Melinda: This is the agenda. We usually do this as a boot camp, where we come to your site and you're on computers in this big room with everybody and we're running around and helping you and doing things. So we're trying to do a virtual boot camp, where we're going to do the same things, only we're going to do it a little quicker. [laughs]

The objectives are that you become familiar and comfortable with the Applied Digital Skills courses and lessons, that you're able to start or feel comfortable enough using it with your students, and that maybe even add it to your own personal Learning Kit. I've learned so much by using these lessons. It actually helped me with my training credentials, so it's a good set of lessons. You learn a lot while you're going through. OK, now.

Nell: So the kind of underpinning to this whole Google Applied Digital Skills curriculum or lessons is this idea of digital literacy and the fact that we no longer can kind of let that skate past us. We in adult literacy, have to kind of grapple with this. And the definition that we generally are using, or Rio has been using, is a version of This American Library Association definition, which is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

And this is often in the desire to solve a problem. So we are now-- we've been working on all these skills in the past, right? The ability to find, evaluate, create and communicate information, but now we're talking about doing it using technology. And this is kind of the underpinning of what Google was using to develop the lessons that you'll see today. Do you want to do-- I didn't--

Melinda: We could do this in chat, I think. Maybe just the first question or the last one?

Nell: Yes. Oh, so someone pointed out that maybe we should add English to the previous definition just to talk about ESL. And certainly doing this in English as part of what we're often covering with our students. But the question here is, how has digital literacy impacted your life?

So if you think about today, I mean, where we stand and even now, compared to three months ago, two months ago, and how we're pushing our own digital skills. How has digital literacy impacted your life? So lots of comments.

Melinda: Cool.

Nell: So it's profound changes, right, in our lives. And again, that's been true for a while, but I think we've seen a huge jump. Let's see here. It's taken over my life. Living in rural communities-- where'd that jump to? I saw something.

We lack access to internet or technology, and that is-- again, in New York City we have the same thing. So we know that a lot of our students and even some of our teachers do not have internet at home. They do not have laptops. So we're aiming a lot of our work at people using smart phones, and even that is limited and certainly bandwidth becomes an issue.

It's allowed people to stay close to their children and families who are spread across the USA. I need it, but I have the skills. It's such a common refrain. I think we're all-- everyone's feeling pushed, right? You may feel that you have a huge-- you're far behind, but I think everyone at this time is. It's moving so fast that everyone has a bit of that sense of not quite having the skills we thought we needed or we think we need.

The difference between functioning and not functioning in the real world. It's made a difference for my students. Communicating with far wider circles, personal and professional. To connect with students, not just information with the families all over the world. So now people are using Canvas and Zoom and Google to teach and that was something that was not true not long ago.

Yeah, people feeling that their gaps have been exposed, right? This kind of jump into this so suddenly, we see the spaces where we don't feel totally comfortable.

Melinda: And you know, all of these, you know, how it impacts our lives as teachers, take what you're feeling and multiply that by, I'm going to say a factor of five, at least, for your students, especially if they've never been forced to use digital anything in the past-- if all of their coursework was on paper and books and all of a sudden-- space bar? What is that? You know? So I would think-- and some of our students, they're totally good with it. It's fine. No problem. They wish this had happened a long time ago, that everything had gone digital, but for a lot of our students, it's even more than what we're facing.

So back to the students. Why are digital skills so important and why are they needed? Name one job that does not require digital skills at some point or to some degree.

And before you start typing, I want you to think closely or really hard about this, because for any job that you type-- and I actually had a little bit of a discussion with the teacher in Montana when I went there to do this boot camp. She said none of her wranglers-- she had a group of cowboys-- that did not use digital literacy. And I looked at her and said, well, how do they get their checks? And she said well, they go to the bank. OK, how do they get their money out? And she looked at me and went, oh.

