Using Google Presentations as a revision tool for Cisco Networking
Collaboration on a project amongst students in the class is easy with Google Docs. Google Docs consists of a document (word processing), spreadsheet (like Excel) and presentation (like Powerpoint)
How Google Docs helps learning
Google Docs’ sharing features enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
This video explains the basics of Google presentations – how to create one, share it, publish it, embed it.
How I’m using Google Presentations
Students in my Year 11 Cisco class have just finished a chapter in their text which introduces some complex networking concepts. Before they do the chapter online text, they need to revise all the concepts. I have created a Google presentation where each student in the class will be responsible for completing one slide. As the students may not all have Google accounts, obtain a link from within the presentation to share this file with anyone. Students who have this link can access the presentation and make edits. The presentation can then be viewed by the entire class with speaker notes turned on. Additional information can be added into the speaker notes as you discuss the presentation.
What do you do with the presentation?
Presentations can be embedded into a wiki, web or blog, can be downloaded as a powerpoint or PDF file.
This is my chapter 3 Revision presentation which has been embedded into this blog. Any changes in the original presentation will also be reflected in the embedded version.
There were 20 students accessing and working on the file at the same time. No problems encountered. The actual file embedded below has all the changes the students worked on. Only thing I’d do differently next time is give students direction on how to format their slide – there are some inconsistencies in font size, use of bullets etc.
