I was sitting through a presentation at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference when on one of the slides I thought I saw a progress bar for the number of slides in the presentation at the bottom of the slide. The bar was a mirage, but that started me on the trek to add progress bars…
Your students may not be comfortable with presenting in front of the class, causing them to simply dump everything on to each slide and read from the slides. By using Slide notes and the Present with notes view, students no longer need to feel like they need to put everything they want to say on…
Building on my automatic creation of student placards, here’s how you can add QR codes to the student placards. This mean you can link to videos or websites to provide more information about the project.
Change the document size so you can create full page signs, newsletters, and flyers in Google Slides! Is there anything Google Slides can’t do?
Here’s a great video on how to use some of the interactivity of a Google Slide, but full screen. Usually if you want to do drag and drop assignments or use links in Google Slides you have to keep the view as if you are editing the slide. Now you don’t!
Not only can you easily create graphic organizers in Google Slides, but you can also lock items and share the completed organizer with your students through Google Classroom or Google Drive sharing. Other Google Slides help: How to lock objects in Google Slides (two ways, one doesn’t involve downloading graphics!) – 6 tips to make…
When I teach, I despise being locked to the laptop at the front of the room. Here’s a free Chrome extension and companion website that lets you take control of Google Slides… From any device. Links: 💾 Remote for Slides Chrome extension 🎥 Hat tip to the Fab Teacher for showing this extension 📰 Sign…