Google Slides and Reader Research

Good morning students! Today we're going to make a presentation using Google Slides. If you get stuck or confused, you can here is an example presentation.

1) Sign in to your Gmail account.

2) Go to Google Slides. Under "Start a new presentation", click "Blank"

3) Slide 1

• Change the title to [Your nickname]'s Presentation. Change the font to 48 size Comic Sans MS.
• Delete the subtitle.
• Insert a GIF (animated picture) of a funny cat.

4) Slide 2

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Insert Word art, and write "My favourite English word is ______" (write in your answer)
• Change the font to Georgia (you might need to look in "More fonts")
• Make your sentence green.
• Insert a picture to illustrate your word.

5) Slide 3

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Insert a YouTube video of the "Pen Pineapple" song.

6) Slide 4

• Change the title to "The Best Food". Change the font to Pacifico (you might need to look in "More fonts"). Make the title red.
• Delete the subtitle.
• Insert a picture of your favourite food. 
• Animate the picture. Change it to "Zoom in (On click)".

7) Slide 5

• Delete everything on the slide already.
• Click "Transition" and change it to "Cube"
• Go to "Insert" > "Shape", and insert a smiley face.
• Change the colour of the face to bright yellow.

8) Slide 6

• Delete the subtitle.
• Move the title to the bottom of the slide, and change it to say "THE END". Change the font to Times New Roman and make it Italic.
• Insert a picture of something that makes you laugh!
• Go to "Background". Change the colour to light blue, click "Add to theme" and then "Done"

9) Sharing

• Click the blue "Share" button on the top right
• Click "Get shareable link", then under "People", send the link to m4seek@gmail.com 
• Congratulations, you're finished!

After you've finished making your Google Slides presentation, I'd like you to spend the rest of the lesson researching information about your reader.

You can start making your presentation today, or if you like you can just take notes in your notebook.

In your presentation. you can talk about these things:

• Title: What is your book called? What does it mean?
• Author: Who wrote the book? When did they write it?
• Characters: Who are the most important characters in the book? What are their personalities? What do they look like? How are they related to other characters in the book?
• Plot: What are the important events in the story? How does the book end?
• Opinion: What did you like about the book? What did you dislike? Would you recommend this book to someone else?

Remember, you will use Google Slides in the background for your presentation. You can show pictures, videos, animations, and more to make your presentation more interesting! Think about how you can use visual aids to help your presentation.