I strongly recommend that you watch (or listen) to this Triangulation interview with technologist Bill Atkinson. Leo Laporte does a great job interviewing Bill covering topics ranging from HyperCard, coding and authentic learning to Atkinson’s use of LSD.
Atkinson has long been a personal hero. I admit that I still miss HyperCard and credit this software for getting me into coding and authoring opportunities for students of all ages. Atkinson’s comments on the end of HyperCard and what he recommends as a replacement may be of interest to educators promoting student authoring. Brilliant insights based on his life experiences which remarkably predate the position of my present educational leaders. His way of describing these ideas seems more useful than most I encounter. These ideas were what initiated my own thinking about authoring to learn.
Sample from my NDWild clipart project (distributed as a Hypercard stack).
