1. Google Slides Fundamentals

2. Unit 1: Introduction to Google Slides

3. Lesson 1: Getting Started with Google Slides
Objectives:
Learn how Google Slides can be used
Open a blank Google Slides file
Open a template in Google Slides
Learn about slide layouts
Apply themes to a presentation
Learn how to show your presentation

4. Create Presentations Capture your audience’s attention with: Images
Video
Music
Animations
Narration
And more…
Ask students if they have ever created a presentation in Google Slides (or even in Microsoft PowerPoint). You may want to ask them to share about a presentation they created or gave that was memorable in some way.

5. Templates A blank presentation gives you a clean slate.
A template allows you to use pre-designed slides to maintain a standard layout, look and feel for your presentation.

6. Closer Look - Templates
Presentation templates automatically populate your file with pre-defined slides related to the template's topic.
Example: Recipe book template

7. Themes
Ask students why using a consistent combination of colors, fonts, effects, and layouts in a presentation would be a good idea.
A theme is a pre-defined combination of colors, fonts, effects and layouts that can be applied to your presentation with just one click.
They can be displayed by clicking the Theme button in the Tool bar.

8. Layouts
Slide layouts pre-determine how content, such as text and images, are arranged on a slide.

9. Play Your Presentation
To play your presentation, click Present. This presents the slides, full screen, from the current slide.
The Presentation Toolbar contains several commands, such as Next slide, Previous slide and Exit.

10. Additional Play Options
When you click the arrow on the Present button you will see additional options for playing your presentation.
Ask student what each of the Present additional options would mean.

11. Lesson 2: Vacation Ideas
Objectives:
Open and move an existing Google Slides file in Google Drive
Insert new slides
Apply layouts to the new slides
Enter text into existing text boxes
Delete text boxes
Create bulleted lists
Insert images
Resize, reposition and rotate images.
Spell check the presentation

12. Layout Templates Determine how content is arranged on the slide
Can be applied to any slide

13. Lesson 3: Effective Presentations
Objectives:
Open and move an existing Google Slides file in Google Drive
Learn and implement tips on how to make an effective presentation.
Change text formatting and alignment
Create bulleted lists
Change line spacing
Use slide Notes

14. Tip #1 – Have a Goal
Goal!
DO – Make sure you know the goal of the presentation before you create any slides.

15. Presents your information
Tip #2 – Tell a Story
DO – Tell a story.
The Beginning
Grabs their attention
The Middle
Presents your information
The End
What is the take away?

16. Tip #3 – Make it Personal
DO – Adjust your presentation to your audience.
Know who your audience is and use it to your advantage.

17. Tip #4 – Less is More DON’T – cram information on the slide.
Use as few words as possible to convey the information.
DON’T – cram information on the slide.
DON’T – use paragraphs.
DO – use numbered or bulleted lists.
DO – keep the items as short as possible.

18. Tip #5 – Leave White Space
White space lets the eye take a break and helps the viewer focus on the key information on the slide.
DON’T – try to fill every inch of the slide.
DO – leave white space on the slide.

19. Tip #6 – Be Consistent
Maintaining consistency will help your presentation appear seamless and thought out.
DO – use the same colors, fonts, and image styles throughout your entire presentation.

20. DO – ask questions to keep your audience engaged.
Tip #7 – Ask Questions
Maintaining consistency will help your presentation appear seamless and thought out.
DO – ask questions to keep your audience engaged.

21. DO – Thank the audience for listening!
Tip #8 – Finish Strong
DO – Repeat the MOST CRITICAL thing that you want remembered at the end of the presentation.
DO – Thank the audience for listening!

22. Tip #9 – Use Slide Notes
DO – Use Notes to add information you want to remember during your presentation.

23. Tip #10 – Practice Your Presentation
DO – Practice giving your presentation.

24. Unit 2: Text Boxes, Links, and Graphics

25. Lessons 1 & 2: Game Show (Part 1 and 2)
Objectives:
Open and move an existing Google Slides file in Google Drive
Insert, resize and reposition text boxes
Format text boxes
Format and align text in a text box
Add, resize and reposition Word Art
Format Word Art
Duplicate slides and objects
Copy and paste objects
Update slide Notes
Define hyperlinks for text, a shape and an image
Play a presentation

26. Text Boxes
Slide layouts usually contain placeholders for text. However, you may want to add your own text somewhere else on the slide.
A text box allows you to create and place text wherever you want. Text boxes can be added from the Insert tab or from the Toolbar.

27. Word Art Word Art Word Art
Word Art is a combination of text and graphics.
Word Art
Word Art can be used to make an impact and attract attention to text.
You can add Word Art from the Insert tab.
Word Art
Word Art is best used for headlines or titles.
Word Art
Don’t over use Word Art.

28. Duplicate Slides
The Duplicate command makes an exact copy of the selected object or slide.

29. Hyperlinks Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3
A hyperlink is a link from one object on a slide to another location, such as another slide or a web site.
hyperlink
When the object is clicked the presentation jumps to the other location.
Slide 2
Slide 3
You can define any text, shape or image on the slide to be a hyperlink.

30. Lessons 3 & 4: Photo Album (Part 1 and 2)
Objectives:
Open and move an existing Google Slides file in Google Drive
Add a shared folder to Google Drive
Insert new slides
Change slide layouts
Use text boxes
Format text
Insert, resize and reposition images
Edge and mask crop images
Insert and format shapes
Add and format text to shapes

31. Cropping Images
Cropping is a way to remove unwanted elements from an image.
You can edge crop to remove only a straight portion of the image, or you can make more complicated crops using a mask.
Masks can be in the form of circles, arrows and other shapes.
Before revealing, ask students to come up with some reasons why they might need or want to crop an image. They may list responses such as: to remove unwanted elements, to make the image fit better on the slide, or to make the image more interesting.

32. Shapes
You can add shapes into your presentation to give it more interest.
You can enter text into shapes to give them more meaning.