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Summary
The MTD Presentation Book (sometimes we call it the MTD Photo Album) is the visual storytelling aid that is essential to sharing your story.
It starts as a slide deck on your computer. This allows you to easily add your digital photos, add and edit text, and rearrange slides as you write, practice, and edit your story.
Once complete, you'll be able to display this on a laptop screen, iPad / tablet or even a smartphone. This document then can be exported to make your printed, spiral-bound photo book.
explains how to create, design, and edit your MTD Presentation. If you are just getting started with Reliant and are looking for training material on the MTD presentation go to your appropriate program training module (Module 4.3) for more details on the content. |
Digital Presentation vs. Printed Presentation
There are two ways to present your MTD presentation. These are:
- Digital Presentation Album: this involves sitting down with a donor with either a laptop, pad device, or even your phone, and walking them through the presentation using Google Slides.
- Printed Presentation Album: this involves sitting down with a donor and presenting through a printed, hard cover version of your presentation. This printed album is created using Google Slides as well, but with a few key differences to the slide template. If you have already created your Google Slides you can go MTD Printed Presentation to prepare for printing.
Getting Started with Google Slides
About Google Slides
Slides is a presentation "slide deck" program from Google.
- Slides is similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, but even easier to use.
- Presentations are easy to edit, add text or photos, and rearrange. You can even add notes to remind you want you wanted to say on each slide.
- Slides provided for Reliant via the Google for Nonprofits program. It's the same as the publically publicly available version, but data and your account is secured with the Reliant Technology Services department.
- Your files are stored "in the cloud" and are accessible via Google Slides or Google Drive when you are signed in with your Reliant address. They are not publicly available unless you share them publicly.
- Slides works in a web browser or mobile app, so it can be used on almost all modern computers and devices. Google Chrome is recommended.
- Slides can be exported to create a beautiful hardcover bound photo book.
Slides Can Be Displayed Any Way You Want
Sign-In to Google Using Your
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Visit http://slides.google.com
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Visit your Reliant Google Drive, which will show your Google Slides, Google Docs (documents) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets)
Sign in using your GCM/ Reliant Google Account.
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Your Reliant Google Account is assigned, and most missionaries already have an account. They are typically first.last@gcmweb.org and will eventually be converted to first.last@reliant.org. Ask for help if you don't know yours. |
Get Starter Template
You'll need to copy the Starter Template for yourself.
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Sample presentation album
Take a look at this sample presentation album for printing for a better idea of what your presentation will look like. Notice there are filler pages included that may not be needed for a digital presentation.
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Basics of Editing
New to Google Slides?
The Google Help Center can provide some basics on how to create slides, use text boxes, add images, and more. Here are a few key highlights as it applies to your MTD Presentation Album: Starter Template.
How to add your own photo
You can watch this 25 minutes instructional tutorial video of how to edit your presentation.
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Some quick initial edits before you get started
Some slides are set up with fully editable parts, so text and images can be modified or completely removed. Other slides, such as the About Reliant slide, is a fixed image and is not editable.
There are a couple slides that have things that are easily forgotten... Go ahead and make these changes...
- Slide 3: LOCATION has # of people. Replace LOCATION with your actual location and # of people.
- Slide 5: For WHO WE ARE REACHING. Replace WHO WE ARE REACHING with who you are actually reaching.
- Slide 7: The only hope for PEOPLE/PLACE. Replace PEOPLE/PLACE with the people you are reaching in your location.
- Slide 19- Here's How You Can Help Slide: LEFT SIDE: Our work with people. Replace people with who you're working with.
- Slide 19- Here's How You Can Help Slide: RIGHT SIDE: Missionary Name and Fund #. Replace with your info.
- Slide 25- How to Give: Reliant.org/first.last Replace with your URL.
Editing the Provided Templates
The Reliant MTD Presentation Starter Template has all the slides you'll need to begin.
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The template slides are already arranged in a specific order. Because the "presentation flow" is so important, we recommend not deleting or rearranging many slides until you have practiced a presentation several times through. This will you save you time and energy later. As you grow to learn your presentation, MTD Coaches will point out the perfect places to customize or rearrange to fit your story. |
How to add your own photo
To begin you will need to search for photos to customize your presentation.
Check your photo quality
Low resolutions images will appear grainy or pixelated when printed. Check to see that you are using the highest quality image available.
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You’ll want to find 15-20 high-quality photos that include:
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Adding your own photos
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Replace ImageUse Replace image when the photos already on the slide are already arranged as you would like. This is the easiest way to stick with a layout we might have provided in a template. Delete Default Images and Insert Your Own
Customize the photo in the grey shaded pages provided by ReliantYou can add your own photo to pages that have a shaded grey layer over a picture (for example the back cover of the photo album or many of the filler pages.) You can customize the picture by right clicking on the picture (make sure not to click on the words on those slides, but you want to right click on the photo itself) and then select change background. It will then ask you to upload your own photo and it will change the photo but still keep the shaded grey covering over the photo (and also keep any words written on the slide).
Cropping and Resizing Your Photo to FitTo make a photo fit your space, you can either resize the the photo, or crop it. Sometime you'll need to do a little of both.
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Using the Provided Templates
The Reliant MTD Presentation Starter Template has all the slides you'll need to begin.
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The template slides are already arranged in a specific order. Because the "presentation flow" is so important, we recommend not deleting or rearranging many slides until you have practiced a presentation several times through. This will you save you time and energy later. As you grow to learn your presentation, MTD Coaches will point out the perfect places to customize or rearrange to fit your story. |
Editing The Template
Some slides are set up with fully editable parts, so text and images can be modified or completely removed. Other slides, such as the About Reliant slide, is a fixed image and is not editable.
Provided Layouts & Additional Slides
Provided Layouts & Additional Slides
If you would like to add more filler pages, or look at different options for formatting, we have provided many pre-designed We have provided many predesigned layouts for the book. Some are already displayed in the Starter Template, while others are hidden but available to you via the built in Layouts.
How to Edit Your MTD Presentation (on Google Slides)
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Some of these additional slide options are also provided separately in the Reliant MTD Presentation Album: Additional Slides template.
These slides are not presented in a particular order like the other templates. They just provide additional samples for you to copy and paste back into your own album.
Example Alternate Slide: Who is Reliant with GCM Logo
This slide is an alternative slide to explain Reliant. This one better highlights the recent name change from GCM. For improved donor clarity, it is recommended for those raising support during in the name transition.
See the notes on each additional slide for further detail.
To Copy and Paste a Slide into Your Own Presentation
Here’s how to copy slides within a presentation:
- Open the presentation.
- From the list of slides on the left, select the slide you'd like to copy. You can press Shift to select a sequence of slides, or press Ctrl to select multiple, non-sequential slides.
- Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C (Cmd + C on a Mac) to copy the selected slide(s).
- Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V (Cmd + V on a Mac) to paste the selected slide(s) within the presentation.
More on Copying and Pasting Slides from Google Help.
You can find the additional slides by selecting the drop down arrow beside of the plus sign which is located under FILE. To add a hidden slide click on the slide you want to add.
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Designing Your Own
You are welcome to design your own individual pages or entire book. Guidelines:
- Designing your own book can be a significant undertaking. We recommend graphic design training. Also count the cost of how much time it may take you versus using that time in active MTD.
- The order of the presentation flow is important and new designs should try to maintain the same order (Need, Gospel, Answer to Need, My Vision, Ask, etc)
- The Reliant logo and mission statement must appear prominently at the About Reliant page.
- The Here's How You Can Help page may not be changed in language or significantly in design. Use the provided page or image. If you need to adapt the page to a different form factor (page size, etc), contact GCM/ Reliant to ask for raw design files. Redesigns must be approved by GCM Reliant Communications before being used with donors.
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What to customize and what to leave in place
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Presenting Your Google Slides Using a Tablet or Laptop
Using a laptop or computer
- Because your presentation is online, you can present on any computer that can bring up a web browser (
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- Edge, Etc.) No additional software is needed.
- The Present button will start your full screen presentation.
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- Or use the connected drop down menu for additional options. (For instance, Present on another screen... can be used with a Google Chromecast dongle to throw your presentation to a living room TV).
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The iPad tablet can be perfect to share your presentation, because it easy to use, can be shared casually in a living room or coffee shop but looks professional enough to use an office setting.
Download and install Google Slides.
Tip You might also optionally install companion apps such as Google Drive (browse files), Google Docs (word processor), or Google Sheets (spreadsheets).
- Sign-in using your Reliant / GCM account to access your files.
- Choose your MTD presentation file and present.
- Swiping left to right will move between photos / slides.
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More from Google Help: View and Create a presentation on iPad and iPhone
Converting Slide Deck to a Printed Photo Book
Use these steps to convert your finished slide deck to a spiral bound photo book.
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Arranging the Pages for a Hardcover Photo Book
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- Each slide corresponds to a page in the book.
- Notice you do not need a separate slide for the inside front cover, and the inside back cover, which are already blank when printed.
- Slides work in pairs to create facing pages in the book. If you decide to add one single slide beyond what is provided in the template, it will make all the subsequent pages in the book jump a page forward, making many of the matching page pairs out of sync. Instead, replace a current slide with your new slide, or add your new slides in pairs. (This does not matter for a digital presentation, and you may choose to do one version for print and then create a different version for digital where you can be a little more free).
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Slide 2 | Page 1 |
Slides 3 & 4 | Pages 2 & 3 |
Slides 5 & 6 | Pages 4 & 5 |
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Final Slide | Back Cover |
How to Order Your Book from GCM/ Reliant "CopyCat"
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