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breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 701
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:07 pm: | 
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This is embarrassing. My child has to do a school project that involves Power Point. She's supposed to bring a Power Point presentation to school on a floppy disk and make a presentation to her class.
She's cool with Power Point, but neither of us has ever used a floppy disk with our four year old Dell computer.
There is no apparent slot for a floppy on this thing--just for a compact disk.
I'm wondering if I can e-mail her Power Point work to a friend (TBA) whose computer WILL accommodate a floppy disk, and then make a disk that way. Or could MailBoxes Express do this?
Or the school library? It's MMS.
Thank you in advance for your very, very simple advice.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12054
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:23 pm: |
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Yes, but few people have floppies these days. I could help you. But ask the teacher if a CD (or how about a URL!?) is acceptable.
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breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 703
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:26 pm: |
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You mean you can just stick a blank CD into that slot and store a power point presentation on it? Don't you have to "burn" CDs or something?
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12056
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:31 pm: |
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Burning a CD is easy enough. Drag and drop the file(s) over. Then in the window that displays the CD's proposed content, there's a link you can click that says something like "write these files to CD".
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sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 2283
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:36 pm: |
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How about one of those flash drives that plugs into a USB port? Its kind of like a portable disk drive, it would be perfect for a small project. |
breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 704
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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I have no idea what you are talking about. But thank you for trying, and now I have a plan.
I am printing this thread for my daughter. I will buy a blank CD at lunch. Then I will give her this print-out and the blank CD and I will close the door.
I know this will be a very empowering experience for her.
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somsd_network manage
Citizen
Username: Somsd_netman
Post Number: 18
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 2:33 pm: |
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You can bring a burned CD in or a usb drive and most computers here should use them, please ask the librarian for help, they can call me is stuck. |
breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 705
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 2:46 pm: |
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Wow. With MOL, it's zero degrees of separation, I guess. I love this stuff.
Thanks somsd, Tom, and sportsnut. |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 133
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 5:28 pm: |
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just have your daughter email the presentation to her teacher. If teach asked for floppies she's probably got a floppy drive (and knows how to use it) |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12067
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 5:42 pm: |
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Floppies are almost entirely obsolete, which means it's a burden for the teacher to ask for a floppy.
It's a bit of extra trouble for your daughter, but I think the coolest option, if the teacher accepted it, is to publish her work on the web and give the teacher a URL to it. One advantage -- which may be unfair -- is that she then has time to update her work between the time she gives the URL and the time the teacher reads and grades the work. Sneaky, huh?
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argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 737
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:44 pm: |
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Hmmm well a few thoughts here...
A teacher asking for work to be submitted on a floppy disk probably doesn't have a high-speed internet connection on this machine.
This machine may not even have a CD drive. It's possible. Worth checking before burning that CD. Oh also, since you never burned a CD on your computer -- there's a chance it's just a CD reader, not a burner.
Anyway, one thing that puzzles me here is that PowerPoint is not free software. It's not even inexpensive software. And it's not guaranteed to be available even on, say, a public library computer. So how can the teacher assume that everyone magically has a copy of PowerPoint accessible to them?
Finally, our future would probably be a lot brighter if the teacher dropped the PowerPoint and started teaching a little Edward Tufte. But that's more of a philosophical issue than practically related to the problem at hand.
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12076
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 9:48 pm: |
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I agree it's very presumptuous to assume everyone has Powerpoint.
But CD drives became common in computers in about 1995. It's fair to assume the teacher's computer has a CD drive, though maybe it's not working.
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breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 706
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 10:23 am: |
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Friends, yesterday evening daughter came home and announced it would be ok to turn in sheets of paper to be used with an overhead--Power Point and CDs/floppy disks not required. The teacher is NOT assuming everyone has those things, so I feel bad to have left people with that impression. It could be that daughter got the Power Point idea from a classmate, so your advice is still much appreciated. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12092
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 10:27 am: |
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My 8th grader's French teacher is requiring powerpoint. This is at MMS.
It's not a bad skill, as long as it's not overused, and as long as it's accessible reasonably at school.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12191
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 5:32 pm: |
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Is it Madame Caviness? I just learned my daughter has to hand her a floppy, too. Let's see if a CD will do...
"This is the only thing my signature says."
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