Simple template for beginners. Type information into field, draw or paste pictures and then ask a question at the bottom. When user clicks on yes or no button, plays appropriate sound and goes to next card. No branching is available as designed. Short responses can be added to both the true and false buttons to help explain why the answer is right or wrong.
Graphic Quiz Template
Allows students to identify and describe the parts of a picture and then take a quiz. Use hyphen '-' to separate name and description of the part.
Set Up Hints -
Paste or import a picture into the background layer. When the picture is in the background a student can make changes in the foreground that will not affect the original picture. (Just erase the changes to see the background picture again.
There are three background fields that cannot be deleted but can be moved and resized: Score (display score of Quiz or instructions); Description (display text of button mouse is over); Stackname (display stackname)
Country Template
Originally designed to allow the study of countries related to world geography. You could substitute any diagram you want to identify and/or zoom in on the parts of.
Set Up Hints -
Create a separate stack for each country. Use the country's name as the stack name. I have found it easier to pre-scan and import the maps instead of teaching those skills at the beginning.
TimeLine Template
Originally designed for biographies, you could show chronology of other events such as wars, volcanic or earthquake activity, etc. Give cards short (7 char max) titles to select cards related by topic rather than date.
Set Up Hints -
To edit the card title (year) hold down the command key and click on the title.
To automate the change of dates select Change Dates under the Master or Map Menu - You will provide a start date, end date and increment. (i.e. 1860 - 1990 incremented by a decade[10] creates 14 cards) There must be at least 11 dates and not more than 50.
The background map can be changed from the Map menu. It is useful when the map boundaries do not change over time. If you wish to show changes in boundaries over time you need to use a map in the foreground layer.
Design Limitations for programmers -
The Chronological Map Background layer is not intended to be changed by the user, except for the background picture (Map) which should be changed using the Map menu choice...Change Background Picture. The buttons at the bottom of the template used for displaying the chronology must be the rear most 11 buttons (background buttons 1-11). Do not move other background buttons behind them. The background is the same for all chronology cards (it must be named "Map"). You can put any picture you want in the background but do not delete or rename the background fields and buttons.
US Data Timeline Template
Similar to Timeline Template. Allows you to enter data for each state by clicking on the state. That data will be shown graphically using a range of patterns. By clicking on the browse button the change in data over time will be animated.
Multiple Card Map Template
Originally designed to allow students to navigate and explore their community. You could substitute a set of maps for any area you wanted to study. With a school floor plan you could create a tour of your school.
Set Up Hints -
Each map rectangle is put in a new background named "Map". The map's card must be named "Map,x,y" where x is the number of map sections from the left and y is the number of map sections from the top.
Pictures should be new cards of the background already named "blank". Each picture must have a unique name with no more than 28 characters. The card name will become the button name when a link is made by the user.
—Available in most Templates—
Hint - hold down the option key while selecting a menu choice to restore the full hypercard function of that choice.
Master Menu - shown only when stack has the word "Master" in the stack's name. If not available, you can type the following commands into message box.
CopyStack - allows you to make multiple copies of the stack template - one for each group. The stacks will be placed in the folder you select, with your choice of name and an incremented number (i.e. Group 1; Group 2...) It is convienent to provide one stack for each available computer, have the student open the stack with the same number as the computer. When a stack name has "group" in it, the user will be asked to rename it when it is opened.
ClearStack - removes some user added data so the stack can be reused. Useful when experimenting with the stack and you wish to remove additions.
UpdateStack - allows you to update the scripts of each student copy of the template. This is useful if you make scripting changes after copies have been created. You can correct bugs or add features to the scripts of all stacks in the selected folder. WARNING - use with care only by script programmers.
Templates designed by:
Stephen Titchenal AOL: Steve T6
Cleveland Heights High School Internet: aj852@cleveland.freenet.edu
