PowerPoint is a powerful
presentation software program that is part of the Microsoft
Office package. It is not a free program, an Office 365
personal account starts at $60 a year. PowerPoint tools provide you with
everything you need to produce a professional-looking presentation. It is an
excellent program for personal and/or official use. With PowerPoint you can
create individual slides that produce a slideshow, the end product. Creating
slides is easy, as PowerPoint provides you with sample themes and you are able
to add text, tables, charts, pictures, animations, and even sounds. 
Apache OpenOffice Impress is a multimedia presentation
program, very similar to PowerPoint. Impress enables users to create individual
slides that produce a slideshow presentation (the end goal). It is available
in many languages and works on all common computers. It saves
and stores all of your data in an international open standard format and
can also read and write files from other common office software packages. The
best part about OpenOffice is that it can be downloaded and used completely for free!
Google Slides is a tool within the Google Drive
productivity suite. It is a free
program, the only thing that users need to have is a Gmail account. Creating a
presentation on Google Slides is fairly similar to that of PowerPoint. Google
Slides provides you with a variety of presentation themes, hundreds of fonts,
embedded videos, and animations. Users are also able to choose from a wide
variety of pre-made presentations and portfolios. “Access, create, and edit
your presentations wherever you go — from your phone, tablet, or computer —
even when there’s no connection”. With Google Slides you area able to
collaborate on presentations with other people at the same time. By sharing
your presentation with your friends, classmates, coworkers, and/or family they
can view, comment on and edit your presentation. You also will never have to hit
the “save” button again. All of your
changes are automatically saved as you type. Google Slides provides the option
to view “revision history”. Teachers and/or people working on the presentation
have access to see old versions of the same presentation, sorted by date and
who made the change. Another bonus
is that Google Slides works with PowerPoint, you are able to convert
PowerPoint files to Google Slides and vice versa.
Prezi is a presentation tool that can be
used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint.
Instead of slides, Prezi provides you with one large canvas. You are
able to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas you
want to present. With a Prezi presentation, you are able to group concepts
together and then zoom out to show the big picture. In a visually engaging way,
your audience will be able to easily follow along and understand the
connections between your points. Prezi offers free public accounts to users with options to upgrade services for
a monthly subscriptions. 
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