Google Slides are one of the most versatile tools in the Google Workspace collection. They can be used not just for presenting information, but for creating interactive learning activities for your students. Harness the superpowers of slides to make the best looking interactive content!
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Ways to use Google Slides with Students
It is time to move beyond “death by PowerPoint” by creating activities where students are actively engaged in the learning process. Slides provides a free form platform that can be used in a variety of ways that go far beyond presentations. The superpowers of Slides allow you to create activities where your students can interact with the content and use a variety of tools to show you what they know. Students can even use Screencastify to record videos of their work, their thoughts and their reflections and insert the video right into the Slide they are working on. When a student is forced to interact with the content on a slide, they change from being a consumer of content to being a collaborator and creator. Here are just a few suggestions on how diverse the use of slides can be in the classroom.
Teachers can use Google Slides to:
Students can use Google Slides to:
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The ability to add audio to Google Slides can be a game changer when it comes to teaching and learning. You can use this feature to create interactive learning or modified experiences for your students. Or, you can even us it to add music to your end of the year picture presentation.
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Teachers can add audio to Google Slides to:
add audio directions to an assignment
create read aloud slides
give lab directions
teach proper pronunciation of vocabulary words
provide support for more difficult concepts by adding hints and reteaching moments
share an image and explain what is happening in the image and what the significance of the image might be or share the original audio from that historical moment
create interactive breakouts with audio clues
learn phonetic skills from teacher modeling
Students can add audio to Google Slides to:
show what they know
add pizzazz to a presentation
explain their thinking
create their own storybook
show off their world language skills
create a podcast
give peer to peer feedback
narrate their choose your own adventure story
create a multimedia presentation
show proof of collaboration
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Use the theme feature in Google Slides to build a template for a lesson, activity, or presentation where the elements of your slide are protected from accidentally being deleted.
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Teachers can use Slide Templates to:
Create guided activities with space for student responses
Provide students with directions that cannot be accidentally deleted.
Create a template to show on your projector that can then be written on with your interactive board without fear of accidentally moving items.
Create printable activities that can also live in a digital environment like Google Classroom.
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These former Tech Tuesday activities will show you different features and updates in Google Slides that will make you look like a Google Slides master! Feel free to share the materials with your students in Google Classroom.
Slip 'N Slide
Learn how to combine slides from different slideshow presentations by viewing this tutorial.
Word Art
Learn how to make your own word art in Google Slides by viewing this tutorial.
Slides 2 Images
Learn how to use Google Slides to create downloadable images that you can use in a variety of places.