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Web 2.0 digital tools selection: online presentation tools.

by William Guth

In Part 1 of this series, Web 2.0 Digital Tools Selection Criteria , I shared a method for evaluating digital learning tools that may find their way into our online courses. In this continuation entry, I will demonstrate the method in action by discussing tools which I evaluated as part of my course work for Introduction to Online Presentation Tools .

If you missed the last entry and want a quick catch up, the premise of the Web 2.0 Digital Tools Selection Criteria is to quickly evaluate proposed learning tools by measuring their user-friendliness against a thorough checklist which tests for: Accessibility, Usability, Privacy & Intellectual Property protection, Workload & Time Management, and Fun Factor.

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The main objective of the course was to explore and evaluate promising alternatives to PowerPoint for presenting information online. In order to familiarize ourselves with the selection criteria the course presented us with a variety of popular technologies to test and select for our evaluations. Click to view the full list of tools and have fun exploring.

Each participant was tasked with selecting two to three from the list to evaluate against the selection criteria checklist, explain how they might use it in their own online course, and whether not we would recommend it to others.

At the time of my participation I was developing an asynchronous Integrated Marketing Communications course with a final presentation component, and a need to present large swaths of numerical data visually; so I chose Google Slides, VoiceThread, and Infogr.am.

The course learning objectives these tools to would need to support were:

  • To effectively communicate financial consequences of businesses in the areas of strategic intent, profitability, capital returns and shareholder value as it evolves in a digital age; meaning, can you prove that your retail business is Amazon proof.
  • use ratios to analyze and explain a firm’s liquidity and activity,
  • use ratios to analyze and explain a firm’s profitability and its market value, and
  • explain the interactions of the financial statements through financial ratios.

Google Slides

At first glance, Google Slides probably seems like low-hanging fruit. It’s basically a stripped down version of Microsoft Power Point available free online and supported by Google). For our working professional students that makes it easy to learn (Usability). University enrolled students have single-sign-on access to Google Apps through @u.northwestern.edu (Access/Privacy). Work can be shared internally among students/faculty for collaboration and review, or embedded in the Canvas (Privacy/Workload & Time Management). And the software can be used to include multimedia (Fun Factor) Google Slides easily ticked all the boxes on the checklist.

VoiceThread

I felt compelled to try VoiceThread in that it had been recommended by many colleagues before as an alternative discussion tool that could infuse greater social interaction. And as I would come to learn it has easy to use features for incorporating media from a variety of sources allowing participants to layer comments and other media. This type presentation and discussion can not only ramp up asynchronous social interaction, but can introduce active learning opportunities to instructional materials and discussion which take on a life of their own. (Fun Factor, Usability). Designed for education, the web based platform platform operates on most browsers and is accommodates the needs of differently-abled learners such as dyslexic or ADHD, hearing impaired and beyond (Access).

Additionally, I felt obligated to test the tool as despite our best efforts many faculty insist on recording voice over PowerPoint. While VoiceThread is not V.O.P.P . you can utilizes many aspects of the V.O.P.P. approach that faculty are familiar with when it comes to teaching them about the platform and its robust features (Usability). Testing the software helped me discover what to listen for in order to confidently recommend it as an alternative when faced with the prospect of V.O.P.P.

My experience with VoiceThread was much like interactive and rich media production of all kinds. Scripting and pre-production proved to be essential tools for success, a basic knowledge of your computer’s recording tools are required, and it can serve as more than an alternative tool for discussions. The tool can be integrated with LMS systems (e.g. Canvas) and set-up for single sign-on much the way we access BlueJeans (Workload & Time Management, Privacy 7 Intellectual Property)

Check out this example that I created.

( Note: The first slide has no interaction, simply click next slide arrow in the lower right to continue.)

I was drawn to Infogr.am as I have always sought easy to use software and platforms for generating info graphics. These are eye catching graphics for statistics and viral messaging that have taken hold in public and social media. And although Infogr.am is was not designed for the social media purpose, it is a web based platform designed to visualize data and present it in an interactive way (Usability/Fun Factor). Several platforms have this as a feature in some form or another and have a built in utility for importing or linking data for your chart, however, Infogr.am is dedicated solely to data representation and interactivity. This is both its strength and its weakness.

If you’re looking to represent your data visually, Infogr.am has templates and themes as far as the eye can see for charts, graphs, maps and infographics (or reports,) and can accept data in several formats including .csv upload, and .json feed, or update dynamically from Google Sheets.

Each type of graphic is interactive in that you can click, toggle, and hover to display different aspects of the data so there is great potential for students to interact with data and learn from these interactions.

Unfortunately, the platform does not play well with LMS systems where content creators have  no control over javascript or CSS which limits the app’s responsiveness ability. In Canvas users can embed their work as an iFrame as you would a YouTube video, but viewing the content on anything smaller than a laptop would be difficult. Infogr.am does have access to video tutorials and How-To instructions, but for uninitiated number cruncher the platform is not all that easy to learn without some frustration.

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Amazing Post William, Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Want to learn the basics about Google Slides? This beginner's guide walks you through everything from importing your PowerPoint files to sharing presentations online.

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If you’re just getting started with Google Slides, its extensive features and add-ons can be a little overwhelming. Here are some tips to help you get going with this powerful alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.

If you’ve heard of Google Slides before, feel free to skip ahead; if you haven't, here’s a crash course on what you need to know. We’ll go over the basics and get you brushed up on what Google Slides is and how you can get started right away.

Slides is a free, web-based presentation program designed to compete with Microsoft Office PowerPoint. It's part of G Suite---Google's complete office suite (though some people refer to it all as Google Docs). The other main services included in the cloud-based suite are Sheets (Excel) and Docs (Word).

Related: What is Google Workspace, Anyway?

Google Slides is available on all devices and platforms; all you need is an internet connection and a web browser (or, in the case of mobile, the Android and iOS apps ). Google does the rest and handles the brunt of the heavy lifting, while it runs the software in the cloud.

Slides supports several file types, including  .ppt, .pptx , .odp, .jpg, .svg, and .pdf. This makes it easy to view or convert Microsoft Office files directly from Google Drive or insert images directly into a slide.

Related: What Is a PPTX File (and How Do I Open One)?

And since Slides is an online presentation program, you can share and collaborate with multiple people on the same file, and track revisions, changes, and suggestions, all in real-time.

Have you heard enough? Let’s get started.

Before you can use Google Slides, you have to sign up for a Google account (an @gmail account). If you already have one, feel free to move on to the next section. If not, we’ll go over the simplest way to create a Google account and get you set up with Slides.

Head over to  accounts.google.com , click "Create Account," and then click "For Myself."

Click "Create Account," and then click "For Myself."

On the next page, you provide some information---first and last name, username, and password---to create your account.

The Create your Google Account page.

Also, you have to verify your phone number, so Google can make sure you’re not a bot.

The "Verifying your phone number" screen on Google.

After you verify your phone number, the subsequent pages require you to provide a recovery email address and your date of birth and gender. You must also agree to the privacy statement and terms of service. After that, you’re the proud new owner of a Google account.

Now that you have a Google account, it’s time to create your first presentation. Head over to  Google Slides  and place the cursor on the multicolored "+" icon in the bottom-right corner.

Place your cursor on the multicolored plus sign (+).

The + turns into a black pencil icon; click it.

Click the black pencil icon.

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 into the address bar from any browser and hit Enter to automatically create and open a new blank document.

Drag and drop your PowerPoint file directly into Google Drive.

Even if you’re new to Google Slides, you might already have a collection of Microsoft PowerPoint files you’d like to be able to use. If that’s the case, then you have to  upload all your presentations  before you can view them. While it might not support some of the more advanced features and effects of some PowerPoint presentations, it works pretty well.

When you import a PowerPoint presentation, you can use either Google Slides or  Drive  to upload your files. Both methods let you drag and drop a file from your computer directly into the web browser for easy uploads. Your Drive houses all of your uploaded files, but---for the sake of convenience---when you go to the Slides homepage, it only shows you presentation-type files.

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From the Slides homepage, click the folder icon in the top right, and then click the "Upload" tab. Now, drag and drop any files you want to upload directly into this window.

Click the folder icon in the top corner, click the Upload tab, and then drag a file from your computer into the window.

Once the file uploads, Slides opens it automatically, and it's ready for you to edit, share, or collaborate.

To open a PowerPoint presentation that you want to edit, click the filename with the "P" next to it from your Google Slides homepage.

Click the filename with the "P" next to it.

Click to either view the PowerPoint file or edit it in Slides.

Click "View Only" or "Edit in Google Slides."

After you’ve finished editing your file, you can download and export your presentation back into a Microsoft PowerPoint format. Just go to File > Download As, and then click the "Microsoft PowerPoint" option.

Click "File," "Download As," and then click "Microsoft PowerPoint."

If you’d rather download your presentation as a PDF, ODP, JPEG, TXT, etc., you can do that here, as well.

The download format options window in Google Slides.

Related: How to Import a PowerPoint Presentation into Google Slides

Now that you have a few presentations, it’s time to make sure your  spelling and grammar are correct . Slides is equipped with a spellchecker. If you misspell something, it underlines the error with a squiggly line and prompts you to make a change.

This should be on by default, but you can make sure in Tools > Spelling > Underline Errors.

Click "Tools," select "Spelling," and then click "Underline Errors."

To see spelling corrections and suggestions, right-click the word with the line underneath. Alternatively, press Ctrl+Alt+X (Windows) or Command+Alt+X (Mac) to open the Spell Check and Grammar tool.

Right-click the error to view the spellchecker's correction.

Along with a spellchecker, Google Slides comes loaded with a built-in dictionary and thesaurus. To use them, highlight a word, right-click it, and then click "Define [word]."

Click "Define [word]."

While this should get you started, we have  a deeper dive into Google’s spelling and grammar checker  if you want more info.

Related: How to Check Your Spelling in Google Docs

The "Share with Others" options in Google Slides.

One of the best features of Google Slides is its ability to  generate a shareable link.  Anyone you share the link with can view, suggest edits to, or directly edit the presentation. This eliminates the hassle of sending a file back and forth between collaborators. Each person has her own text entry cursor to use on her computer.

To do this, click the orange "Share" button in the file you want to share. Next, choose how and with whom you want to send a link to the file. You can type email addresses or click "Get Shareable Link" in the top corner to hand out the invitation yourself.

Type email addresses or click "Get Shareable Link."

From the drop-down menu, you can select one of these options for what other users can do:

  • Off:  Sharing is disabled. If you’ve previously shared a link with others, it will no longer work and revokes any permissions they once had.
  • Anyone with the link can edit:  Gives the shared users full read/write access. They still can’t delete it from your Drive, though---this is just for the contents of the file.
  • Anyone with the link can comment:  Allows shared users to leave comments which is handy for team projects.
  • Anyone with the link can view : Shared users can view the file, but can’t edit it in any way. This is the default action when you share a file, and it's the best option if you’re trying to share a file for download.

You can do a lot more with these shareable links, as they also work with other Drive files and on mobile. For a deeper look at how links work and how to generate them,  check out our post .

Related: How to Create Shareable Download Links for Files on Google Drive

The Version history of a presentation in Google Slides.

When you share documents with others, it’s difficult to keep track of all the small changes that happen if you’re not present. For that, there’s  revision history . Google keeps track of all the changes that occur in a document and groups them into periods to reduce clutter. You can even revert a file to any of the previous versions listed in the history with a click of your mouse.

You can view a list of all recent changes by clicking File > Version History > See Version History. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H (Command+Option+Shift+H on Mac).

Click "File," select "Version History," and then click "See Version History."

Related: How to See Recent Changes to Your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides File

You can also share a link to a specific slide in your presentation with a friend or coworker, without having to mention which one you're referencing. When someone clicks the link and the presentation loads, it jumps directly to the slide you're referencing. You do have to enable file sharing before you can link to a specific slide in your presentation, though.

Because each slide has a unique URL, all you have to do to link to one is click it in the left pane, and then copy the URL from the address bar.

Click the slide, and then copy the URL from the address bar.

Google Slides also has a character insertion tool. This allows you to insert special characters into your presentation without having to remember any Alt-codes. There are tons of symbols, characters, languages, and so much more. So, whether you want an arrow, different language scripts, or if you just want a few silly emojis to spruce up your presentation, Google Slides makes it easy to include them.

To open the character insertion tool, click "Insert," and then click "Special Characters."

Click "Insert," and then click "Special Characters."

From here, you can manually search for specific characters with the drop-down menus.

The "Insert Special Characters" drop-down menu in Google Slides.

Use the search bar to find a specific character or emoji.

The "Insert Special Characters" search bar with "smiling" typed in and the resulting emojis.

You can also use your drawing skills to search.

The "Draw " search feature with a sad face drawn in and the resulting emojis.

Related: How to Insert Symbols into Google Docs and Slides

What happens if you need to access Google Slides but don’t have an internet connection? Although Slides is a web-based product, that  doesn’t mean you can’t use it offline . Any changes you make to the file offline will update the next time you connect to the internet. First, download the extension for Chrome.

To enable a presentation for offline use, go to the Google Slides’ homepage and, in the top-left corner, click the Hamburger menu > Settings. Once here, toggle "Offline" to the On position, and then click "OK."

Click the toggle next to "Offline" to the On position, and then click "OK."

To save storage space on your local machine, Google only downloads and makes the most recently accessed files available offline. To manually enable a file, click the three dots icon, and then toggle "Available Offline" to On.

Click the three dots icon, and then toggle-on "Available Offline."

Related: How to Use Google Docs Offline

Google Slides is a powerful, feature-rich alternative to Microsoft Office's PowerPoint. It's also completely free to use with an internet connection and a Google Account, making it a legitimate competitor for Microsoft.

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“I couldn’t come up with an idea.”

“I didn’t have a chance to talk to my group!”

“What was the homework?”

“I was confused…”

“I’m not sure if my students understood the lesson today.”

“Where can my students best showcase their work?”

These are all questions and excuses I’ve heard from students and teachers, and I’m so happy that advances in technology have helped to decrease these issues in many schools. Today I’ll share some of the best Web 2.0 tools that I personally use in my classroom to combat these problems!

When I was in middle school , I remember clearly that feeling of dread wash over me when I got home if I left my precious planner in my locker. I was diligent about writing down my assignments, but sometimes in my insane rush to not miss the bus, I’d accidentally leave my sticker decorated planner on the top shelf of my locker. I remember I would beg my parents to take me back to school to go get it, usually at 8:00 at night when everyone was long gone. My teachers didn’t always update the “Homework Hotline” on their voicemail, and I was pretty much out of luck when it came to finding out was due, unless I braved it, busted out the white pages, and made a phone call (but never during dinner time of course!) to a fellow classmate. For my Type A personality, having the technology we do today would have been a lifesaver! However, many teachers don’t utilize these amazing tools because they have never heard of them, or their schools aren’t pushing this level of technology just yet. Many of the tools I’m sharing today are free or have a free component that will allow you to at least try it out. All of them I feel are very user-friendly and easy to implement with students in your classroom as early as tomorrow!

Padlet is a virtual bulletin board that can be used in so many different ways. Most often, it can be used for brainstorming, sharing ideas, and collaborating. It is updated in real-time, and can be displayed on a classroom web page. I have used this with my students to have them brainstorm ideas for their Genius Hour projects, and also to give each other compliments during a social-emotional learning exercise. The brainstorming was wonderful, because I had insight into what they were interested in learning about during Genius Hour, and students that were struggling to come up with ideas were inspired by what others posted. What I loved most about the second activity was that students could see all of the compliments, and they would often refer to certain comments, and it was something they continued to do way past the actual activity. Parents could also see these, as I embedded the Padlet to their classroom Weebly Page. Padlet can be used to reinforce many concepts, such as examples of different types of themes in literature, real world examples of figurative language, or even quotes from literature that are inspiring, or maybe even feature a grammar concept your class is currently learning.

2. Schoology / Edmodo

Up until this year, I used Edmodo with my classes with great success, and then my school district adopted Schoology this year. Both are basically the same concept, with only a few small differences, but function on the same level. I have loved using this with my classroom, and there are a few features I love more than others. Basically, both are platforms for students and parents to communicate with the teacher. It looks like a form of social media, but is safe and private for students to use. The thing I love most is that I can upload all of my materials and they are available for students. There are also no limits on storage that I’ve encountered, and I’ve uploaded everything this year. Classes are grouped and separate, and students can submit assignments through both platforms. In both Schoology and Edmodo, you can comment and annotate on student work, and they can resubmit the assignment, without having to print out a copy, ever!

I can also answer questions for students, and continue classroom discussions that we have during the class period. One of my fondest memories using Edmodo was when we did virtual literature circles. One of my students was absent on her day to lead the discussion, and she was still able to participate from home during the class period (which she chose to do on her own, she wasn’t expected to). It was incredible to see the level of dedication she had to being there for her peers, and to watch them be able to interact with her. One student shared her thoughts out with their group, and then the discussed them and responded to her. Ultimately, the best part about this is that you do not need a subscription to use Edmodo or Schoology, they are absolutely free for teachers!

3. Google Apps for Education

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4. Socrative and Mastery Connect

These are two different websites, but are from the same developer, and both focus on assessments.

If your school allows students to use their cell phones in class, this is a major bonus, because students can use Socrative via their phone! It’s a great way to do paperless exit slips in class. It can also do short quizzes, space race, or even poll students. I love using this app to see quickly that students understand a concept, or even get their feedback on a lesson we did in class. The results are then tallied and sent to me in a chart, and I can use this information to guide my lesson planning.

Mastery Connect may be the best tool I have ever used, as it saved me so much time grading I can’t even begin to thank them enough for creating it. I upload my tests to Mastery Connect, and create the answer key. Students take the test using a Test ID, and not only do I get their scores automatically when they finish, they do as well. What is so great about this is that their scores are divided into Mastery Levels which you can set. In my classroom, if a student gets “Red” (Below Mastery), they must immediately fill out a “Request to Retest” form, and turn it in to me before the end of the period. If they receive “Yellow” (Near Mastery), they can choose to retake the test or not (most choose to retake), and if they received “Green” (Mastery), they know they are good to go. My personal grading philosophy is that students should have a chance to master the material, which is why I always make students retake their tests. This also encourages students to take ownership of their learning and reflect on why they received the score that they did. Teachers can also search assessments from others across the country.

Mastery Connect is free up to ten questions, and if you pay for the subscription you can also assess data across your classes, and do an item analysis of individual questions. This feature helps me determine if a question might not be valid, especially if multiple students miss it. I no longer spend my Friday nights grading vocabulary tests, which is what makes the price absolutely worth it for me!

I hope you find these tech tools helpful and something that you can use in your classroom. Make it a goal to experiment and try one or two out before the end of the school year!

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The 10 Best Google Slides Presentation Tools and How to Use Them

Google Slides has tons of features that can make your presentations more appealing and effective. Check out these tools and learn how to use them!

In the era of online meetings and conferences, Google Slides has gradually become a favorite tool, and it's easy to see why. It offers cool and useful features that benefit not only the speaker but also the audience. If you're looking to use Google Slides in your next presentation, here are ten of its best features that you should take advantage of.

1. Customized Slide Sizes

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Tired of boring presentations with the same old format? Google Slides takes care of that. With its custom slide size feature, you can turn your presentations into any format you like.

You can use custom sizes for your slides' height and width, or you can simply choose from one of the three default sizes (Standard 4:3, Widescreen 16:9, and Widescreen 16:10). To change your slide size, go to File > Page setup . Pick the size you want, and then hit Apply .

2. Download as a PDF

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If you're making a presentation, you're likely going to share it with your audience, too. However, since Google Slides is a web-based application, you'd need an internet connection to access it. This wouldn't always be feasible, and most people prefer having a local file that they can view offline anytime.

Fortunately, Google Slides lets you export your presentations to various formats for offline use. The most flexible and commonly used format is PDF, but you can also download it as a Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx), Plain Text (.txt), and even PNG (.png). To do so, go to File > Download , and pick the format of your choice.

3. Different Image Sources

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Images are a big part of an effective presentation, and Google Slides makes it very convenient for you to insert photos from multiple sources.

Aside from the typical way of uploading them from your computer, you can also just paste the photo's URL or take a picture with your camera. There are also options for looking up images from the web, your Google Drive, and your Google Photos.

The best part is that you won't have to switch to a different tab just to do so. The images will be displayed right in Google Slides! To add a photo to your presentation, click on Insert > Image . Then, select which source you want to use.

4. Video Trimmer

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It's always a good idea to add videos to a presentation, as more people enjoy watching a clip than listening to the speaker. However, it can be a bit of a hassle to do so, especially when you have a long one-hour video but only want to show a three-minute part of it. You'd have to edit the video in another app just to get the clip you need.

Google Slides fixes this issue for you with its built-in video trimmer. All you have to do is insert your video, right-click on it, and then select Format options from the menu. From here, you can select what time to start and end the video. You can also change other settings, like muting the audio, editing the size and rotation, and adding a drop shadow.

5. Google Font Support

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When comparing Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides , the latter has more built-in font options to offer. You can choose from over 800 options from the Google Fonts library, giving you more flexibility in how to style your presentations. You won't have to install them, unlike how you would in PowerPoint, as they're readily available online.

Another great thing about the Google Slides font feature is that you can add your preferred fonts from the library to the drop-down menu in the toolbar. This is particularly helpful, so you won't need to scroll through the library every time you want to use your font of choice.

To do this, click on the fonts drop-down menu and go to More fonts . You can then select your favorite fonts on the list, and they will automatically be added to the drop-down menu.

6. Audience Q&A

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Your audience will almost always have something to ask after your presentation, and the last thing you want is to scroll through the endless messages in the meeting chatbox just to find their questions. This is where Google Slides' Q&A feature comes into play.

Once you start a Q&A session, you will have a unique link where your audience can submit their queries, either anonymously or using their email address. You will then see all the questions on your end, and you can choose which ones to present to your listeners.

To start a Q&A session while presenting, click on the three vertical dots in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Select More > Q & A . It will open a Presenter view window. Then, click on the Start new button in the Audience Tools tab.

7. Live Captions

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Ever attended a presentation where you had trouble understanding the speaker? Google Slides solves that with live captions. Although it only supports English at the moment, it's still a very cool feature to use.

Just toggle on the captions while you're presenting, and it will automatically present your words at the bottom of the screen as you talk. You can also change the text position and size for your audience's convenience.

8. Laser Pointer

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It's common to see speakers using laser pointers in live presentations, and fortunately, Google Slides comes with an online version. While presenting, you can click on the three vertical dots in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Then, select Turn on the laser pointer . You will now have a virtual laser pointer following your mouse movement. This is especially useful when emphasizing things in your presentation and pointing out little details that your audience might have trouble noticing.

9. Publish to the Web

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Aside from sharing your presentation offline as PDFs and PPTs, you can also share it online using Google Slides' publish-to-the-web feature. This makes your presentation accessible to everyone, whether or not they have a Google account.

When you publish it online, you need to set a timer for when the slides stay on the screen. This can be as fast as a second to as long as a minute. You can also set the presentation to repeat after the last slide is shown. To use this feature, click on File > Publish to the web . Then, set your timer and other settings before clicking the Publish button.

10. Add-Ons

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There are tons of useful add-ons for Google Slides that can help you create engaging and powerful presentations. You have Lucidchart Diagrams for creating diagrams easily, Easy Accents for inserting accents to your slide text, and Magic Rainbow Unicorn for changing your font color to a rainbow one.

To use an add-on to Google Slides, select Add-ons > Get add-ons from the toolbar. Then, install the add-on of your choice.

Create Impressive Presentations With These Google Slide Tools

With these nifty tools and features, you can turn your Google Slides presentations into something more effective and interactive. Make sure to utilize them in your next talk, and watch as they make your slides come to life.

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Using Web 2.0 Tools such as Google Apps in Library Instruction Sessions with Non-Traditional Students

Alyssa Martin , Troy University Jana Slay , Troy University Kent Snowden , Troy University

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Much has been written about traditional undergraduate students and their familiarity with Web 2.0 tools. But how “tech savvy” are non-traditional students? How can tools such as Google Apps be used in library instruction with these students?

Troy University Montgomery Campus serves an especially diverse student body; roughly two-thirds are adult, non-traditional students (average age of 28). Librarians on this campus surveyed students in library instruction classes to find out their knowledge and use of Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, image and video sharing, collaborative authoring tools, communication tools, social games/spaces and blogs. Survey results show that many of the students not only had never used these tools, but they had never even heard of them. As a result of these findings, librarians now incorporate some of these Web 2.0 technologies in their library instruction sessions.

Presenters will discuss how librarians introduce students to Web 2.0 tools in library instruction and explain how online tools such as Google Apps can be used not only as a collaborative authoring tool for students, but also for librarians designing instruction sessions. For example, class assignments using documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be created and shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time. Students can be surveyed and their feedback results sent to a spreadsheet. PowerPoint slides can be created and published to the web for viewing at any time. The presenters will conclude by sharing both the benefits and drawbacks of using Google Apps in library instruction sections.

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Martin, Alyssa; Slay, Jana; and Snowden, Kent, "Using Web 2.0 Tools such as Google Apps in Library Instruction Sessions with Non-Traditional Students" (2011). LOEX Conference Proceedings 2009 . 27. https://commons.emich.edu/loexconf2009/27

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Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out.

Gmail, Docs, and more will now come with Gemini baked in. But Europeans will have to wait before they can download the app.

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In the biggest mass-market AI launch yet, Google is rolling out Gemini , its family of large language models, across almost all its products, from Android to the iOS Google app to Gmail to Docs and more. You can also now get your hands on Gemini Ultra, the most powerful version of the model, for the first time.  

With this launch, Google is sunsetting Bard , the company's answer to ChatGPT. Bard, which has been powered by a version of Gemini since December, will now be known as Gemini too.  

ChatGPT , released by Microsoft-backed OpenAI just 14 months ago, changed people’s expectations of what computers could do. Google, which has been racing to catch up ever since, unveiled its Gemini family of models in December. They are multimodal large language models that can interact with you via voice, image, and text. Google claimed that its own benchmarking showed that Gemini could outperform OpenAI's multimodal model, GPT-4, on a range of standard tests. But the margins were slim. 

By baking Gemini into its ubiquitous products, Google is hoping to make up lost ground. “Every launch is big, but this one is the biggest yet,” Sissie Hsiao, Google vice president and general manager of Google Assistant and Bard (now Gemini), said in a press conference yesterday. “We think this is one of the most profound ways that we’re going to advance our company’s mission.”

But some will have to wait longer than others to play with Google’s new toys. The company has announced rollouts in the US and East Asia but said nothing about when the Android and iOS apps will come to the UK or the rest of Europe. This may be because the company is waiting for the EU’s new AI Act to be set in stone, says Dragoș Tudorache, a Romanian politician and member of the European Parliament, who was a key negotiator on the law.

“We’re working with local regulators to make sure that we’re abiding by local regime requirements before we can expand,” Hsiao said. “Rest assured, we are absolutely working on it and I hope we’ll be able to announce expansion very, very soon.”

How can you get it? Gemini Pro, Google’s middle-tier model that has been available via Bard since December, will continue to be available for free on the web at gemini.google.com (rather than bard.google.com). But now there is a mobile app as well.

If you have an Android device, you can either download the Gemini app or opt in to an upgrade in Google Assistant. This will let you call up Gemini in the same way that you use Google Assistant: by pressing the power button, swiping from the corner of the screen, or saying “Hey, Google!” iOS users can download the Google app, which will now include Gemini.

Gemini will pop up as an overlay on your screen, where you can ask it questions or give it instructions about whatever’s on your phone at the time, such as summarizing an article or generating a caption for a photo.  

Finally, Google is launching a paid-for service called Gemini Advanced. This comes bundled in a subscription costing $19.99 a month that the company is calling the Google One Premium AI Plan. It combines the perks of the existing Google One Premium Plan, such as 2TB of extra storage, with access to Google's most powerful model, Gemini Ultra, for the first time. This will compete with OpenAI’s paid-for service, ChatGPT Plus, which buys you access to the more powerful GPT-4 (rather than the default GPT-3.5) for $20 a month.

At some point soon (Google didn't say exactly when) this subscription will also unlock Gemini across Google’s Workspace apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides, where it works as a smart assistant similar to the GPT-4-powered Copilot that Microsoft is trialing in Office 365.

When can you get it? The free Gemini app (powered by Gemini Pro) is available from today in English in the US. Starting next week, you’ll be able to access it across the Asia Pacific region in English and in Japanese and Korean. But there is no word on when the app will come to the UK, countries in the EU, or Switzerland.

Gemini Advanced (the paid-for service that gives access to Gemini Ultra) is available in English in more than 150 countries, including the UK and EU (but not France). Google says it is analyzing local requirements and fine-tuning Gemini for cultural nuance in different countries. But the company promises that more languages and regions are coming.

What can you do with it? Google says it has developed its Gemini products with the help of more than 100 testers and power users. At the press conference yesterday, Google execs outlined a handful of use cases, such as getting Gemini to help write a cover letter for a job application. “This can help you come across as more professional and increase your relevance to recruiters,” said Google’s vice president for product management, Kristina Behr.

Or you could take a picture of your flat tire and ask Gemini how to fix it. A more elaborate example involved Gemini managing a snack rota for the parents of kids on a soccer team. Gemini would come up with a schedule for who should bring snacks and when, help you email other parents, and then field their replies. In future versions, Gemini will be able to draw on data in your Google Drive that could help manage carpooling around game schedules, Behr said.   

But we should expect people to come up with a lot more uses themselves. “I’m really excited to see how people around the world are going to push the envelope on this AI,” Hsaio said.

Is it safe? Google has been working hard to make sure its products are safe to use. But no amount of testing can anticipate all the ways that tech will get used and misused once it is released. In the last few months, Meta saw people use its image-making app to produce pictures of Mickey Mouse with guns and SpongeBob SquarePants flying a jet into two towers. Others used Microsoft’s image-making software to create fake pornographic images of Taylor Swift .

The AI Act aims to mitigate some—but not all—of these problems. For example, it requires the makers of powerful AI like Gemini to build in safeguards, such as watermarking for generated images and steps to avoid reproducing copyrighted material. Google says that all images generated by its products will include its SynthID watermarks. 

Like most companies, Google was knocked onto the back foot when ChatGPT arrived. Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI has given it a boost over its old rival. But with Gemini, Google has come back strong: this is the slickest packaging of this generation’s tech yet. 

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Creating video from text.

Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.

We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction.

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt.

Today, Sora is becoming available to red teamers to assess critical areas for harms or risks. We are also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals.

We’re sharing our research progress early to start working with and getting feedback from people outside of OpenAI and to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon.

Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background. The model understands not only what the user has asked for in the prompt, but also how those things exist in the physical world.

The model has a deep understanding of language, enabling it to accurately interpret prompts and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions. Sora can also create multiple shots within a single generated video that accurately persist characters and visual style.

The current model has weaknesses. It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect. For example, a person might take a bite out of a cookie, but afterward, the cookie may not have a bite mark.

The model may also confuse spatial details of a prompt, for example, mixing up left and right, and may struggle with precise descriptions of events that take place over time, like following a specific camera trajectory.

We’ll be taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products. We are working with red teamers — domain experts in areas like misinformation, hateful content, and bias — who will be adversarially testing the model.

We’re also building tools to help detect misleading content such as a detection classifier that can tell when a video was generated by Sora. We plan to include C2PA metadata in the future if we deploy the model in an OpenAI product.

In addition to us developing new techniques to prepare for deployment, we’re leveraging the existing safety methods that we built for our products that use DALL·E 3, which are applicable to Sora as well.

For example, once in an OpenAI product, our text classifier will check and reject text input prompts that are in violation of our usage policies, like those that request extreme violence, sexual content, hateful imagery, celebrity likeness, or the IP of others. We’ve also developed robust image classifiers that are used to review the frames of every video generated to help ensure that it adheres to our usage policies, before it’s shown to the user.

We’ll be engaging policymakers, educators and artists around the world to understand their concerns and to identify positive use cases for this new technology. Despite extensive research and testing, we cannot predict all of the beneficial ways people will use our technology, nor all the ways people will abuse it. That’s why we believe that learning from real-world use is a critical component of creating and releasing increasingly safe AI systems over time.

Research techniques

Sora is a diffusion model, which generates a video by starting off with one that looks like static noise and gradually transforms it by removing the noise over many steps.

Sora is capable of generating entire videos all at once or extending generated videos to make them longer. By giving the model foresight of many frames at a time, we’ve solved a challenging problem of making sure a subject stays the same even when it goes out of view temporarily.

Similar to GPT models, Sora uses a transformer architecture, unlocking superior scaling performance.

We represent videos and images as collections of smaller units of data called patches, each of which is akin to a token in GPT. By unifying how we represent data, we can train diffusion transformers on a wider range of visual data than was possible before, spanning different durations, resolutions and aspect ratios.

Sora builds on past research in DALL·E and GPT models. It uses the recaptioning technique from DALL·E 3, which involves generating highly descriptive captions for the visual training data. As a result, the model is able to follow the user’s text instructions in the generated video more faithfully.

In addition to being able to generate a video solely from text instructions, the model is able to take an existing still image and generate a video from it, animating the image’s contents with accuracy and attention to small detail. The model can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames. Learn more in our technical report .

Sora serves as a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world, a capability we believe will be an important milestone for achieving AGI.

All videos on this page were generated directly by Sora without modification.

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  1. What Is Google Slides and How to Get Started?

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  4. What is Google Slides? The ULTIMATE Guide!

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  6. Google Slides vs. PowerPoint: Complete Comparison Guide for 2022 (2023)

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  6. The New Google Slides: Main Toolbar

COMMENTS

  1. Google Slides: Online Slideshow Maker

    Work on fresh content With Slides, everyone's working on the latest version of a presentation. And with edits automatically saved in version history, it's easy to track or undo changes. Make...

  2. WEB 2.0 Tools

    WEB 2.0 Tools - How to make educational materials with Google slides - YouTube Project Enhancing the Digital Skills of Teachers on Using WEB 2.0 Tools to Increase the Quality...

  3. Web 2.0 Digital Tools Selection: Online Presentation Tools

    At first glance, Google Slides probably seems like low-hanging fruit. It's basically a stripped down version of Microsoft Power Point available free online and supported by Google). For our working professional students that makes it easy to learn (Usability).

  4. The Beginner's Guide to Google Slides

    How to Create a Blank Presentation. Now that you have a Google account, it's time to create your first presentation. Head over to Google Slides and place the cursor on the multicolored "+" icon in the bottom-right corner. The + turns into a black pencil icon; click it. Pro Tip: Type.

  5. Web 2.0 Tools for Student Collaboration

    Web 2.0 Tools for Student Collaboration - Google Slides Sports and Statistics Connecting Mathematics to the Real World through Project Based Learning Web 2.0 Tools for Student...

  6. Google Slides: Online Presentations for Business

    Admin console Slides Beautiful presentations created together Create and edit polished presentations in your browser—no software required. Multiple people can work at the same time so everyone...

  7. How to Use Google Slides Presentation Collaboration Tools Online

    Click the Send button on the lower left corner of the dialog box to send an email invitation to your team member. Note: Your team member doesn't need a Google account to access your Google Slides presentation. They can access it through the link in the email they receive. 3. Share Via Shareable Link.

  8. Using Web 2.0 Tools to Increase Student Engagement

    1. Padlet Padlet is a virtual bulletin board that can be used in so many different ways. Most often, it can be used for brainstorming, sharing ideas, and collaborating. It is updated in real-time, and can be displayed on a classroom web page.

  9. 12+ Google Slides Presentation Tools: To Learn How to Use (Now)

    These tools are more than enough to command text in your Google Slides presentation. 2. Add Images and Backgrounds. Google tools that work with images help you create amazing slides. By adding your own images and backgrounds, you can wow any audience. These Google Slides features are easy to use.

  10. The 10 Best Google Slides Presentation Tools and How to Use Them

    In the era of online meetings and conferences, Google Slides has gradually become a favorite tool, and it's easy to see why. It offers cool and useful features that benefit not only the speaker but also the audience.

  11. Web 2.0 and Presentation Tools

    Google Slides is an easy tool to use, even for those who aren't tech-savvy. Lastly, it saves automatically. I can't tell you how many times I have typed something for a course, and it...

  12. Web 2.0 Tools

    To the right of the description you will find either an example or a screencast walking you through creating with the tools. Clicking on the Web 2.0 tools will take you to more information. Select from the categories here below to automatically scroll down to the Web 2.0 tools or scroll down at your leisure. Alternative Web-based Presentations.

  13. Fifth Grade Project 2: Google Slides and Web 2.0 Presentation Tools

    Fifth Grade Project 2: Google Slides and Web 2.0 Presentation Tools. I CAN: Become an expert on the Web 2.0 presentation tools and share my knowledge with others. ... Each partner/trio will choose ONE of the presentation tools to learn and teach to the rest of your group. You will have two days to learn about the presentation tool and create a ...

  14. Embedding Web 2.0 Tools

    Web2.0 tools are software features freely available on the web that you can embed on a Canvas Page. The benefits of using the tools is that they can increase engagement and enthusiasm in learning as many of them offer opportunities for students to interact directly with the resource.

  15. Web 2.0 Presentation Tools: A Quick Guide

    To create a presentation, click at the 'Presentation' icon. Then, choose the template that suit with your presentation. 99. 93 Chapter 7: Visme Visme Tools (a) Insert tools Setting Menu Insert Tools Basic Tools Manage Slides STEP 4 Type your project here. You can click 'Save' to save your file. 100.

  16. Collaborative Presentation of Web 2.0 Tools, Module 3

    It can be used as a tool for students to use to create a content based project. All you need is to have a set of images and you can add text if you choose to tell a story. It really is easy! ... This Web. 2.0 tool is designed and structured to Blooms "Technological" Taxonomy. Just click on the link.

  17. (PDF) Selecting a Web 2.0 Presentation Tool

    Selecting a Web 2.0 Presentation Tool. Charles Hodges. Online presentation tools, an emerging type of Web 2.0 tool, can be used in many different ways in education. This article covers online presentation tools suitable for K-12 settings and offers an evaluation instrument for selecting the tool that best matches your skills and needs.

  18. "Using Web 2.0 Tools such as Google Apps in Library Instruction Session

    PowerPoint slides can be created and published to the web for viewing at any time. ... Presenters will discuss how librarians introduce students to Web 2.0 tools in library instruction and explain how online tools such as Google Apps can be used not only as a collaborative authoring tool for students, but also for librarians designing ...

  19. WEB 2.0 TOOLS

    WEB 2.0 TOOLS VOICE THREAD. Shelby and Deanna. Classroom Uses: math exit cards (i.e. explain how you solved your problem) art/language - give students a poem, and create an art piece to go along with poem, read poem;

  20. GOOGLE SLIDES

    google slides create a presentation with meaning! advantages it's free entirely web based easy to share provides templates media library advantages of google slides students can.... students can use google docs to show what they know! create a book review presentation design a. get started for free continue.

  21. Slides Toolbox

    One-click solutions for daily tasks. Removal tools: Remove selected items in a click - Selective Shapes - Blank Shapes - Blank Textboxes - Charts - Grouped Objects - Groupings - Hyperlinks - Images - Lines - Speaker Notes Text - Tables - Text - Videos - Watermarked Images - Word Arts Text tools: Offers a new smart sidebar with handy assistants ...

  22. Google

    Google has it's own website dedicated to education. http://www.google.com/educators/index.html This site shows recent projects, classroom activities, tools for your classroom, classroom...

  23. Web 2.0 in PowerPoint

    Web 2.0 in PowerPoint. Desiree Caskey Teacher at Billings Public Schools. Jan 8, 2009 •. 8 likes • 10,332 views. Education Technology Business. 1 of 13. Download Now.

  24. Google's Gemini is now in everything. Here's how you can try it out

    February 8, 2024. Google. In the biggest mass-market AI launch yet, Google is rolling out Gemini, its family of large language models, across almost all its products, from Android to the iOS ...

  25. Sora

    Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user's prompt. 1 of 9. Prompt: A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. She wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and ...

  26. The New Quick Share App for Windows

    Make emailing yourself a thing of the past. Securely transfer files from your PC to your Android device and take them on the go. Send photos, screenshots, videos and documents to your Android device using Quick Share. Easily send via drag-n-drop or right click and select "Send with Quick Share".