PowerPoint viewer for Mac OS X?

Lorna
Hmmm ... I'll let you know.

Please, do let us know! Thank you.
-Lorna

Lorna,

Here are some PowerPoint presentations I made for my
students. Just as an example of PowerPoint.

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These are wonderful, Allyson. I went through your AFRICA lesson; it was fun and I imagine fun for the kids too. I like your thought questions, as, which of these places would a lion like to live? Very good.

A question: Does Keynote have hyperlinks within the pages? I was under the impression that it did/does, so that a student could click onto the camel and out pops some text or a question (or an answer). And then he could click onto a box called, "Extra Point Questions" and answer the ones that he can. Is this possible?
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http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/Continents/Teacher%20
Page_files/powerpoints.zip

They can also be exported as html versions, which can
be viewed in any web browser. There are some links
towards the end of this page:

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Allyson, what do you mean when you say, "They can also be exported as html versions which can be viewed in any web broswer."
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http://web.mac.com/varkgirl/iWeb/Continents/Teacher%20
Page.html

I made them on a PC on Powerpoint. I just tried
opening them in Keynote, and they worked fine. A few
animation effects and sounds came up as an error when
I first opened them, but for the most part, the
general look of things was the same, text transitions
held true, etc.

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Lessons like these, on computers, are so much better at keeping kids' attention. I had a few computers in my classroom but not enough for all, and all of my students loved using them. They all became more careful about punctuation, etc etc etc. Regrettably, we did not have Internet hookup so they were not able to do Internet research.

Thank you for sending me the PP lessons and also the second one, of the Teacher's Notes to other teachers.

-Lorna

Argh, I just typed a long response, so unlike myself
😉 and Firefox crashed. All I can say is, don't
upgrade to 2.0 yet people. Constant crashing here.

Lorna,

If you scroll down on that teacher page you will see
links to click on for html versions of the same
powerpoints. These can be viewed by anybody just like
a regular web site. 🙂

Keynote allows this export option as well, I think.
And it also allows pdf export.

I did scroll down the teacher page and I saw all the resources, including especially the ones of outline maps (which led to About.com, one of my favorite sites). Allyson, in this case, how are you using/defining the term "export?" What is it that is being exported? Why? What form is it in after it is exported? The only PP presentation I have ever seen was ONE time, in the 1990's, shown to me by a friend. At the time I did not realize what I was looking at, but he was ecstatic about what it could do. I think I'd better look yet again at the Page and Keypoint videos. I remember that there was a great emphasis on transitions, but now I can't recall whether there was any way that one could click around on hyperlinks.

I wonder when the '07 versions are coming out, or if there will be '07 versions at all.

Lorna in Southern California

In PowerPoint and/or KeyNote, you can save as a
slideshow presentation, export as a web page, or (I
think) save as a pdf.

Here is an example from that Teacher Page of an
exported web page version of a slideshow:

http://homepage.mac.com/varkgirl/pptcontinents/Africa.
htm

Oh.... so EXPORTING means, "Take the original Keypoint product and putting it on the Internet. I also read your Asia lesson and the North America lesson. I think you need to put more "What's special about North America" rather than just, "It's our country!" 🙂 Something like, "We have desert, beaches, mountains, huge lakes, large metropoli, and country farms. OK, just my POV. 🙂 I like the lessons and also the consistent art work throughout all the lessons.

Lorna in Southern California

Actually it says, "Cool facts about North America." But overall, I love your lessons and believe that the kids are lucky to be learning with them. It would be great if each kid could have his own laptop, but that is a pipe dream. -Lorna

Yes, in general, "Save" and "Save As..." means to
"save a new version of this document" and "save this
document but with a new file name" respectively. In
both cases, the file generated is still in the native
format.

Export is used in an Application when you want to
send something out of the "country of origin" 🙂.
Whether that "country" is Keynote, QuickTime, iMovie,
etc.

OK! So 'export' means 'send it out (in whatever form) (to whatever destination) away from the application in which it was made? Right? So then, export is a very common term referring to something that is done all the time.

Lorna in Southern California

I just read your lesson "Review of the Seven Continents." So, is it true that Keypoint does NOT allow/provide for hyperlinks?

Does Pages allow for hyperlinks?

I would open the galldang programs, but they are trial versions for 30 days and right now I am not free to work on learning Keypoint and Pages. It's that I am very interested and curious.

The LAST way that I would use Pages or Keypoint is to give a slideshow presentation. I am past those days. I would use those applications for other purposes.

Lorna in Southern California