25 Things You Didn’t Know Google Slides Could Do

The Do's and Don'ts of Google Slides A User Guide for Powerful Student Presentations! Google Slides is a powerful publishing and presentation tool when formatting is sharp and ideas are clearly communicated in clear and engaging ways. It is important for teachers to take the time to outline key design principles to allow students the creative freedom to express both their ideas and learning. There are so many different ways in which Google Slides can be incorporated in the classroom, from publishing a novel to classroom posters and taking the time to showcase the many features of Google Slides will be sure to promote top notch designs that allow students to thrive and be successful with their learning. The following Google Slide tips are designed in a slightly obnoxious way to drive home key components of a well designed and effective slidedeck. Let me introduce you to some of the Do’s and Don’ts of Google Slides… Colour Scheme Black and white is boring! Inserting Images Animations Less is More Shapes Supporting Fonts

Tools for Educators Google Slide Your Way from Zero to Hero Knowing where to start formatting Google Slides can often seem like a daunting and overwhelming task for any educator or professional. A task that many would think is time consuming, tedious, and only for a trained digital specialist. My goal today is to prove to you, yes YOU, that EVERYONE is capable of creating a beautiful and effective Google Slides presentation or publication! The following is a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to designing your best Google Slides yet! Before We Start: Choose your size! Let’s Get Started! Open up Google Slides either through your Google Drive (New > Google Slides) or through the direct link – slides.google.com.Choose your layout. The Design Process 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Voila! Be proud and confident with your new Google Slides design skills! Emma CottierCertified Google Innovator Royal Middle School Teacher & Technology SupportSaanich School District 63Twitter: @EmmaCottier Want to take it up a notch? Check out how here!

La communication non-violente expliquée en bande dessinée Communiquer s’apprend. Parler de soi, réfléchir avant d’agir, accepter l’autre tel qu’il est et l’écouter avant qu’il parle sont autant de pistes pour poser les premières pierres d’une communication efficace. BD réalisée par Le Cil Vert, tirée du hors-série 7. Communiquer s’apprend. BD réalisée par Le Cil Vert, tirée du hors-série 7. Add Music to Your Google Slides With the AudioPlayer Chrome Extension Earlier this year I excitedly shared the Google Slides Add-on called AudioPlayer for Google Slides. The video tutorial that I made for about it has proven to be popular too. Recently, I've received comments from viewers of that video who said that they can't find the Add-on. It turns out that the developer of the Add-on has turned it into a Chrome extension. AudioPlayer for Slides is a Chrome extension that will let you add music or spoken audio to your Google Slides presentations. Applications for EducationAudioPlayer for Slides could be useful to students who would like to add a little bit of background music to presentations. It's important to note that your students will need to have audio files stored in their Google Drive accounts before using AudioPlayer for Slides.

20 ways to use Wakelet in your class The Internet is a busy place. Wakelet makes it more manageable. See how you and your students can create collections and more with Wakelet. The Internet is full of useful information … and it’s getting fuller every day. That’s curation. Students can act like museum curators, finding the best and most representative pieces to add to their collections to share with others. It’s an important life skill, too. Meet Wakelet A curation tool I love is Wakelet (wakelet.com). Wakelet lets you create a collection with text, links, images, PDF files, tweets and more.Add as many of any type of item as you’d like — a collection of all links, a collection with text and images, a collection with all types of items, etc.Teachers can create collections for students. We've been using Wakelet to gather resources at Ditch That Textbook for a long time. Or you can always head to our main Ditch That Textbook Wakelet page to see all of our collections! How to sign up for Wakelet Collaboration is key 2. 3. 4. 10.

Ten Overlooked Google Slides Features Like any robust presentation tool, Google Slides has many features that often go overlooked by new users. Some of these features will let you accomplish the things that you used to do in PowerPoint or Keynote while others will just save you a bit of time. Either way, here are ten features of Google Slides that you should know how to use. 1. Word Art Word Art is different than just changing your font size or style. 2. Launch a live Q&A channel forum for your audience directly from the Presenter View menu. 3. Open the "tools" menu while editing your slides and you can choose to open a Keep Notepad. 4. You can use the "insert image" menu to launch a Google Images search, but that's not the best option for an integrated image search. 5. There are two ways that you can do this. 6. Last year Google finally added the option to include videos in your slides without those videos having to be on YouTube. 7. 8. In the "tools" menu in Google Slides you will find an option for speech-to-text. 9. 10.

Fabienne Bret-Dibat posted on LinkedIn Google Slides: Add Your Roster One of my favorite activities is collaborative Google Slides. That is all students in the class on the SAME Google Slides. I usually recommend to keep it simple. Create BLANK Google Slides and share it with edit access with the class. Students add their own slide and put their name in the speaker notes. Template alicekeeler.com/rostertoslides Directions Make a copy of the spreadsheet template.Use the Add-on menu to choose “Roster to Slides.”Choose setup.Authorize the script. Add-on Menu From the Add-on menu choose “Roster to Slides” and select “Setup.” Authorizing Google has NOT reviewed the script I coded. View screenshots of authorization Do not click on “Back to safety” but rather click on the word “Advanced.” Then more warning will expand out to let you know that Google has not reviewed this Apps Script. The app authorization is for YOURSELF to allow you to use SlidesApp and SpreadsheetApp to access the two files in this project. Paste Your Roster Create Slides Link to sample slides

Differentiation via open tasks How to Add Music and Voiceover Narration to Google Slides Audio can bring your presentations to life especially in a kiosk setting where slideshows play unattended in a continuous loop. If you have recently made the switch from Microsoft PowerPoint or Keynote to Google Slides, the one important feature that you might be missing inside Google Slides is audio. Both Keynote and PowerPoint make it extremely easy for you to add audio to a presentation. You can embed MP3 music files that play in the background for the entire presentation or you can record your own voiceover narration that is synchronized with the timing of each slide. Google Slides do not support audio files but you do have the option to embed videos inside the individual slides. The workaround, therefore, is simple – place the video file on a slide, make it invisible and turn on the auto-play mode. Demo: Google Slides with Audio Step 1: Prepare the Audio File You can use free tools like FFmpeg or Audacity to convert your audio files into video. Step 2: Put audio inside Google Slides

Nigerian Pidgin – 20 useful words and phrases If you are visiting Nigeria, don't be daunted by the 520 languages in our repertoire. Just remember to add a little bit of pidgin to yours and you will be fine. It is the one language that binds us all. My family are polyglots My maternal grandfather, Sergeant Afa, was a soldier whose family of 11 moved from barrack to barrack. This exposed them to different linguistic environments; now they speak between three and six languages. My aunties married and introduced new languages into the family. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba languages are our national languages because they are spoken by the majority. Our safe place is Nigerian Pidgin: our common language. Here are 20 examples of Nigerian pidgin. How you dey? This is pidgin for 'How are you?' How na? You can respond by saying: I dey (I am fine)I dey Kampe (I am doing well) You too much This is pidgin for: You are far too kind.Thank you.Good job! I wan Chop or I dey H To show that you are extremely hungry, you can say: When you hear, 'You don chop up?' K-leg