my projects
My portfolio houses:
My interests really can be summed up into one word: mashup. Long before mashup became a word to signify taking bits and pieces to make a new thing (esp. as relates to Web2.0 technologies), I have been making "mashups." I created a book in second grade, using shelfpaper over cardboard as the covers, construction paper for the pages, and plastic fiber as the binding. Of course, I wrote the story and illustrated it, too.
In addition to all of my opensource projects and experiments, I continue to work with
with a variety of multimedia in digital projects as well as "traditional" multimedia in a 2D form utilizing such media as sand, found objects, and stucco. Some wonder how art and technology fit together. Problemsolving is an important part of technology, especially programming. Problemsolving is creative -- thinking outside "the box" = thinking creatively. I wear lots o' hats: Chair of DYG (Dynamic Content Group) for the UGA Libraries, member of the PacerCMS development team (an opensource newspaper/journal software), member of the Faculty Learning Committee on Emerging Technologies, Blog admin, metadata moonlighter, database worker, gadget junkie, and of course, blogger, photographer, and freelance web tinker.
Near future projects include training departmental staff in using the new ETD database (and rewriting our existing documentation to reflect new changes in policies and procedures), beginning work on a research area in Second Life, continuing to work with Drupal and the Drupal Users Group, creating training documentation for PacerCMS, and presenting on blogging at the August UGA Web Developers Lunch n' Learn Series -- in addition to all of the usual things.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop me a line or a chat request
...and yes, I will confess, this is a Drupal driven site. Drupal is probably the ultimate mashup -- it's built from bits n pieces of everything, which suits me just fine.
Embedding a live webpage so that it is a seamless part of the Powerpoint is amazingly easy but
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Must have an internet connection for the slide and website to work properly
May receivesecurity warnings by users (users must also have LiveWeb installed)
Machine must have the free Powerpoint Add-in, LiveWeb installed (no administrative authority needed)
Installing LiveWeb
Close Powerpoint.
INSERTING A WORD DOCUMENT, PDF, SPREADSHEET, ETC.
Main Menu Insert>Object
Note> When inserting a document, Powerpoint will insert it into one slide; any overflow will not display.
ANIMATED IMAGE ACROSS THE WHOLE SLIDESHOW
As a background:
View>Master>Slide Master
From the Master Slide, right click on slide background.
Small animation on a slide:
Embedding fonts will save the fonts along with the presentation.
Note>Only truetype fonts have this option.
Under Tools>Options
Action Settings provide a means of providing some interactivity through telling Powerpoint to do a specific task, such as open a website. An Action Button is a preconfigured graphic which is packaged with a choice of Action Settings. Action Buttons include clickable forward/backward navigation, a help button, and even a customizable button. Action Settings can be added to most any graphic or sound by using the Right Click properties menu.
TRANSITIONS AND NAVIGATION
Let's add a nifty transition from slide to slide.
EMBEDDING MEDIA
(YouTube and other web based media)
One of the advantages of embedding YouTube (or other flash files hosted on the web) into Powerpoint is that as long as there is an internet connection, everything should run correctly.
