Friday, April 18, 2008

Presentation Hype

HyperStudio 5.0, is a great program to use in the classroom that allows students to present stories and ideas in a creative and interactive way. The new edition of HyperStudio includes the features of the original design, and also incorporates some new technologies.
Old tools include: the card browser, to help easily navigate between cards from the main screen, text options, including kerning, outlines, and shadows, advanced graphic effects, such as zoom blur, crystallize, bloom, glass, etc., a tool settings drawer which contains appropriate settings for each tool, a customizable toolbar, to display the most frequently used tools and brush styles, including 3D paint styles.
New features include: Podcasting support, so students can export presentations to an iPod through video format, Webcam Workshop, which includes 2,000 teacher-approved safe webcam locations, "Live" object mode, allowing individual brush strokes to be edited and iTunes importing, where students can bring in music from their iTunes play-lists.
HyperStudio provides students with a media-rich, interactive way to publish and present presentations of any kind.

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