Edmedia presentations

marielle · Post by **marielle** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:39 am

Two papers have been accepted for EdMedia, an important Education conference in Vancouver.

Runtime Revolution: An easy to learn programming software for educators
Judy Perry and Marielle Lange

Adventure Game Creator
Marielle Lange and Judy Perry

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:25 am

Marielle and Judy, that's so cool! Congratulations!

Mark

marielle · Post by **marielle** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:37 am

Thanks. I am sure Judy will chime in. That will be her first big talk. For my part, that will be my first "product presentation" type of talk.

If you have tips on how to make a great presentation, we would love to hear them

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xApple · Post by **xApple** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:31 pm

Use Keynote and it's stylish transition effects

Essential also is the remote control and laser pointer combined in one.
I mean; that's what Steve Jobs uses for his, so...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:59 pm

I agree with the remote control and laser pointer, but wouldn't it make sense to use Rev instead of Keynote? :-)

Mark

marielle · Post by **marielle** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:01 pm

xApple wrote:Use Keynote and it's stylish transition effects
Essential also is the remote control and laser pointer combined in one.
I mean; that's what Steve Jobs uses for his, so...

Good point!

I have one of these keyspan thingy. I found it to be an excellent investment (during my academic years).

An issue is to practice it... takes a bit of time to get used to point with this with the remote rather than keyspan + you can page up/page down using a button on the right. Then you need to practice again... under stress conditions, because if you mess up with these buttons, this creates havoc

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As I haven't used it for a while, I will need to make sure I have a spare battery

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marielle · Post by **marielle** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:02 pm

Mark wrote:I agree with the remote control and laser pointer, but wouldn't it make sense to use Rev instead of Keynote?

True, on a mac, I can use it to move the cursor around and click on any button on the screen.

Any idea how you can capture the pageUp/pageDown signal from the remote to switch to the next card?

marielle · Post by **marielle** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:16 pm

checking out the message watcher. It looks like an arrow key message is sent.

Code: Select all

on arrowkey pKey
  if pKey is "up" then 
    go next card
  else if pKey is "down" then
    go prev card
  end if
end arrowkey

And the job is done

. This works wonders.