Hi everyone! I FINALLY have my Google Slides templates available for purchase if you are interested! Here's the link: bit.ly/brightgoogleslidestemplates Hopefully this helps save you some time and makes your life easier!
Thank you so much! I am a high school English teacher. I was tormenting myself with tying to come up with a simple, yet visually appealing google slide deck for my classes. I was even willing to pay for a template - but none were ascetically what I wanted. This short video was all I needed to start creating my own slide deck! THANKYOU, Thank you! Now I can focus on planning!
I'm so happy this was helpful for you Hollie! If you are interested in saving a little time, I do have editable templates available in my store here: bit.ly/brightgoogleslidestemplates
You are an amazing resource for your staff and the rest of your distant colleagues. I, too, am a 4th grade (veteran) teacher learning all this new tech stuff and I have to say before watching your videos, I was overwhelmed and nervous learning all this but now I feel like it can be done. You make it easy to follow and do. THANK YOU! Keep the videos coming.
I have watched several videos on Slides, but you are by far the very best communicator I have heard. Your students probably have no idea how fortunate they are to have you as a teacher. I'm not a teacher, but a retired pastor attempting to make use of this technology to teach a distant (because of this pandemic) Bible Study weekly. Thank you so much, I've subscribed and rang the bell and always give you a thumbs up. God bless you young lady and your family.
I love all of your videos! I am learning Google Classroom and Google Meet for the first time this week, and all of your how to videos have been super helpful. Thanks so so so much!!!
Could you please share an example of your reading slides? I love your math ones, but I only teach reading, writing, and ELA. I'd love to see yours for inspiration! Thanks for all you do!
Thank you so much for this video! I use google slides but just for basics. You helped me understand how to do a few things I didn't know how to do like resize the paper size. I am also glad you are feeling better. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow! You not only show us how to create Google Slides, adding the rainbow colors is such a logic and beautiful way to organize your work. Also, I totally understand the time saving value of making duplicate slides!!!!!
Great video! (BTW, I'm a web developer, and Hex Codes are actually only the # (octothorpe) sign, and 6 characters, in any combination of 0-9 and A-F. So, a nice shade of gold is #FFCC33. Your favorite pink is actually just #FF0099, and you can even abbreviate pairs to #F09. ;) Hope this helps!
This tutorial was INCREDIBLY helpful! I make a powerpoint so I can stay on track as well but did not know about the hyperlink...I will definitely be doing that from now on.
I would be interested in how and what you do for reading slides. I also teach reading and only use slides for Guided Reading rotation choices. I'm in same county:).
Thanks so much for showing us how you do your Google slides. I love how you create your slides and also how you make things for your classroom that had that same style with a black background. Would love more videos just like this one!
You did an amazing job explaining this process. I am blown away at how great you made your slides look and linking them was awesome. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I wanted to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I used this video as my tutorial to start working on my presentations. I love you! Everything was nice. My professor congratulated me for the presentation. Thank you Jessica YOU ROCK!! God bless you.
Thank you so much for your wonderful help! I have been teaching for 21 years, and technology is not my specialty. However, I have a strong desire to learn, and you are an excellent teacher! Thank you from the bottom of my teacher heart!!
Thank you for sharing such a great video! You are an awesome teacher. I love how clear and concise your instructions are. Learned more in 20 minutes with your video than any district google training yet. Looking forward to watching and learning more as my remote teaching year begins.
This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen in a long time! Been a teacher for 10 years and now I have the motivation to redo all of my lessons with Google Classroom! Thank you!
Great video! I started going digital years ago when I had to literally scan in each and every page of the textbooks and then create files for them to present to my classes on the Smartboard...talk about a lot of time! As our district added newer features and updated software I was able to add to my game. Teaching with Google has become a passion and a blessing when Covid entered our lives. I actually found you during Covid and your blogs, support, and tips have really helped me to develop and fine tune what I had and what I was wanting to do! Thank you so much for all of your time, efforts, and support!
