[IAEP] Google Docs and Power Point

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons<nicestep at 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 great....just what I'm looking for.

PS: cc'ing the list again.

Sameer

> James Simmons
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> On 7/3/09, Jim Simmons <nicestep at 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-request at lists.sugarlabs.org> wrote:
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>>>  >
>>>  > 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
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