Comments on: What do you think about Google Docs Presentations? http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/using-google-docs-presentations/ research into image tools for teaching Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mtgwork http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/using-google-docs-presentations/#comment-280 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:34:20 +0000 http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/?p=933#comment-280 Thank you for sharing your experiences. I haven’t tried Open Office for a while but wonder if that is something you have also considered? I might do a blog post on that sometime too.
Best wishes,
MTG

]]> By: Joe Liang http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/using-google-docs-presentations/#comment-278 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:07:12 +0000 http://teachingwithimages.wordpress.com/?p=933#comment-278 This is exactly how I felt using Google Presentations. I also found that it’s a pretty weird and unintuitive process to change the slide transition time? For instance, I was recently trying to make a Pecha Kucha presentation and after all the trouble of figuring out how to make the slides change after 20 seconds each, I realized that (at least in my version), Google Presentation only allows for slide transition increments of 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, and 60 seconds. This just seems extremely pointless to limit slide transition time choices.

As for the formatting problem between Google Presentations and Powerpoint, I found that this is the case with transitioning between Google Docs and .pdfs, .doc, .docx’s, etc. So many times I create a document that’s perfectly formatted the way I want, then to download it as a pdf or word document and having it come out extremely messed up.

This is extremely problematic since I don’t even own a copy of Microsoft Office Suite… so I don’t really have any alternatives.

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