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.
Slides is a presentation "slide deck" program from Google.
Visit your Reliant Google Drive, which will show your Google Slides, Google Docs (documents) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets)
Sign in using your Reliant Google Account.
Your Reliant Google Account is assigned, and most missionaries already have an account. They are typically first.last@reliant.org. Ask for help if you don't know yours. |
You'll need to copy the Starter Template for yourself.
Template Files Appear in Preview Mode.
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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.
To begin you will need to search for photos to customize your presentation.
Low resolutions images will appear grainy or pixelated when printed. Check to see that you are using the highest quality image available. See Photo Resolution Help.
You’ll want to find 15-20 high-quality photos that include:
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Use 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.
You 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).
To 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.
Resizing a photo stretches or shrinks the photo.
Click the photo once to select.
Use the corner handles to re-size the photo. Grab, hold, and drag.
Never use the side handles to re-size a photo. It will s t r e t c h the photo and distort faces or text.
(if you feel the need to stretch the photo, you probably need to crop instead: see below). |
Cropping cuts off the edges of the photo like scissors.
The Reliant MTD Presentation Starter Template has all the slides you'll need to begin.
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. |
We have provided many pre-designed 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.
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.
Here’s how to copy slides within a presentation:
More on Copying and Pasting Slides from Google Help.
You are welcome to design your own individual pages or entire book. Guidelines:
Because your presentation is online, you can present on any computer that can bring up a web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer). No additional software is needed.
The Present button will start your full screen presentation.
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).
The 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.
You might also optionally install companion apps such as Google Drive (browse files), Google Docs (word processor), or Google Sheets (spreadsheets). |
Use the Keep on Device option to make your presentation available even when your device isn't connected. |
More from Google Help: View and Create a presentation on iPad and iPhone
