Free Google Slides Themes and Powerpoint Templates: Slides Carnival

Slides Carnival offers free Google Slides themes and Powerpoint templates that allows you to focus on communicating your ideas in your presentations. These professional designs cover all styles from playful and creative to formal and business presentations. You'll find that all templates are completely customizable and easy-to-edit. Use them freely for your own presentation needs. Or you can use right them away as a Google Slides theme or download as a PowerPoint template and continue working on your computer.

1. Navigate to Slides Carnival
2. Scroll through a presentation you wish to use:

3. Once you find and select a Google slide theme or PowerPoint template you want to use, select: Make a Copy.

Hint: Once you make a copy, the new Google slide will be saved in your Google Drive and you may begin editing and working with your new Google Slide presentation.


This free presentation template features:

• Fully editable. Easy to change colors, text and photos
• 25 different slides
• Dynamic and professional design with sloping shapes. Works with any color or photo background.
• Feature-rich theme with examples of styles for graphs, charts and tables
• It includes a customizable icon family with 80 different icons and a world map (you can change sizes and colors). And more free icons & maps for your presentations available.
• Use as a Google Slides theme or download as PowerPoint template and edit on your computer. Also export to PDF, JPG, etc.
• 16:9 screen layout (Can change to 4:3 with a click on Google Slides, but some graphic assets may not work well)

For more information, please visit Slides Carnival's website.

Partially reposted from: Slides Carnival

Google Summer Collaboration Challenge Week 6

Google Forms

Google Forms is a useful feature that allows you to manage event registrations, create a quick opinion poll, and much more. With Google Forms, you can create and analyze surveys right in your mobile or web browser—no special software required. You get instant results as they come in. And, you can summarize survey results at a glance with charts and graphs.

Getting Started with Google Forms
To get started, head to forms.google.com and select Blank. This will provide you with an empty canvas that you can begin to fill with questions. Note that you have many templates that you can choose from. For further instructions, please complete this tutorial for creating a Google Form.

When responses are submitted, you will be sent an email notifying you that someone has completed your Form. You also have the ability with Google Forms to organize responses into a Google Sheets. This is especially useful when analyzing responses.

Assignment: Following the instructions in the tutorial, create a Google Form survey asking for a name and five multiple choice questions and have a friend take the survey.

Extra Credit: Have their name and responses sent to a Google Sheets.

Once you complete reviewing the materials from the seventh week of the Google Collaboration Challenge take a few minutes to answer these questions: Week 6 Google Drive Questionnaire

Google Summer Collaboration Challenge Week 7

Google Forms

Google Forms is a useful feature that allows you to manage event registrations, create a quick opinion poll, and much more. With Google Forms, you can create and analyze surveys right in your mobile or web browser—no special software required. You get instant results as they come in. And, you can summarize survey results at a glance with charts and graphs.

Getting Started with Google Forms

To get started, head to forms.google.com and select Blank. This will provide you with an empty canvas that you can begin to fill with questions. Note that you have many templates that you can choose from. For further instructions, please complete this tutorial for creating a Google Form.

When responses are submitted, you will be sent an email notifying you that someone has completed your Form. You also have the ability with Google Forms to organize responses into a Google Sheets. This is especially useful when analyzing responses.

Assignment: Following the instructions in the tutorial, create a Google Form survey asking for a name and five multiple choice questions and have a friend take the survey.

Extra Credit: Have their name and responses sent to a Google Sheets.

Once you complete reviewing the materials from the seventh week of the Google Collaboration Challenge take a few minutes to answer these questions: Week 7 Google Drive Questionnaire