Cycling Photos or Random Selector program/script Ideas for student competitions???

[burgemaster]

Hi,

 

We have awards for various occasions in assemblies, for example there was a tablet awarded to one randomly picked from a selection of students with 100% Attendance in each year.

 

What we have done is for each student with 100% attendance, is create a PowerPoint with each students photo and name on a seperate slide and set it to auto advance with a delay of 0.01sec.

When the PowerPoint is presented the slides quickly spin through. With the student photos scrolling the head will hit S to stop the PowerPoint at a random (winning) student.

 

This looks pretty good but its a right pain having to create the PowerPoint each time. As we did it once before (and made it look so much better than it was previously done), it is now our task and is taking quite a bit of time to setup each slide/PowerPoint.

 

Could I ask, does anyone do anything differently?

Is there an available program or web script that randomly picks an image from a folder?

Something like on "Ant and Dec's Saturday night takeaway" where the audience photos just cycles through and it slows to one winner would be ideal.

 

I've google for all the Selector Tools, or Random generator flash programs I could find but they are pretty poor!

Student Photos dumped into a web hosted folder and a script to rotate through slowing down to one photo would be the easiest and best solution I can think of.

 

Thanks in advance.

Edited March 14, 2015 by burgemaster

[webman]

IrfanView, a free graphics viewer/editor, has a built-in slideshow feature which might work well for this.

 

• Open IrfanView and hit W or go to File > Slideshow...
  
• Set Slide Advancement to Random after 0.01
  
• You'll probably want to tick Loop Slideshow, also check other options.
  
• Browse for the images, and add them.
  
• Click Play Slideshow button to see it. Hit the [Pause/Break] key to pause it.
  

Edited March 14, 2015 by webman

[Meldrew]

Not quite what you asked for, but on our end of term assembly, we do very similar, we have a list of names of students with excellent attendance, 99%+ then I have a program I wrote which scrolls through this text file of names which are displayed as a scrolling vertical list (think movie credits), highlighting the current one until space is pressed and then the name grows full screen and fireworks appear.

 

I can send you the exe if you like to see if it would be any good, but to be clear, doesn't do photos...

 

Meldrew

[burgemaster]

Thanks guys will check them both out!! Tim

[burgemaster]

Not quite what you asked for, but on our end of term assembly, we do very similar, we have a list of names of students with excellent attendance, 99%+ then I have a program I wrote which scrolls through this text file of names which are displayed as a scrolling vertical list (think movie credits), highlighting the current one until space is pressed and then the name grows full screen and fireworks appear.

 

I can send you the exe if you like to see if it would be any good, but to be clear, doesn't do photos...

 

Meldrew

 

Hi Meldrew, Ive PMed you my details if you don't mind. Many thanks

[unixman_again]

I would dump them in a folder and use jquery carousel. There are thousands of examples Google. This is the one that I used when I was learning about it. Multi-purpose slideshow(text scroller,images scroller) jquery plugin | text slideshow,text scroller,image slideshow,image scroller

[burgemaster]

I would dump them in a folder and use jquery carousel. There are thousands of examples Google. This is the one that I used when I was learning about it. Multi-purpose slideshow(text scroller,images scroller) jquery plugin | text slideshow,text scroller,image slideshow,image scroller

 

thank you, I did come across the jquery scroller and we used to use on our old website. But could this have the randomness or stopping that we are after?