I checked with someone who knows and learned there are four features to meet the high standards of a 10th grader's expectations for SlideySlide. They are simply these: Background Graphics, Transition Effects, Speaker Notes, and Emailability.

I'm hopiing I can do all of these within Hackety Hack.

Right now, my plan of attak is to create the presentation slides and export them to individual HTML files - one file per slide. From within Hackety Hack, I hope to be able to control access to them.

It looks like JQuery is the core JavaScript engine HH uses for special effects. But I haven't figured out how to add customized JavaScript extensions to my HH behavior. Maybe JavaScript messing is a bad thing for me to be even thinking of doing, but I need to work in those Transition Effects somehow.

I've had a bit of a revelation as I turn towards working with Markaby (which seems to be the native language of HH) rather than RedCloth for my fancy formatting. They seem similar in different ways. Will they ever be merged?

Speaker notes seem like a straight forward addition and emailing the slides will be a nice little feature.

To recap, the additions to SlideySlide's simple feature list:

1) Background graphics - taking any image off the web as a slide backdrop (with CSS?)

2) Transition Effects - _why might be using some JQuery in HH, but maybe Flash offers a tool her too?

3) "Speaker" notes - the kinds of thing explaining the slides but not appearing in the slides - this could be fun and tie back to either the "Say" lesson or maybe even some MP3 add-on!

4) Emailable - the kids work on them at school and finish them up at home - this could also help merge