First of all, PowerPoint

PowerPoint is one of Microsoft's Office series components and a slide production tool. Because of its powerful multimedia editing function and easy learning, many teachers began to use PowerPoint to make courseware. PowerPoint has built-in rich animation, transition effect and various sound effects, and has powerful hyperlink function, which can directly adjust many external files to meet general teaching requirements. The most obvious two advantages are that PowerPoint is easy to install and supports IE browser. However, the animation of PowerPoint is a bit stiff and monotonous, and the interactive function is actually a hyperlink, which is difficult for courseware with high interactive requirements.

Second, AuthorWare

AuthorWare is a widely used platform in courseware making tools. Its biggest feature is that it creates a creative way based on icons, which runs through the whole process of courseware making with a visual process, clear and orderly. We only need to drag and drop 13 icons (in fact, 12 icons are the most commonly used, but video icons are not commonly used), and we can complete the development of ordinary courseware without writing too much program code. AuthorWare has built-in many transitional effects (more effects can be made by using plug-ins) and five basic animation functions. If it can be applied flexibly, it can meet the requirements of ordinary courseware for animation. The soul of AuthorWare is its powerful interactive function and function library. 1 1 interactive mode, which can easily achieve various arbitrary interactive effects, and the rich functions make us even more powerful. However, the multi-channel support of AuthorWare is not ideal, icon mode and many functions are sometimes very complicated, and it is not easy to develop excellent courseware freely using AuthorWare.

Third, Founder Aosi

Founder Author Tool is a visual and interactive multimedia integrated creation tool developed by the printing department of Peking University Founder Electronics Co., Ltd.. Founder Aosi can run in Chinese Windows95/98/me/NT 4.0/2000 environment, and has an intuitive, simple and friendly user interface. Multimedia materials such as text, graphics, images, sounds, animations and images can be integrated and edited to produce various multimedia applications. Support rich media playback mode, transition effect and dynamic effect to realize flexible interaction; You can make path animation; Support variables and system functions, simple scripts and multimedia database management. The created product can generate EXE files and run directly under the operating system. It has the function of generating web pages, but some functions will be restricted when generating web pages. The popular version and above can be upgraded for free.

Fourth, the courseware master

Courseware Master is a courseware making tool produced by Wuhan Van Gogh Software Company. Master of courseware making, that is, Mengtaiyao optical multimedia editing system. The popular version now is the second generation of courseware master, that is, Eta Ursae Majoris 3.0. The software provides a visual Chinese interface, through which various media such as sound, animation, images and words can be integrated and controlled, and finally a projection program that can be executed independently can be generated. Courseware masters support a variety of multimedia formats, such as Gif, Flash, MP3 and so on. , and has its own rotation and trajectory animation function. Like Orth, it is based on the order of pages, but it is different from Orth in the design idea of creating subpages. Courseware Master Edition 2 is very cheap (only about 150 yuan) and contains some courseware making materials, which is more suitable for teachers' personal use, but this version does not enjoy free upgrade service.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Guangzhou Katie

Katie's multimedia creation tool is a multimedia development tool developed by Guangzhou Katie Software Co., Ltd. Among many multimedia creation systems, it is an almond: it is not only completely free from programming mode, simple to operate, powerful in animation production, strong in self-creation, but also has the function of scoreboard (automatic scoring) in the face of educational reality. Moreover, the packaged files occupy small storage space and run fast. However, the integration function is weak, and the system cannot support some multimedia formats such as MP3 and Flash.

6. Director and Flash

Dirctor, Flash and AuthorWare are products of American Macromedia Company. The biggest feature of Flash and Dirctor is its powerful animation function and interactive function. It is also a common tool for making courseware at present, because it is foreign software, which is a bit difficult to learn.

To sum up, foreign large-scale multimedia creation tools such as AuthorWare and Director are a bit difficult, and now most of them are computer teachers and teachers of some key disciplines who use these tools to make courseware. Although these development tools are much more convenient than using high-level languages (such as C language and Visual Basic language), they alleviate the pain of tedious "bottom-level" design to some extent. However, these development tools are all in English (all have Chinese versions, but the reference books are all in English), and each software provides rich functions and scripting languages, so it is not suitable for novices to use. Domestic multimedia development tools, such as Aosi, Katie, and courseware masters, all have a common feature: Chinese products are powerful, directly facing the educational reality, simple to operate, and high in creative efficiency and quality (of course, they also include domestic multimedia creation tools such as Hongtu and Yisi, which will not be repeated here), so they are more suitable for teachers in general disciplines. Vigorously advocating the use of these domestic software not only breaks the situation of unified courseware making on foreign multimedia creation platforms, but also finds a shortcut for teachers to make courseware. May these excellent domestic software become the "sharp weapon" for our primary and secondary school teachers to make courseware!

