Slides are known as the Swiss Army Knife of the classroom.

Near to any instructional task can be completed with Slides, and it's a blank canvas for what you want to create or what your students want to achieve.

Picture books, maps, infographics, stop motion...the sky is the limit!

Need more space for yourself or students to edit?

You can hide the filmstrip and speaker notes to make the editable space even bigger for moving and editing!

Click View on the Toolbar and slide (hehe) down to Show speaker notes/Show filmstrip, and you can uncheck them.

See how much more space you'll have then!

Not only can you crop images to take out certain parts, but you can also make them into shapes!

Upload your image or copy & paste your picture into your slide.

Double click the image to crop the photo.

From there, edit any image into a shape (my favorite is the circle or star!).

Want to do an author study?

Tweet what a historical person might have said?

Check these out!

• Twitter template
• Facebook template
• Instagram template

Not all learning has to be super text heavy!

Use these templates to have students make a cover to show their learning!

You could use them periodically!

• National Geographic template
• Time template

Check out this template that allows you to teach your K-2 students some quick tech using Slides!

It always seems to be a holiday. Check here for some resources about holidays coming up!

National Handwashing Week-December 4-10

• Germs and Staying Healthy Nearpod (K-5)
• Germs and Staying Healthy Nearpod (6-12)

Hanukkah-December 18-26

• Hannukah Nearpod (K-2)
• Hannukah Nearpod (3-5)
• Hannukah Nearpod (6-12)
• Hannukah in Alaska Storyline Online Read-Aloud
• Exploring the Festival of Lights Google Slides

Christmas-December 25

• Grinch Escape Room
• 8 Google-y Wintertime Activities

Kwanzaa-December 26-January 1

• Kwanzaa Nearpod (K-2)
• Kwanzaa Nearpod (3-5)
• Kwanzaa Nearpod (6-12)

End of the Year Holidays Nearpod (3-12)

Want a peek at what's ahead? Check these updated calendars!

Holidays and Seasonal Events for Teachers (TeacherVision)

Yearly Theme Calendar (Learning Technology Center)

What do snowmen call their offspring?

Chill-dren.

Contact me to collaborate on your next project, troubleshoot what you do currently, or to just answer a question you have!

Email: bkrause@ltcillinois.org
Website: https://calendly.com/bkrauseltc
Phone: (815) 362-4791
Twitter: @bmkeducation

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