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Google

Slides 101

Aaron Davis

@mrkrndvs

readwriterespond.com

http://bit.ly/GoogleSlides101

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GOOGLE SLIDES 101

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  • Resize pages
  • Insert, arrange and animate objects
  • Edit, crop and adjust objects
  • Access different Google Fonts
  • Organise the things using guidelines
  • Share, collaborate and publish slides
  • Add notes and comments
  • Choose from different templates and themes

For a thorough step-by-step introduction to Google Slides, I recommend looking at Kasey Bell’s Cheat Sheet.

FEATURES

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TIPS and TRICKS

POWERPOINT

  • You can upload PowerPoints into Google Slides

MASTER

  • You can edit the fonts, layout, background etc in Master

EMBEDDING

  • Google Slides can be embedded to play automatically

SHIFT (PC & Mac)

  • Make finer adjustments
  • Constrain to nearest axises
  • Maintain proportions

CTRL (PC) / OPTION (Mac)

  • Choose multiple objects
  • Create a duplicate

ALT (PC) / ⌘ (Mac)

  • Temporarily disables ‘snap to grid’

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Four Ideas for How To Use Google Slides

Presentations

Collaborations

Interactions

Publishing

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PRESENTATIONS

Using shapes, animations and image manipulation, Slides allows you to create a moving Comic Strip. See this example from Eric Curts to make more sense.

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COLLABORATION

Slides provides the means to give feedback during the editing stage, as well as critique of ideas and information.

Iron Chef lessons allow students to form different groups and take on different roles

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INTERACTION

Using hyperlinks, you are easily able to make a Choose Your Own Adventure story.

Another interactive creation is a game. An example is Eric Curts template for Jeopardy.

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PUBLISHING

Whether it be a newsletter or an eBook, Slides offers the means to easily publish to the world.

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TRY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES

COLLABORATING

Read through the different ideas included in Alice Keeler’s crowdsourced document. Add a comment or idea of your own.

MAKE AN ANIMATION

Look at Alannah King’s explanation of animations with Slides. Have a go at copying one of Dan Huddell’s Athletic Nerds’ to make your own animation.

BEFORE THE END OF THE SESSION, COULD YOU PLEASE SPEND A MINUTE AND PROVIDE ME WITH SOME FEEDBACK (http://bit.ly/feeddavis)

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

Read through the example from Eric Curts and have a go at using links to create your own Choose Your Own Adventure’ story

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Editing Images in Google Docs and Slides - Kasey Bell provides some #tips on editing images with Slides

Google Slides as Newsletter Platform - +Miguel Guhlin demonstrates how Slides can be used in creation of a #newsletter

Mawhera Taniwha: Google Slides and Google Drawings - +Allanah King uses Slides to create simple #animations

Create an eBook with Google Slides - The Gooru

10 Google Slides Activities to Add Awesome to Classes - +Matt Miller provides a range of #activites to support the use of Slides

Creating Interactive Google Presentations - +Eric Curts provides a #guide to using Slides to create #interactive presentations

Google Slides for Student Created Storybooks - +Eric Curts demonstrates how Slides can be used on the creation of #storybooks

Website Design with Google Slides - +Joshua Pomeroy shows how you can use Slides to mockup a #design 

Game Based Learning: Google Slides Coordinate Plane Battleship - +Alice Keeler shows how Slides can be transformed to support #GBL in the form of Battleship

Google Slides Cheat Sheet - A great summary from Kasey Bell, including a useful PDF download

Tips for Anyone Making the Switch to Google Slides - A good discussion of the tips and hacks from Jayne Miller for those moving from #PowerPoint to Slides.

Using GAFE for Interactive Stories - A presentation from +Sylvia Duckworth unpacking the potential to use Slides to create #interactive stories

Jeopardy Game 5-Topic Template - A template from +Eric Curts for creating your own #Jeopardy game.

Way More Than a Slide Show: Creative Ways for Using Google Slides - A presentation by +Jesse Lubinsky on some more #creative ways to use Slides.

Slides Carnival - A collection of #templates to use with Google Slides

Iron Chef Style Lesson (Jon Corippo) and Iron Ed-tech Chef (Anthony Speranza) each provide an example of how slides can be used to support collaboration

Student Guide to Collaborative Google Slides - +Alice Keeler provides a #guide to using Slides to support #collaboration.

Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation - Three collaborators used Slides to develop an amazing #animation