Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!sadlerl From: sadlerl@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (LoriLee M Sadler) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Elementary Education Keywords: HyperCard Message-ID: <52365@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 27 Jul 90 19:30:27 GMT References: <90Jul27.151355edt.6940@neat.cs.toronto.edu> Distribution: comp.edu Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 34 In article <90Jul27.151355edt.6940@neat.cs.toronto.edu> notkemp@cs.toronto.edu (Kempton Lam) writes: > >In article <26274@unix.cis.pitt.edu> you write: >> >> I have been asked to help design a course that would >> >>be taught in an elementary school. The school has 215 students >> >>from K - 8. Their computer equipment consists of 8 Appl IIc and >> >>2 printers. >> >> >HyperCard [HC] by Apple is a GREAT GREAT medium for little kids to learn to use >compuer. I've seen a vedio (probably by Apple) describing elementary school >students doing lots of interesting things using HC like creating different >kind of adventure games. The students will enjoy playing with HC very much. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Hypercard does not run on Apple IIc's or any of the "apple" family of computers. Hypercard requires a Macintosh to run. Vast quantities of educational software have been developed for the Apple II family of computers for children of the age you speak of and much of it is distributed at no charge or at a very nominal charge. Dilithium Press used to publish a catalog called "Free and Almost Free Software for the Apple Computer". I know they have one out now for the Mac, so don't know if that means they've stopped publishing the Apple version or not. There is probably an Apple bulletin board in Pittsburgh from which you could pull a lot of this stuff down. Good luck. -LoriLee Sadler