Gary was having a hard time seeing the new slideshow and suggested somehow making it smaller. I figured out a way to change a pixel setting, which does make the slideshow smaller, and still works, apparently. Also, for fun, there is a “fullscreen” button.
Also just getting started looking into Slideshare…will explore that this coming week.
FYI-I don’t see a slide show. The page now asks for a password. I tried the password I have and it did not work.
I can access the home page now with the password. My comments follow what Gary was saying about the slide show. I was also distracted with the bar under the main slide show. IMO, I tend to try for simple so everyone can figure it out…on multiple devices.
O.k. back to marathon Blog Transfer….
Not able to access iPad home page with password.
I have the same issue – no slide show – page is password protected.
BTW, my suggestion was to reduce the size of the PSA banner and gray space (the top 40-50% of the viewable page), not the size of the slide show.
Using the password John provided, I was able to access the Home page and view the slide show. Nice show and the layout is better for me.
One question I have is about :triggering” the show. Now it is a 2 step process. First you click on the arrow in the middle, but that does not start the slides, it merely enables the arrow on the slide which moves them.
Also, I personally find the “menu” bar (slide icons) that you hover over to be more distracting than adding value. Just my view.
Slide show “should” trigger with a one step process of hitting the arrow in the middle…. the “showing” slide is also the first slide, so perhaps it takes 5 sec for the next slide to arrive? The slide show should then “run” on it’s own. Believe it or not, the “auto start” on page load requires the “pro” version of the plugin…which I may buy for that and a few other features… or not.
Not a total fan of the slide icons either, but that hovering is supposed to be “on/off”…when you move cursor away the icons go away… plus that hover accesses the full screen and stop buttons for the slide show.
May turn out to be moot as I’m also going to explore embed a SlideShare viewer this week. Glad you like the show. Did you learn anything from it?? Hahaha.
We both tend to see how things can be improved with this or that change. Innovation? So appreciate comments. Sometimes things are there because I want them to be there, or that way for various reasons,…and sometimes it’s that way because of tech limitations.
If one is “lucky” those tech limitations can be worked around. If not, well…then it’s “how bad is it? can we live with it?”.
How much in our world is the way it is because of tech limitations lacking a good work around that we have to “live with”? Apple and the whole Flash thing, or global warming and CO2 from burning energy fuels.
Long list of things fits here. Including education and learning. How much of what we don’t like in the “traditional” classroom model is work around-able through ed tech and other reforms?
Please always remember that my comments are just informational, reflecting my personal reactions. There is nothing I see that should hold you back – I would opt for earlier release and less “perfection”; continuous improvement is a fact of 21st century life, just like continual learning.
I “get” your comments are informational personal reactions… but I got rambling on “follow up” thoughts.
Do we need a start over from scratch, or just a work around… Do we try to keep building an OS with backwards compatibility, or do we orphan earlier users? When choosing a platform for online learning, do we focus on what’s best today, or what might be best tomorrow? Change has a time frame to take into account.
Innovation a big topic: we try to make the world be one way we envision is better, and then also find that doing a work-around with “what is” sometimes is a better approach. Kind of a pregnant paradox.
Flexible and adaptable two PSA watchwords. Partly because we don’t have the “firepower” to flatten obstacles, we need to innovate around over and through them. As has been said, “Necessity the Mother of Invention”…
I liked what Diane Tavenner had to say about her charter schools continual improvement/ innovation…. continual learning about continual learning. And Toffler warned that we would have problems trying to live like that. As you say, a fact of 21st century life.