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This morning I got up at 2:30, drove to the Portland Jetport (PWM), and flew to Philadelphia to attend ISTE Live. My lack of sleep combined with having to remotely deal with some things at home meant that I wasn't as focused as I would have liked to ...

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"Free Technology for Teachers" - 3 new articles

  1. 15 Things That Caught My Eye at ISTE Live Today
  2. How to Magically Make a Presentation in Minutes
  3. How to Use Audio and Video in Google Slides
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15 Things That Caught My Eye at ISTE Live Today

This morning I got up at 2:30, drove to the Portland Jetport (PWM), and flew to Philadelphia to attend ISTE Live. My lack of sleep combined with having to remotely deal with some things at home meant that I wasn't as focused as I would have liked to have been today. So rather than committing to an hour+ in any specific presentations I wandered around the poster sessions and through the vendor expo hall to see if there were any new-to-me things. 

As I wandered the expo hall there were fifteen things that I jotted down in Google Keep on my Pixel phone. I plan to go back and learn more about these things on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the meantime, I put the list into a document in Canva and then used Canva's Docs to Decks tool to quickly create a slideshow of the items in the list. That slideshow is embedded below and can also be seen here

15 Things That Caught My Eye at ISTE Live Today - Presentation by richardbyrne

Disclosure: Canva is sponsoring my trip to ISTE Live.
   

How to Magically Make a Presentation in Minutes

There are some people who love and enjoy the process of making slideshow presentations. Then there are people like me who enjoy presenting, but don't necessarily enjoy making the slides. For folks who identify with me on that front, Canva's Docs to Decks tool is for you!

Docs to Decks is Canva's AI-powered tool for making presentations in minutes. To use it you simply type an outline or copy and paste a written document into the tool. Once you've done that you just need to click "convert" and a presentation is made for you. In fact, a half-dozen presentations are made for you. Pick the one you like and you're ready to go. Of course, if you want to tweak the design that Canva provides for you, you can do that. Watch my short video that is embedded below to see how I quickly created a presentation about the things I'm looking forward to at the ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia. 

Video - How to Magically Make a Presentation in Minutes

 
   

How to Use Audio and Video in Google Slides


Around this time every year I field a bunch of questions from readers who are moving into new jobs at schools that use Google Workspace for Education. And while I have a lot of Google Workspace tutorials available on my YouTube channel, I think it's time that I update many of them. That's why over the next few weeks I'll be publishing some new Google Workspace for Edu tutorials. This week's series of tutorials will be all about Google Slides. 

In the first post in this series I shared directions on how to make your first, basic presentation in Google Slides. Once you've done that, you'll probably want to learn how to use audio and video in your presentation. Adding video is fairly straight-forward, but there are a couple of tricks that can make your experience better. I feature those in the video below. Adding audio to your Google Slides presentation isn't as intuitive as it could be. That's why the first half of the video below walks you through that quirky process. 

Video - How to Use Audio and Video in Google Slides

 
   

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