Publish PowerPoint slides to your website
With Google Docs’ presentation tool (docs.google.com) you now have the ability to publish presentation slides online within your webpage. This means that your students could view slide sets without the need to download them and launch them in PowerPoint, a tool which they may or may not have. This could be great for sharing student work, archiving lecture notes, or even publishing daliy announcements.
If you’re not familiar with Google Docs, an online suite of tools similar to Office, check out this quick video from CommonCraft. Basically it’s free, go-anywhere word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.
In the following embedded presentation, I’ve outlined the steps to uploading existing PowerPoint slides to your site, including examples for SchoolPointe CMS, WebEdit, POW-PAK, and Moodle (sorry, but it doesn’t appear to work with Progress Book at this point). Email readers may need to visit this post online to see the slides.
While these examples discuss how to load your existing files, you can also use Google Docs to build original presentations from scratch.
Monday, January 7th, 2008
