UPDATE 8/10/2021: For more ideas on ways to design your slide decks, check out my new post here. With many schools beginning the 2020-2021 school year virtually, a lot of generous educators have been sharing interactive templates to use with Google Slides. I have been bookmarking sites as I find them on Twitter, and I … Read more
The Guru of Everything Google, Alice Keeler, partnered with Matt Miller to publish the DriveSlides Chrome Extension, which is available for free on the Chrome Web Store here. Near the end of the school year, many teachers like to make slideshows of pictures from throughout the year. With DriveSlides, Keller and Miller have given us … Read more
My days spent at #TCEA16 last week were motivating and extremely inspiring. This week, I would like to select a few highlights to share with you. Today’s post is about Sway, a presentation tool. Sway is a tool from Microsoft that some might call PowerPoint on Steroids. Sway is free, but you will need an Office or … Read more
This week, I’ve decided to reblog some of my more popular posts with some updates. Since I’ve posted this piece on Google Slides Templates, I’ve found some other resources to add to the list. You will find most of the updates at the bottom of this post. Now that our campus has a set of … Read more
Note: Since originally publishing this post, I have added some updates, which you can find here. Now that our campus has a set of Chromebooks, my students have been delighting in exploring Google Drive. One tool that has been an asset is the Presentation tool also known as Slides. Similar to Powerpoint, the Google version has … Read more
According the the above website, “PechaKucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture in Tokyo, Japan. The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation or chit-chat.” I first heard about Pecha Kucha from some of my fellow G.T. … Read more