Yeah. You know, that's a digital skill-- going to the bank, putting in your card, punching in some numbers and getting your money out. And knowing that when you're looking at that little slip of paper that when you take out $100 or just $20 bucks-- how to do the math and what have you to figure out, yeah, yeah, that that's the right balance.

So even if you think there aren't any digital skills required, take a look at this link when we give you this handout. It's a low-level job list and every single job listed requires at least one digital skill-- the least of which is email. Everyone has to have an email address now, even if we're a dishwasher. So if you can think of a job that doesn't require digital skills in some shape, way or form--

Nell: So when we were working with Google to develop this slideshow, they have added some important facts and figures and data that we're not going to go too far into, but you can see it all here. I think, again, we feel a bit like we know this already, right? We're working with students. We're living our own lives and we know that the way that we're using-- if we think about our own lives-- I mean we're used to these boot camps before the current situation, and even then this was true, but now it's 10 times cheaper as far as how much we're using digital skills in our lives and imagining people with low-level jobs right now if you're trying to get funding, get money, find other jobs if your job is going away, all those things at this point really require digital skills.

Melinda: This is just a quick email that we got. A teacher actually had a student teach her-- teach the teacher that the students knew more about than she realized. So it's a little quick email. Again, look at this when you have the handout. It's pretty cool.

At the end the student was actually teaching the teacher and other students. She used her smartphone to record her voice. We're going to-- again, some other reasons why digital literacy is important-- a couple of articles that you could read if we haven't sold you yet on why digital literacy is needed. I'm pretty sure everybody agrees that it is right now.

Nell: There are some comments-- I mean, obviously you maybe have specific people in mind of people who have jobs that you feel like they're not using any digital skills. I will say some people are commenting on low-level ESL learners. And I don't think it's parents, right.

So if you're a low-level ESL learner, you still had your native language. You may even use digital skills in your native language. But it is true that if I try using an ATM in a language that's not my own, it's a total surprise. So keep adding things in there. But this isn't really to find a space where we think there's someone who has a job that doesn't need digital skills.

Melinda: Oh, no.

Nell: Moving into a world where even if they don't use it today, their ability to find a job or improve their job may be improved if they had digital skills. So one of the things about the Applied Digital Skills website is that you can get there by googling it, but because we want-- basically Applied Digital Skills-- Google created Applied Digital Skills and was kind of getting it out of the public school system pretty successfully through, you know, departments of Ed or in various states.

And they had a hard time getting into an adult Ed, and so they worked with CoA to kind of develop this process of doing these boot camps in each state. And in order for them to track who's getting to their Applied Digital Skills-- through what CoA was doing-- they created a special login or link for us to use.

So when you go to Applied Digital Skills today we're going to ask you to use this link and you'll have that link. We'll also put it in the chat to get to the Applied Digital Skills platform. So it's a special doorway just for us adults and people.

Melinda: And now I just want to add this isn't tracking anything other than how many people are coming through the door. So they're not grabbing information from you. It's just counting how many people come in through that doorway. And the more people we have coming through this doorway, the more Google realizes, oh, adult education. Huh, who knew? So they start thinking about that and they start putting lessons related to adult education into the courses or the classes.

Nell: And that was an exciting part of this for us. Like in New York City we were used to be trying to use Google Classroom and things like that. It was very hard in the early days to do that because we were not a school system. Again, I know some of you were working for larger education organizations, but we had a lot of community-based organizations and groups like that that had a hard time showing that they were educational institutions.

And what's happened with Google I think it's a real recognition that adult Ed and adults in general need these skills. So we're really excited and they really are listening to us. So if you have, as we go through the lessons today and as you have an opportunity to play with them, you have suggestions for lessons, they're actually asking for those. So they really are open to hearing about us in a way that we've never had before.

So you do need to have a Gmail account to login, unlike-- so even your students-- if you're using this with your students they will need a Gmail account to log in. You'll need a Gmail account to log in. And if you don't have one, you can go to accounts.google.com and create your account.

