Choices, choices, choices! Click here for a gallery of their most interesting features and interface particulars. On the Mac, we now have Office 2008 (which, at first glance, is a bit less intimidating to users of earlier versions of Office than Office 2007) NeoOffice (a port of OpenOffice fully integrated into OS X) OpenOffice itself, which runs in OS X's X11 windowing environment and Apple's iWork suite.
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As we slowly migrated schoolwide to Office 2007, many teachers began using OpenOffice, both for a familiar look and feel to the Office 2000 they left behind and for compatibility with the majority of students who use the free suite. We can all use Word (or, at least, most teachers can) and PowerPoint is fairly straightforward as well.
I'm especially interested in features that make it easy for the average teacher to crank out documents, presentations, web content, and multimedia. As I noted there, one of my real goals in buying a Mac was to see if this platform really did make it easier to focus on teaching my classes, rather than on creating the electronic materials my students expect to support those classes. Last week, I posted a few thoughts on Apple Pages. Is iWork irrelevant, or is it just me? Reread the repost below and I'll give this some more thought next week when I'm back from vacation. What do you think? Oo.org 3.0 looks to rock out loud too.
For real polish, you still can't beat Office 2007/2008, as much as I hate to admit it. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for the matter) cuts the mustard quite handily.
The more I use these, the more I really don't care for iWork.
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