The News Review:
- ‘pen up’ that document
- Drag and drop – MacMan – Special Report – Technology – theage.com.au
- School News – Aug. 30 2007
‘pen up’ that document
Hindu – Aug 30, 2007
Adobe cannily made the Acrobat Reader a free giveaway while selling the software that allows you to create a PDF document. But one has to pay the price of popularity: A casual Net search will throw up dozens of free downloadable tools that promise to help you save documents as PDFs. Sheer ubiquity The various formats of Microsoft’s ffice suite —. doc for Word documents. ppt for PowerPoint etc — are for all practical purposes de facto standards — by virtue of their sheer ubiquity. You have to create a presentation and mail it to customers in half a dozen countries? You create it in PowerPoint. Any thing else is to live dangerously to risk that a crucial recipient might not have the right ‘filter’ to run your presentation on his or her native ffice suite.
Drag and drop – MacMan – Special Report – Technology – theage.com.au
The Age – Aug 30, 2007
THERE are those of us who think that Windows sucks that PCs arecharacterised by the blue screen of death and that if Qantas hadthe same level of reliability as DS applications we would all bedead and cockroaches would be flying what was left of the world’sairline fleet. If all that were true the planet would long since have come to ajolting halt but if there is a Microsoft program that should becastigated for causing a global pandemic of boredom it isPowerPoint. How often have you sat your brain numb and sagging aching forthe coffee break while someone in a good suit and clean shoesshows an endless series of tiresome text-filled PowerPoint slidesand pie charts exactly like those you sat through in thepresentation the day before?Worse after your escape did you remember anything from theslides?PowerPoint has become a disease in business academia sport andalmost anywhere else that involves trying to get a message acrossto an assembly of humans. I once cringed as a senior Australian bureaucrat talking to agroup of distinguished educators in London showed about 30PowerPoint slides all of them solid text and read every word ofthem – and said nothing else!The audience drifted off to the wine bar where the quality ofthe Barossa product far exceeded that of the presentation. To be fair Microsoft deserves only part of the blame. Corporatepresenters should cop the rest. But it is PowerPoint’s “helpful”formulaic templates and chart-builders that help them bore us tosobs… How often have you sat your brain numb and sagging aching forthe coffee break while someone in a good suit and clean shoesshows an endless series of tiresome text-filled PowerPoint slidesand pie charts exactly like those you sat through in thepresentation the day before?Worse after your escape did you remember anything from theslides?PowerPoint has become a disease in business academia sport andalmost anywhere else that involves trying to get a message acrossto an assembly of humans. I once cringed as a senior Australian bureaucrat talking to agroup of distinguished educators in London showed about 30PowerPoint slides all of them solid text and read every word ofthem – and said nothing else!The audience drifted off to the wine bar where the quality ofthe Barossa product far exceeded that of the presentation. To be fair Microsoft deserves only part of the blame. Corporatepresenters should cop the rest. But it is PowerPoint’s “helpful”formulaic templates and chart-builders that help them bore us tosobs. But if you have a Macintosh and iWork you have Keynote whichopens a wide world of opportunity for making a presentationinteresting lively informative and arresting. Keynote has just been updated and improved in Apple’s newproductivity suite iWork ’08.
School News – Aug. 30 2007
Cape Cod Chronicle – Aug 30, 2007
Also new this year is Christine Hughes-Price a veteran foreign language teacher from Winthrop Maine who will be splitting her time between the high school and the elementary school. The high school has also changed the way it teaches basic computer skills to students Turner said. Freshmen and sophomores will each take a half year of computer instruction in the Microsoft ffice suite so by the time they are in 11th grade they will be able to use computers to create tables graphs and PowerPoint presentations. At the Harwich Middle School there have been a number of staff changes Principal Mary Childress said. Christine Donovan has returned to teach sixth grade mathematics and Pam Reuss has moved to eighth grade English. Former special needs teacher Sean Fleming will now teach geography and Nena Manack is a new special needs educator. Former Truro Elementary School teacher Mike Bovino is the new physical education teacher taking the place of retired teacher and coach Fred Thacher.