Melinda: And you need to know what kind of an account you have. There's the pub and the club. So I usually do this when I'm face to face, and we break out into an accent here. So we're in the pub. You've got a public account, yeah. And when you're in the pub you can do anything you want because you're in the pub. And you're all coming in together and you can share with one another. You can you can look at each other's stuff. The person allows. And there's no limitations. You can do what you want because you're in the pub. And when you're in the pub you have @Gmail.com. So right here at the end, this is our little token that allows us to come into the pub. And we need that in order to use the pub. If you don't have that, you're probably not going to get in. but we'll give you a one free. It's no problem. So you're in the pub. You're good to go.

Now when you're in the club, you're quite proper. And you're sitting up straight in your chair. Everyone sit up straight now, please. All right. Sit up straight. And you have to have your pinky out when you're keyboarding, at least the pinky that you're not using at the time. And you have to be quite proper when you're in the club. Clubs are district accounts. They are not really Google accounts. Well, they are Google accounts. You can get everything that you want to on your platter that's Google, as long as your network administrator has put it on the platter for you.

So you can maybe get everything that's Google except Yahoo. Or not Yahoo, but YouTube. It starts with a Y. All right. So in the club you might be precluded from using YouTube because your network administrator has decided that YouTube should not be allowed in your club. You also might not be able to share with people outside of your club.

So if your club or if your Google ends in .net, .edu, .org, .US-- anything other than @Gmail.com. Your club account ends with . any of these things right here that I'm underlining, then you have a Google account. It's called G Suites EDU. It's a club. And you might not be able to share it with your students if they are on the pub.

So what do you do? Well, you have to use the pub. It's pub to pub or club to club. So when you're using a classroom or when you're inviting people into a classroom-- and most of the people that are using Google classroom, you know this. You can't invite people from the pub usually, unless your network allows it. And they probably won't, because most of the G Suites EDU accounts are attached to the K-12 entities, I'm going to call them.

So what they're doing is they're protecting the kids-- the folks under 18. So they might not allow adult learners to have a club account. In which case no problem. They can use their pub. Can networks share between pub and club? The sharing is really important because that's how the students show you that they've done their work, or that's how you can add them to your classes that you're going to be creating in Applied Digital Skills.

So you have to be able to share. And if you can't then you have to use the pub. I hope I explained that correctly. If you have any more questions about that, we're having office hours tomorrow. Come in and I can explain it a little bit further and even give you a little more detail. But I think that got it. Do you think? Next?

Nell: Yes, thumbs up.

Melinda: OK. Back to you.

Nell: So another piece before getting into the Google Applied Digital Skills, we also want to discuss a little bit of the fact that Applied Digital Skill lessons are all surrounding the various tools that are available in G Suite. And so you need to be a little familiar with what those tools are already. And you can see here a bunch of icons for Chrome and Drive and Docs and Spreadsheets. I don't know if you wanted to go into more detail on those, Melinda? You have more--

Melinda: I think we do here. Yeah, the skills transfer. So you've got Microsoft-- you've got Google on one side and Microsoft on the other. So it does transfer, so whatever the students are learning by using Docs, those skills that they're learning will transfer to work. File, new. That's the same within Docs and Word or Sheets in Excel or slides in PowerPoint.

Yes, there are some differences here and there. You're going to find that. But when you learn the skill on this application sheet, you're going to learn most of the same functions that if they go and get a job and the job uses Excel or the Microsoft product, they'll be OK.

There's going to be a little bit of a learning curve, but not a huge learning curve. And if anyone can give me a comparison of sites, Google has sites. And they also have app scripts where you're actually learning code. You're learning how to script things to put within these apps up here to make them function a little bit better. I couldn't find any comparison on Microsoft's site.

