Drag and Drop

[Peter Lambert]

Drag and Drop - lots of these

If you have Windows Explorer or My Computer open and a flipchart open - both windowed, so that you can see both. Any image file (bmp, tif, jpeg, png etc) may be dragged from Windows Explorer into the flipchart

Both images and text may be dragged into flipcharts from Internet Explorer - the images can't be links (this won't work)

Text may be dragged and dropped from Word

Any others out there that float your boat?

[LouB]

I have just been trying to add a jpeg to my flipchart and it wasn't going to plan!
You have just saved me hours of work! Thanks! [clap] [clap]

[sdreyer]

THANKS! I didn't realize this could be done from IE. Our ACTIVprimary 2 teachers routinely open an Activstudio flipcart page and the library to create collections of clipart and sounds from Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools>Microsoft Clip Organizer. When both are open, we can search for resources in Microsoft Clip Organizer and also just click and drag into the ACTIVstudio library. Then we navigate to that folder and copy it to our ACTIVprimary>My Collection folder.

[Rosie MacAlpine]

My favourite is when using Page Selector. If you select something from the current page and drag into onto another page shown in the Page Selector strip, it puts it in exactly the same place as on the original page! So useful for menu hyperlinks, headings etc.

[BenPosner]

This is such a great feature! I can't believe how easy it is now to add things to my flipchart! [clap]

~Ben

[seabass]

Drag and Drop works in almost any program, I think it's a feature of the operating system right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

The drag and drop that peter describes can be used in word and powerpoint too for example. It's so much less time consuming than going through the menu structure. I do it all the time [clap]

[markrobinson]

It also works with programs such as Inspiration.... Drag a complete concept map...

It also works in reverse - a teacher at the Promethean conference this week showed how she used the Activstudio software to create complex layouts and drawings and then drag them to Word to make supporting worksheets for students.

The Promethean Web Broswer is unique in this type of software - since it will always float over the fliphchart so youi can drag and drop continually and it has the ability to thumbnail and link any page you are looking at.

[sdreyer]

Animated gifs can also be added to an AS3 or AP3 flipchart page by using the "drag and drop" method. I've included the directions in the sample flipchart page below.

[markrobinson]

Using options in the resource library... you can browse folders on your computer and anything that can be dragged and dropped will appears in the resources panel. This avoids having to arrange windows...

On MAC you will find shortcuts straight to the Movies, Music and Pictures folders - so that everything you do with iLife is available for immediate use within lessons.

[normal]

How do you have IE open or word and AP at the same tim ewindowed. I've always had to close AP and go to the desktop to get to any other application. Thanks It would be much easier to just drag and drop instead of navagating everywhere.

Norma

[BenPosner]

Norma,

Which version of the software are you using? One of the things that is so great about V3 is that it has two different "Styles" to view a flipchart. To make dragging and dropping easier, I went to "Customize --> Flipchart Style" and changed the style to "Standard Windows." This is what allows me to have the Windows Taskbar open while I am using AS...

Hope this helps!
~Ben [clap]

[caryn]

Hi Ben I have been running AP3 since it came out and was VERY excited by this info - but I can't seem to find the "customize" button! Is it on the menu (...)?

[Nigel Pearce]

Sorry Caryn, Ben is talking about a Studio feature, not Primary.

[caryn]

:mad::mad::mad:
VERY SAD!!!
I'll add that to my main wish for more than one flip to be open at a time in AP!

[Dug]

:mad::mad::mad:
VERY SAD!!!
I'll add that to my main wish for more than one flip to be open at a time in AP!

Don't get me started!:(

[markrobinson]

All these requests re, windowing and multiple flipcharts are noted for review in the future... they are not being ignored...

We have to be careful to remember that AP is an interface for children as much as their teachers... so we try to balance flexibility with a easy to manage environment that children will not get out of their depth with - if left alone with it.

[sdreyer]

Norma,

Peter reminded me last year of the ALT+ Tab feature in Windows. I open Internet Explorer. Then I open up AP3. When I hold ALT+Tab, Internet Explorer, or anything else I have open, will float on top of ACTIVprimary. Then I click to select what I want to "drag" over to AP. I use this feature constantly. Hope this answers your question.

[seabass]

We have to be careful to remember that AP is an interface for children as much as their teachers... so we try to balance flexibility with a easy to manage environment that children will not get out of their depth with - if left alone with it.

But it should be noted that if children are left alone with a computer in general they would be exposed to exactly this kind of interface, whether they are using mac or windows they will have to interact with multiple windows because thats the way both those programs work. Since AP doesn't work this way isn't that actually less familiar with what they would be used to in any other program?

[caryn]

[quote=sdreyer;28967]Norma,

Peter reminded me last year of the ALT+ Tab feature in Windows.

Thank you so much for this Suzanne - it has solved alot of drag and drop "fussiness"[clap][clap]