ABSTRACT
The purpose of building Learning Constellations was to create a tool for connecting videodisks with computers for author analysis of video data. One of the unique aspects of Learning Constellations was that each card could be thought of as a star and the combining of stars as the building of thematic constellations. The first random access video, text, and sound storage medium was a videodisk. One videodisk could store up to half an hour of analog video streams. A videodisk player played the video streams in the order they were pressed onto this silvery disk that looked very much like a 12 inch record. Hooking a videodisk player to the computer with cables created an environment that enabled users to segment the video into chunks by a simple system of "telling" the computer program the in-point and the out-point of the sequence one wanted to define. Various computer interfaces or programs could keep a log of the various segments.
