Credit: Three semester hours
Time: 5:30-8:45 PM Tuesday through November 24
Location: Satterlee 300
Purpose: The goal of this course is to help students acquire a working knowledge of the HyperCard authoring environment for use as an instructional tool. Students will learn the structure of the HyperCard authoring environment and the syntax of the HyperTalk language as it is applied to the development of instructional software. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the problem solving skills associated with programming and the development of a useful instructional program appropriate to the student's interests.
Textbooks: 1) S. Turner and M. Land, Hypercard: A Tool For Learning,
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994. (OPTIONAL)
2) S. Wilson, Multimedia Design With Hypercard, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall Publishing Co., 1991. (OPTIONAL)
3) D. Goodman, The Complete HyperCard 2.0 Handbook, New York:
Bantam Books, 1990. (OPTIONAL)
4) G. Coulouris & H. Thimbleby, HyperProgramming: Building
Interactive Programs with HyperCard, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing
Co., 1993. (OPTIONAL)
Requirements:
Homework: There will be 3 homework assignments for this course.
Each activity provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your
knowledge of the material covered in class. One of the stacks will
emphasize presentation of material, another will focus on interaction with
the user, and a third will involve the use of external resources (adapting
existing stacks). Each HyperCard stack should contain at least ten
cards. One of the purposes for these assignments is to encourage
you to develop materials which you may use in your instructional setting.
Requirements for individual assignments will be given in class.
Instructional Project: Students will negotiate a topic for the instructional project. The materials to be completed for the instructional include lesson plan and an in class computer activity created with a multimedia authoring tool (i.e.. HyperCard or Hyperstudio) of not less than 25 cards. Resources from the assignment stacks may be incorporated into this project.
Attendance: Daily attendance is required of all students.
Digital Storage: Each student is required to have one 3.5" high density diskette for communication and two100mb Zip cartridges for storage of files.
Plagiarism: This course adheres to the College's policy on academic honesty as stated in the Undergraduate Catalog. Plagiarism may lead to grade reduction, course failure, or expulsion from school.
Course Schedule: (subject to change as needed)
| Date: | Topic: |
| 9/1 | Course Introduction/Overview. Examples of Interactive Multimedia Projects. Terminology/Overview of various authoring tools: Hypermedia, Hypercard, Hyperstudio, Multimedia, etc... |
| 9/8 | Designing Multimedia: Choosing an appropriate topic, Designing Hierarchical branching structures, and navigation. Using buttons, text fields and graphics, scanning. Card Animation. |
| 9/15 | [Assignment #1 Due: Presentation Stack]
Presentations and discussion in class. |
| 9/22 | HyperTalk scripting language. |
| 9/29 | [Assignment #2 Due: Interactive Stack]
Presentations and discussion in class. |
| 10/6 | Manipulating external resources with HyperTalk |
| 10/13 | No Class: Columbus Day Break |
| 10/20 | [Assignment #3 Due: Stack using external resources]
Presentations and discussion in class. |
| 10/27 | Content of final project to be decided by today.
Class time used to work on Final Project |
| 11/3 | " " " " " " " |
| 11/10 | " " " " " " " |
| 11/17 | " " " " " " " |
| 11/24 | [Student Presentations of Instructional Projects] |
Grading:
Homework: [3 x 50 points each] 150 points
Instructional Project 150 points
TOTAL 300 points
270-300 points 4.0
255-269 points 3.5
240-254 points 3.0
225-239 points 2.5
210-224 points 2.0
195-209 points 1.5
180-194 points 1.0
Office Information:
E-mail: betrusak@potsdam.edu
Office: Satterlee Hall 216
Phone: (315) 267-2670
Office Hours: M, T, W, Th 12:45-1:45 or by appointment.
This page created September 1, 1998. Last Updated September 2, 1998.