Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google Slides Tutorial – Online Presentations”.
In this tutorial, we’re gon na look at Google slides so how to create a slideshow using your Google Drive account, and to do this, you just go to your Google Drive account if you are not familiar with Google Drive. Please watch my other videos on Google Drive, but basically all you do once you’re in your Google Drive. Is you click on new and then go down and select Google slides? Now? If I just click here where it says, Google slides it will create a blank. Google slides document that I can go in and work on. However, if I go over here to the right look, it gives me a couple of options. I can create a Google slides blank presentation, which is pretty much the same as clicking here or I can click on from a template. So let’s quickly look at from a template and then we’ll go in to blank presentation.
So here’s what it looks like when you choose from a template it gives you some options of pre-made templates that you can basically copy and use. You can see here’s one called general presentation, just kind of your basic presentation, but a little different and starting just from scratch. Here’S one that focuses on one big idea: here’s one! That’S a photo album and you can go in and change the photos that are in there as placeholders. Here’S one that’s set up to be a yearbook, a recipe showcase. So these are some kind of fun templates that you can get and just click on it. If you want to use it, let’s say the yearbook, I could just click on that and it opens it up in Google slides so that I can edit it use it put my own pictures in there and create a yearbook.
So that’s a nice feature to have. However, I’m gon na X out of it and go back and this time I’ll, create a Google slides presentation just from scratch from a blank presentation, and it opens up a screen that should remind you of PowerPoint if you’ve used PowerPoint at all, especially the older versions Of PowerPoint 2003 and before this is pretty similar to that, but it’s also got some nice new features that that old version of PowerPoint didn’t have so what we have here is we have a list of slides here at the left right now, there’s just the one And this is a thumbnail if you click on the thumbnail, it gives you the bigger version of the slide, and in this case, because there is only one – that’s what I see in front of me at the top. We have some menus and we have some tools that we can use on the right side, there’s a panel or a pane that opens up, and in this case the pane shows me themes that I can choose from so we’ll look at that in just a second. But first I’m just gon na follow the instructions that are in front of me. Click to add title, so I click there. I put in the title of my presentation, which is gon na, be Spanish animal vocabulary and then I can click to add a subtitle, and so I am done now with my first slide.
The thing is, though, it’s just black and white. It’S very plain. If I go over here to the right, I can choose a theme that will spice this up a little bit and make it look a lot nicer.
So very often that’s what I do I put in the title I put in the subtitle. If I want one and then I click through and find the template that matches the field that I want to have for my presentation now, if you don’t find any there that you want, you could create your own. You could just put in a background, color or use a photo as a background.
You could also import a theme there at the bottom of the screen, but for this presentation, I’m just gon na stick with this particular theme called tropic. Now that I’ve chosen that theme, every slide that I create should have that same theme, so I’m gon na click here on the plus sign to get a new slide. It adds it to my list of slides. Now I could have just right clicked in this blank area and clicked a new slide. That’S another way to create a new slide, and now I can go ahead and just click to add the title of this slide and let’s say I want to start with talking about mammals in Spanish and then I can just click to go in and put a Few mammals in there, so I can just type these in now. Typically in PowerPoint, these would come in bulleted and if you want that, you can just highlight them, go up here to the top of the screen and activate bulleted lists. We also have a numbered list and you’ll also find most of the same options that you’re used to having in PowerPoint as far as like font, styles font sizes, bold, italics, underline stuff like that. There’S also some nice visual tools like you, can insert shapes arrows, call-outs and equations and a bunch of other drawing tools if you’re interested in learning more about those drawing tools and the shapes. Please watch my other video on google drawings because it’s the same basic functionality, but it’s built right in to Google slides so check that out. You can also add text boxes anytime. You want just click on the text box button and then click on the screen and you can type and you may need to change the font, color etc.
Okay, so I can go up here and I can change that color of the text and I can put that wherever I want it to be now. Let’S look also at adding images, because in Google slides, if you’re, just using text, you’re really missing out on the power of the tool. So I’m gon na go up here to insert and choose image and take a look at all the different options I have for inserting an image into my slide. The most basic, I guess, is this upload an image from your computer. You can also click and drag and drop an image here in this box a lot of times.
I find it just to be easier to click, choose an image to upload, and then I can go to my desktop double-click on photos and then I could upload an image, let’s say, of a tiger, ok and that pulls the image into my Google slides presentation. I can then resize it if I need to and move it where I need it to be now, once the image is in my Google slides presentation, I can go up here with it selected and I can click image options to do a bunch of different things. To this image recolor it I can make it more transparent, I can make it brighter contrast. I’M not very happy with my results here. So I’m gon na click reset adjustments and change it back to no recolor, but you do have those options. If you would like them really quickly.
I want to show you the other image options. You can take a snapshot using the camera on your computer. If you have one, you can import images by URL. So if you know the internet address of your photo just copy paste it in there and it will pull it in, you can also access your albums that are in your Google Photos account or you can tap into Google Drive and see any images that you’ve created Or that you have stored there, but probably my favorite option for inserting an image is just clicking here where it says search, and I can do a search for the pictures that I need. Ok, so I need a picture of a cow beautiful picture right there.
