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Google Presentation
By markcmarino | October 1, 2007
With the advent of Google Presentation, students will no longer need to purchase Microsoft Office in order to develop their slideshow presentations. Also, as with Google Docs, the site facilitates collaborating on and sharing presentations. Unfortunately, the slides cannot be easily exported in .PPT format and presumably must be shown in live form. Should we “drink the Kool-Aid” and promote the use of these tools with students?
Does this help solve the irritating DocX problems? Greg Laden lays out some of the more general issues with the new Microsoft Office files here.
Or do such tools close off the possibility of promoting open source tools like Open Office? (Donna Bogatin of ZDNET offers one thread on this topic).
An alternative for sharing slideshows is the slideshare site, a kind of YouTube for slides.
Topics: Software Reviews |
October 1st, 2007 at 3:49 am
There is always OpenOffice for presentation software..