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ME BOOK GUIDE & HELPFUL TIPS (CHRISTIAN LIFE PROJECT): TEMPLATE & GOOGLE SLIDE TIPS

This LibGuide is to provide suggestions and guidance to students while creating their ME BOOKS.

ME BOOK GUIDE

 

All 9th Grade students at Padua will complete a ME BOOK project for Christian Life. You'll receive directions & rubrics from your Theology teachers with all the required sections & specifics. 

While you should follow teacher guidelines, many of you ask me for help with technical issues, so I wanted to provide some assistance with this LibGuide, which you can reference from anywhere at anytime. Refer to the boxes on this page as well as the orange tabs at the top for assistance.

HOW TO ACCESS ME BOOK TEMPLATE (GOOGLE SLIDES)

BEST/EASIEST OPTION WHEN DOING A PROJECT CONTAINING BOTH IMAGES & TEXT:

When doing a project containing both images and text (or even if it’s just images), it’s typically much easier to use GOOGLE SLIDES instead of DOCS. If you don’t want the standard SLIDE size, feel free to use the template I created for you, which I have already sized to normal 8.5x11 portrait mode, which most of you prefer for projects like the ME BOOKS.
 

TO ACCESS THE ME BOOK TEMPLATE, DO THE FOLLOWING 

(DIRECTIONS ALSO IN IMAGE BELOW):

  • Drive > (1) New > (2) Google Slides (scroll toward the arrow on the right) > (3) From a template >  (4) Padua Franciscan High School (not General) > (5) ME BOOK TEMPLATE

GOOGLE SLIDE SUGGESTIONS (WHICH ARE ALSO LISTED ON THE ACTUAL TEMPLATE ONCE YOU OPEN IT):

  1. NAME PROJECT: After opening the template, Immediately NAME it, so you can find it easily in your Drive.

  2. DUPLICATE SLIDES: Keep selecting Slide > Duplicate Slide (so you make your changes on a new slide and still keep these directions on the first slide). I duplicated a couple pages for you.

  3. ADD IMAGES: Add images of any size, wherever/however you would like on a page. Just select Insert > Image Remember: You have to load the images onto your Drive, so you may want to add the Google App to your phone so moving images from your phone to your Drive is easier. 

  4. TEXT BOXES:

    1. DELETE TEXT BOX: If you don’t want the text box on the page, just delete it by selecting it > right click > Cut

    2. USE TEXT BOX: If you want to use the text box, just delete my writing, add your own, change font type, color etc. You can move the text box anywhere on the page you’d like.

    3. ADD TEXT BOX: If you want more text boxes, just Insert > Text Box.

    4. TEXT BOX BORDERS: If you do not like the border that I have surrounding the text box, take it off (or change or add borders) by going to Format > Borders & Lines > and change it to white, so it does not show. 

  5. SIZING: If you prefer to put this project back into normal slide size in landscape format,  just go to File > Page Setup > Standard or Widescreen.

TEMPLATES & HELPFUL SITES

Here are additional links for some creative templates & sites. Be aware that some of these may be Google Slides and some may be Google Docs. I'm providing links to interesting sites, but I have not personally used many of these, so I cannot vouch for level of user-friendliness.