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Humanities Software Evaluation

Media Text with QuickTime

Copyright Date

1991

Publisher

Sunburst Communications, Inc.

Description

A tool that lets teachers and students create multimedia documents. The word processor allows the user to link to a variety of other media: video clips, QuickTime movies, graphics, sound clips, animation, and more.

Disciplines

All

Type of Program

x Single            |     x Mac
  One of a Series   |       IBM

Suitable for:

Individual Instruction

Minimum Requirements

Requires 4 MB RAM and System 7.

Vendor

Sunburst/Wings for Learning

Cost

$99.00

Instructional Characteristics

Instructional Techniques

  Game
  Tutorial
  Simulation
  Informational
x Problem Solving

Documentation Available (Y=yes, N=No, NA= Not Applicable)

Y  Student worksheets/Supplentary Material required
Y  Student worksheets/Supplentary Material provided
Y  Reference Manuals Required

Quality 1 (low) to 5 (high)

4  Content Characteristics
4  Instructional Characteristics
4  Technical Characteristics

Recommendations

I would use this program, but with some reservations or change

Comments

The program screen has a textual page with a right margin containing multimedia links. It will link text with graphics, a videodisc player, sound, CD audio, and PICS animation as well as QuickTime movies. The accompanying book contains a good tutorial with clear directions and pictures, a reference manual, ideas for using Media Text in the classroom, and a troubleshooting section with questions and suggested sources of trouble. Because I did not have all of the links connected to my computer, I could not fully evaluate this program.