THIS RIGHT HERE...is what I love! Give me all the tutorials on the Google slides! 💓 LOVE this video! Practical stuff that I can do! Thank you for sharing 💛
Hi, Michelle! great tutorial...just a thought...instead of taking the extra steps of creating a bar for your title and then another text box where you write the unit and move things' order....which takes time....why don't you just format the text box...it's done in the power point...I'm pretty sure from what I saw on the screen it's done on google slides as well. You know...just write your text, and then format the text box, fill it any color you want, and change the font color...
This started out as a bit too much for what I was looking for but 8 minutes into it I realized what a time saver this is so I watched the rest. Great job and great video!
I'm obsessed with Google Slides, and I've been using it for teaching for an entire year, but I still learned a few cool new tricks from this video, and I honestly LOVE the simple, yet bold design of your slides. I use templates rather than making my own from scratch, but I think I might use yours, even though I'm a history teacher! In particular, I love the idea of a single Slideshow for each unit. I've been breaking up my Slides by day, and every time I do it, I groan internally, thinking that all of these are going to be so hard to keep track of next year. Keeping all the units in one slide and hyperlinking the lessons is FREAKING BRILLIANT. Plus it saves me time of having to reformat all my text/backgrounds etc!
We also use Google slides at my business to make our flyers, pamphlets and other printed materials. It allows you to position objects wherever you want even up close to the edge and it will still print. There are a lot of native printing options that all work very well. The finished product usually looks great! On a separate note I make a table in my first slide and put hyperlinks in each cell. Each hyperlink can link to a youtube video, another slide in the presentation, an audio file (directly in the slide) or a google drive file. This is great for big presentations. I have a presentation with over 800 slides and this helps to navigate within it while also bringing in other materials from outside. Great video!
I am so glad there is someone else who color codes everything! Great tutorial! I make a lot of slides for teaching, too, but I still learned some shortcuts. Thanks!
Lol, I thought an “I can” statement was like a positive affirmation for the students until I saw her type it in and realized it was what we call “a learning target” here in CA. Comment what you call it, I would love to know!!
In Australia, more specifically the state of victoria we call it a learning intention and rather than starting it with "I can" we start with "we are learning to..." and then follow with success criteria "I can do..."
@@jessicamacdonald5151 In CA we do the "I can do..." as the only one. It's interesting how we have some things in common, but it always varies a bit from place to place.
Thank you so much for this video! I can’t wait to start doing this for my lessons! Question about the table of contents: If you add a slide (or two, or three...) after you’ve competed the table of contents, do you have to redo all the links?
Hexadecimal Color Code applies to color in *any* digital display... Google away! Try typing in any 6-character combination using 0-9 and A-F, and you'll get a hex color! For example, my favorite shade of Gold is #FFCC33. ;) Hope this helps!
Love your videos! You don't need to delete everything in the default slide format that comes up. You can also just choose Layout and then click on Blank Slide. I feel this is better in case you miss grabbing and deleting anything the other way.
I have watched this a few times since you posted it and now that I’m moving to Kindergarten and in the COVID-19 changes I feel this is going to save teacher lives with teaching lessons!!!!! Thank you for your How-To Videos!!!!
I love the way you explain everything so precisely and clearly! And the way you did not edit out the "bring to front" error was fantastic because you taught us from your own mistake. And your attention to detail when creating makes everything look so beautiful and neat. What an awesome tutorial. Thank you!
I really like your slide prep here! I m curious about the colored slides - do you use all colors in EACH lesson? If so, I am curious how you progress through the colors when there may not be 7 different activities in a single day? (IOW would you give your rationale for the use of the colors other than knowing when you are coming to the end?) Each of my units conveniently contain seven lessons...so I was thinking of using one color per day. Thoughts?
