Spring 2022 - Active Learning Series Using Google Slides PD

During this professional learning session, we focused on Part 1 of the Interactive Google Slides series, which was focused on creating interactive, engaging, and easy to navigate slideshows for students. We learned how to create HyperSlides and develop lesson Agendas on Google Slides with hyperlinks in addition to using slide templates to create slideshows for students. Below is the recording and the slide template utilized for the presentation. Please feel free to make a copy of the slideshow used during this professional development if you would like or follow along with the template

During this PD, you will learn how make your slides accessible for all students. You will first learn how to add Audio to Google Slides through uploading audio as well as the Mote Add-on integration. Additionally, you learn how to add video to the slides. Last, you will take what you've learned from Part 1 and Part 2 to integrate the supports and accessibility features into the Frayer Vocabulary strategy. This strategy allows for a multimodal learning experience for students while they build their vocabulary skills.

During this PD, you will learn how to incorporate both Pear Deck and Nearpod as interactive add-on's to Google Slides. You will see a step by step process of how they are added on and how you can add them to your already created Google slideshows.

During this PD, you will learn how to integrate the strategy Think, Write, Pair, and Share into Google Slides and Pear Deck. This strategy is one that can utilized for formative assessment, guided practice, warm-ups, and closures to lessons. It is an engaging, interactive, and collaborative strategy when integrated with these two tools that amplify student learning.

During this PD, we summarize Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the professional learning series on active learning and interactive slides. Then, we invite you to create your own interactive Google Slideshow for an upcoming lesson.