For my workshops I use Grafoscopio (of course ;-P). Having a document like structure that can contain interactive playgrounds in a tree to give them context is pretty useful in such educational/explanatory contexts. Once I have time again (i.e. after finishing to write my PhD thesis) I hope to make some test on extending that via a mind map alike UI that can be used also for presentations. The idea of slides seems pretty anachronistic/boring for making presentations.
Cheers, Offray On 07/11/17 15:01, stephan wrote: > On 07-11-17 19:38, alanone1 via Pharo-users wrote: >> (So what is the big problem with doing something better than PPT in >> Pharo?) > > Lots of tiny things, resulting in presentations not looking very good. > I have done a lot of workshops with glamour based browsers, > integrating (visualization) exercises in the glamour browser just > mapping them to methods. It works well and is easy to do. And the font > metrics were not correct, not supporting ligatures and kerning. There > was a lack of support for adding media in an easy-to-distribute > format, no support for multiple monitors, no HiDPI display support, > bad support for rotating text and scaling without artifacts. And in > Pharo the continuous change resulting in each workshop needing fixing > each time I gave it, and the lack of widespread morphic knowledge and > slow and slightly uncoordinated removal of features that were seen as > unmaintainable and or not used. > > So I'm very happy that finally a lot of the things I've been waiting > for are now coming together and I can switch to the easier problem :) > > > And, in fact, it is also quite demoralizing to have to use this !@#$% > > non-WYSIWYG horrible web editor to make this comment .... > > I use thunderbird and news.gmane.org to avoid that. > > Stephan > > >