Really great question! I'm curious about the answer as well :) I would imagine that could be helpful for students for the reason that you suggested, in being able to quickly judge the pacing of the lesson as it is occurring...I would have LOVED to have that feedback during the lesson in my experiences as a student, and I would imagine that many other learners would appreciate it similarly. My thought about the rationale if a justification were needed for the use of color progression would perhaps be to help learners with diverse needs that may struggle with transitions (ie. Autism, ADHD, and even learning disabilities in general)...not sure if that *is* her reasoning or not, but it's just the thought that came to mind for me and seems like it would be a valid way of justifying it as evidence based if necessary (at least in a general sense, if there is no evidence in support of color progression specifically [I have no idea if there is] I would feel like just the help in visual transition for students with learning disabilities would be sufficient justification if one is needed). I'm super curious now actually, haha...I really want to research more into the color progression in lessons, this is the first I've come across the idea and I love it so much! I'm sure it seems silly to be this excited over color progressing slides, haha, but as someone with ADHD, time can often feel very abstract to me and any strategies that help to make the passage of time feel more "tangible" are super helpful for me. Being able to have such simple visual cues integrated into the lesson would have helped me better conceptualize the pacing of the lesson and therefore help reduce anxiety and increase my ability to focus on the material being presented. I missed so much content in school because of my focus legit being on focusing/mentally processing that we were moving on to the next subject and only realizing that the lesson had started when it was already halfway over! I realize it is a fairly trivial detail, and judging from the other comments I'm reading, I think I'm the only one geeking out so hardcore over this, haha, but I guess that is part of the reason that I felt like sharing my experience, because maybe it is insignificant to most but if there's a handful of students who would benefit as much as I feel they would, it seems well worth sharing about, especially considering how easy of an intervention it is for educators to include! It seems really cool to think that such a simple method of using a visual countdown could be embedded within the lesson itself, rather than *solely* relying on interventions directed specifically at one/several students, in a manner outside of the lesson. Not only could the visual cues help students with the pacing of the lesson, but it might also be helpful as a natural "countdown" for students who struggle to cope with transitions (such as those with ASD). I'll stop my geeking our ramble now, haha...I get excited by random things, thanks for letting me share. :) Also, just wanted to mention to anyone who might try this out (and just in general), don't forget that some of your students may be colorblind. Be mindful as well that different people can struggle with different colors, so if two people are colorblind, one may be unable to differentiate between two colors that another person who is colorblind can differentiate. Not necessarily relevant for this topic, but someone I love experiences colorblindness and he was often met with teachers who lacked understanding, and admittedly, I never learned anything in school for education about accommodating those who cannot see the full spectrum of colors, so while it seems fairly "common sense", it seemed worth mentioning that if a student says they do not see a color as different from another color, they likely are telling the truth and see two (or more) colors as the same, so just work with them and don't hold someone accountable for something they have zero control over. It can get particularly tricky, because there is no internal way for the person who is colorblind to know their perception of a color is faulty. Not necessarily relevant for this particular thing, but it could be, because while it doesn't typically matter if someone sees the slides as going from orange to red to pink or if they might see it as 3 shades of red, some people may not see 3 shades/colors at all, they may see all 3 colors as the same shade of the same color, and they have no way of seeing that everyone else sees 3 different colors when they see one. The student could end up in trouble if they are then told to start at the red section, and their eyes see the orange, red, and pink sections as the same shade of red, so they would start at the orange section without knowing that, to everyone else, it is orange. My brother is colorblind in atypical ways and ended up getting a lot of teachers angry at him, despite him explaining that he is colorblind, so just a random PSA in case anyone reads my ramble and might otherwise not know how tricky colorblindness can be for those experiencing it ;) Thanks for reading :)
I like the use of different colors for different parts of the lesson. As a High School English teacher, I try to customize the font to specific Units and/or novels. I use Tradewinds for "Lord of the Flies" for example.
You are fabulous. A God sent. Bless you. Thank you. I had to subscribe to your channel. You had my attention the entire time. I can link my lesson 1 to it's slide and so on. YES!!! Thank you. Time to get to work. I must share your video.
Thank you! Due to Covid-19, I've suddenly been launched into online distance teaching. Your well-polished and well-organized tutorials will definitely soften the landing!
