May 03, 2011

Google Presentation Instead of Power Point

My dear friend Tisch Nye taught me something new today. She is a technology coach for our district, but use to be an art teacher. In fact, she was the art teacher that I took over for 10 yrs ago at Tulip Grove Elementary. Anyway, she was at Tulip Grove to do internet safety with our second graders. She stopped by to discuss the workshop we're co-leading Thursday. I wanted to do a make & take for art teachers that was technology focused. My thought was to create a library of art focused Power Points that we could have at our disposal. Have 20+ art teachers working all day...we could have a ton of Power Points! However, Tisch suggested using Google Presentations instead. I had not heard of it before, but she gave me a quick lesson & I was ready to go! Here is my first creation. I took the pictures I used from the coil pot post the other day. What do you think?? Have you used Google Presentations before? I think I like it, just takes some getting use to.






***Ok...I know that the words are super close to the frame & it kind of cuts them off. This was my first try. I would move the words & pictures up a bit next go-round. Also, why is it better than power point??? From what I can tell so far...you can access it from any internet site by pulling up your google account. You can share it in doc & have others work on it . Great for group presentations. No need to e-mail huge files or flash drives! Easy to use!! That is what I've seen so far!***

5 comments:

  1. I've not heard of Google Presentations either - thanks for showing us an example. What benefits does a Google Presentation have over a Power Point? The bottom line of text was hard to read because it appeared to be in the border. Can the box be enlarged to fit the whole screen?

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  2. Thanks for the comment...I know the words at the bottom are close to the boarder...this was my first go at it...I'll do better next time. The benefits are that you can access it from anywhere when you log into your google account. You can also share it with other google members...and set it up so that others can add to it/change things.

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  3. I have been in a group where we used Google Presentations and shared input. It was a real time saver!!

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  4. you can make it larger. When you click the icon that has the shaded rectangle in the corner, it will enlarge. Then F11 will make it full screen.

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  5. Love your idea of doing coil pots inside of terracotta pots. Genius! Thanks!

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