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