If your school has Macs, chances are your students learned how to use this program in one of their elementary-level classes. HyperCard was the first program that allowed students to create presentations on slides, which, when saved, are called stacks. Students could then show these stacks to the class, or give them to you on diskette. This program comes bundled with virtually every Macintosh sold to schools, so if you're a Mac user, dig it out of the Apple Extras folder on your hard drive and get started. The Digital Chisel A relative newcomer to the multimedia software market, The Digital Chisel is making noise in schools around the United States.
Students can also create speaking text, hyperlinks to online information, and more.
HyperStudio HyperStudio is the multimedia-authoring program of choice in thousands of schools worldwide. This Macintosh program makes it easy to create slides, link them together, and place text, sounds, and video clips on them. HyperStudio comes along with a CD-ROM boasting more than 250 megs of images, sounds, and video clips. The new version even allows you to hyperlink from a button or word in your project directly to Internet information. Microsoft PowerPoint Students don't have the time or the patience to spend hours learning how to put multimedia presentations together.