New Tools at Google Docs

I am so excited about the latest tools at Google Docs...Google Presentations! I have used student presentations as part of my pedagogy for years. Of course, MS PowerPoint was the application of choice. Now, with Google Presentations, the students have sufficient tools to create presentations which they can save on the web and edit from home. Another positive feature, it does not have all the bells and whistles, which were often a distraction for students. This simplicity encourages more focus on content than on showy fluff.

The initial introduction was received very positively. Before I had an opportunity to get into any specifics of the application, students had already created two or three slides and were on their way to becoming proficient with Google Presentations. The hardest part was dividing up the learning objectives and that was done with Google Spreadsheet.