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It’s been a bit more hectic today, with a DiDA marking deadline to meet and suddenly some conscientious students to work with

One thing which has made my life a lot easier this last two weeks is, Simple Viewer, a new found free flash photo viewer – a great improvement on our previous solution SlideShowPro. It was fun while it lasted.

What Simple Viewer does:

• Stupidly easy way to make photo galleries for the Internet
• Uses Flash, to make it one step harder for pupils to download photos
• Automagically produces thumbnails for the galleries
• Makes customisable, light weight, standards compliant gallery pages

In short, what I can do, within a few minutes, with hardly any clicks is: take a folder of images within Picasa (a fab, free Google photo editor/manager), export them to a Simple Viewer gallery and upload to the school website.

THis takes a fraction of the time I’d been spending creating xml files by hand or teasing SlideShowPro Director to work for me. All that saved time I can spend on… well maybe I can now finish my reports

If you want to see it at work, visit our school website, register for an account and look for the Open Learning 2007 pages.

Thanks also to Rob Da Bank and Gilles Peterson for finding the tunes to help me through the day.