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Post #277,767

by lincoln

3/8/07 4:28:30 PM

I'd like the kids' PC to be a mini-Mac

however the school distrcit teaches them with Word & PowerPoint, and they're not quite ready to learn how to manage homework files between the operating systems and apps. And I'm generally too busy at night to help them out.

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Post #277,770

by pwhysall

3/8/07 4:52:17 PM

Word/PowerPoint run on OSX

And without any faffing about WRT file compatibility, either.

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Post #277,771

by Steve Lowe

3/8/07 5:12:03 PM

my son uses a USB flashdrive

Does his homework in Word and PowerPoint on his mac then brings the USB flashdrive to school and uses the windows machines there. He hasn't had any problems.

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Post #277,849

by lincoln

3/9/07 1:35:23 PM

I'll ask if the USB ports at school are active

if so, I'll buy them their own flashdrives for Sneakernet

Post #277,772

by drewk

3/8/07 5:18:19 PM

OK, I'll be the one ...

... to ask what the FUCK are they doing teaching them with PowerPoint? <rant> [link|http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB&topic_id=1|$rant] </rant>

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Post #277,782

by static

3/8/07 7:43:40 PM

It's actually a good idea.

Because although it teaches them how to do all those gooshy effects and shit, it also usually teaches restraint in using them. That's the key, of course.

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Post #277,783

by Andrew Grygus

3/8/07 7:54:24 PM

Exercise in futility?

Teaching kids to use restraint with "gooshy effects and shit"? I reeeeeally don't think that's going to work.

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Post #277,788

by static

3/8/07 8:10:29 PM

No, it does.

I was surprised when I saw it, too.

There's a kid at church, son of the worship minister, who runs the computer sometimes for the songwords. He'd learnt a bit about PowerPoint at school and I was impressed at his attitude. They teach a lot about how to use the program, obviously, but they also teach mundane things that make a presentation look professional. And he understood on his own why you don't go overboard.

I think experience helps a lot and if you give them experience, they learn past most of the newbie mistakes. And really, most of the mistakes people make in PowerPoint with 'too much' are newbie mistakes.

Wade.

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Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
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Somebody save my life
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Switchers roll-call - (pwhysall) - (33) - March 7, 2007, 08:36:25 AM EST

I have not changed - (bepatient) - (1) - March 7, 2007, 09:30:11 AM EST

I will add, though, that Vista will never be in my portfolio - (bepatient) - March 7, 2007, 12:18:47 PM EST

actually backslid - (boxley) - March 7, 2007, 09:32:29 AM EST

Not really - (JayMehaffey) - March 7, 2007, 12:04:59 PM EST

No change - still running OS/2 - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 7, 2007, 12:18:16 PM EST

Still running OS/2 as well........ since 1994, in fact. -NT - (n3jja) - March 8, 2007, 11:51:27 PM EST

You might not need it just for support - (drewk) - (2) - March 7, 2007, 01:00:22 PM EST

Looks nifty... - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 7, 2007, 01:03:50 PM EST

Mostly, yes - (drewk) - March 7, 2007, 01:52:33 PM EST

Still a combo of warp and windows - (jake123) - (1) - March 7, 2007, 01:36:42 PM EST

(Dis)agree - (drewk) - March 7, 2007, 01:58:13 PM EST

Unfortunately, Mac/Windows lacks engineering design tools - (tonytib) - March 7, 2007, 01:47:33 PM EST

No change. - (Silverlock) - March 7, 2007, 02:33:51 PM EST

Slight change - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - March 7, 2007, 02:47:59 PM EST

Ditto - (admin) - March 7, 2007, 02:50:49 PM EST

Possibly a change coming soon - (drewk) - March 7, 2007, 03:40:38 PM EST

A bit - (crazy) - March 7, 2007, 04:57:07 PM EST

I don't think I had a work laptop 12 months ago. - (static) - March 7, 2007, 06:30:59 PM EST

Re: Switchers roll-call - (tjsinclair) - March 7, 2007, 09:40:06 PM EST

I'd like the kids' PC to be a mini-Mac - (lincoln) - (7) - March 8, 2007, 04:28:30 PM EST

Word/PowerPoint run on OSX - (pwhysall) - March 8, 2007, 04:52:17 PM EST

my son uses a USB flashdrive - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - March 8, 2007, 05:12:03 PM EST

I'll ask if the USB ports at school are active - (lincoln) - March 9, 2007, 01:35:23 PM EST

OK, I'll be the one ... - (drewk) - (3) - March 8, 2007, 05:18:19 PM EST

It's actually a good idea. - (static) - (2) - March 8, 2007, 07:43:40 PM EST

Exercise in futility? - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 8, 2007, 07:54:24 PM EST

No, it does. - (static) - March 8, 2007, 08:10:29 PM EST

Re: Switchers roll-call - (jb4) - March 10, 2007, 11:47:06 AM EST

Still XP, Win2K and OpenBSD - (lister) - (4) - March 15, 2007, 10:46:22 AM EDT

Had the bullet in warp for about a year - (jake123) - (3) - March 15, 2007, 12:10:45 PM EDT

Which Flash? 7a? -NT - (n3jja) - (2) - March 15, 2007, 06:08:40 PM EDT

Exactly - (jake123) - (1) - March 15, 2007, 10:53:11 PM EDT

No, but I can still watch YouTube..... for now. - (n3jja) - March 16, 2007, 04:22:12 PM EDT

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