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Advanced Google Slides for Teachers & Students

Making presentations better & �more interactive

Dawn Kasperson

Dawnka@fsusd.org

@TeachDawnK

Josh Harris JoshuaH@fsusd.org

@EdTechSpec

goo.gl/4nLWYY

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Every!

Presentation! Ever!

How many of these people have you been?

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What Makes Bad Presentations Bad?

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Question

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Good vs Bad

Improving Presentations for Students and Teachers

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You Said...

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What do People Remember?

SHOW don’t TELL

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Images

Tell Stories

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Size Matters

Larger images used as background make a bigger impact

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Simply adding text works sometimes, but it can create a visually busy slide

The painting The First Thanksgiving 1621 is a useful resource for historians who wish to understand the relationship between the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims.

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The painting The First Thanksgiving 1621 is a useful resource for historians who wish to understand the relationship between the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims in 1621.

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Image Selection - Rule of Thirds

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Provide time to “discuss”

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Image Adjustments

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Image Adjustments

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Image Adjustments

Add a line border by selecting the picture then click on the line weight tool. �The color and line style can be controlled too.

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Image Adjustments

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This background isn’t quite wide enough to do much with in terms of text overlay.

This strip is just too narrow.

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Transparent text boxes over part of large images help you screencheat preserve image integrity.

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The Screen Cheat:

  • Ctrl +D
  • Right Click
  • Rotate>Flip horizontally
  • Underlap

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Try Out Your New Tricks

Make Your Copy so you can try out your new tricks.

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Too Much Text

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Full of Bullets

  • Sometimes Slides have lots of bullets on them with sentence or phrase after sentence or phrase.
  • This can make it difficult for the audience to read.
  • It can also make it so that attendees just read ahead and then get bored.
  • Presenters have a tendency to read slides that are full of text and bullets instead of presenting the material.
  • Images are often missing from slides full of bullets so they do not engage the audience.
  • Too many bullets often means too much text and a small font size that can’t be read by the audience.

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Make Purposeful Choices

Text

Font

Transitions

Animations

Use only enough text to convey your message.

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Make Purposeful Choices

Text

Font

Transitions

Animations

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Make Purposeful Choices

Text

Font

Transitions

Animations

Be Careful

Animations should be used like a highlighter.

about how

ANIMATED!

animations, and what the purpose is

for having any text or picture

you use

Isn’t this distracting?

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Provide time to “discuss”

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General Design

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Editing the Master

Editing the master changes every slide you create.

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Changes made to the Master apply to all Layouts.

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Working with Templates & Themes

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Working with Templates & Themes

Templates made for Google Slides

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Out Of the Box Ideas

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Distributed Slide Decks

Have students make a copy of your presentation and use comments to take notes.

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Choose Your Own Adventure

Linking between slides

Select text or image

Click

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HyperSlides

Create interactive lessons using slides.

@slogue

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You Try

Pick a Few Ideas, and start putting your own together

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Collected Resources

Presentations in General

Structure

Colors

Images

Rehearse & Observe

Interactivity

Discussion

Activity

  • Use comments as notes
  • Tables & Textboxes for response
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Kahoot
  • Quizizz