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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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Ready-To-Go Google Slides Templates to Use with Students
Hi! I'm Kathryn, Your Google Teacher
- I love all things Google and am a Google Certified Educator
- I have my Masters in Education Technology from Boise State University (where I had my first Google Drive way back when)
- I was Teacher of the Year last year, woohoo!
- I've been a teacher for 13 years and have taught all grades K-4. (Kinder and 2nd have my ❤️ )
- I'm a huge traveler! (currently in Bali)
