Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, 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

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 02 Jul 2009 6:21:33 pm Walter Bender wrote: > 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. There is a simpler way to 'build a story' using conventional techniqu

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread Jim Simmons
Fully agreed, so what's wrong with giving Etoys a try? - Bert - Nothing. I wrote my own email before reading yours and it sounds like Etoys would be great for the purpose too. I wish I had time to not only finish my own Activities but also to try out all the other ones. Etoys and Turtle Art ar

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.07.2009, at 17:41, Jim Simmons wrote: > David, > > I just checked out Google Docs for the first time and I'm impressed. > It looks and feels very much like PowerPoint, and you can even > download your finished presentation in PDF format for the Read > activity. I think for teachers that dep

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread Jim Simmons
David, I just checked out Google Docs for the first time and I'm impressed. It looks and feels very much like PowerPoint, and you can even download your finished presentation in PDF format for the Read activity. I think for teachers that depend on PowerPoint it's a reasonable answer. I haven't t

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread 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 wrote: > Since this does not seem to be obvious: It's really simple to c

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
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. F

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 2, 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 on

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread David Van Assche
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 m

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-06-22 Thread 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 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

[IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-06-22 Thread James Simmons
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