Project Assignment 

You have been guided through the basic principles of HyperStudio creating a mini-stack.  You will now plan a project stack on your own.  The instructor will give you the due dates for the tasks below.

The Tasks

Part 1 - 5 marks

• Choose your topic from the choices discussed in class.
• Think about your message and the continuity of your design (i.e. a program on fish could incorporate a water background on each screen).
• Think multimedia!  With this particular hypermedia program, think of how you can convey your message graphically first, then consider what text and sounds you will add.
• Make an outline of your information by creating a simple flowchart (like the one discussed in the lesson) to help organize the structure. 
• Go to the bulletin board section of the course and post a short two or three sentence statement explaining what your project will be about and how you will organize its structure.

Part 2 - 10 marks

• Use numbered storyboard cards (click here if you need blank ones) to further organize your design.
• On the first storyboard card put the main topic of your project.
• Draw your button(s) indicating the number of the card it links to.
• Keep going until you have a storyboard card representing every card for your stack(s).
• Make 20 the maximum number of cards for your stack (it is better to button together lots of little stacks rather than creating one giant stack).
• Number your storyboard cards Stack #1 - Card #1, Card #2.....  etc. If you have more than 5 or 6 cards or a number of topic areas then you might want to consider adding other stacks to your project.
• Go to the bulletin board section of the course and post a short statement on how you can use stacks to organize the information in your project.