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Resources for beginner classses.
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Convert powerpoints to html or markdown #5

Closed bskinny129 closed 10 years ago

bskinny129 commented 10 years ago

@joedean @jimwhitfield - can you guys convert your powerpoints so they can be viewed on the website?

bskinny129 commented 10 years ago

There should be an option to save as a new file type in Microsoft Powerpoint? I don't know, I don't have it ...

linuxgeek commented 10 years ago

LibreOffice does a good job of viewing/converting powerpoint. Can convert to pdf from there. http://libreoffice.org/

Or install a pdf printer. There are some that are freely available.

Or install a postscript printer. I like to install the HP Laserjet Color 8550-PS driver on windows (no download required, part of OS). Then convert from postscript to pdf with ghostscript/ghostview. http://www.ghostscript.com/download/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

linuxgeek commented 10 years ago

FYI, you will lose the animations if going to pdf, but still very valuable so more people can see the content readily & on mobile.

jimwhitfield commented 10 years ago

It's great to get the presentations up on the web site! At the time I presented it, I published my presentation on my google drive as a Google Slides doc and as the original ppt file. While there's a tiny loss of fidelity as a Slides presentation, it's viewable on most manner of web devices, mobile and desktop, and Slides lets you print and/or download as PDF (as well as link, or maybe even embed) Check it out! I shortened the URL to http://goo.gl/JyOZde

bskinny129 commented 10 years ago

How does this system sound? The readme contains links to the slides/projects from each session. An example:

11/20 - 1st Timers Scratch - http://goo.gl/fEu0jD

That way we have an organized record of all these different projects/presentations. @nuclearsandwich , as the GitHub process expert, what do you think?

jimwhitfield commented 10 years ago

This sounds good. There are a few minor things I feel should mention:

The repo name is 'beginner-scratch' but we're headed towards putting first-timer and perhaps intermediate material in there too. If we continue down that path, the repo description should probably reflect that it's more 'generally, for beginners' rather than 'the beginner track of our Scratch sessions' @bskinny12889, I think only you have the power to change the description.

And just to eliminate potential future confusion, the URL above was for my 10/16 Beginner session. The 11/20 session for first-timers is at http://goo.gl/fEu0jD

bskinny129 commented 10 years ago

Thanks, I'll close the issue

linuxgeek commented 10 years ago

I wasn't sure where to put a comment on the presentation, but on page 9 where it says (-200,-200) is "upper left corner". I think it's supposed to be "lower left corner".

bskinny129 commented 10 years ago

Thanks for calling that out. We are definitely still working out the processes. I think a good way to handle this would be to open a new issue and @ mention the person best fit to handle. In this case @jimwhitfield