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Module 2: How to Create Google Slides Templates for Teachers (+ Google Docs, and Google Drawings)

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Video 1: What is Google Docs and How to Use it in Your Classroom

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Inserting images into a Doc and using the built-in Google Search
  • Linking the text in a Doc to a website
  • Using the Explore features and citing sources
  • Using voice typing
  • Introducing you to the comment feature for students to give each other feedback
  • Ideas for how you can use a collaborative Doc in your classroom
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Video 2: What is Google Drawings and How to Use it in Your Classroom

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • 11 examples of Google Drawings that can be used with your students
  • Why Google Drawings can be better than Google Slides
  • Ideas for how you and your students can use text boxes, photos, Word Art, and shapes to create interactive activities for one student or your whole class
  • How you can use Google Drawings for work you want to print
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Video 3: What is Google Slides and How to Use it in Your Classroom

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • 9 examples of how you can use Google Slides with your students and other teachers
  • How Slides is different than Drawings and when you’ll want to use one over the other
  • Ideas for how you and your students can use text boxes, photos, and shapes to create interactive activities to work on individually or as a whole class
  • Ideas for why you might print slides from a Google Slides Presentation
  • 7 extra ideas for how you can use Slides with your students
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Video 4: Set Up A Student Activity In Docs, Slides, Or Drawings

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Creating a new Google Doc, Google Drawing, or Google Slides Presentation
  • Titling your activity
  • Changing the dimensions (landscape/portrait, margins) of the work space
  • Adding, duplicating, and deleting slides in Google Slides
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Video 5: Use The Features In The Toolbar To Design Student Activities

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • The toolbar in Google Slides (Then you’ll know Drawings and Docs, too)
  • Inserting shapes for student responses
  • Changing fonts and font colors
  • Inserting text boxes
  • Selecting multiple shapes or text boxes at once to manipulate them all
  • Aligning text, shapes, and images so your activities look professional (centering, aligning horizontally and vertically, distributing horizontally and vertically)
  • Zooming in and out
  • Using the undo and redo button
  • Inserting bullets
  • Using the copy and paste keyboard shortcuts
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Video 6: Insert Photos To Make Activities More Meaningful

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Inserting photos in Google Slides for your student activities
  • Using a built-in Google Search to insert photos 
  • Designing activities so students insert photos
  • How students can insert their own selfie onto a slide
  • Resizing photos
  • Cropping photos into a shape
  • Adding border colors and dotted lines around photos
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Video 7: Lock Down Images, Shapes, And Text So Students Can’t Move Them

I’ll walk you step-by-step through:
  • 2 ways to lock down all of the shapes, text, and images on your slide (Plus let you know my favorite way and why!)
  • How to eliminate blurry backgrounds
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Video 8: Create Text Boxes for Student Responses

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Inserting text boxes into a variety of student activities
  • Resizing text boxes
  • Duplicating text boxes already created
  • Adding more fonts to Slides, Drawings, and Docs
  • Designing activities so students insert photos
  • How students can insert their own selfie onto a slide
  • Resizing photos
  • Cropping photos into a shape
  • Adding border colors and dotted lines around photos
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Video 9: Create Draggable Words To Sort, Label, And Fill In Blanks

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Creating Word Art to sort, label, and use to fill in blanks in Google activities
  • The benefits of using Word Art over text boxes
  • Changing the font and font colors of Word Art
  • Resizing Word Art
  • Creating multiple Word Art words quickly
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Video 10: Insert Videos And Links To Provide Students With More Content

I’ll walk you step-by-step through: 
  • Inserting videos into your student activities
  • Adjusting the stop and start time of videos so students only watch a specific part of a video
  • Inserting links to websites, other Slides in the same presentation, and other Google Slides presentations
  • Adding links to text and images

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Hi! I'm Kathryn, Your Google Teacher

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