Thread:Post grads and powerpoint (2)

An interesting challenge ...

How about requiring post grads to work with Open Office impress to produce slide shows. Its free and can do a bunch of neat things that you can't do with PowerPoint - for example export to Flash format or save as a ppt file. You won't be able to save a PowerPoint file in Open Office format

This may be a great opportunity for learners to discover the difference between open standards and closed proprietary formats.

Something to think about - at least I think that a course of this nature should accommodate the freedom for a student to use open source tools. Not all learners may be able to afford legal copies of closed software.

Chat to you soon. W