[IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

[Walter Bender]

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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