John reflects on Hypercard journeys

My kaki John Larkin Down Under was in Wagga recently, and a core message to the educators there who are about to stick their toes into cold water—chose a passionate element in the curricular, seek to combine with an online tool you have some confidence in and keep the project simple, for starters.

The germ of that idea came from his (relatively ancient) experience with Hypercard. It was sweet to hear that application name again and I can see the black and grey pixels on a small screen:

I was given a quick demo of HyperCard by Dr John Hedberg, during a promotional presentation for a new course being offered by the University of Wollongong. … [It] convinced me to enrol in the Graduate Certificate of History Education at the UOW … [which] … was brilliant. It changed my life.

John applied these principles to the story of his dad’s POW experience in WWII. The students reaction? Amongst others, “they were amused by the fact that the were attending History lessons in the computer laboratory.”

And of course “that HyperCard stack took me outside my comfort zone and set me on a journey…” – and part of that journey led to us crossing paths.

Read the post, “Education technology for beginners,” by John Larkin. Watershed, 25 Oct 2008.