Keynote Skills: Creativity with Text as Keynote Shapes



This is a topic that I have taught to my Digital Storytelling students, but it may have greater effect as a coaching topic and resource for my fellow educators.

Over the past several years I have used Keynote to great effect in creating presentations, movies, visual effects, and other creative endeavors. This skill involves drawing and combining custom shapes in Keynote to create punch-outs in shape masks and create a stencil effect. This particular tutorial involves the three Keynote files that are attached below.

The video tutorial is embedded below, and the individual Keynote files are attached. I hope you can find new and creative ways for you and your students to express yourselves!


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7 replies

October 23, 2022

Always enjoy seeing the creative things you make using Keynote!

October 23, 2022

Thanks for the downloads and helpful tutorial Ben! Such a cool effect for presentations and student projects!

October 25, 2022

Ben, thanks for sharing the letter shapes. Today while I was working with a Kindergarten teacher we used the letter shapes and created words: cat, pat, hat, pug (she had a pug dog). We combined the letters so they are one shape. Tomorrow in her class, students are going to select the word then go to image fill and take a photo to place into the shape. Example: for cat the students will find a texture in the classroom that represents the texture of a cat's fur and put it into the word shape. Lots of fun while they explore word recognition.

October 30, 2022

Love this extension/lesson idea from Ben's original video tutorial. Thanks for sharing with us, Gordon!

February 01, 2024

Thank you for sharing these, these are great for creating activities for little learners! I wish the shapes library had letters to use as shapes!

February 01, 2024

Also, has anyone else been able to download the Helvetic Neue vectors? Those won't download for me.

January 14, 2025

Hi. I just had success downloading the Helvetica Neue vectors.

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