Ok, so I click on it. I added in shrink it down to the size. I want it to be and arrange it on the screen now, just one little tip, if I do a search for Kao PNG I’ll, usually get a little bit different results. Take a look at the difference, this cow dot PNG comes in without the rectangular background, and so I’m not saying that this is superior, but I think it is sometimes cool to have an image that doesn’t have that rectangular background. So try that out and of course I could also do a search for a dog and a cat and put those into the presentation, because I don’t want this picture anymore.
I just click on it tap delete. I don’t really need the tiger either. Give me a second to add a picture of a dog and a cat, and then I’ll continue. Okay, so I’ve added additional pictures and I’ve arranged them on the screen.
Now, let’s look at how I could animate these so that they come in one at a time to do that in Google slides. I would need to go here to insert and then choose animation. Next, I would select an object to animate, so this cow – I want to appear only at a certain time so now that I’ve selected the object. I click here on select an object to animate.
It can see that I’m wanting to animate the cow and notice that it’s set to fade in that’s the animation, that’s gon na happen. If I want to change that, I can have it zoom in, I could have it spin or whatever. I want it to do out of this list, and then you have to decide what is it that makes it fade in? Is it just on click and that’s what I’m gon na do or do I want it to happen with the previous animation? In this case there isn’t a previous animation, at least on the slide, so I’m just gon na go with on click. Next, I click on the dog select to animate, fade in on click, or, I could say with previous or after previous, so I have some options here now.
Another way to do this is instead of animating one. At a time I can just click to select each of these, I’m holding shift and clicking to select each of those. Now, in some cases you can hold control and do that, but in this case I’m holding shift and clicking to select all of them and then I click select an object to animate and it highlights all of them now. It highlighted them and put them in the wrong order, so I’m just gon na click and drag to put the cow at the top. I want it to fade in with the click. Then I want the dog to fade in on click and the cat to fade in on a click notice that you could also make them fade in fast, medium or slow.
But at this point I think I’m ready. I think it’s pretty much the way I want it to be. I might want to go in and make these words separate a little bit just by clicking, hitting Enter and then delete or backspace, so that separates it out just a little bit, but this is pretty much what I was hoping for. So, let’s look at the finished product.
I’M gon na go up here to the upper right where it says present. There’S my opening slide. I advance the slide by hitting the right, arrow or spacebar or Enter and, as you can see, as you advance the presentation the animations appear, so it’s pretty good. I like this presentation so far now, of course, I could continue to add new, slides and adding more animals to the presentation and go from there. So those are the basics that you need to know to get started using Google slides. However, I do want to point out a couple of advantages that we have because we’re using Google slides instead of PowerPoint, even though I love PowerPoint or keynote, even though I love keynote.
There are a couple of advantages to using Google slides and one of them is. It really makes it easy to share this presentation with others when you click Share, it makes you name your presentation, and I want to name it just the same as my opening slide. Google figured that out, and so I can just click Save and now it is titled the same as my opening slide. Next, I can enter the names of people with which I want to share this presentation and look what it has. It has a pencil here, meaning that whoever I share this with will be able to edit the presentation and help me build it. If you don’t want that, if you only want them to be able to see the presentation or comment on it, you can change that here.
There’S also an option to go into advanced and when you click advanced it gives you a shareable link that you can copy. Send to people whoever gets that will be able to do some things with your presentation. You can also invite them through email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Now, right now it says private only I can access, but I can click Change and make this so that anyone with the link is going to be able to do the view it in this case. But I want to change that to edit. So now anyone with the link can edit this presentation. You can also change it so that it’s only editable or shareable with specific people that I invite by putting their email address in there on the previous screen, or I could make it completely public on the web. Anyone could find and edit it or, if you don’t think, that’s a good idea. You can say that anyone can find it and view it.
So these options are just really nice for sharing your Google slides presentations. I’M gon na click done at this point, so the other thing I wanted to show you that’s an advantage to Google slides is that if you’re using Google Chrome, you can go to the Chrome Web Store and you can do searches for certain tools, such as pull Everywhere and if you add polleverywhere to your Google Chrome account, it will add a special tool into your Google slides so that you have an additional menu here, and this is just one example of several that are out there. But I can now click here where it says pull everywhere and I can create a new poll for my audience to participate with and interact with as they watch my slides presentation.
I can also insert a poll that I’ve already made and it taps into my polleverywhere account, and I can just choose one of these questions and it will pull it in and I can insert it if you’re not familiar with poll everywhere. Please watch my other video on poll everywhere, but this is really an exciting ability that I have because I’m using Google slides and so that’s one of the reasons that I often prefer. Google slides not always, but often it’s because of these additional tools that I can find here in the Chrome Web Store, and I can find those extensions in this case and add them to Chrome.
If you want to learn more about extensions, please watch my video on Chrome, Web extensions and apps. So thanks for watching this tutorial on Google slides, I hope you enjoy using it. Please consider connecting with me on my social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, and please do subscribe to my youtube channel for more videos about technology for teachers and students and watch for a new video, at least every Monday.
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