Google Slides is an easy to use presentation/slide show creator. Easily customize backgrounds, add images, video and audio. Easily find and add snazzy Google Slide templates designed by third party sites (see list below). Use Google Slide add-ons such as PearDeck, to turn one-way presentations into an interactive learning activity that provides student feedback. Use Google Slides to create HyperDocs, interactive drag and drop activities, digital notebooks, daily agendas and more!
Don't recreate the wheel!! There are tons of FREE templates being created and shared by educators all over online. When we find good ones we list them below. You can find them on Twitter, FaceBook, Pinterest or just by Googling "FREE Google Slide Templates! Task specific templates can be found on specific pages within this site (Digital Interactive Notebooks, Digital Vocab, Hyperdocs).
SlidesCarnival - Lots of FREE templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint
SlidesMania - AMAZING templates designed for education (digital notebooks, agendas, and more)
10 Virtual Basic Classroom Backgrounds (make a copy, add your Bitmoji and links)
Google slides can be used for so much more that flat, one-way presentations (not that there is anything wrong with them). Below is a list of activities using Google Slides as the tool to do a variety of learning and assessment activities:
Add PearDeck slides for student feedback
Digital School Supplies (i.e. Notebooks, Daily Agendas, etc.) Check out the SlidesMania link above for templates.