Dear All,

A cry for help from my fellow Primary people here!

I have been asked to look into suitable software for teaching the Unit
6A on Multimedia Presentation. It appears that we need a Multimedia
Authoring package to cover all the aspects of the Integrated task.

The teacher has a set of published plans and examples which need a
program called HyperStudio, but it's old, expensive and to my mind,
not very child-friendly.

We need something which is pretty basic, and preferably cheap - it's
not something we're going to use outside of this unit and it's hard to
justify around £300 for a site licence for a single unit. Any
suggestions?

I've looked at using PowerPoint, but I'm not sure that we can acheive
the aims of the unit easily enough. I know you can set up actions and
buttons with PowerPoint, but it's not a straightforward process is it?

I'm out of ideas and would love to hear how other people are getting
around this. Feel free to PM me if you'd rather not post publicly.

Cheers,
Chris.