Google Docs adds Presentations

Though still in ‘beta’, Google’s Google Docs keeps coming up with compelling reasons to at least shift some of our time away from Microsoft Office tools. Case in point – AcademHack and the Google Blog both have brief articles on the newest addition to the Google Docs tools (along with documents and spreadsheets): presentations. Though maybe not a PowerPoint killer just yet, Google’s presentations tool does allow for some instant collaboration and interactive online chatting while the presentation is running, too. Of course, a Google account is required.

Here’s the new ‘Google Docs in Plain English’ video that’s circulating the web: