The following HyperStudio Companion products listing represents the best of the many products available to help you augment your knowledge and enrich the HyperStudio learning experience for your students. There are planning strategies, tutorials, software, classroom projects, advanced techniques stackware titles, resources, as well as accessory merchandise, all available here priced reasonably in Canadian dollars. Read on!
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From HyperPeople Publications, Kate Vanderhorst and Rod Rychliski
HyperStudio Step by Step for HyperTeachers
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$45.00 ea.Tutorial, Projects. Find out how easy it is to create HyperStudio® presentations. Learn how to go from creating a stack to "spicing" up those presentations with the New Button Actions and the new HyperStudio Effects. Take control over the program with some basic Hyperlogo scripting commands. Create animations just like "the big guys".Features: step by step instructions, 9 chapters of HyperInstructions, 281 pages containing screen shots to guide you along. And its been tested by over 700 teachers. Just like our sessions we take you step by step through each activity. It's almost like "Kate and Rod" are there!
HyperWhoDunnit
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$18.00 ea.Project. Just released! The HyperDuo have dun it again! Here is a brand new resource written by Kate Vanderhorst and Rod Rychliski for Junior and Intermediate teachers who want to integrate HyperStudio® into their writing program. This multimedia "teacher tested" resource focuses on inventing a mystery story for multimedia sleuths to solve. Step by step instructions are included, along with student templates for planning and composing a mystery, as well as a storyboard and rubrics. Purchase of one book gives the teacher permission to copy enough student templates for one class. This is a resource for the teacher who is familiar with HyperStudio®. Get your students hooked on multimedia authoring and become criminals and detectives all in one project!
Oh Canada-eh!,
(Mac/Win),Project. This HyperStudio® project resource consists of 12 lessons for the junior/intermediate grades that can be easily integrated into a HyperStudio® social studies project. Don't think that living in Canada is a must.The activities can be easily adapted to fit any topic or theme. Some of the projects covered include: making interactive quizzes, linking to sites on the internet, using fixed path animation to plot a path, using the HyperStudio® Effects to create landforms, painting a map, labeling a map, using HyperLogo®, and creating puzzlesThe Book features step by step easy to follow instructions with screen shots. This book is a another HyperMust! Just like our sessions we take you step by step through each activity. It's almost like "Kate and Rod" are there! $28.00 ea.
From ISTE
HyperStudio in 1 Hour, (Mac or Win) Tutorial. Step-by Step instructions put you and your students only six minilessons away from a four card multimedia production. Each lesson focuses on different skills. Choose colors, backgrund, borders, text, clip art, then add finishing touches with the Spell Checker, buttons, titles, and the Tools palette. Add sounds, scanned images, and credits, and suddenly you're an accomplished multimedia author. From there, sign on for an advanced tour of animation, digital cameras, laser disks and video digitizers. Planning guidelines, suggestions for classroom applications and teacher- and student-created sample stacks in many curriculum areas provide inspiration. $36.50 ea.
But How do I Use HyperStudio With Kids? (Mac/Win) Planning. Compact, straight-forward treatment of curriculum-based project design, teaching HyperStudio, sparking student creativity, and grading HyperStudio projects make this the most economical and effective book on the topic. Four kinds of culminating projects &endash; interactive reports, presentations, layered stories, and interactive tours &endash; respect the diversity and individuality of your students and your own curriculum goals. The author's years using HyperStudio as an educational tool are evident in his practical strategies for familiarizing students with HyperStudio and encouraging creative expression. Reproducible appendices provide and outline for an introductory HyperStudio lesson, help sheets for the program's basic features, and assessment tools. $26.00 ea.
Inside HyperStudio: Scripting with Logo (Mac/Win) Int/Adv Technique. Get the inside scoop with this nimble introductory guide to HyperLogo, the scripting lanuage built into HyperStudio. If you are an experienced HyperStudio user, you're ready to sneak a peek into how you can control HyperStudio actions. Discover why a scripting language is an important addition to a hypermedia environment. Pick up on accessing the HyperLogo language and connecting Logo commands to HyperStudio objects. Sniff out great ideas for unleashing the full power of HyperStudio and using Logo to create HyperStudio projects. Takes the hush-hush out of hypermedia programming. $20.50 ea.
