Calyn Seah Jia Ying Year 1 NIE Student-Teacher Majoring in English and English Literature (Secondary track)
COVID-19 has brought about a lot of changes for us as undergraduate students, one of which would be the removal of traditional pen and paper exams, and the introduction of more presentations and essays. Some of us might be struggling with preparing our presentations and making them appealing and presentable. Worry no longer as we’ve found some resources to help you with making amazing slides.
1. Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/)
Free photographs? No copyright issues? Just want to use them freely? Unsplash is the perfect website to up your presentation game.
Screenshot of Unsplash’s homepage
You might be struggling to search for pictures of books to use in your slides but after a quick search on Unsplash — Tada! Just save it to your desktop and you are free to use these high-resolution pictures without any consequences or hassle.
Screenshot of search results of books on Unsplash
2. Slidesgo (https://slidesgo.com/)
Slidesgo allows you to be as creative as you want! With an extensive catalogue of free Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates, Slidesgo is your go-to for creative presentation slides.
Screenshot of Slidesgo’s homepage
This is an example of the Slidesgo template they provide, with instructions available for you to navigate your designs or even customise your own. You can even use Slidesgo to construct slides for your lessons as a student-teacher too.
Example of a Slidesgo template
3. Canva (https://www.canva.com/)
By using Canva, you gain access to thousands of templates and images at your disposal. Of course, you are free to create one from scratch too, with the myriad of options that they provide. Furthermore, it is easy to navigate the website with their drag-and-drop function. Go and give it a try!
Screenshot of Canva’s templates
With different fonts, designs, stickers, backgrounds, categories, photographs (from your own album), you are literally spoilt for choice. Canva is one of my go-to websites for many uses.
Screenshot of Canva's presentation templates
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