You'll create a published link to the slides and adjust the speed for auto-advancing slides.įirst, go to File > Publish to the web. However, if you want to automate that - and make sure the animation advances at a uniform speed - it's possible! To this point, we've only talked about advancing slides with the arrow keys or the space bar. Option 3: Have Google Slides auto-advance slides for you Once the video is done and uploaded, you can display the video OR share it online with a link, through Google Classroom or in many other ways. Stop the recording and it immediately starts to upload to Google Drive or YouTube (you choose). There's an option to pause or stop the recording. When you're done, click that Screencastify extension icon in the top right of your browser again. use it to add yourself into the video! Move the webcam video into the video and point to something in the video OR talk to the characters in the video. That's a nice option to keep it from covering up something important. NINJA TRICK: If you add a webcam video of yourself to your screencast using Screencastify, you can move the webcam video around during recording. Present in presenter view (and close the speaker notes). If you're using Google Chrome, this also means you still have access to your Chrome extensions, which is perfect for using a screencasting tool like Screencastify.
Why? This displays the slides in full in the space below your web address bar and bookmarks in your web browser. Present with "Presenter view" and then close the speaker notes window. Ĭlick the dropdown arrow next to the "Present" button. Screencastify can record your microphone!īefore students start recording, here's how I would set up the slides for recording. One option: have students work in pairs with one flipping through slides and another reading a script. Once it's there, you can start recording videos of their screens.
(Might make sure that students are able to download it, too, before making big plans.)
Ī one-click install will put a Screencastify button in your Chrome extensions in the top right corner of your Chrome browser. It took three sketches to do this whole animation. Notice that there are only three versions of my character: one where the front foot is raised, one where the back foot is raised, and standing. I drew these sketches to incorporate in a presentation I did on Google Slides. Sketch your images there and use them to move across the screen! Use a sketching tool like the Paper app by FiftyThree for the iPad or Adobe Draw or Procreate. you're the only user of the app (not the students), and once the images are created, students that use them aren't considered users. Plus, this means everyone is within Terms of Service. It's kind of time-consuming, but it can be SO much fun - and if you do it once, it's taken care of for the rest of the year.
Download some Bitmojis they might like to use and save them in a shared Google Drive folder.Design the character to look like some of your students (skin tone, hair, other features).There are some inappropriate Bitmoji images.Terms of use says users should be 12 or older.Students could create their own Bitmojis, too. Or, if you're short on time and want to cut to the chase, t he step-by-step is below the video! Want to watch the whole thing in video? I created this great tutorial video that will walk you through the whole process (below). When you're done, you'll flip through the slides quickly and it'll look like your creation is in motion! Then duplicate that new slide and move something. how students can present it to each other (or a larger audience online)īasically, you're going to create a slide.
how to create stop motion animation with Google Slides.With a few steps and some creativity, Google Slides can become a powerful animation tool that most students - little to big - can wield.
(Yes, PowerPoint and other slide presentation tools will work, too.) You just need a free digital tool that everyone has access to.
(Although who never tried making flip-book animation in the corner of their notebooks while bored in class?)Īnimation software can be expensive and tricky to learn. Technology made that possible with the creation of animation software. And with that, they've been able to gather their ideas and turn them into static, two-dimensional images. really, millennia), students have had access to paper.