Abstract
I teach English educational technology class since 1992 in Kinjo Gakuin University for 4th year students of English major. The final goal of this class is to make students produce their own program of teaching materials by using “HyperCard”, multimedia authoring tool. In April 1994 I edited and published, after 3 years' work, “HyperCard Lessons” of which purpose is to give the facilities to students or self-learning user to make their own stacks. “HyperCard Lessons” teaches them the basic concept of HyperCard in the first semester, and on this base they can begin to create their own stacks in the last semester. Bill Atkinson bore HyperCard as a realization of the concept “hyper text”. At first HyperCard was released as a free software like a detachable pull-out supplement of Macintosh in 1987. After version 2.0 HyperCard is divided into the full size set for merchandise and the light version which is free for Macintosh user. Unfortunately the light version takes most of Macintosh users away the imagination to create an original stack. In order that HyperCard would revive as an original multimedia authoring tool for students, I worked to give to HyperCard's objects in good order. Students can learn systematically the concepts of “button”,“field”,“card”,“background”, and“stack”, the properties of them, HyperTalk and the idea over the Stack design. I discuss in this paper the structure of HyperCard by explaining the process of the development of “HyperCard Lessons”. By the way I speak about “Digital Allons-y!”, my recent work for French learning software CD-ROM which has been just produced by my-self in 1995.