Nell: Yeah, so really talking about Drive and as was discussed already, like the pub and club have different amounts of memory, or different amounts of space in your drive, so your 15 gigs with a public account and if you are part of a club, you would have 100 gigs or maybe even unlimited. You can store information there. And you can upload actually non-Google documents there.

But if you're using your Google documents there, it doesn't subtract from your 15 gigs or your 100 gigs of data. And yeah, one of the things you'll see as part of the Google Applied Digital Skills lessons are actually lessons on how to organize your drive. And it's been interesting because I witnessed-- when I work with co-workers and we look at how people find files just Microsoft style files, it's always hilarious to me how we have very different ways of doing that, and Google, as well.

So I always like to go through that with folks as being efficient. So it's not necessarily that there are rights or wrongs in how you organize your drive, but you want to be as efficient as possible or at least know what the efficiencies can be. And I will say that they do some really good lessons on exactly that.

Melinda: Kind of the same thing what you just said-- this is just an explanation of what the different apps are within Google and what you can use them for. And now this is kind of going to be a fun thing to do, but it's also a time where you can start opening up to Windows. One of the things that I've discovered during training and what have you through California is a lot of teachers say well, my students don't want to use this device because they're afraid they're going to break it.

OK, so we're going to make it fun. We're going to make them have fun. We're not going to make them have fun but we're going to show them how they can have fun using that Chromebook or using that laptop or using that device that they have at home and they just they don't use it because they're afraid of it.

So I'm going to go ahead and open up another window. I actually opened up another tab. OK, now in the Omnibar-- the Omnibar in Google talk is the address bar way up at the top of your screen where you usually type www something, OK? What you're going to type right now exactly is 2 plus 2. Just type in 2 plus 2. That's all you need to type and then hit your enter key. 2 plus 2. OK, 2 plus 2 and then hit your enter and you get the answer right there.

OK. So whoop de doo. All right. No big deal, right? So let's add something there to make it more of a whoop de doo. We're going to put 2 plus 2 in parentheses. Follow along. And then we're going to put times 98. OK, and then we're going to hit the Enter key. Ah-ha! It does more complex calculations, all right?

All right, now let's really go out there. And I'm going to type 3x I've already done this. 3x in parentheses 3 minus y. And now look what happens. Oh my gosh! It does graphing as well. Now this is kind of a complicated little-- it's small, but it's a complicated graph here. So if you wanted to do a simpler graph, 3x plus or minus 8-- oops. I didn't do the minus.

Notice I'm not doing equal signs at all. So 3x minus 9 gives me the answer and it also shows me how we got it. Oh, it's 3x-- oh, we did it wrong. Make it a y. And actually that's a first-- there we go. This is what I want you to see. So here is also just a simple graph. And you can tell where the xy coordinates are by dragging-- just hovering your mouse up and down.

So I've got 5x plus 49, just because that's where my fingers landed. OK, and these are the xy coordinates here. You see them up at the top as you're moving it up and down? So there is a calculator. OK, so you students don't need a calculator off to the side in order to do the math problems. They can actually use Google chrome to do that.

Something else to make it more fun-- everyone type in the search bar or the Omnibox-- it doesn't matter. Type roll dice and then hit Enter. And you're going to get a dice. Now you can roll it, right. You can change the size. You can add dice, and then underneath the roll button, you're going to see other things that you can do.

So they actually have a little graphing calculator. They have a color picker. They have a flip coin. They have a metronome. They've got a spinner. There are a bunch of little tools here. I am on the tools tab underneath the roll button.

So how did I get here? I typed roll dice, OK. I see the roll button and then I'm on-- I had a little arrow underneath the roll button that I selected and it tells me I'm on the Tools tab. If you look to the left, you're going to see a games and toys tab. And if you click that, you can play tic-tac-toe.

Now, yes, this is a game, but it's also math skills, right? Because you're teaching your students how to-- whoa, darn. Lost. All right. They've also got solitaire. You could type in any one of these game names and it would appear here. Now you'd also get a bunch of different other searches as well, but up at the top you'll get these little games.

