This tutorial will show
,in consecutive steps how to create a simple Hyperstudio stack .A stack is a
collection of cards.Each card may include text,pictures and buttons to navigate
to different cards in the stack. This is not the only way to make a stack but
it works and would give anyone new to Hyperstudio a definite start in creating
a stack. It could be used at school or in the home and would be ideal for any
kind of project work.
Suppose you want to make a stack about your locality with ten short articles
and pictures.If it is a class situation then each pupil in a group might be
responsible for an article. (A class of thirty could do three different stacks….a
stack of thirty cards would be unwieldy).The three stacks could then be interlinked
in a seamless way .This kind of project would be suitable for children from
second to sixth class.If it is with fifth or sixth class then I suggest they
be consulted on the design.This is a skeleton stack design and could be adapted
and added to at any later stage.
We will assume we want to make a stack with twelve cards, a title card, an index
card
and 10 cards for content
.We will really only have to make three cards , the title card, the index card
and the content template. Most of the design and thought must go into the content
template. The content template should normally contain at least these three
elements : text, picture(s) and navigation buttons. The navigation buttons are
the engine of Hyperstudio(and indeed of any authoring package, or the Internet.)
On our content template we will be putting three navigation buttons , one to
the next page, one to the previous page and one to the index page or card. Buttons
may also be used to add sounds, animations or movie clips to Hyperstudio