I’ve been to the Lake District over Easter – Borrowdale, the wettest valley in England and yet the weather was glorious. Even my teenage daughter loved it (first time the kids have ever seen mountains). We managed to climb Great Gable, which was the highlight of the week. I will post a photo or two on Flickr if I get the chance (can’t use it at work as it is still blocked by Haringey!).
I took the laptop away to the Lakes, and the kids played with it mostly. They did some fantastic things with Comic Life and Crazy Talk. And I played about with KeyNote (being more boring than the kids) and have managed to master it, I think. I am really impressed with the Apple I must say, becoming a convert.
Only trouble is compattibility issues. I have a presentation to make on Monday and was hoping to use my KeyNote file, but when I export to PowerPoint or Flash it loses all the animation that’s different. So I’m feeling at the moment that I wasted all that time. Ho hum.
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April 16th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
John sounds like you have been having fun. Why didn’t you use your mac to make the presentation … that would have blown peoples minds. Most presentation tools have problems swapping over in fact powerpoint on the mac behaves different from that on the PC if you include lots of multimedia items. I would like to look at the projects so that can suggest possible ways round your difficulties. Please visit my bog and add your comments/contributions to the Apple Mac blog shown in the Blogroll and please make sure that you bring copies of the work that your children have created as this is also very useful. See u next week.