On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, David Van Assche<dvanass...@gmail.com> wrote: > A real simple alternative to powerpoint/impress that looks and smells > like it, but with maybe really limited functionality would be loved by > teachers everywhere, At least, all the teachers I have met rely very > heavily on powerpoint in one form or another, be it integrated into > other software like moodle or an LMS, or used with an interactive > whiteboard/touchpad soft, or just used by itself. But normally it is > used in a very limited fashion, and without much of the fancy > transitions/coloring/themeing/graphing and all that stuff... IF they > want something like that, it would make sense to steer them to > turtleart... but there needs to be something much much simpler... > > David >
+1 There is also the issue of existing materials that are already authored in Powerpoint and need to be "imported" into a format that's processable by an activity on the XO. Re-doing all such material in yet another format is painful. Maybe something that can take a ppt file and push png of each slide to the Journal for view slides or TA to pick up. Powerpoint itself will export each slide to a jpg or png, but I haven't had much luck with OOo for batch export (it does the export one slide at a time). The other option is to run PDFs full screen like evince. All these approaches take care of display, but still do not address authoring in Sugar. cheers, Sameer > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Walter Bender<walter.ben...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> And we also have Turtle Art as a presentation option (it can keep to a >> prearranged order :) >> >> -walter >> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, James Simmons<jim.simm...@walgreens.com> >> wrote: >>> I deleted the digest that contained someone asking about putting Open >>> Office on an XO to get alternatives to Excel and PowerPoint, but I'd >>> like to suggest that with the features I added to View Slides over the >>> weekend you *could* use View Slides to create and view presentations. >>> What you could do is create individual slides using the Record Activity >>> or one of the Paint Activities. These would create separate image files >>> in the Journal. Then you'd fire up View Slides to add these images to a >>> slide show, arranging them in sequence by renaming the images in the >>> show, and deleting images that aren't needed. Then View Slides could be >>> used to view the presentation. You can even hide the mouse cursor and >>> view the images full screen. >>> >>> It isn't Power Point, but on the other hand, it isn't Power Point. >>> >>> The pictures at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4039 >>> tell the story. Unfortunately they tell the story out of sequence. >>> There doesn't seem to be any way to arrange the pictures in order. >>> >>> James Simmons >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
