Overview
Newly revised and expanded to reflect current technological changes, this popular work helps students become expert hypermedia authors and designers while they learn in subject areas across the curriculum! The authors show how a variety of hypermedia programs operate, provide instructional strategies, and describe how to create learning environments that encourage student collaboration. Directions are provided for many of the hypermedia programs currently used in schools with Windows and Macintosh platforms. This new edition includes additional lessons involving hypermedia in the content areas and shows how to use the World Wide Web as a research tool and source for visuals in student stacks. Presenting classroom-tested lessons that can be adapted to a variety of teaching styles and curriculum needs (math, science, social studies, language arts, and foreign language), this is a complete program for integrating hypermedia production skills into the classroom. Grades 3-12. Software covered: HyperStud
Synopsis
Newly revised and expanded to reflect current technological changes, this popular work helps students become expert hypermedia authors and designers while they learn in subject areas across the curriculum! The authors show how a variety of hypermedia programs operate, provide instructional strategies, and describe how to create learning environments that encourage student collaboration. Directions are provided for many of the hypermedia programs currently used in schools with Windows and Macintosh platforms. This new edition includes additional lessons involving hypermedia in the content areas and shows how to use the World Wide Web as a research tool and source for visuals in student stacks. Presenting classroom-tested lessons that can be adapted to a variety of teaching styles and curriculum needs (math, science, social studies, language arts, and foreign language), this is a complete program for integrating hypermedia production skills into the classroom. Grades 3-12. Software covered: HyperStud
Booknews
Provides a complete program for integrating hypermedia production skills into the classroom, for teachers of lower grades through high school. Section I describes activities adaptable to various teaching styles and curriculum needs, covering everything from rain forests to fractions to pioneers. Activities include step-by-step instructions and reproducible handouts. Section II gives student directions for using many of the hypermedia programs and software support materials currently being used in schools, such as HyperStudio for Apple IIGS, HyperCard, and Multimedia Scrapbook. Appendices offer assessment tools, generic planning sheets, and teacher support materials. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.