tutorials + idea

[Mark Swindell]

on 1/1/03 7:33 AM, Al Rudnitsky at arudnits at email.smith.edu wrote:

> 
>> Well, if you are looking for an expression of interest in the "tutorials"
>> project, here's one.
> 
> I teach a course entitled Information Technology and Learning.  We cover a
> great deal of ground in this course (www.smith.edu/edc333) including
> learning several applications.  The most important application students
> learn in this course is an authoring system.  The system has to be
> adaptable for teachers of upper elementary children and essentially have no
> ceiling.  The program we have been using (SuperLink) is no longer being
> supported and is limited to PC platforms.  I have been searching for
> something that will take us far into the future.  Something like
> Hyperstudio is out.  I find it rather awful.  Director is not readily
> adjustable in ways that beginners can do interesting things.  Metacard and
> Supercard are interesting and so is Revolution.  (Okay, enough of the
> search story.)
> 
> So, suggestions for how to begin learning Revolution would be terrific as
> would tutorials created by knowledgeable users.
> 
> Any suggestions, opinions, etc. would be most appreciated.

I would suggest downloading the demo of Revolution and working through the
tutorials.  If you have Hypercard knowledge it will mostly all be
transferable.  Revolution is based on the Metacard engine, but has a great
(and soon to be greater) user interface and support of a great staff and
list (not implying that Metacard doesn't).  SuperCard is a wonderful
product, too, but not cross-platform.  If I were you I'd get up to speed
with Revolution ASAP.  It's really an amazing tool.

Good luck.

My .02
Mark