Re: [IAEP] Google Docs and Power Point
On 7/3/09, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Sameer, The issue of what to do with existing Power Point slides can probably be handled by using Google Docs, which can import existing Power Point presentations from your hard drive. Once imported you could download them as PDF's for the Read Activity. I haven't tried importing a presentation from Power Point yet (people keep sending them to me but I don't keep them) but from what I've seen of Google Docs so far I'd be surprised if it wasn't a workable solution. Google Docs can also import presentations from Open Office. Googledocs is fine, but I am looking at environments where we don't have net access. Additionally, Read can display PDFs but I was looking for fullscreen presentation mode of evince. Sameer For teachers authoring presentations Google Docs should be fine. Students can and should use Turtle Art, Etoys, View Slides, etc. as they see fit. James Simmons On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Send IAEP mailing list submissions to 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 ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] Google Docs and Power Point
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote: Sameer, The Read Activity can display PDFs fullscreen. You need to open the PDF the usual way and then press Alt-Enter. Currently Read displays documents as continuous pages, but I believe that evince can display one page at a time and perhaps the Read Activity could be made to do that at some point too. It would make looking at PowerPoint presentations in full screen more like using the Power Point viewer and might use less memory too. +1 The one page at a time display would be greatjust what I'm looking for. PS: cc'ing the list again. Sameer James Simmons On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On 7/3/09, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Sameer, The issue of what to do with existing Power Point slides can probably be handled by using Google Docs, which can import existing Power Point presentations from your hard drive. Once imported you could download them as PDF's for the Read Activity. I haven't tried importing a presentation from Power Point yet (people keep sending them to me but I don't keep them) but from what I've seen of Google Docs so far I'd be surprised if it wasn't a workable solution. Google Docs can also import presentations from Open Office. Googledocs is fine, but I am looking at environments where we don't have net access. Additionally, Read can display PDFs but I was looking for fullscreen presentation mode of evince. Sameer For teachers authoring presentations Google Docs should be fine. Students can and should use Turtle Art, Etoys, View Slides, etc. as they see fit. James Simmons On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Send IAEP mailing list submissions to 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) i...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iae ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Google Docs and Power Point
Sameer, The issue of what to do with existing Power Point slides can probably be handled by using Google Docs, which can import existing Power Point presentations from your hard drive. Once imported you could download them as PDF's for the Read Activity. I haven't tried importing a presentation from Power Point yet (people keep sending them to me but I don't keep them) but from what I've seen of Google Docs so far I'd be surprised if it wasn't a workable solution. Google Docs can also import presentations from Open Office. For teachers authoring presentations Google Docs should be fine. Students can and should use Turtle Art, Etoys, View Slides, etc. as they see fit. James Simmons On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Send IAEP mailing list submissions to 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
