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Google Presentation Tutorials on Lynda.com

I decided to learn more about Google presentations.  This is a perfect tool for me because I am always preparing lesson plans and examples to show my students on various photographic techniques. I sit at my computer at night putting my presentation together, then save it to a disk or flash drive in order to take it with me for my class. The google presentation tool eliminates the saving and storage issues and gives me peace of mind that I’ll never forget to take it with me. I’m excited to get started with it.  It's also a tool I'll be using with my ARP.

Woopid only had a 2 minute video and it was more of a generic google docs introduction, so I went right to Lynda.com (thank goodness for Lynda), where I found over 45 minutes devoted just to google presentations. The tutorials are broken down into 3 sections: the basics, working with media and sharing, collaborating and presenting.  I love that they offer templates to choose from—I found it very inspiring as I was learning the tool. What I also love is the “new features” button.  This gives the user the option to see the latest features that have been added to the tool—what a simple and fantastic way to stay current with the software. Google presentations also offers a revision history every time the presentation is saved, so there’s no need to worry about ever deleting a slide by mistake and thinking it’s lost for good.  It reminds me of the layers option in photoshop.  I’ll be back in later posts to report on my progress with google presentations but so far, so good!