[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 16, Issue 66

[Jim Simmons]

Caroline,

It may be that sharing in Image Viewer is broken.  However, I have
tested sharing in View Slides and that works.  What you might do is
this:

1).  Have the teacher download View Slides from ASLO, which will
install it in her Journal.
2).  If the pictures are already in her Journal she can use the
"Slides" tab of View Slides to add these images from the Journal into
a slide show.  The pictures on ASLO shows how this works.  She might
rename the pictures to get them into sequence, which she can also do
with View Slides.
3).  The teacher can then share the slide show with the neighborhood.
4).  The kids have to download View Slides from ASLO to the Journal.
5).  They can then go to the Neighborhood and accept the invitation to
Join her Activity.  The slide show will be sent to them and they can
navigate through it to see the pictures.  I've never tested a whole
classroom downloading a slide show but it works well enough one to
one.

If it was me I'd have the teacher prepare the slide show before the
class begins and also get familiar with how View Slides works.  It
isn't a complicated thing to learn IMHO but in my experience all kinds
of things go wrong when you demo to an audience.  I've found many a
bug demoing stuff to my own mother.

One nice thing about View Slides is that all the images are in one
Journal entry, which should simplify giving the pictures to everyone.

Good luck with this,

James Simmons


> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:46:43 -0400
> From: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
> Subject: [IAEP] Sharing Images in the neighborhood
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> Today we wanted to take pictures the teacher had taken with a camera and
> share them with the class.
>
> This turned out to be much harder then I expect.
>
> It turns out you can't just share something from your journal into the
> neighborhood.
>
> So we tried opening it in image viewer.
> Then share to neighborhood.
> Other person clicks on it.
> They get a popup from the journal asking what they want to open.
> Never shows what the first person opened.
> Is this an image viewer bug or was it designed to work this way?
>
> We ended up uploading to picasa and Anurag sent me an invite. Another bug,
> (this one reported) is that you can't follow links easily in google mail, by
> just clicking on them.  However I remembered the workaround and used follow
> link.  I then shared the bookmark.
>
> Then next bug (and this one is Google's not ours) the shared bookmark wanted
> people to log in, even though Anurag had made the album public.
>
> Very painful for what should have been a simple task!
>
> We need a way to get something from one journal to another without a lot of
> opening of other programs.  Even with this work around I now have to teach
> the kids, goto the neighborhood, open up the shared  browse, click the
> bookmark when it appears, download image, switch program, get image into
> TA.  Lots of steps. Infact what happened is 25% of the class opened browse
> from thier home rather then the shared browse then didn't know where to go.
>
> Way simpler if we could just share a journal item with the neighborhood.
> Any ideas for both short term work arounds and longer term fixes?
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>