From Fruition Publications, Inc.:
HyperStudio and the Internet (Mac/Win)
Int/Adv Technique. HyperStudio and the Internet is designed to provide three things: information about the internet and how to cope with its vastness, lessons to show you step-by-step how to use HyperStudio's internet features, and ideas for projects that students can create with these powerful tools. With the NetPage NBA, you can create a button that will link you directly to resources on the internet from within your HyperStudio projects. The Export WebPage Extra allows you to take a stack and create an internet page that connects to the stack via the internet. This new type of connection gives a "realtime" dimension to projects that is not attainable by other products and other methods. $33.00 ea.
From Teacher Created Materials, Inc.:
HyperStudio for Terrified Teachers Gr. 3 - 5, Mac/Win w CD by
Tim Fleck et al
HyperStudio for Terrified Teachers Gr. 6 - 8, Mac/Win w CD
by Tim Fleck et alTutorial, Projects. This book helps you learn HyperStudio and integrate it with your existing curriculum. 18 tutorial lessons help you to learn the software and teach it to your class, use various digital art tools, add photos, video, sound, and other media to enhance student projects, create special effects like animation and computerized speech, and lots more. The project section helps you implement and manage the making of interactive, curriculum-driven student projects (no matter how many computers you have. Includes a free HyperStudio Preview CD for Macintosh & Windows. Available in "Grades 3-5" and "Grades 6-8" versions. $30.00 ea.
HyperStudio: Simple Projects (Intermediate),
w CD (Mac/Win)
by Tim Fleck
HyperStudio: Simple Projects (Challenging),
w CD (Mac/Win)
by Tim FleckInt/Adv Projects. Each book includes projects for language arts, social studies, science, and math. Use these projects to integrate technology into your current curriculum. A template is provided for each project, and can be modified to meet your specific needs. Numerous reference and planning sheets are provided as well. Available in two versions: "Intermediate" and "Challenging." Each book is 96 pages, features both HyperStudio® Mac and HyperStudio® Win screen shots, and includes a cross-platform CD-ROM of sample projects and templates. $25.00 ea.
From Ann Brundige Studio
HyperStudio Animation A to Zoom! w disk (Mac or Win) orInt/Adv Technique. HyperStudio actor-based animation includes a vast array of options, limited only by the imagination. This truly empowering technique gives students and teachers a wonderful new creative tool. It is very easy to learn, but the sheer number of choices on the two animation dialogs can be overwhelming. This manual goes through all the options in a logical order, demonstrating each, with step-by-step examples. $35.00 ea.The 2 disk set which includes the tutorial as a disk file, $31.00
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Sound Companion for HyperStudio
/ Finally, a simple and affordable, but powerful, sound editing tool created for use with HyperStudio. This sound editing application brings to HyperStudio the ability to edit voice, recorded sound, or any other sound for use in a HyperStudio stack. Sound Companion's powerful editing capabilities allow you to cut, copy, and paste to rearrange audio files. Students can record directly into the computer, edit their recordings, take out noise, add echo, change the pitch, fade in, fade out, and much more. You can edit separate sounds in separate tracks, and mix multiple sounds together into one recording. Add music and voice-over to enhance the sound component of your HyperStudio presentations.Sound Companion allows you to share files between Macintosh and Windows computers. It can open virtually any sound file and save in AIFF, WAVE, System 7, and AU formats. You can also apply filters to sounds to add echo, increase or decrease volume, and change pitch. This is a must have HyperStudio utility.
Pricing: Macintosh or Windows, single copy, $65.00; 5 user license, $195.00; site license (35 users) $940.00; unlimited building site license, $1150.00.
If you buy a single copy of Sound Companion for HyperStudio, and within 3 months, decide to purchase a site license, we will credit you $50.00 towards the cost of the site license.
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From Ann Brundige Studio
HyperStudio Animation A to Zoom!, Mac or Win or,
book w diskInt/Adv Technique. HyperStudio actor-based animation includes a vast array of options, limited only by the imagination. This truly empowering technique gives students and teachers a wonderful new creative tool. It is very easy to learn, but the sheer number of choices on the two animation dialogs can be overwhelming. This manual goes through all the options in a logical order, demonstrating each, with step-by-step examples. $35.00 ea.
Also available as a 2 disk set. $31.00 ea.
