Google To Add Presentation to Docs & Spreadsheets

Google’s announcement to add presentation software to their existing Docs and Spreadsheets applications is a great news for those of us who had started using Google Apps.

According to the Google Blog,

“Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we’ve been dying to tell you about the bun we’ve got in the oven. We’ll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family: presentations.”

“We hope the easy collaboration tools, remote storage will provide a bigger and better Web 2.0 technologies from Google. For our existing users, it’s one more reason that all users in schools should sign up.

We’ve already freed those of you working in teams from the burdens of version control and email attachment overload when going back and forth on word processing and spreadsheets. It just made sense to add presentations to the mix; after all, when you create slides, you’re almost always going to share them. Now students, writers, teachers, organizers, and, well, just about everyone who uses a computer can look forward to having real-time, web-based collaboration across even more common business document formats.”

With the coming of the Presentation features in Docs and Spreadsheets, sometime in the Summer, students can now prepare the presentation for class assignment. They can just share it on Google Presentations. This is also one more reason to take a look at Google Apps for your school and provide students with tools they understand and use intuitively.