Between HTML and Java

• Beyond the teaching aid to ... "interactivity" and "experiences"
• Between HTML (and more HTML) and Java
• The need: better ability to create interactivity/experiences without requiring programming skill

• Needing a "world" to explore
• The HTML approach
• Difficulties: size, time, static

• Inklings - Shockwave
  • Search on Shockwave and ...
  • An example
• Director, from Macromedia
• Trying it out - A world to explore (in progress)

• Director/Shockwave fills the space between ...
• Easy to learn/use (for both faculty/students)
• Good as "teaching aid" (can match Powerpoint, and be on web)
• Gives opportunity to push envelope