Google Slides Basics

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Deb Boisvert

Deb4EdTech.com

Tech Integration Consultant

dboisvert@gmail.com

Lets Jump in - Quick Start

1. Open Google Slides
2. Make a slide about YOU with a few facts and what you hope to learn today

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Lets Jump in - Quick Start

• Open Google Slides
• Make a slide about YOU with a few facts and what you hope to learn today
• Format it with the Explore tool!
• Add an image and layout.

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Lets Jump in - Quick Start

• Go to FILE>IMPORT SLIDE to add your slide after this one
• Comment on a colleague’s slide

Use the Comment button in the Toolbar �or the Comment History button in the upper right corner

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Paula Fay

2nd Grade Teacher

I would like to learn how to use slides in place of Google Docs for more flexibility in text, images, and formatting. I also would like to be able to upload it to Google Classroom

Jantina Stallone

Second Grade Teacher at PWS

TWIN

Married 11 years

Experience in K, 1, and 2.

Getting Started

Opening a new slide deck

• Slides.google.com or
• Google Drive> >Slides>Blank or Template

If you are in a folder in Google Drive your slide deck will be stored there.

Play With Options

Font: Change font, size and color

Discover Insert Menu�And Animation

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Add images with Insert and Explore

Modify with Format Options

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Play is the best way to teach kids about technology. Let them discover and they will teach each other!

Coming soon to the Insert Menu - Insert Audio!

What do you know - Share

Google Slides Skills Checklist from Google Level One Certification

• Create Google Slides
• Insert and Arrange Text, Shapes, Lines, and Word Art
• Format fonts and colors
• Create Linked Text
• Change background color of Slides
• Embed a Video in Google Slides
• Add comments to Google Slides
• Direct Comments to specific users
• Share Slides
• Collaborate inside a slideshow
• Edit speaker notes

Changing Page Size

Setting up different formats File>Page Setup

Check Presentation Aspect

Poster - Custom ex 20 x 30

eBook or print book- Custom ex 8.5 x 11

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Do Page Setup before you start to layout your document

More information about setting up ebooks and printed books

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Ways to Use Google Slides in the classroom

Comic Books

Interactives

Journals

Digital Storytelling

Choose Your Own Adventure

Field Trip Activity Book or Memory Book

Morning Meeting

More Resources

Google in 90

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Google Teacher Center

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25 Doc/Slide tasks with animated GIF demonstrations

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Google for Grownups

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Speaker: Deb Boisvert

Session Title: Google Slides Basics

Session Feedback in SCHED

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Many thanks for taking the time to share�your feedback.

More treats on the next slides.

Creating Footnotes in Slides

But wait there’s more...

Force a copy:

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• Copy the url of your document.
• Delete the word edit and anything after it at the end of the link and replace it with the word copy.
• Share this link with others and they will be forced to Make a Copy or Make if view only.

Shorten Url:

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• Go to tiny.cc (creates QR code)
• Or bit.ly (Tracks clicks)
• Paste in your url
• Customize the shortened url
• Click shorten
• Copy and share

Printing books

1. Ebooks - File>Download As> PDF

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2. Printing Booklets for stapling or saddle stitch

• Arrange slides in illustrated order
• Go to File>Print Settings and Preview
• Choose Handout two slides per page
• Print>More Settings>Scale>Fit to Page
• Or Use this template

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3. Also try tile printing for posters - BlockPosters.com

Back 2 back

Slide Presentation Guidelines

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• Keep it simple, focus on content
• Consistent formatting
• No font under 18, preferably 24
• Stick with a color scheme
• Contrast text and background
• No more than two font style, one serif and one san serif�

Lifewire 10 Tips for Presenters

Coming Soon - Insert Audio

Make good layout a piece of class instruction. Discuss readability.

Use Background for Reusable Activities

Background

1. Create or modify and existing game board or assignment and save as a .jpg format
2. Click SLIDE>CHANGE BACKGROUND
3. Choose and image to upload

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Game/Activities pieces

1. Insert .jpg images of the pieces
2. Copy and paste multiples as needed

Creating Puzzles with Google Slides

TheJigSawPuzzle.com

More interactives

Templates for Primary grades

from BSD Chromebooks in the Primary Classroom Jillian Beatty, Carleen Winn

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Alternatives to Organizing with Calendars

"Google Slide Calendars: 2019/2020 Version – i ❤ edu - I Heart Edu." 11 Jun. 2019, https://www.i-heart-edu.com/1961-2/. Accessed 13 Jun. 2019.

Great alternative to paper planners. This is a different slant on organization.

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Meagan has a variety of formats

• Weekly Academic Calendar (Link)
• Monthly Academic Calendar (Link)
• Weekly Project Planning Goals (Link)
• Monthly Project Planning Goals (Link)
• Mindfulness Calendar (Link)

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