Sunday, September 23rd, 2007...6:54 pm

Zoho.com and organizing Bridges ideas

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I’ve realized that I need to organize my thoughts about this whole thing and in doing my favourite procrastination technique did some research…and found zoho.com, an online office application.

So far I have only played with the presentation (Zoho Show) and, though there are some glitchy parts (like no undo or spellcheck!) it is quite easy to use. It offers an embed URL for blogs and websites though I can not seem to embed it here. That is an issue I have had repeatedly with Wordpress, and not only with this application.

I’d love to hear if anyone else has played with this application.

In any case, here is the presentation I created today with Zoho Show!

Building Bridges for Special Education: Mashing up Appreciative Inquiry, Emergent Design, Jazz Improvisation, Brain-Based Learning, Web 2.0, and Action Research

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  •   ahmed
    September 25th, 2007 at 2:18 am

    Hi Tracy,

    This is ahmed from Zoho.

    Thanks for trying out Zoho Show and blogging about it. The presentation that you have created with Zoho Show is not accessible for public view as you have used the slide show link instead of the public link. Please use the public link so that others can view your presentation. Go to “Actions >> Make Public” and get the public url.

    As for the issues with undo & spellcheck, we are working on this and it will be available in Show 2.0.

    Best Regards,
    Ahmed

  •   Tracy Rosen
    September 25th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    Hi Ahmed and thanks for the comment!

    Actually, the show was made public as soon as I finished it. I used the URL gadget to get an embed link that does not show anything when I try to put it in this blog.

    Another question. Is the application compatible with Linux? When I first created the show I was on a windows computer. I did not import the show, I created it online. When I got to my home computer, which runs Ubuntu, everything was just a bit off (like text was missing off the bottom of the slide and the arrow boxes were hiding text) and I could no longer control the arrows I had inserted at all! So I can not even move them or remove them to show the text they hide!

    I hope this will also be fixed with Show 2.0 because, like I wrote in my original post, I like zoho and hope to continue using it but will only be able to do so if it becomes more compatible with my home computer.
    Tracy

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