Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Step by Step Guide on How to Create Interactive Presentations Using The New Google Slides Features

May 6, 2016 After posting about the new Slides’ Q&A feature, we received a couple of questions regarding its usage. So we created this visual guide to walk you through the process of integrating questions in your presentation. But let us firs start with a refresher about what Slides Q&A is all about.This is a new functionality that allows members of your audience to engage with your presentation by asking realtime questions while you are presenting. They can also vote on the questions they want answered the most. To activate this interactive feature in your presentation you need to generate and share a link with your audience so they can access the page where they can write down their questions. Once a member asks a question, it will show up in the ‘Audience Tools’ section accessible through Presentation view. Here is how to start a live Q&A session during a presentation with Google Slides. This is how to show questions from the audience: To present questions live to your audience: Related: Slides

10 Google Slides activities to add awesome to classes Google Slides lets students collaborate and display ideas effectively. Create animation, story books, video galleries and more. (Flickr / college.library) At one point, creating a PowerPoint presentation to show to the class was cutting-edge classroom technology. Those days are gone, and now, online presentations enable so much more for students. Google Slides, the Google Apps solution to PowerPoint, opens this classroom staple up to vast possibilities. Here are some ideas to harness the Google Slides greatness in your classroom. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. For notifications of new Ditch That Textbook content and helpful links: like Ditch That Textbook on Facebookfollow @jmattmiller on Twitterfollow Ditch That Textbook on Pinterestjoin the Ditch That Textbook community on Google+, andfollow +MattMiller16 on Google+! Interested in having Matt present at your event or school? Matt is scheduled to present at the following upcoming events: Related January 6, 2016 In "Ed Tech" August 22, 2016

2015-02-05 - Google Slides for Interactive Stories, Quizzes, and Games Session Description: We all know Google Slides is a great tool for making multimedia slideshows. But did you know it can also be used to make "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories, interactive quizzes, and online Jeopardy games? With the ability to link to specific slides and go to different slides depending on the choice, you can make and use interactive slideshows. Learn how teachers and students can use Google Slides to create more than just presentations. Presenter: Eric Curts Date: February 5, 2015 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm EST Session Resources: Help guide for this session - "Creating Interactive Google Presentations" - Google Docs Link Extra - General Google Slides Help Guide - "Using Google Slides" - Google Docs Link Live Session Chat: If you have any questions or comments during the live session, type in the document linked below Session Evaluation: Please provide your feedback on this session.

Google Slides: Adding Transitions and Animations - Full Page In Google Slides adding transitions is simple. Also in Google Slides adding animations is easy. Learn how to perform both functions here. Adding transitions and animations Presentations don't have to be a series of static slides. You can add animations to objects on slides or transitions to entire slides. Google Slides has one pane to manage all of your transitions and animations. Transitions and animations are best used in moderation. To add a transition: Select the desired slide, then click the Transition command on the toolbar. To add an animation: Right-click the desired object, then select Animate. If the Animations pane is already open and you want to add more animations, you can select an object and click Add animation. Animation options By default, an effect starts playing when you click the mouse during a slide show. If the object is a placeholder or text box, the By paragraph check box will be displayed. Challenge! Open our example file.

Google Slides: Create a Locked Down Background - Teacher Tech When using Google Slides you can set the background image on a slide by clicking on the “Background” button in the toolbar. Any images on the background are locked down. Template alicekeeler.com/drawslides Google Drawing I created a template in Google Drawing that is the same size as the default Google Slides. Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers make great backgrounds for Google Slides. Directions In Google Slides, to help make sure directions do not accidentally get deleted, put the directions as a background image. Google Slides Insert a blank slide in Google Slides. Click on “Choose” to upload the image you just downloaded from Google Drawing. lock down google slides lock down google slides Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2016

