Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!well!via From: via@well.sf.ca.us (Tony Cecala) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HC and videodiscs Message-ID: <21065@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 7 Oct 90 12:06:03 GMT References: <3409@mindlink.UUCP> Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 91 L e s s o n C a r d (TM) ------------------------ Videodisc players and computers create the potential for interactive videodisc courseware. LessonCard is an authoring system for teachers with no time for complex commands or confusing manuals. Designed and tested by user-interface specialists. LessonCard can be learned in under an hour. It's power is derived from HyperCard(R) and its graphical interface. LessonCard's point-and-click interface makes it possible to create menu-based branching, integrated text/graphic screens, quizzes, and tests without memorizing a single command. Special browsing tools make it easy to edit video sequences. LessonCard(TM) Benefits ----------------------- EASY TO LEARN - productive authoring in under a day - simultaneously author and run lessons - on-line help - example lessons - technical support HIERARCHICAL BRANCHING - comprehensive index - 1000 screens possible - menus - map SOPHISTICATED TESTING - multiple choice questions - matching questions - open-ended questions - prescriptive feedback - question classification STUDENT TRACKING - collect and manage student performance - create reports - track progress - document mastery INTERACTIVE VIDEODISC CONTROL - create stills/sequences - point-and-click editing - video text overlay - compatible with all popular players RUNTIME MODULES - create runtime lessons for distribution (Licensing available for commercial resale of lessons.) Company Profile --------------- Founded in 1989, Visual Interface Architects is a design and development firm whose products feature careful attention to user interaction. VIA develops software on Apple Macintosh computers using HyperCard. The firm's founders, Tony Cecala and Mel Ristau, are experienced user interface designers and recognized HyperCard experts. VIA has developed several HyperCard-based testing instruments for both education and industry. These include a networked product evaluation system, an animated speech laboratory, and a learning-style testing instrument. The founders of VIA, Mel Ristau and Tony Cecala, have complementary backgrounds in graphic design and cognitive psychology. After completing an M.F.A. in information design from The University of Kansas, Ristau founded an information design program at Abilene Christian University where he is now a professor. Cecala holds a Ph.D. from Yale in cognitive psychology and worked at IBM and TI before co-founding VIA. They have introduced new methods of animation and typographic display into the HyperCard community, and their stack TrainSet was inspiration for Apple's Sample stack, Train Set, shipping with HyperCard 2.0. To order LessonCard, call C.H. Love & Co., Inc.: 800-527-4248 222 Cypress St. Abilene, TX 79602 AppleLink(R): VIA Well: VIA DISCLAIMER: I co-developed LessonCard. Call the 800 number and ask to speak with Kim Massingill. He can put you in touch with satisfied, unbiased users.