HyperStudio Reached Teachers

[Mark Greenberg]

	I'm glad somebody (Judy, I think) finally mentioned HyperStudio.  It 
is like HyperCard in color with many added features.  It emphasizes the 
construction of stacks without programming, but has a fully capable 
programming language behind the scenes (HyperLogo) for those who want 
to take it further.  HyperStudio is dying now and outdated, so don't 
bother to investigate.  Just a few years ago though it was very popular 
with the educational crowd.  Oddly though, an extraordinarily small 
percentage of HyperStudio users learned to program beyond the MoveNext 
or Show "MyGraphic level.  I helped out in a workshop at the NECC 
convention in Chicago a few years back where HyperStudio was a hot 
topic.  Even the educators who signed up for that HyperLogo scripting 
workshop had spent very little time trying to script on their own.  My 
point in relating this is that educators need a lot of encouragement to 
try programming.  Left to themselves, they won't try it.  There are 
exceptions like us, of course.
	HyperStudio had the type of tutorial that we are describing on this 
list.  It was a book that came with in the box, was targeted for 
elementary school teachers, and was an easy transition into 
programming.  Complementing the book was a series of built-in example 
stacks that a teacher could modify.  Though simple, it was effective.
	Rev is awesome -- thoughts come alive!  But educators in general need 
templates and primers.  Perhaps that's where we come in.