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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:

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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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Collaborative Diagrams, Concept Maps, Site Maps, and More

Thanks to Cindy Brock, I learned about an interesting web tool today. Cacoo‘s website states that it “is an online drawing tool that makes real-time collaboration a reality,” but I found this to be an incomplete description of its many capabilities.

Here are some of the features that I noticed while becoming familiar with Cacoo.

  • Multiple users editing the same diagram means real-time collaboration.
  • Cacoo allows you to share diagrams with everyone.
  • Shared diagrams can be edited by anyone.
  • Create wireframes, mind maps, network diagrams, site maps, and many other types of drawings using “stencils” that you drag and drop into place.
  • Cacoo can be pasted into a variety of web applications, such as Wiki and Blog.
  • Promotes collaboration through “diagrams” with flexibility, quickness, and beauty.
  • Currently available in 13 languages.

View the full list of features.