Thank you for this! Now that I'm home with no kids to teach, I've been creating online resources and looking for new things to do to enrich my lessons! Thanks!!!!
Great presentations. I learned how to make my own slides (and not only use the templates that are provided), and how to hyperlink, excellent ideas that I will be using when I create slides for my classes.
Thank you for all your work on your tutorials! They have made my transition to teaching virtually much less painful. My kindergarten students love them so much! I have shared your RUclips channel with my entire kindergarten team!
Hi, I love your channel. Thank you! It's really changed my life during remote teaching. So, I tried to make my googleslides editable and my students still cannot edit text. What am I doing wrong?
You can add a little button (can be any image you want, even a text box) and hyperlink it to the menu, when you have it, you can just copy-paste it wherever you want it in your presentation.
Hi everyone! I FINALLY have my Google Slides templates available for purchase if you are interested! Here's the link:
bit.ly/brightgoogleslidestemplates
Hopefully this helps save you some time and makes your life easier!
Thank you so much! I am a high school English teacher. I was tormenting myself with tying to come up with a simple, yet visually appealing google slide deck for my classes. I was even willing to pay for a template - but none were ascetically what I wanted. This short video was all I needed to start creating my own slide deck! THANKYOU, Thank you! Now I can focus on planning!
I'm so happy this was helpful for you Hollie! If you are interested in saving a little time, I do have editable templates available in my store here: bit.ly/brightgoogleslidestemplates
You are a virtual teaching angel sent from heaven. FOR REAL. Thank you so much for everything!
Thank you for giving me hope at this time when we have to do online classes. I am a 57 year old English teacher.
You are an amazing resource for your staff and the rest of your distant colleagues. I, too, am a 4th grade (veteran) teacher learning all this new tech stuff and I have to say before watching your videos, I was overwhelmed and nervous learning all this but now I feel like it can be done. You make it easy to follow and do. THANK YOU! Keep the videos coming.
I have watched several videos on Slides, but you are by far the very best communicator I have heard. Your students probably have no idea how fortunate they are to have you as a teacher. I'm not a teacher, but a retired pastor attempting to make use of this technology to teach a distant (because of this pandemic) Bible Study weekly. Thank you so much, I've subscribed and rang the bell and always give you a thumbs up. God bless you young lady and your family.
I love all of your videos! I am learning Google Classroom and Google Meet for the first time this week, and all of your how to videos have been super helpful. Thanks so so so much!!!
Could you please share an example of your reading slides? I love your math ones, but I only teach reading, writing, and ELA. I'd love to see yours for inspiration! Thanks for all you do!
Have you found anything similar to this but with ELAR ?
Thank u for sharing your expertise.
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I am loving your demonstration of how you prepare your units. Thank you for taking the time to share this information with us. Truly appreciate it.
We're moving to a more blended way of teaching and I love how great you explain as you go. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I can't understand why others word would click on thumbs down for this video. I learn so much from you. You energy is infectious! 😀
Thank you so much for this video! I use google slides but just for basics. You helped me understand how to do a few things I didn't know how to do like resize the paper size. I am also glad you are feeling better. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Wow! You not only show us how to create Google Slides, adding the rainbow colors is such a logic and beautiful way to organize your work. Also, I totally understand the time saving value of making duplicate slides!!!!!
Great video! (BTW, I'm a web developer, and Hex Codes are actually only the # (octothorpe) sign, and 6 characters, in any combination of 0-9 and A-F. So, a nice shade of gold is #FFCC33. Your favorite pink is actually just #FF0099, and you can even abbreviate pairs to #F09. ;) Hope this helps!
I love the idea of putting the entire unit together! This will make things flow very nicely. Thank you
This tutorial was INCREDIBLY helpful! I make a powerpoint so I can stay on track as well but did not know about the hyperlink...I will definitely be doing that from now on.
Thank you!
You can convert all of you powerpoints to google slides easily.
I share your videos with my colleagues and YOU are saving lives girl!
I would be interested in how and what you do for reading slides. I also teach reading and only use slides for Guided Reading rotation choices. I'm in same county:).
