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This month --- Tucked Away on the CD-ROM

Tucked away on the Hyperstudio 4 CD-ROM, there's a great little program called Morph.  Unfortunately, it doesn't automatically get installed with Hyperstudio.  You do need to load it separately but when you do, you've got a very easy to use yet powerful creativity tool.  

In its simplest, it takes a single start image and a single end image and creates a movie as the source is morphed into the destination.  Here's how...

Open the Morph program.  You'll see two black place holders.  The one on the left is for your start and the one on the right is for the end image.  Double click on each to select a picture.  In the picture below, I selected two images from the samples folder that gets install with the Morph program.  Once you've selected each image, double click on both of them to get a bigger image.

I've found that the resulting movie is more impressive if you tell Morph which point of the start image is to be morphed into what point of the end image.  You do this by clicking on the little dot on the tool bar.  Click on your start image and a dot appears in both.  Select the cursor in the tool bar and move the dot on the ending image to where you'd like to end your morph.  I find that with pictures of people, lining up the eyes and the chin works well.

Honesty time here...one time I connected the left eye on the start image with the right eye on the end image.  Then, the right eye on the start image with the left eye on the end image.  The resulting morph was, well, interesting to say the least!

OK, so you have your keypoints lined up?  From the File Menu, you'll export the movie.  The movie plays well by itself, but plays very nicely within Hyperstudio.  Add a button, tell Hyperstudio that you have a thing for it to do, select "Play a Movie" and connect your movie to the button.

Now, think of the possibilities!  Baby pictures to grad pictures?  Documenting home renovations?  Sunrise to sunset?  It's all very easy, and very possible.

I'm pleased to announce that, due to the success of the Hyperstudio Festival that was held last year, a Hyperstudio Festival will once again be held to celebrate the efforts of our students' multimedia authoring.

When?
You can start as soon as it works into your schedule. The Festival will conclude in time to celebrate during Education Week 2002.

What?
The purpose is to celebrate how multimedia authoring fits into the curriculum. Any project with ties to the Ontario Curriculum is welcome. While Hyperstudio lends itself to Social Studies nicely, it can be used in all kinds of situations. Turn your students free to be creative.

How Many?
To keep it manageable, there are a limit of 6 entries per school.

Stack Size?
Entries must have no fewer than 5 cards per stack and no more than 20 cards per stack. In addition, a cover card will be made available to be placed as the first card in the stack to identify school, topic, etc.

Inspiration?
Just what can be done? Check with your school's CIESC and look for the CD-ROM that was created last year composed of all of the entries.

Good Luck! Those that participated last year really enjoyed the excitement that was generated as students worked towards a final product.

Title Card

All submissions must have the following card as the first one in the stack to identify the authors.  Click here to download it.