So use this to help your students. There's also, you know, to get the day started you could go with fun facts. How long is the Grand Canyon? Asking another question. You could use this in a Zoom room. This is just something to get the class warmed up and thinking a little bit.

Nell: Well there's been a few questions about the club and pub.

Melinda: OK.

Nell: My pub Google Drive is mixed with my club drive. Off hand, any idea how that might have happened? I have a club account. Should I go open a Gmail pub account or can I use my .org account?

Melinda: Test it, OK. Most of you, I would think, have an @Gmail.com. Let's start there first. If you don't know whether or not you're going to be able to share with your students or your students are going to be to share with you, I actually have a pub account-- scoetech@gmail.com-- and I have a pub account-- mholt@scoe.net. Back to the first question-- how did things that you created within your Gmail all of a sudden appear in your club account? It means you were actually creating them with your club account and you didn't know it.

So somehow you didn't pay attention to your avatar at the top right hand corner. That's my guess. And that tells me, though, that you're able to share between club and pub. For the person that's not sure, if you start creating things-- let's say you're in your club-- and I know I'm in my club because that's the avatar I use for my club-- and I want to share my Docs or my Sheets or I want to create a classroom or a class, I should say, in Applied Digital Skills and I want to invite my pub students. I will create the lessons using my club account-- just one. And then I will invite my pub self-- so my student self, OK.

And if it works, huzzah! Then you can do it with your students. So test it out on yourself. If it doesn't work, then just use your pub account-- your @Gmail account-- to go into Applied Digital Skills and start creating a class and then you can invite your students that way. Go ahead.

Nell: Well, no it's because I had a good tip here is to have different avatars or different pictures of yourself in your different accounts, because otherwise you can get very confused. I'm guilty of having learned that the hard way, where my accounts all had the same picture that you're like, well, which one am I in? There was another question. Recommended browser-- Chrome? Question mark, question mark.

Melinda: Yes, Chrome is a Google product so it's in the same sandbox with all the other Google tools. Will it work outside of the sandbox? Absolutely. Will it work as well? Meh. I don't know. Maybe? Not? I don't know. But you can use Applied Digital Skills in different browsers. If you find that something's a little wonky when you're using Firefox or one of the other browsers, then go back to Chrome and nothing will be wonky.

Nell: And there's one last question, which is so if club accounts cannot be given to adult learners, our students cannot access some of the resources, including applications for emergency relief or borrowing equipment that the K12 students are given. What then?

Melinda: Well, I would talk to my district. I would definitely talk to them, especially in this time, the, you know, the COVID time is what we're starting to call it. Your students need resources so find out if they can make some kind of special allowances where at least they can borrow some equipment-- a Chromebook, a laptop, anything, and then use it with their pub account. They can use district equipment using a public account. They'll be able to log into Gmail or open a browser and log into their Gmail or any Google tool using their account information. That's not going to be precluded. So I don't know that I answered that. Nell, if you have any thoughts-- New York's a little different but--

Nell: I think it's the same. I mean, again, go to the source. We've seen that issue at our community colleges and larger institutions, where they have different levels of access and they tend to leave adult ed out. I don't know of another solution, except really advocating with the people who make those decisions in your organization to try and help them understand that your adult students should get access, especially as you said now, in the time of COVID, everyone needs that more than ever.

And then someone had a question about how to get a public account. So I'm going to type the link in the chat, but basically you're going to accounts.google.com and you're just creating a new public account. So pub stands for public, so anywhere you would make a normal Google account as a person, private person, that's how you make a public account. So I'll add that link in the chat.

Melinda: And just a quick return here, you don't have to create an @Gmail.com account. You can actually, when you go to accounts.google.com, there's a link. It's really small. It'll say use my current email address instead. So you put in the first name and the last name that you want, and then usually you type in a user name that you want to use, and it'll be the user name @Gmail.com. So mine is is scoetech@gmail.com. However, I also have a scoetech@yahoo.com account. I have a Yahoo account using the name scoetech.