Animation Tricks, Mac or Win 2 disk set or
by Ann BrundigeAdvanced Technique. A two-disk set of animation examples which expands into a 6 meg, 21-stack salute to motion. Creative uses for standard actor-based animation from ghostly gradient messages to pictures that sketch themselves. Clever alternatives to regular animation, from card transition moves to growing graphic objects. Throw in some HyperLogo and the results are magical! Each stack has a help screen explaining the techniques. Needs: HyperStudio 3.1 or later. $40.00
Text & Titles With Impact! Mac or Win disk orInt/Adv Technique. Make your text as exciting as the graphics, movies, and sound in your stack, and give it the full power of multimedia. Ideas, examples, and techniques to make visually beautiful titles. Learn when to use paint text and when to use field text, conserve space with group cards and graphic object text, animate text, and turn on the power of hypertext links. A separate tutorial takes you step-by-step through all examples. $27.00 ea.
A Nibble of Nifty Art, Mac or Win disk orAdvanced Technique. Imaginative uses for the cookie cutter, gradients, replace colors, and even the spray can. This will be expecially helpful to Windows users who have probably just begun to use the art tools, but includes Nifty Art tricks for all levels. It covers making elaborate frames with gradients and cookie cutter, modifying clip art with the selection tools and cookie cutter, masking, and creating original art with spray can and cookie cutter. Points out differences between Macintosh and Windows techniques. $27.00 ea.
Groovy Graphic Objects, Mac or Win disk orInt/Adv Technique. Graphic Objects aren't just decoration. They can do anything a button can do, only they look cooler doing it! Use them in many ways, from glamorous button alternatives to movable props. They can also substitute for animation using the Hide/Show effects of the Hide/Show NBA or with the help of HyperLogo. Here is a wide array of examples, sure to generate stack ideas. Macintosh or Windows. $27.00 ea.
Newsletter Art, Mac or Win clip art disk or
A disk full of original clip art for school newsletters. Everything from academic subjects to sports, from field trips to calendars, from lunch menus to section headers. In both black and white for printing and full color for use in stacks. Specify Mac or Windows. $22.50 ea.
Six Slick Art Tricks, Mac/Win CD
by Ann Brundige and Tim FleckAdvanced Technique. Take HyperStudio® to new artistic heights! We've spent countless hours discovering useful techniques not included in any other tutorials or reference manuals. In fact, the title is really a fib -- there are far more than six tricks here! We've just grouped them into six major categories: Groovy Gradients, Cookie Cutter Capers, All About Shadows, Graphic Object Goodies, 3-D Graphic Objects, and Terrific Text Tricks. These ideas are all tried and true recipes we use in our own published work! Requires HyperStudio® 3.1 (or greater) for Macintosh, 3.2 (or greater) for Windows. Includes a comprehensive 35-page, full-color reference manual in PDF format. $35.00 ea.
From Flecknology Innovations
Tim Fleck
Family History Toolkit, Mac/Win CD by
Tim FleckInt/Adv Project. A collection of artwork, templates and tutorials designed to help you create your own multimedia family genealogical record. Includes a family tree template, family album, picture frames, keepsake box, and more! Also features two tutorial stacks, "Keepsake Box Tutorial" and "Picture Frame Tutorial," to help you make the most of the toolkit. Requires HyperStudio 3.1 or greater. $45.00
Family Tree Companion, Mac/Win CD by
Tim FleckResource. This set of ready-made cards offers a variety of alternative screen designs for displaying your family tree. Each card is rendered at 640 x 480 pixels (in both high and low resolution), and is prepared as a template to make framing digital photographs and adding names a snap. Makes the perfect "companion" for the Family History Toolkit! Requires HyperStudio 3.1 or greater, and a 14" monitor or larger.
Multimedia Yearbook Toolkit, Mac/Win CD by
Tim FleckInt/Adv Project. A resource of artwork, templates and tutorials designed to help you create your own interactive yearbooks. Includes various yearbook cover designs, backgrounds, picture frames, and original clip art. Also features two tutorial stacks, "Neat Text Effects" and "Yearbook Page Examples," to help you make the most of the toolkit. Requires HyperStudio 3.1 or greater. $50.00 ea.
