On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:45, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > Caroline, > > I'm not sure what the state of printing is in SoaS. If I was a > teacher I think I'd teach the kids to use View Slides, Browse, and a > Paint program and then use another computer running Image Magick on > Windows (or Linux or a Macintosh) to prepare PDFs. You'd have to > unzip the archives created by View Slides, which recent versions of > Windows can do (or use JustZipIt for older versions). Then you run an > Image Magick command like this to create a PDF: > > convert scanImage_1.jpg scanImage_2.jpg scanImage_3.jpg mybook.pdf
Note that you can easily do dynamic presentations in Etoys, Scratch, or Turtle Art, with far more capability than ordinary PDFs. Each of them is a programming environment. Each lets students open Journal sessions and stick images and other elements into presentation frames. > Or you could print the pictures out one at a time. This could use a > LOT of ink and be very slow, either way. It might make more sense to > just create ebooks and publish them where parents could download them. > > All this would be dangerously close to teaching kids how to use > PowerPoint. If you had to print everything out it might be cheaper to > get the kids construction paper, crayons, glue, etc. > > Using View Slides is easy enough, I think. Check out the screen shots > on ASLO. They're not in sequence, but I think they give an idea of > how to assemble images into an ebook. > > James Simmons > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> How low is the floor on this? Could a first or second grader do it? Can >> they print it out and create a book? >> I think book creation should be a big part of our eBook message, and nice >> write ups on a number of different ways for students to do this with Sugar >> might be a great supplement to our Blueberry press releases. >> Thanks! >> Caroline >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Jim Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Caroline, >>> >>> I'm unable to watch the YouTube video but if I was a teacher that >>> wanted to have children create their own books I might recommend using >>> View Slides to collect and organize image files created in other >>> tools. For instance, children could get images from the Internet >>> using Browse, create images using Record or one of the Paint programs, >>> then use View Slides to import them into a slide show and arrange them >>> into sequence by renaming them. >>> >>> Once you have images in sequence like that you could use View Slides >>> to read them like a book, copy them to a thumb drive and read them on >>> a non-Sugar computer using a program like Comix, or unzip them and use >>> a command in Image Magick to create a PDF out of them. Once you have >>> a PDF like that you could convert it to DJVU with another free >>> utility. >>> >>> View Slides is consistently more popular than any of my other >>> Activities and since there is very little legal content in .cbz format >>> (and illegal content in .cbz format isn't that easy to find either) >>> I've always wondered what people were doing with it. This might be >>> part of an answer. >>> >>> James Simmons >>> >>> > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:25 -0500 >>> > From: Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> >>> > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] R: E-Books for Sugar on a Stick >>> > (Blueberry) >>> > >>> > Going along the same lines but in a different direction then >>> > Tomeu....This >>> > teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids. >>> > >>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs >>> > >>> > Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way >>> > that >>> > lets you fold the printed page to create a book. >> >> >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> [email protected] >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
