

Looking to stretch the features of Google Slides even farther, I met with our yearbook advisors to see what we can really do to promote interactivity in our paper publications.

By muting all but one video, we are now able to ask the kids to look at multiple animals on the screen all playing at the same time … yet, only one animal is making the sound. Together, we trimmed the videos down to size and used the new (and very awesome) autoplay feature so that she can advance the slides and concentrate fully on her students (and not the technology).Īdditionally, by using the “mute audio” feature, we added several auto-play videos on one slide. At the time we met, she had one youtube video per slide and some of the videos were very long. Later that same day, I was working with a kindergarten teacher who was looking to create a lesson where her kids would be identifying animal sounds. The assembly, I'm happy to say, went very smoothly and the teacher was an absolute rockstar! Additional uses in the classroom After trying out PowerPoint, and a few other options we took a different approach and added the videos to drive and one by one, trimmed them into a Google Slides presentation. The teacher had a video that he wanted to include on slides. This week, I was working with a teacher on creating visuals for a school assembly. By right-clicking (or double tapping) on the video box, you can open up a new Video Options panel that allows you to edit and trim the video to the desired size. Are you looking to find the perfect video editor to use with your students? Google recently added a pretty awesome feature in Google Slides that now allows users to create slide decks using videos stored on their Google Drives.Īs if that feature isn't a total game changer, users can now have additional options when working with video.
