Download free PowerPoint backgrounds and templates - Brainy Betty Another Place to Find Google Slides Templates In my recent post about creating certificates in Google Slides I featured the Google Slides template gallery. The Slides and Drive template galleries are my go-to places for templates. Yesterday, Craig Badura tipped me off on another place to find Google Slides templates. Slides Carnival is a website that offers dozens of Google Slides templates. Provided that you are signed into your Google Account, each template can be saved to your Google Drive account by simply clicking the "use this presentation template" button that appears below each template. Applications for EducationSlides Carnival isn't going to change the way students present, but it does offer a nice alternative to seeing the same old templates over and over again.
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Three Google Slides Features New Users Often Ask About Last week I published a post answering three questions that new Google Docs users frequently ask. That post turned out to be quite popular so I'm following up this week with the answers to three questions that new Google Slides users frequently ask. Here are three questions that I frequently hear from new Google Slides users. 1. There are two solutions to this problem. The other option for accessing your slides without an internet connection is to enable offline access for your Google Drive account on your computer. 2. Unfortunately, Google Slides only supports the use of YouTube videos at this time. 3. This is the question about Google Slides that I am asked more than any question. The animation options appear in the same menu as transitions. Topics like this one and many more will be covered during this summer's Practical Ed Tech Chromebook Camp.
Free PowerPoint Templates for Teachers and Students We've all seen plenty of poorly designed slides that have harsh color schemes, fonts that are too small, or otherwise just don't look quite right. Fortunately, there is help for those of us who struggle with visual design. Sites like SlideModel, SlideHunter, and FPPT offer slide design templates that we can use in PowerPoint, OpenOffice Impress, and Google Slides. SlideHunter is a free website containing a collection of free slide decks. FPPT is another site that offers free PowerPoint templates for teachers and students. SlideModel is a website that offers professionally designed PowerPoint slide templates. Disclosure: SlideModel is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com
How to Use Google Slides to Crop and Filter Images This week Google made the Nik collectionfree to all users. The Nik collection is a set of plug-ins for desktop editing tools like Photoshop and Aperture. While those tools are powerful they are probably more than most of need for editing images that we'll put into slideshows, collages, or documents. Google Slides and Google Documents have image editing tools built into them. Those tools are more than adequate for most classroom uses of images. Learn more Google Drive tips and tricks in the new section of Getting Going With GAFE starting on April 5th.H/T to Lifehacker for the news about Nik.
Here's a Visual Design Tip to Make Your Slides Look Great Let’s face it, we’re not all graphic designers and it can be a chore to get the right look for your slides. This is especially true if your slide is a little light on content leaving a lot of white space. And when this happens, we feel obligated to fill it with something like decorative clip art. The following visual design tip is a great way to fill the space and maintain some context. Examples of the Visual Design Tip I’m not sure if there’s a formal name for this visual design tip but I like to call it the transparent echo technique. As you can see the transparent echo technique works with objects, characters, and even illustrations. Step to Create the Transparent Echo Technique Essentially you copy and paste the primary object and use it as a background image. Duplicate the main image and place on the background.Scale the background image up and crop it or move it a little off screen. Here’s a video tutorial that walks through the process. Click here to view YouTube video.
How to Use the New Q&A and Laser Pointer Features of Google Slides @googledocs This afternoon Google added two fantastic new features to Google Slides. First, Google Slides now has a Q&A feature that lets your audience submit questions to you. Second, Google Slides now has a built-in laser pointer that you can use to call attention to parts of your slides. I've already received some questions about how to use these new features so I made the following short video. Applications for Education The new Q&A feature in Google Slides promises to be a great way to collect questions and comments from students during a presentation by you or their classmates. Learn how to get the most out of Google Apps in my online course Getting Going With GAFE.
How to Insert & Modify Charts in Google Slides On Wednesday afternoon Google announced the release of a new feature in Google Slides. The new feature is the option to insert charts and graphs from Google Sheets. You can insert pre-existing charts from your Google Sheets or you can create a new chart or graph from scratch in your Google Slides. Applications for Education Students could use the new charts feature to create representations of data they collected in a research project. If you found this video to be helpful, visit my YouTube channel for more than 300 ed tech tools tutorial videos. The Gift of Google Slides for Shared Conference Presentations | Technology and Learning Google Slides may be one of those rare examples of an unambiguous technological win. A technology with only upsides. A technology that allows us to work not only in a different way - but in a better way. That better way is collaboration. Google Slides is a terrific tool for creating shared presentations. Last week I participated in a presentation at the Learning with MOOCS III conference. Normally, getting 6 different people (from 4 different institutions) to agree on a single presentation theme, tempo, style, and content is basically impossible. The normal method of shared presentation creation is for one person to “own” the deck. To get around the problem of shared presentation creation, many co-presenters choose to use separate decks. The problem with that approach is that a joint presentation becomes a serial presentation. What Google Slides enables is for everyone on the presentation team to work on the same set of slides in real-time.