Thing 7 Presentation Tools

I tried to combine something I have to do anyway with presentation tools but it did not work out.  I have to give a presentation to faculty next Monday on how to use the databases at our school.  I thought I would jazz up a google slide presentation by doing something else.  I checked out Haiku Deck, Ludus and buncee.  None of these would work for me because, from what I could see, you can't insert a hyperlink.  I looked at ADOBE spark and realized that I already had an account with ADOBE.  I also remembered that I had used ADOBE last year to do my annual report.  I really think that is a great way to do an annual report.  It looked nice and you only have to have enough text to accent your points which is all readers pay attention to anyway.  Here is the link to my annual report that I did last year using ADOBE.  https://spark.adobe.com/page/urBBpi7OFAnVW/.  I also have it off of my webpage and I see that it has 45 views and 2 likes! 

I started the project that I have to do for next Monday.  I like the updates to ADOBE.  Mainly that you can add music.  However, since I couldn't get or figure out, insert link, I ended up using google slides.  I even paid for a month thinking that would maybe open more features, but I still didn't see it there.  Here is my failed attempt  https://spark.adobe.com/video/BTatZoEGqCrph.  Lastly, here is my google slide show that I am still working on for next Monday.

I would like to keep working with google drawing because I can see the potential, I just have trouble leashing it.  After trying different things with no results I decided to try all of the items listed in the article, "Eight Ways to Supercharge Your Documents with Google Draw.  Since I wanted to be able to use what I produced, I decided to do something with Valentine's Day.  I wound up using google draw to make a document that I posted in Schoology.  Students will watch a video about facts they learned about Valentine's Day and then post a video of themselves telling me which fact was the most interesting and why.  I didn't have any luck inserting a video in a google slide so I just inserted it as a link in the document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MMTu165Kz6BfN1I-RaYds8XWLuEE5-5gSuUFeXWxVU8/edit?usp=sharing

I would like to submit another cool tools submission using google drawing if that is OK with you.

Thing 17 E-Book Creation

I watched the video by Jennifer Gonzalez about how to use power point as an E book creator and learned a few things.  I wondered if google slides worked the same way or you can probably start it in google slides and then download it into power point.

I checked out book creator and as is typically the case, I had been there before.  I decided I would try to make a sample book that mirrors what fourth graders in a combined library/classroom project with biographies.  I made a biography about Abraham Lincoln and will share it with the fourth grade teachers as a new option for the written piece of the project.  Here is the link:



https://read.bookcreator.com/wOYMuWoQ7lONLdYuwKn1D7CcLeH2/h8wY8I-eRQW1EnOguusZXA