GOOGLE SLIDES

Google Slides

Google Slides is useful for creating and curating collaborative presentations, templates, multimedia and allows for students to demonstrate their understanding

What does it do?

  • Useful for organizing and delivering instruction while demonstrating understanding of content and/or instruction.

  • Allows for higher-level thinking skills, creativity, problem-solving, flexible thinking, revision, iteration, collaboration and feedback.

  • Hosts a myriad of add-on capabilities to increase functionality and enhance instruction.

  • Google Slides is a core app in GSuite for Education; therefore, it protects student data and can be set up as a walled garden to keep students safe.

GOOGLE SLIDES TUTORIALS

How is it Used by Teachers?

How is it Used by Students?

  • Allows teachers to plan for and organize content.

  • Google Suite integration

  • Allows teachers to present multimedia content.

  • Dynamic integration with various platform tools (YouTube, Loom, Screencastitfy, NearPod, Pear Deck, EdPuzzle)

  • Promotes UDL principles/strategies such as interactivity and represents material in different ways to support ALL learners.

  • A place to house curriculum and embed formative and summative assessments.

  • Collaborative planning, sharing and workflow management.

  • Ability for the teacher to differentiate content and activities

  • Create templates, digital notebooks/portfolios, graphic organizers for lessons, and interactive slides for students to manipulate.

  • Create posters, tutorials, Ebooks, digital yearbooks and infographics for staff, students, and families.

  • Creation and organization of Hyperdocs/Hyperslides to streamline learning

  • Supports community building and access for all stakeholders (Picture Slideshows for back to school night)

  • Fosters opportunities for feedback and discussion protocols utilizing Q & A features.

  • Supports engagement practices and student investment

  • Communication tool for school sites (morning announcements)

  • Content creation (presentations, interactive notebooks, portfolios, Ebooks, digital yearbooks, posters, infographics, tutorials, digital notecards, storytelling, stop motion animation, graphic organizers).

  • Formative and summative assessment checks to demonstrate understanding in different ways (Q & A tool)

  • Utilize graphic organizers and templates to produce a product

  • Create and collaborate “live” on projects (small groups, partnerships)

  • Global collaboration and connectionsVoice and choice (choice boards, original creations)

  • Use immediate peer to peer and teacher interactions and specific feedback to adjust and set goals

  • Audio and video creation tools with editing capabilities (Screencastify)

  • Contribute to school announcements (morning or weekly announcements) to promote positive school culture

  • Use of accessibility tools when appropriate (UDL)

  • Access to a variety of tools and resources to apply to creative authentic works (drawing, cropping, masking, recolor tools) and complete projects

  • Create and interact with Hyperslides to outside content and media (video integration, research information, interactive reflection, writing, participate with interest and ability level, create and collaborate)

  • Manipulate interactive slides for all content areas