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"!

16 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for sharing this!

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  2. This is awesome. Thank you for sharing:)

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

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  5. Thank you for sharing this great resource!!

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

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

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

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  10. 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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  11. This is awesome! Thanks for the Tweet copy.

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

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