Create a Presentation "All About a Topic"

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This lesson uses videos to teach critical life and technology skills:

Videos

1. Introduction to Create a Presentation All About a Topic
2. Choose a Theme, Insert Slides, Add a Title
3. Add Images and Text
4. Add Animations and Transitions
5. Digitally Share and Comment
6. Create a Presentation “All About a Topic” Wrap-Up
7. Extension: Edit the Master Slide
8. Extension: Customize with Word Art
9. Extension: Add Video
10. Extension: Publish to the Web
11. Extension: Add Effects to Text and Images

Life Skills

• Communicate and publish key ideas and details in a way that informs, persuades, and/or entertains.
• Create artifacts, or computational projects with practical, personal, and /or social intent.
• Identify own areas of interest.
• Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning.

Technology Skills

• Create a new presentation in Google Slides
• Choose a theme
• Add and move slides
• Insert, resize, and reposition an image
• Add text to slides
• Format text (color, font, size)
• Add and resize text boxes
• Add animations and transitions
• Preview in “present” mode
• Digitally share slides with a classmate
• Digitally enter comments in a classmate’s presentation