WHAT IS PRESENTATION GENERATION?
Generative AI has made it easier to automatically create presentations, easier than ever before. These tools utilize the power of artificial intelligence to help you quickly generate visually stunning presentations for your classroom.
Whether you're teaching history, science, or art, these tools got you covered. Simply input your prompt, choose from a variety of themes, and let the AI do the rest.
How teachers can use presentation generation tools in different subjects?
The presentation generation tools create different slides giving an outline for the presentation on the basis of the prompt given by the teacher, following are few examples of how teachers can use these tools to create presentations for different subjects -
Science: Automatically generate presentation to explain scientific concepts or phenomena using engaging pictures. For example in order to teach a topic called "Natural Phenomena" a teacher can give a prompt mentioning different topics and sub topics given in the chapter Some Natural Phenomenon from class 8 science textbook and the tool will automatically create multiple slides with various headings, subheadings and pictures which can provide the teacher with a starting point for the presentation.
History: Create presentations that consist of timelines depicting historical events and pictures in which the teachers can further add dates, events and descriptions.
Art: Create slideshows to showcase famous artworks, share artist biographies and demonstrate different artistic techniques and styles.
Physical Education: Create presentations to teach students about various health topics by demonstrating exercises with engaging pictures and highlight the benefits of regular physical activity and balanced diet . Teachers can customize the slides by adding visuals demonstrating proper form and technique.
Benefits of using Generative AI for presentation generation
Generative AI tools can offer several benefits to teachers in the realm of presentation creation -
Increase Efficiency: These tools can automatically generate presentations based on user input, saving teachers significant time and effort compared to building slides from scratch.
Enhance Engagement: AI can generate creative and visually appealing slides with attractive designs and high-quality images making presentations more engaging for students.
Teacher Support: By automating the creation of presentation, teachers are freed up to focus on more strategic aspects of lesson planning and delivery, like crafting engaging activities or providing individualiSed feedback.
TOOL 1 : SLIDES AI
SlidesAI is an AI-powered tool that revolutionizes the creation of presentations. It has an easy-to-use interface and no design skills are required to create and customize the presentations. Currently, SlidesAI is available as a Google Slides extension.
Its basic version can be used for free which makes it a preffered choice for users. Let us now look at how teachers can use SlidesAI in order to create presentation for a CBSE class 8 Science topic called "Some Natural Phenomena". At the end we will share few other Gen AI tools that can be used to automatically generate presentations.
Download and Install SlidesAI Application from Slides AI website by clicking on "Install SlidesAI" button on the top right corner.
After Installing SlidesAI open Google Slides, and navigate to Extensions, under which you should be able to see the SlidesAI.io option, now click on SlidesAI.io option and subsequently click on Generate Slides in order to create new presentation using a prompt.
You may generate slides either using "From You Own Text" or "From Topic" (other options are not available and may be available in the future). One may generate Presentation using one's own text however there is a 350 characters limit which restricts from giving a good prompt. Hence it is suggested to use the "From Topic " option. The following steps show how to generate presentation using "From Topic" feature.
The teacher may use the NCERT textbooks available online (https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php) to generate the prompt . Let us look at how one can generate a prompt to make a presentation on the topic "Natural Phenomenon" from Class 8, Chapter 12 in the NCERT Science Textbook.
The word limit is 200 characters, in order to make an effective presentation the teachers can use a prompt consisting of the topics from the NCERT chapter for which the presentation needs to be made. Following are few examples:
PROMPT Examples:
Prompt for the topic "Some Natural Phenomena": The Story of Lightning, Lightning Safety, Do's and Don'ts, Earthquakes, What is an Earthquake? What Causes an Earthquake? Protection against Earthquakes (1. If you are at home 2. If you are outdoors)
Prompt for the topic "The Indian Constitution": Why Does a Country Need a Constitution? ,The Indian Constitution: Key Features , Federalism, Parliamentary Form of Government, Separation of Powers, Fundamental Rights, Secularism.
Prompt for the topic "Social Health" : What is Social Health?, Need for developing social health, Role of various Institutions, Role of schools in promoting social health, Ideas for Promoting Social Health of Students .
Now please select the Presentation type, for example to teach a topic called "Some Natural Phenomenon" one might prefer using "Educational" presentation type, then please choose number of of Slides followed by the "Style" of the Slides.
Now please Scroll down and choose Color Presets according to your liking. Please scroll down further and and select the Layout Type for the Slides along with a "Logo" in .jpeg/.jpg format in order to personalize the slides.
After making the above choices please click on "Create Slides" in order to start generating the slides. After which SlidesAI will start generating the slides, SlidesAI will take one to two minutes to create slides.
After the slides have been created the given window will appear on your computer , please press Okay and close the window. Once you go back to the Google Slides, you will be able to see the complete presentation created by SlidesAI.
The figures given below shows examples of a slides generated by SlidesAI on the topic "Some Natural Phenomenon" using the prompt given in step 4.
For further customization, teacher can edit the generated slides by using "edit theme" option under the "slides" button in the menu bar.
ALTERNATIVE PRESENTATION GENERATION TOOLS
Wepik is a web-based alternative to slides.ai, offering instant access to attractive presentation design without the need for downloads. Simply use it directly on the website, and it generates engaging presentations in seconds.
Link to the website - https://wepik.com/ai-presentations
Alternatively, you can use Plus AI to create a Google Slides presentation and export it to PowerPoint. it provides features like prompt to presentation, document to presentation and edit slides with AI.
Link to the website - https://www.plusdocs.com/features/multi-language
Tome is an another exciting presentation generation tool similar to others. But It provides unique feature like it generates an outline and 4 variations of each slide. You can then select which one best expresses your idea.
Link to the website - https://tome.app/ai