Hypermedia:: Interactive Exploration of a Medieval Town

• Autores: Antonio Calvani
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 27, Nº 1, 1990, págs. 51-57
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With the aim of developing an interface capable of supporting the acquisition of historical knowledge through interactive involvement, this paper shows an application of HyperCard concerning the exploration of a medieval town. The student, who is taken to fourteenth‐century Florence, can move freely through the city, go into the houses and start conversations between the characters; furthermore the student can also access short descriptive information or historical and historiographic files. The possibility of this visual‐situational involvement — offered by multi‐media experiences — supporting the acquisition of more abstract notions is still to be evaluated.