"Passing Out" Slides to Your Students' Google Slides Packets/Notebooks

In last week's Tech Tip, I shared how you can use Google Slides text, images and shapes to create interactive, digital packets/notebooks for your students. Sometimes we don't want students to have all the pages in a packet at once. We like to pass them out as students need them or as get them made. You can still do this digitally with Google Slides by using the new "Link Slides" feature.  See below for overview of the steps to make this work and/or this 3.5 min video tutorial for complete details. Step 1: Create a Teacher Master Create a Google Slideshow that includes plenty of "blank", temporary slides that you can complete and "pass out" to students at a later date. This slideshow will serve as your Teacher Master. (See example of Teacher Master version) Step 2: Create a Student Master   Create another, new Google Slideshow. COPY the slides from your Teacher Master that you created in Step 1 into this new slideshow. Click Link Slides when prompted as you copy slides. This slideshow will serve as your Student Master. (See example of Student Master version) Step 3: Each Student Makes a Copy of the Student Master Have students each make their own copy of the Student Master version created in Step 2. They can do this by going to File-Make a Copy. This is more easily done by creating an assignment in Schoology using the new Google Workflow Assignment (their copy will automatically be made for them when they click "Document").(See example Individual Student version) Step 4: Teacher: Add Content to Blank Slide(s) As needed, add content to the blank slide(s) in your Teacher Master that you created in step 1. Step 5: Student: Click Update Link on Slide(s)  After you add content to the blank slide(s) in the Teacher Master, direct students to click the LINK SLIDES button and UPDATE on their blank slide. Their blank slide will automatically update to the content on your Teacher Master version of this slide.  Tip: To help your students, add print and visual directions on the "blank" slides you create in Step 1. See example "blank slide" below: See Teacher Tech blog article by Alice Keeler to learn more about this strategy and see how she uses it to create feedback slides. This might seem like many steps, but it's actually pretty quick and easy to do. And I believe you will appreciate the ability to "pass out" slides as needed. Please feel free to see me for additional details.