Creating a Goggle Docs Presentation.
Creating a Goggle Docs Presentation.
The assignment was to create a small slide show presentation using a web-based tool. I’m familiar with PowerPoint. I created a presentation in another COPR class with the collaboration of a class partner using the Goggle Docs presentation tool. After getting our basis information completed and outlined, I found it very easy to create the slides and share them with my partner for editing and adding new slides. Having just one document rather that emailing versions back and forth worked very well and we were able to transfer the document to PowerPoint and post for class viewing rather than give them access to our Goggle account.
For the Web 2.0 assignment I wanted to explore other web-based tools and view their potentials.
My slide show involves a series of photographs that I took of my grandson and his father playing in the park together, thus I titled it “An Afternoon in the Park with Daddy”.
In one of out previous assignments we explored Picnik.com to edit photos. I had about 50 photos that I wanted to consider for the slideshow. I loaded the pictures to picnik and played with adding captions. The captions were fine as far as placing a comment on the picture, but not a little cumbersome and took a lot of time.
I also want to explore Flickr and see how the Picnik files interfaced with each other. It was a very easy process. I could have created a slideshow in Flickr but it does not afford me the privacy I need with these photographs. I did explore Flickr was thus able to help my husband with a photography project, but that’s another whole blog.
I looked at 280slide and found it would do very nicely as presentation tool, but I didn’t like the security level there either. The same held true for me and my situation with SlideShare.net
I was determined to use the open source tools for the project, and settled on Google Docs which was easy because I already had an account and experience with it.
I tried dragging the pictures from Flickr to a slide in Google Docs which worked, but I was not happy with the resolution of the pictures and decided not to spend a lot of time trouble shooting the issue.
So from my IPhoto on my Mac I emailed all the pictures that I wanted to use to myself formatting them for faster downloading all at once. This worked perfectly. Otherwise, I would need to export each picture, changing the format size to my desktop. That’s changing 40 plus pictures individually. I wonder if I could do this in batch. Anyway my email method worked.
After completing my storyboard, I started creating my Goggle Docs presentation, adding one picture and caption to each slide. From the Goggle Docs page I could insert a picture from my desktop, the folder where I had stored the emailed photos, to the slide. The process was very smooth and I was delighted with the results. Again I saved the document also to PowerPoint and have it on my desktop as well as stored in Google Docs.
I had thought that I would burn it to a disc and give it to my son-in-law for
Christmas, but now I think I will make a photo album and present him with the hardcopy. The hard work is done because the photos are organized and the captions are finished. I like to use Shutterfly.com to make my albums.
I wasted a lot of time because I failed to follow the basic first rule of creating a presentation, design your storyboard first.
Goggle Docs is a great tool, available freely to anyone who has a computer and Internet connectivity, plus it provides a seamless transition to the Office products. The greatest advantage of this tool is the ability for a team to work on the document from any computer and share the work back and forth.
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