ECE Webs/Softwares: HyperStudio
HyperStudio® is an authoring software application, developed for Macintosh, to create creative multimedia presentations. Like any other multimedia software, HyperStudio® allows users to bring text, graphics, video, and sound together in an interactive and interconnected manner to create astonishing presentations. However, unlike most other multimedia application software, HyperStudio® is a very "conversational," friendly, easy to use program and has many possibilities for classroom use.
Hyperstudio: Mission
Founded in 1978 by a classroom teacher, Roger Wagner Publishing has been providing software that emphasizes technology as a personal creative tool. The company is committed to supporting teachers with a vision of how the meaningful and appropriate use of technology can foster a more individual and humanistic learning environment.
What Is Hyperstudio And What It Can Do
HyperStudio is the one program where a student can write, paint & draw, create animations, and make movies, all in an interactive, non-linear project that is a whole, cohesive project, not just mere fragments.
The concept is simple: a painted or image background on which you place images, text, movies and interactive buttons. All the media types can be created right within HyperStudio without having to use other programs. Record your sound and video, edit text, paint and manipulate images; it's all right there when and as you need it.
But the important thing is what you can make with it. Because HyperStudio is not specifically movie-making, presentation, animation or comic-making software, but at the same time is its own flexible creative environment that can make each of those types of final media, HyperStudio is the most flexible and efficient software in existence for making a wide variety of projects, yet all with the same basic simple skill set of the user.
Important Features To Explore
Use all the features of the paint program that is part of HyperStudio to create your own paintings and drawings. Save them as a 1-card stack or 3-card “gallery”. Import photos and add captions to them and trace or “overpaint” to create truly modern media!
Simply check off common connections and actions for any button, graphic image, even movies and text links! Play a sound, movie or animation. Open a web-page or a document in another application. Pretty much any step in building a project takes only 30-60 seconds.
This is the best and fastest way to build projects, and one of the greatest things about HyperStudio: just drag and drop images, sounds, movies and text and movies from folders on your desktop to the cards as you build your project!
When you drag sounds, movies, .gif files, urls or even Google Earth placemarks on to a button or graphic object, HyperStudio instantly makes the connection so that clicking on the button or graphic object plays the sound or movie, or opens the web-page or Google Earth location!
Even more remarkable, is that if you drag images from your browser window to your project, HyperStudio automatically creates an entry with the URL in the “Comments & Attributions” for every media object. This makes it easy to use Creative Commons license media!
HyperStudio has everything built-in to record your own audio and movies. It can also export any project as a movie, pod-cast, or web-page.
Ideas Behind Hyperstudio
Hyperstudio" And The Internet
"HyperStudio" has its own innovative approach for accessing data on the Internet! "HyperStudio" buttonscan direct Netscape to open to a specific home page or other URL location. This can be used to easily integrate particular Internet displays right into a presentation or student project! With "HyperStudio" MediaLinks, "HyperStudio" will automatically connect through the Internet to a predetermined site, download the file, and the image will appear in the clip-art selection window - all without the user even having to know anything about the Internet! This means that you can transparently access Internet files!
How Is It Used In Education
In this Age of CD-ROM and the explosion of the Internet, the way we read and gather information has changed significantly. If students' references are in a multimedia format, isn't it time they delivered their presentations and research in the same manner? Paper and pencil reports, even word-processing, no longer prepare students for their future! Our mission is to be a responsible participant in the movement to fundamentally change the educational process in this country, to provide the multimedia writing tool that not only supports a student-centered constructivist approach to learning, but also to provide the ideal platform for assembling and presenting the wealth of information now available through the Internet, CD-ROM and other information sources.
Hyperstudio For Classroom Teachers
Hyperstudio For Students
As a student, you can create meaningful, cohesive projects that incorporate all the media that you need to tell your story.
Sample Projects
Bibliography
HyperStudio ... because you make things!. (n.d.). HyperStudio. Retrieved December 9,
2012,from http://www.rogerwagner.com/hs/testdrive/
Smart Kids Software, Educational Software, Hyperstudio. (n.d.). Children's Educational
Software, Smart Kids Software, Educational Software, Discount School.
Retrieved December 9, 2012, from
http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/cdrwp1.htm
An Introduction to HyperStudio. (n.d.). Cuyamaca College - Rancho San Diego,
California. Retrieved December 9, 2012, from
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/fgeoola/hstudio.asp
Hyperstudio: Mission
Founded in 1978 by a classroom teacher, Roger Wagner Publishing has been providing software that emphasizes technology as a personal creative tool. The company is committed to supporting teachers with a vision of how the meaningful and appropriate use of technology can foster a more individual and humanistic learning environment.
What Is Hyperstudio And What It Can Do
HyperStudio is the one program where a student can write, paint & draw, create animations, and make movies, all in an interactive, non-linear project that is a whole, cohesive project, not just mere fragments.
The concept is simple: a painted or image background on which you place images, text, movies and interactive buttons. All the media types can be created right within HyperStudio without having to use other programs. Record your sound and video, edit text, paint and manipulate images; it's all right there when and as you need it.
