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.

Cheers,
Chris.