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The presentation looks pretty good, especially if you go into full screen mode. I don’t know if it handles really complex powerpoint but the straightforward, page-turner stuff looks pretty good. Now we just need an interface for making the presentations and I won’t need to deal with Microsoft Office ever again! Or at least, not so much.

One of the problems that always comes up at my school is students want to be able to work on essays and such at the school and at home. The usual solutions are e-mailing back and forth (tedious, but at least there is a degree of revision control built in) or putting the files on a portable medium such as a USB drive or a CD-ROM. I showed Google Docs to a student the other day, and I could see the light bulb go on over his head. With the Google Apps suite available to schools for free, this is a service that a school or college could offer all students with zero cost to the institution. This is done without students seeing any ads - I’m glad google gets it that it is clearly unethical to use the offer of a free technology service in order to force students to watch ads.

Again, I find myself being a Google fanboy. I know that there is a cost attached - TNSTAAFL, after all - but they seem to be creating/acquiring the web applications that are most valuable for individuals, and for schools.

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