Presentation Power-Ups

Our Digital Standards are really important to us. The quality of the resources we present to students says something about the expectations we have of them. One of the simplest fixes is to use images with transparent backgrounds instead of layering images surrounded with a white box.

To achieve this, use the tool options in your Google Search to search for transparent PNG images instead of JPEGs when constructing resources (Images > Tools > Colour > Transparent). You can find out more in our Digital Standards presentation.

For a brief tutorial, click here.

Provide students with an opportunity to self-navigate your presentations by presenting a contents slide with hyperlinks to other slides within the presentation. Then they can quickly find the information they need to progress.

Just list the slide titles (let's call them chapters) on the first slide and add a hyperlink to the first slide of each chapter. Add a 'back' button image on each slide and hyperlink that back to the contents slide (make one and copy & paste onto each slide).

You can access a tutorial here.

Construct a 'Virtual Become Unstuck Classroom' slide using hyperlinked transparent images. Use the 'Explore' button in the bottom left of Google Slides for easy access to Google Images (saves opening another tab!).

Construct a single slide for all presentations within a cycle of work (not one for each lesson) and teach the students to use it to become unstuck throughout the cycle.

You can access an example here (view in Slideshow mode and click away!)

Check out this blog, covering the top 20 tips to make your Google Slides presentations effective.

Delete the default table and you're left with a large blank canvas.

Add images, text, drawing, video and audio.

Great for mapping ideas!

Ask live questions and get the responses presented as a word cloud.

You can also add quizzes and polls.