We had the very same thought last year. We teach Hypertalk as our
programming language with HyperCard, then close out the year with
HyperStudio. Of course, many kids liked HS over HC because HS requires no
programming to do the basic functions. But that's all you can do with HS
unless you learn HyperLogo. For example, you can't have two sounds play
right after one another. In fact, MANY kids said they liked the ease of HC
in adding sounds and going from one card to the other.
I would definately teach your programming first. However, I would junk
Basic. You might want to delve into HyperLogo. The tutorial makes it
fairly easy for even a novice. Then students could use their logo skills
to enhance their HyperStudio stacks.
There's a journal called The HyperStudio Journal that comes on disk. There
are great example stacks, excellent clip art, and super examples of
hyperlogo. I think the web site is www.hsj.com. Try it.
Good luck.
Brad
Brad Pearl
bpearl@airmail.net