Student Peer Technician presentation on various productivity programs and software.

1. Bellingham Technical College
Library eLearning Program
Student Technology Support Desk
Gary Kartchner

2. Microsoft products have become the foundation
for most computer environments,
but there are alternatives for Office Suites,
both for a price and free.

3.  Apache OpenOffice
 Document Foundation's LibreOffice
 Kingsoft Office WPS Office Free
 SoftMaker FreeOffice
 SSuite Office Software
 KDE Calligra
 Lotus Symphony

4. MSWord 2013 Menu
OpenOffice 4.1 Menu

5.  SoftMaker Office: Standard version for $79.
 Corel WordPerfect Office: The Home and Student Edition is $89.

6.  Google Docs
 Zoho Docs
 Office Online
 Think Free Office
 Live Documents [Subscription]
 OX – [Still under development]

7. Just a few in alphabetical order, most offer 5-10MB free, secured storage
for single users – with more ‘cloud’ storage for a price:
 Google Drive
 Box
 Bitcasa
 Cubby
 Dropbox
 JustCloud
 SugarSync

8.  Linux. It is Free, with several versions available - including openSUSE
Check out BTC’s Annual Northwest
LinuxFest
April 25th & 26th, 2015
Operating Systems

9. Image Source:
License: CC0 Public Domain [Free for commercial use] http://pixabay.com/en/workstation-stressed-office-148084/
Too much
information!!!!!

10. Bellingham Technical College Library e-Learning Program - 2015