Thursday, March 30, 2017

"Tweet" Template with Google Slides

When you can't take your kids to Twitter, take Twitter to your kids!  Often age limits, privacy laws, and school policies prevent you from having your students use Twitter.  This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes having your students write a tweet works very well with your lesson plan.  After all, summarizing something into a 280 character tweet is more of a skill than you'd think.

There is a 5th grade teacher at my site who wanted her students to form a tweet, so I created a single tweet template in Google Slides.  I edited the master slide so the template became the background of the slide, and the only things the students could edit were the text boxes they needed.  Doing this made it so that they couldn't accidently delete the images in the template.  If you want to see how to edit the master slide - watch this quick video tutorial.

Here is what the template looks like:


We didn't have a ton of time for the activity, so instead of having students take a picture of themselves and put it in the image box, I placed some profile icon choices in the gray workspace around the slide so they could drag and drop the one they wanted to use.

If you'd like to use this template - feel free to click here and get your own copy.  You can edit the master slide to change the date and time on the tweet if you wish.

Happy "tweeting"!
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17 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 17, 2017 at 7:00 AM

    Thank you so much for sharing this!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 23, 2019 at 4:58 PM

    This is awesome. Thank you for sharing:)

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2019 at 3:42 AM

    Thank you SO MUCH for creating and sharing this for free!! Can't wait to incorporate this into my stations :)

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2019 at 2:56 PM

    Yes, I really appreciate it! It saved me hours of work.

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  5. VeronaRoseAugust 1, 2019 at 4:21 AM

    Thank you for sharing this great resource!!

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  6. UnknownSeptember 4, 2019 at 7:28 AM

    its not sharing with me

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    1. Cynthia NixonSeptember 4, 2019 at 7:31 AM

      You need to click File-Make a Copy. This copy isn't shared with you specifically. Though the link above should prompt you to make a copy. Be sure you are logged into a Google Account in order to make a copy. Feel free to email me if you still have trouble.

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  7. UnknownSeptember 26, 2019 at 7:39 AM

    cool

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  8. Bonita CoonsOctober 22, 2019 at 2:44 PM

    Thank you so much for this AMAZING resource! I am going to use it in my language centres next week.

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  9. UnknownNovember 22, 2019 at 11:43 AM

    Thank you. I am using it with a short story in English 9.

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  10. UnknownDecember 12, 2019 at 8:37 AM

    Thank you! I am going to use this for my science class :)

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  11. PamApril 1, 2020 at 11:07 AM

    Thank you for sharing this! I have a great idea about how to use it in these days of remote learning!

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  12. From a Child's Point of ViewJuly 18, 2020 at 5:45 PM

    This is awesome! Thanks for the Tweet copy.

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  13. UnknownOctober 7, 2020 at 5:22 AM

    Thanks for all of this!

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  14. AnonymousOctober 28, 2020 at 7:48 AM

    This post -- and your Instagram template -- were project-savers for me. I originally had students using another website... but it was blocked by our server. THANK YOU for making these and keeping them available to the public. I was able to salvage a major project as a result.

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  15. UnknownNovember 18, 2020 at 12:58 PM

    Thank you! Thank you! Someone mentioned an Instagram template. I will look for it

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  16. AnonymousMay 21, 2024 at 5:39 AM

    thank you soooo much

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