This is like the best explanations I have ever seen and heard. Very much useful for my classes later.
You’re such a good teacher. Thank you. 🙏🏼 I will definitely be following. Great ideas. ❤️🌹
Yes she is...I have learnt so much from viewing her tutorials.
Thanks so much for showing us how you do your Google slides. I love how you create your slides and also how you make things for your classroom that had that same style with a black background. Would love more videos just like this one!
You did an amazing job explaining this process. I am blown away at how great you made your slides look and linking them was awesome. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I wanted to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I used this video as my tutorial to start working on my presentations. I love you! Everything was nice. My professor congratulated me for the presentation. Thank you Jessica YOU ROCK!! God bless you.
This is amazing! I’m a first year teacher so I’m trying to find new and fun ways to teach whole group! Love it👍🏼
Same Here Jessica I'm a Homeschool Teacher and mom so these tips help me alot
Thank you so much for your wonderful help! I have been teaching for 21 years, and technology is not my specialty. However, I have a strong desire to learn, and you are an excellent teacher! Thank you from the bottom of my teacher heart!!
Fantastic video my friend! I also LOVE that sweater on you. 😘
Thank you for sharing such a great video! You are an awesome teacher. I love how clear and concise your instructions are. Learned more in 20 minutes with your video than any district google training yet. Looking forward to watching and learning more as my remote teaching year begins.
This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen in a long time! Been a teacher for 10 years and now I have the motivation to redo all of my lessons with Google Classroom! Thank you!
Great video! I started going digital years ago when I had to literally scan in each and every page of the textbooks and then create files for them to present to my classes on the Smartboard...talk about a lot of time! As our district added newer features and updated software I was able to add to my game. Teaching with Google has become a passion and a blessing when Covid entered our lives. I actually found you during Covid and your blogs, support, and tips have really helped me to develop and fine tune what I had and what I was wanting to do!
Thank you so much for all of your time, efforts, and support!
I love how easy your tutorials are to follow. I am just learning how to use slides.
THIS RIGHT HERE...is what I love! Give me all the tutorials on the Google slides! 💓 LOVE this video! Practical stuff that I can do! Thank you for sharing 💛
Your knowledge and presentation style is a blessing! Great details for beginners while also sharing meaty content.
I just learned how to hyperlink the table of contents the easy way 😂
Im a first time google slide user, thank you for your explanations, examples and positive energy!!
I love you! Who else? ❤️
👇🏻
Lib Colyer Me.
Completely impressed. Would like to learn a little more about slides and drive
stop like begging
Me! 🙋🏼♀️
I found these videos very helpful for a retired teacher going back to substitute. Thank you
Hi, Michelle! great tutorial...just a thought...instead of taking the extra steps of creating a bar for your title and then another text box where you write the unit and move things' order....which takes time....why don't you just format the text box...it's done in the power point...I'm pretty sure from what I saw on the screen it's done on google slides as well. You know...just write your text, and then format the text box, fill it any color you want, and change the font color...
Agreed.
You could also change the master and make this whole thing into a template - way faster!
The hyperlink to specific slides is golden! Thanks for this Superteach!
I would like to see an example of slides you’ve used for an entire unit, just to cement the application in my mind. Thank you.
Such an great creative teacher with full of cute and creative ideas
Hi love you so so much you inspire me and motivate me to work harder every day. again love 💕 you so much
This started out as a bit too much for what I was looking for but 8 minutes into it I realized what a time saver this is so I watched the rest. Great job and great video!
I'm obsessed with Google Slides, and I've been using it for teaching for an entire year, but I still learned a few cool new tricks from this video, and I honestly LOVE the simple, yet bold design of your slides. I use templates rather than making my own from scratch, but I think I might use yours, even though I'm a history teacher!
In particular, I love the idea of a single Slideshow for each unit. I've been breaking up my Slides by day, and every time I do it, I groan internally, thinking that all of these are going to be so hard to keep track of next year. Keeping all the units in one slide and hyperlinking the lessons is FREAKING BRILLIANT. Plus it saves me time of having to reformat all my text/backgrounds etc!
