So in my endeavors to become completely mobile I've decided to cast off the chains of Microsoft Office in favor of more portable and universal platform friendly Google Docs.
This week I began working on my lecture notes for the Business Calculus class that I'm teaching at the local community college. Google docs does have a PowerPoint equivalent gadget called Presentation. It's very handy and allows basic edits of any presentation with slides and comes with some snazzy design templates too. What it doesn't have is all the advanced editing that comes with PowerPoint. In fact I was absolutely appalled by the fact that it couldn't create subscript or superscript font. As a math teacher I was mortified and offended to be so gruesomely excluded from consideration of my needs!
So sadly I was forced back to the pallid quivering arms of Microsoft to complete my presentation. Of course once I arrived I was again offended by Microsoft's horrendous oversight in leaving the wonderful new equation editor out of PowerPoint! Instead I painstakingly created the equations I needed in Word, then copied and pasted them into PowerPoint as flattened pictures.
I must say this is a situation where everyone failed me, both Google and M$ to some degree. So I don't really feel like I can put this one in the win column for either of them. I did complete my work in PowerPoint (although it took twice as long as it should have) so I guess I'll give this one to the desktop apps...begrudgingly.
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Hey lady-- there is a web-based presentation application called Slide Rocket that you may want to check out. I have no idea if it has super/sub scripts but it's worth looking into. I saw a few presentations using Slide Rocket at a conference and I thought it was pretty snazzy...and web-based so you're not tied to MS b---s--- :)
Tried it. And yes it is much more powerful than Google's presentation, it still doesn't support subscript or superscript. It may work for many people, but as a math teacher I have to reject it on the grounds that it just doesn't work for me. I'm sure someone else will find something to complain about it for their needs too. But then again there's no such thing as the perfect app for everyone.
Thanks for the idea though!
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