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Make Your Presentations Stand Out!

What:

Presentations are a great way to present information to students in a different way and help teachers stay on track with their lesson. As discussed in previous posts, Google Slides has tons of hidden gems to make it far more than a simple presentation tool but sometimes all you need is a simple presentation. However, if you are like me, I like things to look pretty so through the years I have found a few templates that I love to use over and over again for use in my classes and in presentations at conferences. The following list provides the top three websites I recommend for finding excellent and free presentation templates for Google Slides, Powerpoint, and Keynote.

Slides Carnival:

Slides Carnival offers free templates for Google Slides and Powerpoint with categories that include: formal, inspirational, creative, simple, startup, elegant, playful, and business. Slides Carnival updates their templates on a regular basis. Each template includes 25 slides with headers, graphs, charts, and tables as well as a slide with over 80 customizable icons. Slides Carnival even allows you to search their templates by color.

Slides Gala: 

Slides Gala offers free templates for Google Slides, Powerpoint, and Keynote with categories that include: business, playful, formal, startup, elegant, inspirational, and simple. Slides Gala even includes templates with infographics for Powerpoint. The templates are fully editable which means you can choose a template and change the colors, texts, and photos to match your content needs. The templates include numerous slides with headers, charts, graphs, columns, and images. 

Slides Go:

Slides Go offers free template for Google Slides and Powerpoint with categories that are more career-based including recent, popular, education, business, marketing, medical, and general. Slides Go templates are completely editable and easy to modify. They include numerous slides with graphics and maps along with over one thousand icons customized to the theme of each template.  

Next Steps

Interested in learning more? Check out the websites below for great information. 

References:

All sourced information is hyperlinked as applicable above. 

TLDR (too long didn’t read):

Presentations are a great way to present information to students in a different way and help teachers stay on track with their lesson. As discussed in previous posts, Google Slides has tons of hidden gems to make it far more than a simple presentation tool but sometimes all you need is a simple presentation. However, if you are like me, I like things to look pretty so through the years I have found a few templates that I love to use over and over again for use in my classes and in presentations at conferences. The following list provides the top three websites I recommend for finding excellent and free presentation templates for Google Slides, Powerpoint, and Keynote.

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Why use Prezi on the iPad? (Source)

* Show your prezis on a portable, lightweight device
* Put ideas at your fingertips by leveraging the iPad’s touchscreen experience
* Keep the focus on your prezi by avoiding the distractions of a browser environment

Sign up for an account at Prezi.com and download the app from iTunes.

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