Here are your 3 tips that you can use in your classroom today for the week of October 15, 2018.
1 - LIVE - Closed Captioning for Slides
The closed captions feature is available when presenting in Google Slides. It uses your computer’s microphone to detect your spoken presentation, then transcribes—in real time—what you say as captions on the slides you’re presenting. When you begin presenting, click the “CC” button in the navigation box (or use the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + c in Chrome OS / Windows or ⌘ + Shift + c in Mac).
2 - EquatIO: Add Math to Google Slides FROM PAPER
Want your eyes to completely bug out of your head!? You have to try out EquatIO mobile. It allows you to WRITE math on PAPER and then convert to typed math and then magically show up in your Google Slides (or other Google Apps.) Check out Alice Keeler's Blog post about how to transcribe written math equations to any Google Doc/Sheet/Slide/or Form!!
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3 - Turn Google Slides into Gifs - Free
I recently saw an awesome idea where you can take a Google Slideshow and save it as an animated GIF (thanks to Eric Curts for the tip!) This free tool is called Tall Tweets and is created by the Amit Agarwal.With Tall Tweets you can import a Google Slideshow, set the duration for each slide (as well as some other options), and then create and download an animated GIF version of your slideshow.
This can be used with many Google Slides projects to export the final product, including:
- Creating Stop Motion Animation with Google Slides - Resource link
- Creating Online Comic Strips with Google Slides - Resource link
- Student Created Storybooks with Google Slides - Resource link
- Or just saving any slideshow as a GIF!
It has been requested by several teachers that I share my YouTube Channel with everyone. I'm no expert, and make no claims of being good at video production, editing, or scripting - but I try. There are a ton of relevant and hopefully educational tutorials on it for teachers just as yourself! From the basic beginners to the teacher that wants to push the envelope in their classroom. If you like it, subscribe and comment so I know what you want more of!
