Insert Icons into Slides: Creating an infographic in Google Slides? Use this Google Slides add-on to find icons/images for insertion into your infographic. Special Thanks to Kathy Miller (Twitter: @millerk813) for the suggestion!
Icons by Noun: Access over one million icons. Special Thanks to Kathy Miller (Twitter: @millerk813) for this suggestion, too!
Palette: Not sure how colors should look together? Give this one a try. It allows you to "create your own color palette by manipulating the variation and hue colors."
Fireshot Screenshot Tool: Need a Chrome extension that takes pictures of a web page? Use Fireshot!
Help guide - "Creating Interactive Google Presentations" - Google Document link
Training video - "Google Slides for Stories, Quizzes, and Games" - YouTube link
Blog post - "Dragon Quest! A Google Slides Interactive Story" - Website link
Blog post - "Jeopardy Game Templates for Google Slides" - Website link
Slideshow - "Google Slides for Stories, Quizzes, and Games" - Google Slides link
Sample Interactive Story - "Dragon Quest" - Google Slides link
Sample Interactive Quiz - Google Slides link
Template for Interactive Quiz - Google Slides link
Sample Jeopardy Game - Math Terms - Google Slides link
Jeopardy Game - 5-topic Template - Google Slides link
Jeopardy Game - 6-topic Template - Google Slides link
Map out your own hyperlinked slides. For example:
Select a theme for your ePortfolio and then create
Be sure to do the following:
Name each slide
Create a table of contents
Link to each slide from the table of contents
One of the powerful aspects of strategies that work is how they connect to the ways humans learn. John Hattie (Visible Learning, 2009) says the following:
“Learning progressions ensure that appropriately higher expectations of challenges are provided to students…there is not one right trajectory of progress for all students.
Instead, it is more critical to analyse closely how students progress….there is also the question of how to move each student forward from wherever they start through these levels of achievement….”
The money quote here is, “There is not one right trajectory of progress for all students.” Educational research clearly shows that choice leads to more confident, capable, and interested students. The classic article “Choices for Children” (Alfie Kohn) cites relevant findings that include:
Giving students choice in learning tasks led to greater task completion in less time.
Students asked to write up chemistry problems without step-by-step instructions completed better write-ups. What’s more, they remembered the material better. This is no surprise given generative note-taking (d=.51) research.
Put in a simple way, student choice, when implemented in the right way, works. Choice boards are one way to do it right.
A choice board is a graphic organizer that allows students to choose how they will learn a concept. Usually a choice board includes these aspects:
9-square grid
Each square has an activity
Each activity might relate to one of the multiple intelligences
Level of difficulty can vary or stay consistent throughout the board
Check out these examples below. H/t to Nick LeFave at EdTech Picks.
Now that you’re convinced, let’s revisit the choice board creation process. The process you choose reflects what you know and how you connect ideas and information. Some steps you can follow:
Choose the target concept/standard .
Outline or draw out your concept map.
Make a list of discrete ideas/skills/strategies.
Connect those to modalities that meet the needs of different students.
Design the choice board in your tool of choice.
For an example, check out the work of Joli Boucher