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- This “Prototyping Interactive Multimedia” toolkit consists of seven
- stacks and two documents.
-
- The stacks are:
-
- • Start Here
- - Main Menu and Overview
-
- • Background
- - references material on the technologies
-
- • Content Selector
- - selects the best subject matter for your prototype
-
- • Create a Presentation
- - builds a customize handout or overhead presentation slide show
-
- • Create a Prototype
- - a tool for the creation of a prototype interactive multimedia
- project
-
- • Prototype Template
- - a template used by the “Create a Prototype” stack for the
- creation of your prototype
-
- • Interactive Broadcast
- - controls the interactive videodisc version of the “Business
- Learning Broadcast”
-
- The first four stacks are designed for Project Managers and require
- only limited understanding of HyperCard. The fifth stack (“Create a
- Prototype”) is a developer’s tool and is designed for experienced
- HyperCard users. Project Managers should take a quick look at this
- stack before handing it off to their developers. This will give them a
- sense of its capabilities. The sixth stack (“Prototype Template”) is
- used by the “Create a Prototype” stack when developers ‘name’ their
- own stack for development. The seventh stack (“Interactive
- Broadcast”) controls a videodisc player, and is intended to be used
- with the videodisc version of the “Business Learning Broadcast.”
-
- The documents are:
-
- • Read Me First (this document)
-
- • Evaluation Form
-
-
- INSTALLING THE STACKS:
-
- The stacks will run just fine on a floppy disk. Naturally, they’ll work
- faster on a hard disk; just be sure to install all stacks in the same
- folder.
-
- When you use the “Create a Prototype” stack to build your own
- prototype, you need about 200k of free disk space. The ‘create’
- process builds your prototype in the same folder on the same disk as
- the “Create a Prototype” stack. At a minimum, you need HyperCard’s
- “Home” and “Create a Prototype” together on a floppy to make a
- prototype.
-
- Note: when you view your desktop by icon or small icon, your
- prototype might be placed on top of the “Prototype Template” icon.
- Look carefully for it!
-
-
- HOW TO USE THESE STACKS:
-
- Begin by double-clicking on the “Start Here” stack. Go through the
- Overview that is part of that stack. Review any parts of the
- “Background” stack that can clarify understanding of the concepts of
- self-paced training, interactive multimedia, or the prototyping
- process.
-
- The “Content Selector” stack should be completed before the
- “Create a Presentation” stack. Decisions made in the “Content
- Selector” can be plugged into the “Create a Presentation” stack. The
- “Content Selector” picks the best subject for the prototype. The
- “Create a Presentation” stack turns that information into
- customized material for executive briefings.
-
- The “Create a Prototype” stack provides the stack design, structure,
- and programming needed to build a prototype. Most of the buttons,
- fields, and commands are already in place. A prototype project does
- need content and supporting media. Once these have been assembled,
- experienced developers can use this stack to build the prototype.
-
- A tutorial on the use of these stacks was presented in Apple’s
- Business Learning Broadcast on April 25, 1990. A videotape of the
- broadcast is available from Apple Computer, Inc. Contact your local
- Apple sales or training office for more information.
-
- The “Interactive Broadcast” stack serves as the controller for the
- interactive version of the Business Learning Broadcast. A set of two
- videodiscs of the broadcast and additional materials is available
- from Apple Computer, Inc. Contact your local Apple sales or training
- office for more information.
-
-
- HOW TO USE THE EVALUATION:
-
- Please double-click the “Evaluation” document and print it. Then,
- fill in the form with your comments about the stacks and mail it to
- the address indicated on the form. Since these stacks are a draft of
- a program on interactive multimedia development, we welcome your
- comments, suggestions, and questions.