Create a gameboard with Google Slides to engage your students.
Category: Slides
Student-Led Conferences Template
When there’s a script or some sort of template for student-led conferences, it also helps families who speak another language.
Google Slides for Breakout Rooms
Use Google Slides in Breakout Rooms No matter if you use Zoom or Google Meet or another video product to do breakout rooms with students, consider having a Google Slides per group. First Slide Built into my First Slide Add-on I have created a way to manage Google Slides for breakout rooms. Note that First…
Time’s Up for Breakout Room: Google Slides Hack
When students are in a breakout room you may want to have each group have a Google Slides for them to organize their conversations and guide the activities. To let students know that the time is up I have coded a “Time’s Up” announcement to push to the slides. Template Pile of Slides I have…
3 Minute Timer – Google Slides
In the classroom we often need a timer. One of my favorite ways is to go to a new tab and simply type in 3 minute timer. However, you can use Google Slides to create a timer. I created a slide for every second. Click here for the Google Slides file. Publish to the Web…
Google Slides: Hide Columns in First Slide
One of my most popular non published Add-ons is First Slide. This allows you to push slides to student Google Slides and to also grab the text off of their first slide so you can quickly read and give feedback. Spreadsheet The answer is always a spreadsheet. First Slide is an Add-on for Google Sheets….
Save Hours: First Slide to Give Slides Feedback Fast
Opening individual student docs to give feedback is SLOW! Try using First Slide to send student feeback faster. First Slide will bring in the text the student has on the first slide of the Google Slides. Additionally, you can push out new slides to the student slides. Template Assign Individual Google Slides You need a…
Google Slides: Add Audio Recording with @screencastify
In order to add an audio file to a Google Slides you need an MP3 in Google Drive. How do you make an MP3??? ONE way is Screencastify. Record Your Screen An MP3 is audio only. Use the Screencastify Chrome extension to record. Do not worry about what is being recorded with video, that will…
Google Slides: Use Titles
Many of us are using Google Slides to build interactive student activities. You can link to another slide in the Google Slides to help students navigate. Titles are the Slide Name When hyperlinking to a slide (Control K) you want to select “Slides in this presentation.” From the drop down you can choose the particular…
AUTOMATICALLY Create a Linked Google Sides Table of Contents
In a Google Doc you can insert a Table of Contents to provide a link to each section in the document. This is not a function in Google Slides. If you are creating a Google Slides lesson for students it can be handy to provide linked text or a button to have students jump to…
FREE!! Make a Pile of Google Slides for Students and Update Them
NOTE: I have rolled the features of pile slides into First Slide. When teaching remotely, or just when teaching with digital tools, using Google Slides is a giant help! Students can create muti-media representations of their work and since Google Slides are collaborative you can see their work in real time. Now you want to…
FREE – pushSlides to Update Student Slides in Google Classroom
How to Update Student Google Sides If you have a Google Slides PER STUDENT in an assignment in Google Classroom you may want to update the students slides. You could open each students slides and copy paste new slides. OR you can use my Add-on Reuse GC to push slides to students slides to update…
Google Slides: Create a Venn Diagram
In Google Slides or Google Drawing you can create a Venn Diagram by creating 2 circles and adjusting the transparency of the fill color. Perfect Circles The trick to a perfect circle is to hold down the Shift key when you draw the circle. Fill Color – Reduce Opacity To make your fill on your…
Google Slides: Share Templates
If you create a Google Slides template and want to share it with others you can modify the end of the Slides URL to turn your slides into a template. /template/preview Change the Sharing Permissions By default the sharing permissions on any file is private. You can not share templates of private files. Make sure…
Ask A Question Gosh Darn It
Use Google Slides Q&A to Get Your Audience to Ask a Question The TCEA conference sent out a tweet reminding participants to ASK A QUESTION! Google Slides has an easy way to let your audience ask a question even if they are afraid to raise their hand. You know how at the end of a…
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