Hyperlinking is awesome. I also love this for planning a unit. Having all that done and linked ahead must be a terrific stress reliever.
Some efficient shortcuts, please; I teach 28 different classes, seven different grade levels. Thanks. I am enjoying your presentations.
You are amazing!! "nothing fancy"! I was blown away and learned so much.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!!! This was extremely helpful for a struggling technologically challenged new teacher!!! 💕👍🏼
This was great! I knew nothing about Google Slides before I watched this. I really learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
We also use Google slides at my business to make our flyers, pamphlets and other printed materials. It allows you to position objects wherever you want even up close to the edge and it will still print. There are a lot of native printing options that all work very well. The finished product usually looks great! On a separate note I make a table in my first slide and put hyperlinks in each cell. Each hyperlink can link to a youtube video, another slide in the presentation, an audio file (directly in the slide) or a google drive file. This is great for big presentations. I have a presentation with over 800 slides and this helps to navigate within it while also bringing in other materials from outside. Great video!
Cool! I’m going to try this, thank you!
I wish i knew this before. Thank you!!! This will help me make the morning meeting slides better and more interactive for my students.
I love your videos! I want to teach middle school history when I grow up. :)
GOODNESS TO BETSY! YOU ARE AMAZING, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE MY TEMPLATE ON GOOGLE, YOU ARE A BLESSING!
I am so glad there is someone else who color codes everything! Great tutorial! I make a lot of slides for teaching, too, but I still learned some shortcuts. Thanks!
I can already tell that this is going to change my teaching life!
Thanks I’m a kid but needs to make a slide show
Chow Chow Teddy same!!!
Same with my college professors.
same with my college professor. She'll make us do power point by the end of semester.
YES, GO OFF QUEEN!
Not even halfway through and I love you!! (your ideas) You're clear, efficient, quick, smart, and give ideas to make my life easier!! Yay! and thanks.
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The hyperlink tip is a real game changer! Thank you so much!
Lol, I thought an “I can” statement was like a positive affirmation for the students until I saw her type it in and realized it was what we call “a learning target” here in CA. Comment what you call it, I would love to know!!
Learning standard
learning intentions
In Australia, more specifically the state of victoria we call it a learning intention and rather than starting it with "I can" we start with "we are learning to..." and then follow with success criteria "I can do..."
Learning standard is what we call it in NC
@@jessicamacdonald5151 In CA we do the "I can do..." as the only one. It's interesting how we have some things in common, but it always varies a bit from place to place.
you are such an organized, amazing teacher! You are the first person I could follow right along with!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I can’t wait to start doing this for my lessons!
Question about the table of contents: If you add a slide (or two, or three...) after you’ve competed the table of contents, do you have to redo all the links?
wow! thank you. you just provided me so many ideas to create our distance learning math units!
+Pocketful of Primary Can you do a video dedicated to Google Slides Hex Codes?
Hexadecimal Color Code applies to color in *any* digital display... Google away! Try typing in any 6-character combination using 0-9 and A-F, and you'll get a hex color! For example, my favorite shade of Gold is #FFCC33. ;) Hope this helps!
Love your videos! You don't need to delete everything in the default slide format that comes up. You can also just choose Layout and then click on Blank Slide. I feel this is better in case you miss grabbing and deleting anything the other way.
You have saved my life! Literally, I learned so much from this tutorial! This newbie is going to Wow her students! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
I have watched this a few times since you posted it and now that I’m moving to Kindergarten and in the COVID-19 changes I feel this is going to save teacher lives with teaching lessons!!!!! Thank you for your How-To Videos!!!!
I am in the same boat. Trying to find ways to make these as engaging as possible for my Kinder babies.
I would love to see more of your ELA lessons!
Thank you so much. I had no idea what I was doing when I started using Google classroom. Your tutorials have helped me so much.
