It's not often in a classroom setting that you see errors like we did today... It was good to have a little lesson in things not working out the way they "should".
This morning Kirk asked James and I to come into his office. He talked about revamping and cutting a lot of the presentation so that it was shorter and more effective. James and I got started on the task and added slides, deleted some, etc.
I created a new document, copied all the slides we wanted into it and saved it to my desktop. We rearranged some things and I then saved it to a flash drive that I have been using in the office. I used that to transfer the presentation to Kirk's laptop. We opened it and it had errors ALL over the slides (in place of pictures, templates, EVERYWHERE). James and I talked about researching through Google what it could possibly be. I came upon a NYU website detailing how to insert pictures into Powerpoint. It also listed the "no-no's" :
- Certain file types that would not work
- Do not drag images from your computer directly into presentation
- Do not drag images directly into the presentation from the internet
- Do not copy and paste images into your presentation
Then in BIG BOLD letters it said:
Failure to use the Correct Method will result in images not showing up or incorrect formatting of images on any computer other than the computer on which the presentation was made.We decided that I would probably have to go through and figure out what pictures were the problem ones and replace them "the correct way" ( insert sad face here).
On a whim, I decided to try it on one of our back computers. When we opened the file I got pictures like:
On a whim I asked if it could be the flash drive. James doubted that it could be, but offered his back up flash drive to see if it may save us from having to do a LOT of back tracking.
Guess what??
It turned out to be the flash drive. WHEW!!!
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