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"Within YouTube there is a free tool for creating audio slideshows. You supply the images and YouTube supplies the audio track. You can pick from thousands of audio tracks to match to your slides. After adding your slides and selecting an audio track you can add speech bubbles to your slides. I demonstrate all of these steps in the video embedded below."

A Slides template for group work where each group (of 6) is assigned a certain color and those colors are available in the template when you add a new slide.

Richard Byrne: Like many of you, when I was in middle school and high school we were taught to create index cards to organize our research. After creating the cards we sorted them into an order to support writing our research papers. That same concept can be applied to organizing research with Google Slides. In the video below I demonstrate how this is done.

Use Google slides and a screencasting tool to easily make videos.

Create a custom background, add clip art, and delete slide templates.

Use a spreadsheet of your roster to create one slide in a deck for every member of a class.

Use Google Slides to create a slideshow for Open House that never stops playing

This is a google slides interactive presentation that is a jeopardy template.

"Slides from de Mobo is a very good app that allows you to remotely control your presentations using your iOS or Android device. Slides works best with presentations on Google Drive, Prezi, Slideshare, Scribd, Speakerdeck and Issuu. To be able to use the app, you will need to have both your phone and your computer under the same WiFi network."

Richard Byrne's slides from the OETC workshop.

Richard Byrne's slides from his OETC presentation on Best of the Web.

Docs, slides, videos to help use Google Drawings effectively

FlipQuiz™​ was created to provide educators with a quick way to create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. Traditionally, these are created (tediously) using posterboard, chalkboards, or dry-erase markers on an overhead slide. The review questions are usually even written on a separate sheet of paper. With FlipQuiz™​, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. Combined with a well-designed board, students are more likely to be interested and stay engaged with an otherwise disjunct test review process.

Block ads, help students, resize and rearrange tabs, and more

For those who haven't heard of Canva prior to this post, it is a service that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these graphics on Canva is a drag-and-drop process. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic.

Slipp offers a free mobile-first landing platform, that quickly turns mobile traffic into consumer action. With almost half of web traffic coming from mobile devices, Slipp's mobile-first landing experiences are the quickest and simplest way to drive more consumer conversions. Slipps can be used with ads and social postings to promote products, services, events, content, downloads, and much more. Slipps combine a consumer action (call, view, rsvp, calendar, download, buy) with content slides that are quick to create, give dramatic engagement levels on mobile, and drive higher conversions. They can be stand-alone or overlaid on shared content.