Collection of Alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint in E-learning

Microsoft PowerPoint is surely a powerful presentation tool. However, if you do not want to pay for Microsoft Office. There are also server free tools to substitute the expensive PowerPoint. These tools are all online tools can could to make presentations more interesting and more appealing.

Zoho Show

Zoho Show is the free online presentation tool for making powerful presentations. Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation, you have come to the right place. Zoho Show’s pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use.

pptPlex

pptPlex uses Plex technology to give you the power to zoom in and out of slide sections and move directly between slides that are not sequential in your presentation. Watch the videos below to see how pptPlex can help you organize and present information in a non-linear fashion. Test drive pptPlex and wow your audience with your next presentation. pptPlex works as an add-in to PowerPoint 2007 and you can layout all your slides on or zoom in specific slides.

Prezi

Prezi is zooming sketches on a digital napkin. It’s visualization and storytelling without slides. Your ideas live on stage and on the web. Have you ever wondered about presenting your thoughts as free as they come? Ever got tired of creating a slideshow? It’s been said, that the best innovations come from people who are unhappy with the tools they use. We realized that our ideas won’t fit into slides anymore. Putting together creative thinking and technology expertise, we have created Prezi, a living presentation tool.

Ventuz

Ventuz is the next generation tool for professional high-end presentations. It offers unique ways of creating stunning 3D and multimedia content and displaying your presentations in the most effective and mind-blowing ways. Its state-of –the-art technology finally puts an end to boring, uninspiring standard solutions.

Google Docs
 
Google Docs provide a free, Web-based presentation application. You could upload PPT presentations and share or edit them online while collaborate with other users real-timely.

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.
Google Docs is Google’s “software as a service” version of an office suite. Documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentations can be created within the application itself, imported through the web interface, or sent via email. They can also be saved to the user’s computer in a variety of formats (OpenOffice, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Word). By default, they are saved to the Google servers. Open documents are automatically saved to prevent data loss, and a revision history is automatically kept. Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes.

Office Web Apps

Office Web Apps are free web-based version of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. It includes the Word Web App, Excel Web App, PowerPoint Web App, and OneNote Web App. The web apps allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a web browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox), as well as share files and collaborate with other users online. It is intended to replace Office Live Workspace. Office Web Apps is available through Windows Live SkyDrive.

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