I love the way you explain everything so precisely and clearly! And the way you did not edit out the "bring to front" error was fantastic because you taught us from your own mistake. And your attention to detail when creating makes everything look so beautiful and neat. What an awesome tutorial. Thank you!
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This has been very informative for me. I would like to view more of your work. Awesome tutorial! Thanks.
I really like your slide prep here! I m curious about the colored slides - do you use all colors in EACH lesson? If so, I am curious how you progress through the colors when there may not be 7 different activities in a single day? (IOW would you give your rationale for the use of the colors other than knowing when you are coming to the end?) Each of my units conveniently contain seven lessons...so I was thinking of using one color per day. Thoughts?
Really great question! I'm curious about the answer as well :)
I would imagine that could be helpful for students for the reason that you suggested, in being able to quickly judge the pacing of the lesson as it is occurring...I would have LOVED to have that feedback during the lesson in my experiences as a student, and I would imagine that many other learners would appreciate it similarly.
My thought about the rationale if a justification were needed for the use of color progression would perhaps be to help learners with diverse needs that may struggle with transitions (ie. Autism, ADHD, and even learning disabilities in general)...not sure if that *is* her reasoning or not, but it's just the thought that came to mind for me and seems like it would be a valid way of justifying it as evidence based if necessary (at least in a general sense, if there is no evidence in support of color progression specifically [I have no idea if there is] I would feel like just the help in visual transition for students with learning disabilities would be sufficient justification if one is needed).
I'm super curious now actually, haha...I really want to research more into the color progression in lessons, this is the first I've come across the idea and I love it so much!
I'm sure it seems silly to be this excited over color progressing slides, haha, but as someone with ADHD, time can often feel very abstract to me and any strategies that help to make the passage of time feel more "tangible" are super helpful for me. Being able to have such simple visual cues integrated into the lesson would have helped me better conceptualize the pacing of the lesson and therefore help reduce anxiety and increase my ability to focus on the material being presented. I missed so much content in school because of my focus legit being on focusing/mentally processing that we were moving on to the next subject and only realizing that the lesson had started when it was already halfway over!
I realize it is a fairly trivial detail, and judging from the other comments I'm reading, I think I'm the only one geeking out so hardcore over this, haha, but I guess that is part of the reason that I felt like sharing my experience, because maybe it is insignificant to most but if there's a handful of students who would benefit as much as I feel they would, it seems well worth sharing about, especially considering how easy of an intervention it is for educators to include!
It seems really cool to think that such a simple method of using a visual countdown could be embedded within the lesson itself, rather than *solely* relying on interventions directed specifically at one/several students, in a manner outside of the lesson. Not only could the visual cues help students with the pacing of the lesson, but it might also be helpful as a natural "countdown" for students who struggle to cope with transitions (such as those with ASD).
I'll stop my geeking our ramble now, haha...I get excited by random things, thanks for letting me share. :)
Also, just wanted to mention to anyone who might try this out (and just in general), don't forget that some of your students may be colorblind. Be mindful as well that different people can struggle with different colors, so if two people are colorblind, one may be unable to differentiate between two colors that another person who is colorblind can differentiate. Not necessarily relevant for this topic, but someone I love experiences colorblindness and he was often met with teachers who lacked understanding, and admittedly, I never learned anything in school for education about accommodating those who cannot see the full spectrum of colors, so while it seems fairly "common sense", it seemed worth mentioning that if a student says they do not see a color as different from another color, they likely are telling the truth and see two (or more) colors as the same, so just work with them and don't hold someone accountable for something they have zero control over. It can get particularly tricky, because there is no internal way for the person who is colorblind to know their perception of a color is faulty.
Not necessarily relevant for this particular thing, but it could be, because while it doesn't typically matter if someone sees the slides as going from orange to red to pink or if they might see it as 3 shades of red, some people may not see 3 shades/colors at all, they may see all 3 colors as the same shade of the same color, and they have no way of seeing that everyone else sees 3 different colors when they see one. The student could end up in trouble if they are then told to start at the red section, and their eyes see the orange, red, and pink sections as the same shade of red, so they would start at the orange section without knowing that, to everyone else, it is orange. My brother is colorblind in atypical ways and ended up getting a lot of teachers angry at him, despite him explaining that he is colorblind, so just a random PSA in case anyone reads my ramble and might otherwise not know how tricky colorblindness can be for those experiencing it ;)
Thanks for reading :)
You are an awesome teacher. YOu make it so easy to understand. Thank you.
