Presentation Fun-Halloween

This project will have your using Google Slides for some Halloween fun, while you:

Search for Halloween Clipart with Transparent Backgrounds
Download Halloween sounds and drag them into your Google Drive folder
Practice with Animations and Timing in Google Slides to make your characters move
Insert cool sounds for the final touches..

Note: All presentation must be school appropriate and friendly - not bloody or gory

Process

Create a NEW FOLDER in your Google Drive Called "Halloween Fun"
Set the "SHARING" on that folder so anyone with the link can view

(see screen shots below of Google Folder and Share Settings)

(Make sure your sound files and your presentation are in this shared folder)

Start a new Google Slide presentation (in the Halloween Fun Folder)

Make the background Black (or some Halloween color) Choose Slide>> Slide Background

You can also search for a Halloween styled background and actually make the entire background of the slide that image.

Search Google Images for "Halloween Clipart" Use Google Tools>>Color>>Transparent background. You can also use this site to remove backgrounds: https://www.remove.bg/

Drag your clipart are into your slide.

Animate

Drag your image clips into your slide
Select "Insert Animations" - this will reveal the option panel on the Right Side
Choose the Animation you like and When it will happen (with previous, after previous)
Click "Present" to test it out
Make Changes as needed

Sound Process

Now use the sound link provided to find a cool sound effect

download the sound file
drag the sound file into your Google Drive to the Halloween Fun folder that you created earlier
Choose "Insert>>Audio" in Google Slides
Select the setting on the right sound panel - play automatically
Watch the presentation

**if you lose the sound panel options, just AltClick on your Sound File and Choose Format Options - the window will open**

(you can choose "hide sound file" as well if you don't want anyone to see it")

Link to Halloween Sound Effects

http://www.spookysoundtrack.com/

https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/scary_halloween_sounds.shtml

Click the little "warning" in controls to enable the cool sounds!!!

Publish To The Web

Now to make this play automagically you can "publish" to the web will give you a URL to your Animation (this is the link you will turn into Google Classroom)

You will also be able to adjust the timing by changing the "milliseconds" in the actual URL

Steps To Follow

Choose File>> Publish to the Web
Change the setting to every second, start automatically restart
Hit Publish

Adjusting The Timing On Multiple Slides

If you USED MULTIPLE SLIDES and need to make the transition between slides faster than one second per slide - copy and past the URL into a Document

Then lower the "milliseconds" to 500 - test it out. Copy and past the new URL with the new timing into your browser and test it out.

Turn in the final link to Google Classroom

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSF6VNnsJxrr5Bx3a5mPKE80LgfwfGIo3yQfYXJgFeV-96oC0tpTXK3pp-DOF8Z6WOf-SMQtc9Swg-f/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=1000&slide=id.gee865a0424_0_8

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