Padlet presentation how to#

If you know how to build a padlet, you know how to use Slideshow. Live from sunrise to sunset and wash the soil from your hands at the end of every long day. He uses one of the generic themes from the catalog.

Pay $69.99 for the 12 step tutorial on how to build slide decks, watch 4 unrelated YouTube videos because the tutorial was a scam, pay a kid from Indonesia $25 to make your slides for you.

Choose one of the generic themes from the catalog, input your content, and end up with a slideshow that you aren’t proud of and won’t impress anyone.

You’ve been working for 45 minutes and you’ve made two slides that you aren’t proud of. The options they suggest all somehow make your text look like it was written by a child.

You try a few and settle on Times New Roman. If fonts were Patagonia jackets, Google Slides would be San Francisco. If fonts were foreign national treasures, Google Slides would be the British National Museum. More fonts than anyone could need, use or know. They scatter and dance around your page and do everything they can to evade you. Desperately you wrangle the little red alignment lines. You begin resizing and reformatting and dragging. For some reason it fills up the entire slide. Most are better than blank white, but all feel generic, soulless, and corporate. You begin by browsing the offered themes. In order to build your slideshow you are tasked with manually rewiring every fiber of his brain.

This interface is a time traveler from a dystopian future where color and laughter have been made illegal. It has been designed intentionally to stifle your creativity. Staring back at you is an enormous title text box set to bold Arial font and an ugly little sickly grey subtitle. You open up Google Slides (or PowerPoint, or Keynote). You have the images, the links, the videos, and you have all the wonderful text.Īll you need to do is put the content in a nice aesthetic package.