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From: thom@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: MacroMind Director an of Text, variation on image vs text
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I was just at a MacroMind Director workshop Berkeley put on in one of the
engineering labs. Very interesting program where text which doesn't move
is very boring, very boring. And the images which do move cause folks to
go, "Oh!! now I get it."

What's most interesting is the metaphor for MacroMind Director and Media
Maker -- now that is a sox knocker offer if ever there was one -- is the stage.
There are scripts, and stages, and tempos, and a cast.

I'm tempted to say that MacroMind integrates text and graphics but it is pretty
obvious that Macromind submerges text beneath the graphics. Sort of the wave of
the future don't you think?

As Joe Bob Briggs might say, "Check it out ... no bodies, no blood, no gore,
just beauty."

--Thom Gillespie

p.s. The workshop was put on by the Folks at the Instructional Technology
Program at Berkeley, deranged folks who seem to think that pictures are
critical for education.