EduGeek Journal

I knew this would happen. In fact. I predicted it on my old blog. Google announced this week that they will be soon releasing “Presentations” – an online alternative to PowerPoint. But, they aren’t competing with Microsoft. Oh, no. They are bringing presentations to a “new level.”

Whatever. It’s free, it’s from Google, and it’s online. So, now educators who can’t afford Office, but are too bogged down to figure out OpenOffice – rejoice! It’s not in the Google labs section yet, so I can’t test it out to see how it works. But I’ll keep an eye out for it.

Zoho has offered a program like this for some time now, and I have even used it in some presentations. It’s kind of nice, but a little light on the features. Hopefully, Google will find a way to get some of those features added – like slide animations. The downside is that is sounds like they are going to use Java. Which is not horrible – it just means that it won’t work as smoothly as your average Web2.0 JavaScript based applications do.