Transparent Scrollable Text Field Toolkit, Mac/Win CD
by Tim FleckAdvanced Technique. They said it couldn't be done! Let my latest HyperStudio® toolkit show you how you can create text fields that scroll transparently against any background. Learn for yourself how to create the magic that left an audience stunned at the end of Writers of the Lost Art at HyperFest '96! This toolkit is recommended for experienced users of HyperStudio only. Requires HyperStudio® 3.1 or greater. $45.00 ea.
Six Slick Art Tricks, Mac/Win CD
by Ann Brundige and Tim FleckAdvanced Technique. Take HyperStudio® to new artistic heights! We've spent countless hours discovering useful techniques not included in any other tutorials or reference manuals. In fact, the title is really a fib -- there are far more than six tricks here! We've just grouped them into six major categories: Groovy Gradients, Cookie Cutter Capers, All About Shadows, Graphic Object Goodies, 3-D Graphic Objects, and Terrific Text Tricks. These ideas are all tried and true recipes we use in our own published work! Requires HyperStudio® 3.1 (or greater) for Macintosh, 3.2 (or greater) for Windows. Includes a comprehensive 35-page, full-color reference manual in PDF format. $35.00 ea.
HyperStudio "Plugged In!", Mac disk
by Tim FleckAdvanced Technique. A 2-disk set of stacks providing brief overviews and examples of some of the artistic effects now possible using plug-in filters directly within HyperStudio. These stacks include expamples of effects achieved with Sucking Fish Series, Kai's Power Tools, and the Andromeda Series filters. Until recently, using plug-in filters required access to such applications as Photoshop, Color It! or Painter. With the release of HyperStudio for Macintosh 3.1, you can now be "plugged in" while you work on your stacks. Creating multimedia with artistic flair has never been easier, more affordable, or more powerful. Requires HyperStudio 3.1 (or greater) for Macintosh. $21.00 ea.
Multimedia Magic Tutorials, Mac disk
by Tim FleckAdvanced Technique. This single disk contains three tutorials, spanning the basics of audio/video "AV" Macintosh connections to creating graphic overlays for use with live video. Includes information about HyperStudio's "magic" color that will enable you to create see-through graphic objects, "hidden" video areas, text that scrolls transparently over the video, and buttons that create pop-up video areas. (Note: Some techniques may not work in resolutions greater than 256 colors, or on some PowerMac AV computers.) For use with HyperStudio 3.0 (or greater) for Macintosh. $15.00 ea.
From FTC Publishing:
Music Loops for Multimedia, (Mac/Win CD) This hybrid CD contains 335 thirty second music loops including jazz, blues, rock, orchestral sounds, 50s sounds, Dixieland, classical, and much more! Add pizzazz to your stacks with music loops. $33.00 ea.
Sound Effects for Multimedia, Volume I (Mac/Win CD) This hybrid CD contains 1500 unique sounds including animals, nature special effects, cartoon sound effects, instruments, and more. Some of the sounds are lions, dogs, lightning (actually thunder), birds, water, explosions, and assorted beeps, whistles, and bongs. $33.00 ea.
Sound Effects for Multimedia, Volume II (Mac/Win CD) Volume 2 is a hybrid CD which includes human voices, human activity, transportation sounds, city life, cartoon character voices, musical instruments, and more. Use alone or with Sound Companion to create unique sound recordings. $33.00 ea.
Multiple Unit Pricing: Any of Music Loops for Multimedia, Sound Effects for Multimedia I, or Sound Effects for Multimedia II, Macintosh/Windows hybrid CD, 5 users, $102.00; site license (30 users) $390.00.
Buy 2 or more titles in 5 packs for $95 each 5 pack.
From Fruition Publications, Inc.:
HyperQuests Multimedia Explorations. Experience a new method of multimedia writing in which students become actively involved in guided research. Using HyperStudio to connect CD-ROMs, laserdiscs, Internet sites, other multimedia devices, and even print resources, students journey through a HyperQuest. They are engaged in guided, investigative research while creating a multimedia presentation. HyperQuests provide a framework for students to explore and learn appropriate content while teachers are able to provide curriculum choices and assist students in using multimedia. Teachers save hours of time in preparing challenging lessons and will help students avoid unnecessary searching of the Internet.
Volcanoes, Mac or Win 2 disk set or
$35.00 ea.
Fossils, Mac or Win 2 disk set or
$35.00 ea.
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