Student Blogs--Eliminate Blogger Navigation Bar

Written Directions:

• Blogger Dashboard
• Layout
• Navbar
• Edit
• Off
• Save

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Lunch N' Learn: Rethinking Slides Using Google Presentations

Today's part three of three Lunch N' Learns focuses on Google Presentations as a tool that can eliminate the noise and focus the signal on staff presentations.

Many teachers have used the Effective Google Presentation Tips for Students prior to having students create presentations.  Consider looking at these prior to making your next Google Presentation.

• Five Words On A Slide
• Tools > Research > All Google Features On Side Of Presentation
• Insert YouTube Clip
• Snipping Tool To Get Images
• Text Box > Fonts
• Arrows > Shapes > Lines
• Single Most Important Piece of Advice --Stop The Bullet Point Madness

Effective Google Presentations Consider Showing To Students

Word Focus is critical!  Do NOT put what you say on the screen.  Eliminate ALL the words so that people will listen to your passion and energy instead of reading your words.

Inserting An Image Consider rethinking the way images are presented to your students.


Google Presentations With Speaker Notes By making a few simple clicks, you will never miss an important point, while your audience views a Focused Message!

Effective Examples

• 10 Tips To Present ALL CAN BE DONE IN GOOGLE PRESENTATION
• Clear Pictures, Clear Words, Signal
• Simple, Small Transition, One Image, Small Amount Of Words
• Social Studies Old Italy Slide New Italy Slide New Way
• 450 Ways To Make Google Presentations Pop
• Making Your Presentation Powerful

I am thankful for the many teachers who have shared their "this is my new presentation because of Lunch N' Learn" See how one teacher has changed her presentations.  She also commented, "students do listen more when they are not racing to write down all the words on my presentation slides."

Google Slides Cheat Sheet

3 of 3 Part Series
Part 2
Part 1

*Inspiration For Lessons - Resonate Nancy Duarte
*Resonate Is Now Available Free Online
*Presentation Design Tips - Better Public Speaking With Great Slides
*5 Non-Negotiables - For PD

Badgerlink.net Citing A Resource

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Google Spreadsheets Aligning Rows and Words

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Lunch N' Learn: Rethinking Slides

Today's Lunch N' Learn focused on how to rethink SMARTboard slides and PowerPoint Slides.  Last week, we looked at how to rethink slides that are in front of students.  This week, two teachers have graciously provided one SMARTboard document and one PowerPoint presentation that we take a look.  Our goal is to rethink how the slides and presentation may appear.

PowerPoint:
Allows for Presenter View that looks like this:

What Your Audience Sees

What The Presenter Sees

Video Tutorial On How To Enable This


View Rethinking Of Slides

SMARTboard:

• Write on Smartboard slide normally by extending the page
• In summary, use the camera to take a picture of parts of the written text
• These pictures will be placed on new slides
• Write new steps on new slides
• Extend the slide but provide a single line on the white canvas

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2 of a 3 Part Series
Part 1
Part 3

Google Docs Math Equation Editor

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Another Great Video Resource

More Than One Teacher Website On A Website

Mr. Christiansen has many students in his "team study" class which all require the need to know what information is on multiple teacher websites.  To make this process easier he wanted a "screen" to have all of the teacher's daily info.  In keeping with the RedZone Channel's Quad Box , I created a single page Google Site and inserted the iFrame gadget.  The gadget simply requires one url for each gadget inserted.  I chose the two column page layout and placed two gadgets on top of each other.

The result is a one stop shop for his students and their teacher resources.

VIEW THE SITE 

*If the link above is only showing a white page, look to the omni bar and click on the shield.  Allow the script to run.  See picture below.

Inserting Bookmarks In Lengthy Google Documents

Mr. Pratt has implemented Google Documents as his "Lesson Plan" document.  This allows for links to be inserted for instant access to resources.  It also allows for students to view his lesson plans during the day or if absent!

Because he has multiple lessons on one document, he needed a way to quickly access areas in the document without scrolling through the entire document.

Solution?  Insert Bookmarks...

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Google Presentations Screen Options...In 20 Seconds

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Storyboarding For iMovie

Our AP Environmental Science students are about to embark on creating videos for two "areas of concern' (AOC) in our local area.  These videos will be made with an iPad and iMovie.

Before the videos can be created, some preparation work needs to be done.

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Students need to know that storyboarding is truly what makes the video pop!  Thinking through the following items will help to ensure a final quality product.

• Scene Setting: Where will the scene be filmed? If still images, what scenes will the still images portray.
• Scene Characters: Who will be in the scene?
• Scene Visual: Somewhat similar to scene setting, but with more emphasis on the actions that will take place during the scene.
• Scene Text: Specifically, what will be said and who will say the exact words during the scene.

Storyboard Usable Information For PHS Teachers Here

While we love using technology at the correct time in our district, the best tool for storyboarding is paper and pencil.  Therefore, the link below may be useful as a storyboard.  Students will only print out the number of scenes that they fill will take place during their production.

Storyboard Scene setting, characters, text, and visual printout

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