Squeak as Presentation vehicle.

Brad Fuller brad at bradfuller.com
Tue Apr 17 17:24:30 UTC 2007


I have a friend who I'd like to show how Squeak can be an effective 
presentation tool. He's not a programmer, he's a teacher. The whole 
Squeak desktop to him is a bit scary, so I'd like to give him some 
pointers on how Squeak can do things  that presentation software can not 
(is powerpoint the only one left standing, now?)

There are all the tools in the Objects flap, the Paint flap, connectors, 
book morphs which can all be placed into Squeak Projects. That's great. 
Is the Thread Navigator the best way to navigate projects? (I saw an 
older presentation of Alan's and he had a screen full of projects that 
he could pick from. I didn't see that in the latest image)

I see several people use book morphs but they can be cumbersome too. I 
think the biggest complaint is the paradigm of when you select an morph 
you actually pick it up and that's counter to what other software does - 
plus the halos. Guess that's just something to be learned. Another 
complaint is you can't just drop a .mov, .wmv or .mp4 in a project. You 
can drop mpeg, (but sometimes I have audio distortion which doesn't show 
up at all outside in various players.) Maybe Sophie work can migrate to 
the main image for .mov/.avi? That'd be nice.

I guess an image could be constructed with a limited world menu 
restricted to "presentation" uses.

Any other pointers that you can think of? I'd sure like for him start 
using squeak.

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brad fuller
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