{"id":579,"date":"2008-02-03T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/03\/practicing-for-the-big-talk\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T22:00:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:00:59","slug":"practicing-for-the-big-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/03\/practicing-for-the-big-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing for the big talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ipodtouch.jpg\" alt=\"ipodtouch.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am putting the final touches on my presentation for the eTech Ohio 2008 conference.\u00a0 I have more than 300 hundred slides and only 45 minutes to present.\u00a0 Timing is critical.\u00a0 To get ready I have been practicing using my iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<p>PowerPoint has a &#8220;Save As&#8221; option that permits slides to be saved as JPG files.\u00a0 Each slide is saved as a separate file called SLIDE#.JPG where # is the slide number.\u00a0 I imported the pictures into my iPod Touch.\u00a0 Using the normal scrolling action, I\u00a0can go through the slides on the iPod any time I\u00a0have a few\u00a0spare minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I did have one little hiccup in the process.\u00a0 SLIDE1.JPG was followed by SLIDE10.JPG which was followed by SLIDE100.JPG.\u00a0 I solved the problem using my favorite renaming tool &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snapfiles.com\/get\/flexrenamer.html\">Flexible Renamer<\/a>.\u00a0 I told it to add &#8220;00&#8221; to the first ten slides making SLIDE1.JPG into SLIDE001.JPG, etc.\u00a0 After that I added one zero to slides 10 through 99.\u00a0 All the file names after\u00a099 were OK as they were.\u00a0 Renaming this way took a few seconds and\u00a0arranged all the slides in the proper order on my iPod Touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I am putting the final touches on my presentation for the eTech Ohio 2008 conference.\u00a0 I have more than 300 hundred slides and only 45 minutes to present.\u00a0 Timing is critical.\u00a0 To get ready I have been practicing using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/02\/03\/practicing-for-the-big-talk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[336,340,2],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}