TY - JOUR AU - Langthorne, Michael AB - By Michael Langthorne Hypercard is not the end-all and be-all of au- ne of our missions as an Educational Media department is to promote the thoring software, but it has numerous functions that are having a major impact on educational use of technology, not for the sake of software development. At the recent National high-tech flashing lights, but for the Educational Computing Conference in Dallas, purpose of helping professors maxi- mize their vital student contact time and minimize speaker after speaker from dozens of major uni- their non-vital student drill session/rote learning versities made reference to the surprising number time. For years we've wanted to dive into CAI, of uses they've found for Hypercard in their learn- computer-aided-instruction, using the latest inter- ing resource centers. One thing which Hypercard active videodisk technology. But how? When? does with incredible ease is control a videodisk The answer seemed to be: When we finally find player. Another is that Hypercard is extremely the time (the months!) to study the differences be- simple to use for making student tutorials or even tween computer authoring systems, then decide creating tests. Schools at any grade level consider- on one, learn the program intimately, and then TI - It’s a hyper new world JF - TechTrends DO - 10.1007/bf02786369 DA - 1988-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/it-s-a-hyper-new-world-XxWPcesSjo SP - 16 EP - 17 VL - 33 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -