Ever since the start of middle school, I have always used google platforms. From writing papers in google docs, creating projects in presentation, to keep my pictures saved in google photos. Google presentations are one of my favorite ways to create presentations for class projects and even keeping different events in my life in order. Google Presentations is so easy to use and they offer many different themes that you can add to your presentation. I find this tool useful when doing a group presentation. By sharing the presentation with everyone else in the group, you can all work on the project at the same time and you can even edit someone’s work while they are working. It was also useful during my senior year of high school. We were going on our senior trip to Disney and I used google presentations to plan out each day for myself and my friends. There was a different slide for each day and a different park. The slides explained what time we would get to the park and what times we had fast-passes for the different rides. Being able to share the presentation with all my friends on their google accounts, gave us all a copy of it and kept us all organized.
I found an article How to Use Google Slides In The Classroom, that discussed six different ways to use google slides in the classroom with your students. One that caught my I that I want to expand upon is the drawing/painting tool that is offered in google slides. Students can create a slide in the presentation that the teacher created and draw pictures or paint on the slide. I think this tool is great for teachers who teach early childhood education (P-3). The teacher can create a presentation, share it with the students and then have them either draw a picture after a book or even have them practice making shapes, all on their own slide. This is definitely something I will be incorporating into my classroom in the future with my kiddos.
Check out these helpful links about google slides!
*How to use google slides
*Creative ways to use google slides in the classroom
