Choose Your Own Adventure

When students create their own Google Slides to demonstrate their learning, they are taking ownership over what they know and can do.  Allowing students to share some creativity will also enhance their connection to the content.  One way to do this is by having them create a Choose Your Own Adventure story in Google Slides.

When you create and share Google Slides, you can link certain slides to another slide.  That makes it possible to create a slideshow that will jump around in a specific order of your choosing.  See the example below.

When you are on a certain slide, that URL is unique and will link to that slide. Many students and teachers have used this to make interactive stories in Google slides based on other topics they have studied. See the examples below from around the web.

Treasure Hunt
The Secret Village
Butterfly Friends

Here are some other helpful resources for a project like this.

Planning Template
StoryboardThat

Digital Presentation Tools

Storytelling, multimedia and digital presentation is just one way that technology can be meaningfully integrated into instruction.  Technology becomes powerful when students are doing the creating.  This blog post will be a refresher on some great digital tools for presentation creation.  Some of them may be new to you, so check them out!

Tool	Video Tutorial	Example
Adobe Spark	Tutorial	Santorini
Flipgrid	Overview	Green Screens at Drexel
Sutori	General Walkthrough	Great Books of 2018
Prezi	Prezi Basics	Hun Sen
Google Slides	2018 Overview	Seesaw
PowToon	Powtoon Tricks	Easy ESL Games (made with PowToon)

All of these have single sign-on with Google, so use your Google account to test them!