nightmare!

[cimorene]

i emailed the powerpoint slides i needed for a presentation today to myself and then after class this morning, i logged on in the computer lab to download the file and make sure the links worked. they worked and everything was fine and i fixed the font in a couple of places (because the school servers use powerpoint, but i made the slides with open office) and added a sound file and saved the whole thing...

...and then when i opened it a few hours later in class? three of my slides were missing all of the text from their text boxes! o.O i had no other way to get the text, either. so i had to just try to remember. of course there were vocabulary terms and other things that i forgot completely in there. ...what! why!

so to summarise... save file in open office + open file in powerpoint = okay! save file in powerpoint + open file in another identical copy of the same version of powerpoint = MISSING SIGNIFICANT CHUNKS OF TEXT. good to know, and fuck you very much, microsoft.

the presentation went okay anyway, but i am still filled with rage. öalöfaksfdökjafkjads.

Comments

[revulo.livejournal.com]

Emailing files to yourself freaks me out of the day of presentations. Flash drives all the way! *huddle huddle*

But WHY that sort of thing always happens right before classes, I don't know. It never fails. I remember last year, we tried sound files a number of times in our presentations for a linguistics class. We even previewed it on the same computer and it was fine until we actually had to do the presentation. It's boggling.

The fact that this also happens in places so far away confirms that there is a conspiracy in my mind. Buggered if I know what it is, though.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

haha, of course the sound files didn't work either, but having to make up the information from memory was a little more gruelling. o.O if it'd only been the sound not working i'd've felt lucky!

the girl who presented last tuesday tried three classes in a row to play some argentinian songs for us. no luck whatsoever.

[revulo.livejournal.com]

Technology likes to go stupid in the classroom.
It's like a rule or something.

[emilyveinglory.livejournal.com]

Aaargh. I assure you Powerpoint is a tool of the devil. I have my students giving presentations this week and between emailing copies to themselves that never arrived and random formatting glitches it is driving me crazy.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it's amazing that since the on-campus computers are all set up, installed, and cared for by computer geeks who are students and, to the letter, prefer unix, they still install tools of the devil like microsoft office everywhere! and no doubt the school pays exorbitantly for that school license!