Google Slides:

Beyond Presentations

Sarah Simon

Xavier Catholic Schools Educational Technology Coordinator

https://bit.ly/XavierGoogleSlides

Topics to be Covered

Hyperlink to Slides

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Lock Background

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Stop Motion Animation

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Create a table of contents, create choice boards, create your own stories or adventures, create hyperdoc activities

Lock the background to create interactive activities, mark-up text, etc.

Use stop motion animation to create stories, explain a concept, or express ideas.

Hyperlink to Slides

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Link to slides helps you to:

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• create choice boards
• create your own stories or adventures
• create hyperdoc activities
• create a table of contents to easily jump to a place in a slideshow

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Choice Boards

Linking to Slides Ideas

Create your own adventure

Hyperdoc Activities

Table of Contents

Student-centered strategies that helps to differentiate and allows for student choice.

A completely packaged assignment where all the components of a learning cycle have been pulled together into a central hub (the Google Slides)

Using hyperlinks within the Google Slides, build a story or tutorial that asks the student to make decisions.

Make it easy to find content within your slide deck by making a Table of Contents.

Back to Topics to be Covered

Tic-Tac-Toe Template

Choice Board Templates

Climate Change Tic-Tac-Toe

Blackboard template

World Language Tic-Tac-Toe

Choice Board template

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HyperDoc Samples

Template

Free Hyperdocs by Subject

Sample HyperDoc

Sample HyperDoc

Back to Linking to Slides Ideas

Book Review

Project

Choose Your Own Adventure

(CYOA)

Template

Sample CYOA

By Eric Curts

CYOA Template

Back to Linking to Slides Ideas

Table of Contents

Back to Linking to Slides Ideas

Ideas for use:

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• Class Journal

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• Easily jump to content within shared teaching slide deck for a unit of study

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Weekly Outline Example

Lock Background

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Create assignments where students have to label parts, drag and drop, or creating templates with parts students have to fill in (like Venn Diagrams, etc.)

Back to Topics to be Covered

Plant Cell Labels

Locked Background Ideas

Venn Diagram Template

Function or Not Template

Vocabulary Template

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Steps to Creating a Template or

Locked Background

A Single Image that doesn’t require editing:

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• On your blank slide, click on Background

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• Click on Choose Image

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• Click where your image is and apply

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A Background image must be created

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• Click on Slide & Click on Edit Theme

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• Under Layouts, delete all but

the first slide.

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• Design your own

background on

the slide that

is left.

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• Give it a name to

save it.

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Stop Motion Animation

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Tell a story, explain a concept, practice different tech skills

Samples

Sum of the Angles of a Triangle

Macy’s Day Parade

Time for you to try…

• In the Clipart Slides, choose a character and a balloon and copy and paste each of them on the last blank slide.
• Resize them and place them where you would like them.
• Use the line tool to draw the balloon strings
• Group together the person, balloon & strings by doing the following:
• Edit
• Select All
• Arrange
• Group
• Copy the Grouped graphic and then open the Macy’s Background Template & Paste your image there.

Clipart Google Slides to get you started (make a copy)

Macy’s Background Template (make a copy)

Key shortcuts to help you

On the Macy’s template:

• Start with your image on the far left, barely on the slide.
• Use the key combination Ctrl + D to duplicate the slide.
• Use the key shortcuts to move the image a little bit to the right.
• If you want to move the balloon, you will want to ungroup the parts of the image and then after you move it, you will want to group them again.
• Repeat this process until the balloon is off the screen.

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Publish to the Web

• Click File
• Click Publish to the web
• Change the time to every second
• Click “Start the slideshow as soon as the player loads”
• Publish
• Copy the URL

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Speed up the Slideshow

• Paste the URL in the omnibox
• Change the end of the link

From &delayms=1000

To &delayms=250

Example:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRhbm6KIxuHflCRtc18IWmyzrftM3BGs6dAqEITOg_lg-NGRuhPf_KPICjBadUtKvXrLBZxi0M0APFY/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=1000

Change to &delayms=250

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Thanks!

Do you have any questions?

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ssimon@xaviercatholicschools.org

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Photos

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