https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120331

--- Comment #5 from Rick Dubbs <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Edwin Sharp from comment #4)
> Thank you.

You're welcome.  Thanks for pursuing this matter.  Please allow me to add some
background before I directly answer your questions (which are all very good,
BTW.)

I teach middle school science.  Many science teachers use notes as a teaching
strategy.  In my class, during "lecture" each student is required to copy
exactly what I present on the screen, and then is allowed to use those notes to
help with any assignment and the tests.  26 years ago, I wrote the notes on the
board, then I progressed to overhead transparencies, transparencies that were
created from word processed documents, and then Powerpoint.

While PowerPoint & Impress have the ability to easily mix text and graphics,
they both have the disadvantage that when the bottom of a slide is reached
either the entire class must wait until everyone copies down that last bit of
information, or the slowest note-takers miss out on the last bits.  This
teaching technique is common in middle school through college, and my
college-aged son does complain of teachers who go too quickly.

My request is for the development of an animation technique that would permit
the items in a presentation to scroll up when the last item on the slide is
reached.  I admit that the technique that I came up with is a kludge, but it
does achieve the scrolling effect.  In the two years that I have used this
technique, no one has ever asked me to slow down my presentation.

> Why do you insist having so much information on one slide?

What you see is the entirety of the notes that I am presenting in that session.
 I suppose that I could put less into a slide, and get the same effect, but I
found that it is easier to construct the presentation by just deleting material
from the top rather than deleting and adding at the same time.

> Why the "homework hotline" banner?

The banner has noting to do with my need for scrolling notes.  The banner was
created because my classroom is a converted Kindergarten room, and the ceilings
are low.  If I continuously introduced new material at the bottom of the
screen, then many students has to crane their necks to see the bottom slide. 
When I merely put the black bar at the bottom, the computer/projector adjusted
the screen formatting so that clear white area showed on the screen.  I had to
put something in the black bar so the it would not be adjusted out. 

> Why aren't you using the available notes feature?

I'm not sure I follow this question.  AFAIK notes do not show on the screen.

> Teleprompter is for reading.

No argument.  I use "teleprompter" only as an analogy to what I want to achieve
visually.  A teleprompter scrolls the text continuously from the bottom to the
top, in effect never actually reaching a bottom of the text.  

> A presentation has both reading from slide and listening to lecturer.

Correct.  In my presentations, I display the note on the screen and give my
students time to copy it down.  Then, I will discuss it further and may display
a graphic on a second screen using an overhead projector or do a demonstration.
 Then I will move to the next note.

> Most human beings are not multi-tasking... if they are too busy reading the
> slide they are not paying attention to what the lecturer is saying.

That is my experience, too.  That is why I usually wait until most of my
students have copied down the note before discussing additional information. 
My notes are the important skeleton of the discussion, and provide the direct
answers to most of the questions they will be asked on assignments and the
tests.

> From my experience a slide shouldn't be over-crowded with content.
> IMHO having unlimited content in one slide is bad.

I agree with this, too.  In practice, the technique I use is only presenting
one new item at a time.  For everyone who is completely keeping up, the
additional information above is ignored.  For those who are a little behind,
the information above is still available to be written down.

What I hope could be added to OpenOffice.org's Presentation module would be an
easier way to get the same effect plus include the ability to scroll graphics
along with the text.  Right now, adding graphics is a bit difficult.

I gave a presentation of this technique at the most recent Hoosier Association
of Science Teachers, Inc. (HASTI) conference.  There were about a dozen folks
in attendance.  My presentation materials are available at:

https://sites.google.com/site/mmssci8/hasti

Please do not hesitate if you have further/other questions.

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