[IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

[Walter Bender]

I still wish there was a
launch-this-project-and-we'll-have-taken-care-of-steps-1–5-below-for-you
Etoys bundle kicking around that we could just ship with the Journal.

-walter

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Since this does not seem to be obvious: It's really simple to create
> nice presentations in Etoys, there is not even scripting involved:
>
> 0. Start a fresh Etoys copy (in Strawberry, right-click the Etoys icon
> and choose "start" rather than resuming the latest project)
> 1. click "new project"
> 2. From the "supplies" box in the toolbar, drag out a "book".
> 3. Use the top-left button to toggle more book controls
> 4. Use the "+" button to add pages
> 5. Place text on a page by dragging out a Text from the "supplies"
> box, resize after right-clicking by dragging the yellow handle
> 6. Import images either via the clipboard or directly from the Journal
> (using the Journal icon in the top right)
> 7. Add annotations using the paint tool
> 8. Add visual and sound effects for turning pages in the book's menu.
> 9. Play with the options in the book's menu (like "view pages full
> screen") etc.
>
> ... and of course you can place scripted objects / animations on the
> pages too if you like.
>
> Also, the Etoys QuickGuides (accessible from the left-most button in
> the toolbar) have an entire section on Books.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 02.07.2009, at 09:43, David Van Assche 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
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Walter Bender<walter.bender at 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.simmons at 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
>>>>
>
>
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