Episode 4: Advance Your Slides

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Innovator, podcaster, and author, Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning, gives big props to Google Slides as the Swiss Army knife of the Google Suite - we think she is spot on! Google slides is so much more than a presentation tool and in today’s episode we are going to focus on creating and publishing with some of the built in - but lesser known features of slides and will get into some templates and add-ons and then finish up with some interesting ways to Tech it Up it up a notch while using Google Slides.

We hope after today's episode, you will be saying- I didn't know Google Slides did that!

One of the features that may often be overlooked is the ability to change the size and orientation of slides. By clicking File and scrolling down to Page Set Up you will find several options for changing the look of your slides.

Slide Master

Have you ever completed a slide deck and then changed your mind about font, color, or images? Imagine changing your entire slide deck without visiting every single slide! Slides>Edit Master Edit the slides template for color, font, formatting to create consistency across all slides. Great for branding and template creation.

Themes

Ready to use something other than the themes included in Slides?

Visit SlidesCarnival.com - Search for themes, download for free, then import into Slides

Explore Tool

Choose pre-designed layouts, Search the Web and your Drive for content and images to use in Slides without leaving the Slide - Site Source A hyperlink of the image location will be attached when placed into the slide

Formatting Images

Crop, Recolor, Resize, Export Single Slides as JPG, PNG, SVG. Slides.
Take advantage of Accessibility Options for screen readers and magnifiers

Segment 2
Present/Publish
Audience Tools - A Question/Answer backchannel available under the Present button.

While there - look into voice captioning!
File> Download As JPEG, PNG, PDF, PPT, SVG
File>Publish to the Web

Add ons

A piece of software that increases the power of an application, accessible from the Add-ons menu then usable from the side bar

Pear Deck - create interactive slides for users, control the pace of a presentation, engage participants - be sure to add the Pear Deck Power Up Extension in Chrome for best experience.

Icons for Slides - search hundreds of icons from the sidebar of Google Slides

Screencastify for Slides - add a pre-recorded Screencastify video

Slide Contents - create a table of contents for slide decks

Take some time to explore these add-ons in our show notes on www.somethintotechabout.com and share how you have or plan to tech it up a notch with add-ons in Google Slides and give us somethin’ to tech about

Why use Slides?

Keeping the 4Cs in mind - what are some interesting ways folks can use Slides beyond the basics of the typical slide presentation?

Communication