Essential Question: What back up plan do you have in place when your school's internet or school district's internet services go down for hours?
Lyle Springer I don’t believe this is a default setting. I believe there will be a pop-up asking you to enable it.
It’s offline are wifi went down and my teacher could use google slides as long as it’s downloaded not on google
I like the use of different colors for different parts of the lesson. As a High School English teacher, I try to customize the font to specific Units and/or novels. I use Tradewinds for "Lord of the Flies" for example.
thank you this helps SOOO much!
You are fabulous. A God sent. Bless you. Thank you. I had to subscribe to your channel. You had my attention the entire time. I can link my lesson 1 to it's slide and so on. YES!!! Thank you. Time to get to work. I must share your video.
You inspire me so much , never give up and know you are worth it ✨hopefully you reply
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Loved the drag and drop Google slide how to presentation. Thank you!!
Totally needed this tutorial - now can you just put up this one as a template on TPT to help this first year teacher, lol! 🤣
Video was very informative. I get anxiety just trying to get started but I'll cope with it.Thank you.
Thank you! Due to Covid-19, I've suddenly been launched into online distance teaching. Your well-polished and well-organized tutorials will definitely soften the landing!
@ontrada, are you an English teacher? You know how to use hyphens correctly!
Thank you for this! Now that I'm home with no kids to teach, I've been creating online resources and looking for new things to do to enrich my lessons! Thanks!!!!
LOVE this tutorial! Now I'm going to see if you have any tutorials specifically dealing with how to bring photos/images into the slides.
Thanks!
super easy, just push the + button up in toolbar. and they are much easier to resize and move around on slides than they are on docs.
Great presentations. I learned how to make my own slides (and not only use the templates that are provided), and how to hyperlink, excellent ideas that I will be using when I create slides for my classes.
Thank you for all your work on your tutorials! They have made my transition to teaching virtually much less painful. My kindergarten students love them so much! I have shared your RUclips channel with my entire kindergarten team!
Perfect! Just like I want to present my work! thank you for your detailed video !! I loved it!
Resizing the slides is such a great tip!
Absolutely love the link to move from one lesson to the next!
am i the only one thats making a slideshow so i can show my parents why i want a quarantine puppy. just me .... ok
Well, who could turn that argument down. Be sure to point out the features you use. They'll love it
I did this but for me getting a new phone
Your videos are a life saver. Thank you for sharing.
Hi, I love your channel. Thank you! It's really changed my life during remote teaching. So, I tried to make my googleslides editable and my students still cannot edit text. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for creating these tutorials especially right now that are doing remote learning.
18:10 How do you “Go Back” after you have gone into the slides from a hyperlink? Is there a hot key that returns you back to the menu?
You can add a little button (can be any image you want, even a text box) and hyperlink it to the menu, when you have it, you can just copy-paste it wherever you want it in your presentation.
That’s a brilliant idea! I did it. Helpful especially if you have over 300 slides.
@@gicelahernandez8792 Thanks Gicela
JD Hopkins, great question and thank you for asking it kind sir
To go back or undo we press (ctrl + z).
That was great on slides,thanks for sharing,you have a great way of presenting too !Good luck.
I thought I was a google slides pro but I never thought about hyperlinking! Also, you can make your basic slideshow a template to save time.
Hi, Betony! How can I save my own template in Google Slides? :O
Great Job. I love your bubbly personality.
I would love to see how to do your reading google slides.
Thank you so much for making these videos. It is extremely helpful. What a fabulous teacher you are!
This was so helpful and the linking to the slides will for sure be a time saver!
You are AMAZING!! Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. I'm your new fan !!!