For this inquiry, I wanted to curate a digital shelf of books that I could see myself bringing into the classroom. This was inspired by a project in Roz’s EDCI 412 class (Lang. and Lit.: Reading Diverse Texts) where we created grade-specific collections of texts.
As I’ve explored this inquiry and this degree, I’ve thought of how to bring my love of reading into a classroom; finding and thinking of projects for books is so exciting! That’s the main reason for this inquiry post: to have a mini curation of different grade-level appropriate books and some curricular connections.
For the delivery of this “shelf,” I wanted to use Google Slides to practice making slide shows. In addition, I liked how the PDF exports of Google Slides allow me to add hyperlinks directly into the presentation (e.g., for YouTube read-alouds, author websites, etc.).
I also wanted to showcase a resource I’ve been using since high school: Slides Carnival. This is a free bank of slide presentation templates for PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Canva. I love how the templates have various layouts for slides in so many themes, as well as including a “graphics bank” at the end to make custom slides with all graphics used. As well, they source their images and graphics from other open source sites and credit those in the attributions slide.
Here’s the link to the Slides Carnival website.
