thom@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) (04/24/91)
I was just at a MacroMind Director workshop Berkeley put on in one of the engineering labs. Very interesting program where text which doesn't move is very boring, very boring. And the images which do move cause folks to go, "Oh!! now I get it." What's most interesting is the metaphor for MacroMind Director and Media Maker -- now that is a sox knocker offer if ever there was one -- is the stage. There are scripts, and stages, and tempos, and a cast. I'm tempted to say that MacroMind integrates text and graphics but it is pretty obvious that Macromind submerges text beneath the graphics. Sort of the wave of the future don't you think? As Joe Bob Briggs might say, "Check it out ... no bodies, no blood, no gore, just beauty." --Thom Gillespie p.s. The workshop was put on by the Folks at the Instructional Technology Program at Berkeley, deranged folks who seem to think that pictures are critical for education.