Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

For anyone interested, this is the last photo I took just before I was suddenly dragged out to sea by the force of the North Atlantic Ocean currents at Vestrahorn Iceland and saved by another photographer who saw me in distress.

So glad I was able to save my precious Canon (which was on a tripod and I held it high over my head) as even though I was in shock and struggling, that's all I could think about at the time 🙏 ... crazy photographers!

#Photography #TravelPhotography #Iceland #Winter #Vestrahorn #OceanCurrents #NorthAtlantic