Cool Tool #4: Google Slides

For anyone who has a Google e-mail account, I would highly recommend using Google Slides for making presentations. (Download here.) If you're already familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint, you'll find Google Slides to be straightforward and easy to use. It has many similar features and works in virtually the same way.

One of the benefits to Google Slides over PowerPoint is that you can invite others to collaborate on a presentation. I had to make slide presentations with a group of people earlier this semester, and this feature made the work go much faster and more efficiently. Instead of us all having to coordinate a meeting and huddle around one computer, we could just log onto Google Slides from out respective devices and work on the same presentation simultaneously.

Another benefit of this app is that you can access your presentation from any computer with Internet access. No more worrying about whether or not you remembered to save your presentation to your flashdrive! However, the option to export your presentation as a ppt or pdf file is also there.

Access Google Slides by clicking on your apps when you're logged into gmail.

When you open Google Slides, you see your old presentations saved below.

Format and features are very similar to PowerPoint.

I see this being a Cool Tool that I'll use all the time to give presentations. If my students are working with Chromebooks, I would probably make them use this app to do their slideshows, too.

Presentation for Educational Psychology