Seven. Geometric Sketchpad and Mathematical Platform

Software such as geometric sketchpad and mathematical platform bring mathematical experiments, which provide an ideal "doing mathematics" environment for students to actively explore problems. Students can use it to do mathematical experiments, so that students can understand and master abstract mathematical concepts in the process of solving problems and gain real mathematical experience, not just some abstract mathematical conclusions.

At present, there have been some useful attempts in this regard. 1in the summer of 995, two American junior high school students (David Goldeheim and Dan Litchfiled) discovered another method of arbitrarily dividing line segments by using geometric sketchpad. A student of Northeast Yucai School discovered the generalized butterfly theorem. Aside from the significance of these problems, their process of dealing with problems (guessing, verifying and demonstrating) is also an inspiration to our mathematics teaching.

"Math Platform" is a courseware making tool with similar functions to "Geometer's Sketchpad" launched by Nanjing Jinhuake Software Co., Ltd ... Besides the drawing and measuring functions similar to Geometer's Sketchpad, it has its own characteristics: it has its own design language (you can use these codes to create better and more powerful courseware), it can generate executable files (the packaged courseware can run independently without the platform system of mathematics and physics), and the professional version can be a network courseware.

Software such as geometry sketchpad, mathematics platform and ZZ intelligent education platform are not only good tools for assisting teaching, but also good tools for students to carry out mathematics experiments. The powerful graphics processing ability of computer makes it possible to discover and learn mathematics, and its dynamic situation can provide necessary tools and means for students to "do" mathematics, so that students can be independent in the "problem space". Teachers can give students more tasks of exploration, analysis and thinking.

Classification 2:

We know that the most basic prerequisite for making a courseware is to have a sharp weapon for making courseware. At present, there are many kinds of software for making courseware. Here are some simple introductions. If you are about to learn how to make courseware, you'd better read the following first.

Macromedia authoring software

Authorware is a leading visual media creation tool for network and online learning. It provides great enhancement in rich media support, creative ability, web page creation and publishing, student learning tracking and course management. Authorware allows developers to create multimedia projects on networks, LANs and CDs.

It is an excellent interactive multimedia creation tool based on flow chart. It can not only use its own icons and functions to design programs, but also use controls, interfaces and custom functions to realize many complex functions. From the working interface of Authorware to the final user-defined UCD function, this site adheres to the principles of from the easy to the deep, from the easy to the difficult, and integrating theory with practice, comprehensively introduces the making methods of multimedia courseware and software, and makes full use of examples to teach you how to make courseware. At the same time, there are courseware works and source programs for your reference and download.

Macromedia Flash

Flash is the standard of interactive vector graphics and network animation. Web designers use Flash to create beautiful, resizable and extremely compact navigation interfaces, technical notes and other special effects.

In addition, its other great advantage is that the output file volume is very small, and a 5-minute short film with music is less than 500KB, which does have its advantages today when large-capacity mobile storage devices are not popular and the domestic network speed is current.

Macromedia Dreamweaver

There is nothing wrong with making courseware in the form of web pages. A visual web design tool, an HTML editor, supports the latest HTML standards, including dynamic HTML. When editing, you can choose visual mode or your favorite source code editing mode.

Dreamweaver is a powerful webpage editing software, which integrates webpage production and website management. It is the first set of visual web page making tools developed for professional web designers. Using it, you can easily make dynamic web pages across platforms and browsers.

The best integration tool for making web pages at present.

FrontPage 2000

FrontPage 2000 provides an excellent fckeditor, which can edit tables of web pages conveniently and quickly. There are three editing tools in the editor: what you see is what you get, editing HTML manually and previewing web pages.

Is a very simple and practical web page editing software, with which you can edit a web page very quickly, especially suitable for friends who are doing web pages for the first time. If you want to make a good web page with this software, the most important thing is to master the use of forms. I believe that all friends who have done websites have this experience. Frontpage can also make simple multimedia courseware, enterprise planning books, product demonstrations and so on. It is quick to use, easy to learn and easy to use.

FrontPage 2000 is the most ideal integrated tool for beginners to make web pages.