Introductory Videos

The following videos will give you a good introduction to the overall structure of a HyperStudio projects (cards, background, objects in a “stack”), and also demonstrate how drag and drop is used to easily create a significant portion of the basic structure for a HyperStudio project.

Not only is this efficient for its own sake, but this means that you will have that much more time available to make a meaningful, cohesive project by adding your own ideas and interpretation of the information.

Introduction to HyperStudio: Background, Objects, Cards.

This video shows a project created by dropping a folder of five photographs of famous landmarks, plus a map, on to the HyperStudio application icon.

This creates a stack made up of six cards. The background of the first card is the map, and the background of each of the other five cards is made from each of the photos.

The Inspector is introduced, which is what you use to set and edit any of the actions or characteristics of any of the four objects in HyperStudio: buttons, text objects, graphic objects, and movies.

This also shows how easy it is to make hyperlinks between any graphic object and a card, simply by dragging the thumbnail image of the card in the Card Index on to the graphic object that you want to link to that card.

HyperStudio also automatically creates a “Comments & Attributions” list for all the media in a project with the urls for the source of each media item (when available) that is put into a project.

Google Maps & HyperStudio

This video shows how easy it is in HyperStudio to link a location in Google Maps to a graphic object, simply by dropping the “link” button on the Google Maps page on to the graphic object.

The video also shows how to use the HyperStudio “Capture Selection” contextual menu item to capture any part of the image in Google Maps, and instantly transfer it to your card in HyperStudio as a graphic object.

Note: I apologize, but for some reason, the screen capture made during this particular movie lags behind the audio.   I hope to fix that soon, but for the moment, I’m posting the movie such as it is so that at least you’ll have some idea of what’s possible.

Google Earth & HyperStudio

This video shows how easy it is in HyperStudio to link a location in Google Maps to a graphic object, simply by dropping the “link” button on the Google Maps page on to the graphic object.

Adding a “Main Menu button”

This video shows how to create a small graphic object on each of the cards that will take you back to the “main menu” of the map on the first card.

Additional Videos

Joe Morris, a teacher in San Diego, has also created some introductory videos for HyperStudio that he has posted on YouTube:

And, here's another one from YouTube: