved it. The Boston Computer Society (RIP) had bunches of floppies loaded with educational stacks designed by teachers on all sorts of subjects. All long gone.
At disappeared because it was a little hokey, it didn't support color (black and white only), and it was not marketed very well and left to wither on the vine by Apple much as the Newton was. Who remembers HyperCard or the Newton; both were cutting edge. Both were superseded by IBM products when, back in the nineties, Apple lost some of it's polish because of failure to counter it's image as not as serious as other business oriented platforms. The real kiss of death, came shortly after HyperCard's inception when it was given as freeware. Many thought that because it was free and PC based software was so expensive, it couldn't be worth much. Oh well.
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