lifehacker.com: When you need to create an interesting and engaging presentation for your boss, new clients, or a job interview, you have plenty of options for tools to get the job done. Plus, even though it's the industry standard, you don't have to your Microsoft PowerPoint, and many people would argue there are better tools for the job anyway. This week we're going to look at five of the best of those alternative presentation tools, based on your nominations.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Five Best PowerPoint Alternatives
lifehacker.com: When you need to create an interesting and engaging presentation for your boss, new clients, or a job interview, you have plenty of options for tools to get the job done. Plus, even though it's the industry standard, you don't have to your Microsoft PowerPoint, and many people would argue there are better tools for the job anyway. This week we're going to look at five of the best of those alternative presentation tools, based on your nominations.
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I was really looking forward to hearing about presentations that were not computer related, I guess I just group presentations with the standard of using powerpoint. Anywho- some alternatives I was hoping for were maybe white-board presentations/ visual tangible, pictures, skits. I don't know- I guess that's far to unrealistic! To me a lot of these presentation alternatives seem all of the same, except for google docs, which I have great experiences from. I think that it is a really great product for collaboration, it is so simple and easy to edit information online, especially through the fact that it is attached to gmail accounts, and is updated just as quickly as a presentation is edited, making the process so much more clear, putting everyone on the same page.
As with all technology it is user definable what is the best option. Software is one subject where the user makes the program useful or useless. In our collaborative field I think that compatibility and cohesive use of a software suite is more essential than the bells and whistle. I have used Keynote and for me it is more intuitive and more polished of a program than powerpoint or any of the other option but it is mac only and sometimes that just doesn't work. The open source programs such as google docs and libre office are great cheap alternatives but they are always less polished and have fewer amenities. With that said the price on the open source suites and the compatibility with other suites are unsurpassed now. If you are looking at alternatives to microsoft first ask why not use the industry standard programs? Is there a good reason to get away from microsoft office which is in use in a majority of offices and schools?
I have mainly used PowerPoint my whole life, but I do think there are better alternatives around. This article presents some of the more well-known ones. I don't necessarily agree that PowerPoint is as bad as they make it out to be, considering that the entire Microsoft Office suite has undergone tremendous changes in templates as well as GUI to make it more flexible and user-friendly. This article also made me more aware to the newer features available in Google Docs' PowerPoint-like software, which I definitely need to go check out.
Foundations of Drama compelled me to seek a presentation based around a whiteboard and physical objects, but unfortunately it is not time-efficient anymore. With that comes a less compelling presentation, and indeed in that class people usually sleep through the powerpoints.
That said, within the options, Doc uses Prezi and the presentations look fantastic because of the animation between 'slides'. It's also cloud-based which is becoming more and more important.
I think that for maximum control we should do our presentations in Isadora or Max/MSP, but that would create headaches.
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