Google Slides

THE WHY

When you use Google Slides Links to an external site. your presentation is automatically saved. You keep all the drafts of a document in one file and can view or revert to previous versions. You can access and edit your document on nearly any device. You don't need to backup files as Google does that for you.

You can easily collaborate with anyone, even if they do not have a Google account, and collaborate in real time, using the comment and chat features. You can create and share slides templates or distribute digital copies of a slides show. You can voice type speaker notes. You can include links to online content and multimedia. You can easily publish your slideshow to the web making it viewable to the world.

Google Slides supports collaboration, communication and creativity. The ability to publish and share slides can be used to provide an authentic audience for students' work and supports global connections. Google Slides facilitates the process of providing timely and actionable feedback and can be used for formative assessment purposes. It provides the opportunity to teach students about information literacy, creative credit, and copyright.

THE WHAT

Learning Outcomes

1. Instructors will use Google Slides in their lessons.
2. Students will use Google Slides to demonstrate their learning.

Classroom Application

Browse these ideas and start to formulate a plan for using Google Slides in your classroom. If you are new to Google Slides, look at the Basic section. If you are an experienced user, check out the Advanced section.

Basic

• 3 Benefits of Letting Students Present Links to an external site.
• Student collaboration in shared Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Holding Students Accountable for SSR (without inflating your gradebook) Links to an external site.
• Create Learning Menus or Choice Boards Links to an external site.
• Oh the Things Littles CAN Do with Google Slides Links to an external site.
• With the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on Links to an external site., you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.
• Create Interactive Agendas with Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Google Slides icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking Links to an external site.
• Create a HyperDoc Links to an external site. for your students
• Get Creative with Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Winter Magnetic Poetry with Google Slides Links to an external site. by Shake Up Learning
• Thinking Maps in Slides Links to an external site.
• 12 tips for using Google Apps with young students Links to an external site.
• Use the Insert>Image>Camera feature to have students take pictures of their work and have it land on a Google Slide that they can share or submit to you. You can use the comment feature to leave them feedback.
• Creating Interactive Students Journals: "Now that my school is 1:1 with devices, I’ve switched from paper journals to interactive journals using Google Slides in my classroom. It’s much faster to grade and track my students’ understanding. I typically have students use their journals as a warm-up to review previous lessons or introduce a new topic, and it’s been fun giving students a different way to share their knowledge. Paper journals were somewhat limiting, but now students can create memes or use GIFs to express themselves.” - Kathleen Mathis, Fairfax County Public Schools (@AtomicTeacha)

Advanced

• 25 Things You Didn't Know Google Slides Could Do Links to an external site.
• Create Digital Interactive Notebooks Links to an external site.
• 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects Links to an external site.
• Use the Pear Deck Google Slides Add-on Links to an external site. to access a library of templates for easily creating formative assessments within a slideshow Links to an external site..
• How to create an ebook with Google Slides Links to an external site.: This could be done by the teacher to deliver content, or done by students to demonstrate their learning Links to an external site.
• Explain your directions and learning targets in Slides. Then narrate the slides by recording the presentation using Screencastify Links to an external site..
• Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Tips for Creating Stop-Motion Slides Links to an external site.
• Edit the Slide Master Links to an external site.
• Download a transcript of a Google Slides presentation to a text file Links to an external site.
• How to Find and Install PowerPoint Add-ins Links to an external site.
• Add a Slide per Student in Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Using Google Slides for Peer to Peer Feedback Links to an external site.
• Create flashcards WITH students with Flashcard Factory Links to an external site.
• Template Palooza! Links to an external site.
• Infographics Templates with Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Plug-ins and Add-ons for Adding Images to Documents & Slides Links to an external site.
• Create Your own App Using Google Slides Links to an external site. and How to Create Your Own “Apps” with Google Slides  with FREE Template Links to an external site.

THE HOW

Use these resources to learn about Google Slides, watching and reading just what you need to implement Google Slides in your lessons.

Google Workspace Learning Center

Google Workspace Learning Center: Google Slides Training and Help Links to an external site.

Google Slides 2017 Tutorial

Additional Resources

• Google Sides Cheat Sheet from Shake Up Learning  Download Google Sides Cheat Sheet from Shake Up Learning 

• Google Slides Help Links to an external site.
• 16 Time-saving Google Slides Tips & Tricks (Even Experts Don’t Know) Links to an external site.
• 4 Free and Easy Audio Recording Tools for Google Slides Links to an external site.
• Remote for Slides Links to an external site.: a Chrome Extension that lets you use a mobile device as a remote to control the slideshow as well as view your speaker notes. 
• Encourage audience participation through the Q&A in Google Slides. Simply select the grey arrow next to the present tool and select “Presentation View” to enable. Audience members will be able to post questions (anonymity optional) throughout your presentation using the persistent link at the top of each slide. If a question is popular with the audience they can rate it with a thumbs up.
• Template Palooza Links to an external site.
• Video Tutorial Links to an external site.: How to use the new Closed Captioning feature in Google Slides along with Screencastify to make a polished final product video that includes closed captions.

Using Google Slides in Canvas and Google Classroom

• Google Assignments LTI 1.3 Links to an external site.
• How to embed Google apps into Canvas Links to an external site.
• How materials are shared in Classroom

EARN THE BADGE

See the attached rubric to know how your submission will be assessed (click 3 dot Options menu at the top and choose Show Rubric). To earn the badge, you must obtain 6 of the possible 7 points.

1. 1. Design a lesson in which you apply what you have learned for use in your classroom, either by using Google Slides yourself for instruction, or by having your students use it. See the Designing Tech Amplified Lesson for guidance on creating a lesson plan that uses digital tools.
   2. Click Reply below and reflect on your lesson. In your reply include:
      • Did students demonstrate understanding of the learning target? If yes, how? 
      • How did the use of Google Slides amplify your lesson? Did it add value to the learning goal though engagement, enhancement or extension? Did it make you or your student more efficient and effective?
      • If you had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would you do differently? Why?
      • In your reply, you can choose to share an artifact or your lesson plan in the form of a shared link, screenshot (Links to an external site.), attached file (Links to an external site.), or embedded image (Links to an external site.). This is not required.

Once you've posted your reply, you will be able to view posts from other teachers. Feel free to like or comment on others' submissions.