Designing effective presentations: Getting started with Google Slides

The session on designing effective presentations focusses on; the presentation life cycle, storyboarding, the role of the audience, handling questions, your body position, tips around screen design (use of text, bullets, images, video and animation) etc., However, we don't actually create anything in the session. 

Given, we don't create a presentation, and I used Google Slides (if you have a gmail account, you have access to google slide: http://www.google.co.uk/slides/about/). I thought I'd share the following silent movie, I create to demonstrate how to get started with Google Slides.

The background is I'd like to demonstrate the ease of authoring, sharing this with co-authors (group members) and exporting as a powerpoint to submit as your assignment. The key tasks are;

• give the presentation a name
• set the theme and transitions
• insert a title page
• insert a slide with an embedded video
• insert a slide with an embedded image
• inset a slide with some bulleted text
• share the presentation with others so they can edit
• export in a powerpoint format

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