But the important thing is what you can make with it. Because HyperStudio is not specifically movie-making, presentation, animation or comic-making software, but at the same time is its own flexible creative environment that can make each of those types of final media, HyperStudio is the most flexible and efficient software in existence for making a wide variety of projects, yet all with the same basic simple skill set of the user.
Important Features To Explore
- Painting and drawing
Use all the features of the paint program that is part of HyperStudio to create your own paintings and drawings. Save them as a 1-card stack or 3-card “gallery”. Import photos and add captions to them and trace or “overpaint” to create truly modern media!
- The Inspector - Fast and Easy Controls
- Places to Go, Things to Do...
Simply check off common connections and actions for any button, graphic image, even movies and text links! Play a sound, movie or animation. Open a web-page or a document in another application. Pretty much any step in building a project takes only 30-60 seconds.
- Drag and Drop
This is the best and fastest way to build projects, and one of the greatest things about HyperStudio: just drag and drop images, sounds, movies and text and movies from folders on your desktop to the cards as you build your project!
When you drag sounds, movies, .gif files, urls or even Google Earth placemarks on to a button or graphic object, HyperStudio instantly makes the connection so that clicking on the button or graphic object plays the sound or movie, or opens the web-page or Google Earth location!
- Instant Bibliography
Even more remarkable, is that if you drag images from your browser window to your project, HyperStudio automatically creates an entry with the URL in the “Comments & Attributions” for every media object. This makes it easy to use Creative Commons license media!
- Record Sounds and Movies
HyperStudio has everything built-in to record your own audio and movies. It can also export any project as a movie, pod-cast, or web-page.
Ideas Behind Hyperstudio
- With HyperStudio you’ll create cards. A series of cards is called a stack. Your project can be a single stack or many stacks which have been linked together.
- You can use the paint tools to draw on the background of the card. You can also add pre-drawn art and photos.
- You can add text objects and type on the card or put in from other sources. Moreover, you can add text written in literally any language you want.
- Buttons are hot spots on cards where you click with the mouse to make things happen.
- You can add sound to the card. Record your own voice, use the prerecorded sounds which come with HyperStudio, or play sounds and tracks you have stored on your computer directly in your projects.
- You can show clips from your video projects directly in your HyperStudio stacks and even record your own movies. You can even place a live video object on your card to show live video.
- You can add pictures from your hard disk, CD or DVD discs, the Internet, or the HyperStudio collection.
Hyperstudio" And The Internet
"HyperStudio" has its own innovative approach for accessing data on the Internet! "HyperStudio" buttonscan direct Netscape to open to a specific home page or other URL location. This can be used to easily integrate particular Internet displays right into a presentation or student project! With "HyperStudio" MediaLinks, "HyperStudio" will automatically connect through the Internet to a predetermined site, download the file, and the image will appear in the clip-art selection window - all without the user even having to know anything about the Internet! This means that you can transparently access Internet files!
How Is It Used In Education
In this Age of CD-ROM and the explosion of the Internet, the way we read and gather information has changed significantly. If students' references are in a multimedia format, isn't it time they delivered their presentations and research in the same manner? Paper and pencil reports, even word-processing, no longer prepare students for their future! Our mission is to be a responsible participant in the movement to fundamentally change the educational process in this country, to provide the multimedia writing tool that not only supports a student-centered constructivist approach to learning, but also to provide the ideal platform for assembling and presenting the wealth of information now available through the Internet, CD-ROM and other information sources.
Hyperstudio For Classroom Teachers
- Paint, write, sound, movies, animations, movie-making
- Most efficient and effective use of limited classroom time
- Widest use of teacher and student skill
- One program in place of many others, plus additional functionality
- Supports educational objectives and learning theory
- Immense number of online resources, lesson plans, rubrics
Hyperstudio For Students
As a student, you can create meaningful, cohesive projects that incorporate all the media that you need to tell your story.
- Automatic attributions of media source
- Fast project building gives more time for creating meaning and context
- Drag-and-drop to instantly link external web-pages, documents, Google Earth/Maps locations
Sample Projects
- Fruit & Vegetable Poster - Students make public service announcement posters about the benefits of fruits and vegetables.
- Talking Heads (“All About Me”) Poster - Students introduce themselves and their favorite activities in these posters that are put up in the classroom at the beginning of the year.
- Student ePortfolio Menu Card - This demonstrates a card used at the Magnolia Intermedia School in Grass Valley to navigate to the student work done during the semester.
Bibliography
HyperStudio ... because you make things!. (n.d.). HyperStudio. Retrieved December 9,
2012,from http://www.rogerwagner.com/hs/testdrive/
Smart Kids Software, Educational Software, Hyperstudio. (n.d.). Children's Educational
Software, Smart Kids Software, Educational Software, Discount School.
Retrieved December 9, 2012, from
http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/cdrwp1.htm
An Introduction to HyperStudio. (n.d.). Cuyamaca College - Rancho San Diego,
California. Retrieved December 9, 2012, from
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/fgeoola/hstudio.asp