Google Slides: Adding Pictures and Shapes - Full Page In Google Slides adding pictures is easy. Also in Google Slides adding shapes is simple. Learn how to do both in this free lesson. Adding pictures and shapes Adding pictures and shapes can make your presentations more interesting and engaging. Inserting pictures You can insert a picture from a file on your computer onto any slide. To insert a picture: Open the Insert menu, then select Image. Formatting pictures There are a variety of ways to format the pictures in your slide show. To crop an image: Select the image you'd like to crop, then click the Crop command. To crop an image to a shape: Select the image you want to crop, then click the Mask Image drop-down arrow next to the Crop command. After cropping the image to a shape, you can click the crop button again to use the cropping handles and adjust the size and proportions of the shape. Image options You can adjust the transparency, brightness, and contrast of an image, as well as recolor the image. Moving and resizing pictures Challenge!

Google Slides: Watch Students Collaborate with Grid View Use grid view in #googleslides to watch students work collaboratively. #googleedu #muhsd pic.twitter.com/snSIIui12A— Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler) February 13, 2018 I’m a huge fan of collaborative Google Slides. Create a Google Slides.Name the slides.DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ON THEM. I try to use collaborative Google Slides or collaborative Google Sheets more often than I have students do individual documents. Grid View This is a pretty new feature in Google Slides. This allows you to see all students working on their slides at once. Control Minus Use Control Minus to zoom out. Project Grid View I’m prone to project the grid view while I go around and work with students on their slides. Frayer Model This is unrelated to Grid View but in the tweet what we were doing was practicing doing collaborative Frayer models on Google Slides. alicekeeler.com/frayermodel What is awesome about the Frayer model in Google Slides is the ability to use multi-media. “Math Frayer Model” alicekeeler.com/solveit

Google Slides: Slide Basics - Full Page When working in Google Slides slide basics can help you become more comfortable with the program. Learn all about slides here. Slide basics Every Google Slides presentation is composed of a series of slides. To begin creating a slide show, you'll need to know the basics of working with slides. You'll need to feel comfortable with tasks such as inserting a new slide, changing the layout of a slide, and arranging existing slides. Understanding slides and slide layouts When you insert a new slide, it will usually have placeholders to show you where text will be placed. Creating a slide and selecting a layout Whenever you start a new presentation, it will contain one slide with the Title Slide layout. Click the drop-down arrow next to the New slide command. To change the layout of an existing slide, click the Layout command, then choose the desired layout. To quickly add a slide that uses the same layout as the selected slide, click the New slide command. Organizing slides Adjusting placeholders

Three Ways to Add Audio to Google Slides One of the questions that new Google Slides users often ask me is, "how do I add music to the slides?" In the early days of Google Slides that wasn't possible at all. Today, there are three methods that you can use to add music to Google Slides. AudioPlayer for Google Slides is a free Add-on that will let you add music to the background of a presentation created with Google Slides. The only problem with the AudioPlayer for Google Slides Add-on is that your music plays over all of the slides. To add music to Google Slides you should find a YouTube video that contains music that is Creative Commons licensed. You can use the same basic process as is outlined above to add spoken audio to your Google Slides. Learn more about Google Slides in lesson 3 of G Suite for Teachers.

Google Slides: Getting Started with Your Presentation - Full Page If you're new to Google Slides getting started is easy. Use this lesson to familiarize yourself with this free cloud-based presentation software. Getting started with your presentation Google Slides allows you to create dynamic slide presentations. The Google Slides interface When you create a new presentation in Google Slides, the interface for Slides will appear. Click the buttons in the interactive below to learn about the interface for Google Slides. edit hotspots Presentation Title Google Drive displays the title of your presentation here and in the View pane of your Google Drive homepage. Google Slides Home Screen This icon indicates that you are in the Google Slides interface. Menu Toolbar Various menus for working with your presentation can be found on the menu toolbar. Collaboration Options Click Share to share your spreadsheet, as well as to allow others to edit it and collaborate on it. Shortcut Toolbar Slide Navigation Pane Slide Pane Here, you can view and edit the selected slide.