Today's session covered YouTube, Google Drawing and Google Slides.
YouTube
At the beginning of the lockdown, I created a YouTube channel to upload videos of me reading our chapter book, so I had played around with it and changed some settings. I have learned how to create a playlist and where to find some other settings that needed to be changed.
Google Drawing
I have used Google Drawing before, however I had not explored a lot of the functions, so this session was really helpful. I have learnt about resizing the page, how to change the shape of an image, how to make an even sized shape, and how to format an image to adapt it using format options. These will all be useful tools to teach to my class. I also liked the idea of putting instructions around the edge of a Google Drawing, which will be good for explaining how to set out a poster etc. The Google Drawing slide had some useful ideas that I can see myself using as follow up activities.
Google Slides
I use Google Slides often, and embed them onto the class site. I mostly use them as modelling slides, and for my 'Must Do' and 'Can Do' activities. I enjoyed creating an animation on Google Slides. I have seen children do this before, but I had never created one myself, and I can see it being a useful activity.
Kia ora Emelia,
ReplyDeleteSo much creativity in on day! Google Drawing is definitely worth exploring more and as you say, adding the instructions around the outside makes the learning rewindable.
When I watched your animation it is slow. Are you able edit the post and go into the HTML code and change the "false&delayms=3000" to 150. That way it will advance through the slides quicker and make it more like an animation.
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Cheryl
Hi Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your suggestion - I have updated the HTML code.
Emelia
And it looks great!
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