So I created another account. I put in my name-- first name and last name-- and then I clicked on this little link here, use my current email address instead, and I typed in scoetech@yahoo.com. So I have access after that to all of the Google tools except Gmail.

So if you have a Yahoo account, or an AOL account-- ughh, don't use AOL-- or some other email address, Hotmail-- same thing with your students. If they have a different kind of an account and they don't want another email account, have them create a Google account using their current email address. And on this handout you can see and download, there will be PDF for instructions that come up and it will walk you through that process.

Nell: So there are a couple of other questions that are coming in and we do-- Anthony has been really great at telling people in the chats to go put their questions in the Q&A. Do that and then we'll answer them there. There was a question about the cost of expanding a club account for several hundred students.

Melinda: That would be something to talk to your district about. Google gives accounts in bulk. I'm just going to pull a number out of the air. I don't know that this is true, but let's say that they give an entity that's been designated an educational entity. They give them 20,000 accounts. Here you go. OK, and then if they want more than that, then they would pay extra. But they usually have more than enough accounts to spread the love.

The problem is that most G Suites EDU accounts are piggy backing on K12. So unless you're in a community college or university, OK. But if you're in a K12 district, then it's piggy pegging on G Suites EDU, or the K-12 G Suites. So they're trying to protect the students that are under 18.

And that doesn't mean that the adults can't have accounts. It just means that the administrator of the Google has to make two different organizations within the G Suites. This is getting way above and beyond this workshop, the Applied Digital Skills.

There are a couple of other slides here. You know, it's free. It's gotten several awards. It's been validated by this, that, and the other thing. Read them at your leisure. We want to get through this. All of these lessons are video-based. And you or your students will have a project at the end of each lesson for your own use. So your students are actually creating a resume as they're watching the video and filling in and doing the tasks, or they're actually creating a website, or they're actually getting a budget for their own use at the end of each lesson

You will need some things. Your students will need some things, or your learners. They need to be able at least find the keys on the keyboard-- basic keyboarding skills, some basic computer knowledge, like how to turn it on and turn it off, and understanding some basic terms-- like click, back, select, open. That will help. Is it required? It's not required, but it will help.

Teachers also need the same thing, but they're going to need to know a little bit about the lesson offerings and we're going to show you that. You also need to be a little bit familiar with Google Drive and how it works. If you need more information on that, contact OTAN and we can-- I actually think we have a webinar coming up on Google Docs and Drive. It's not on the calendar yet, but we are going to be doing that, so you can come back and watch how to organize Drive and get Docs going.

And these are just the basic steps of using Applied Digital Skills. This is it in a nutshell. OK. Now each one of those steps we can broaden out into maybe five steps each. So you'd have 1 A through E, 2 A through E, 3 A through E. And that's what we're going to do next. And I think I talked over what Nell was going to talk about. Nell, do you have anything to add to--

Nell: I don't. You're hitting it all.

Melinda: OK. This is the next section of the e-book. Again, when you get this, you don't have to pay any attention to the first 26 slides. You could get rid of them, actually, because it'll be your copy, and then you can just go here. And then click on the link because you want to know how to open and sign.

Or if you already use Applied Digital Skills, you can go to add a lesson, because that's what you need help with, or inviting co-teachers. And this will take you through step-by-step. All right, so I am going to show you how to do this and I move that over-- and you are actually going to do it.

OK, so first thing everyone needs to do. You've got two windows open. If you don't, then you can if you wish. You need that you need to get up to speed here. We need you to go to-- oh my goodness, the link isn't here. We need you to go to this link. g.co/applieddigitalskills/coA. OK, once you get there, you're going to see this.

You might be signed in already. I know I'm signed in and yet I still have this sign in button. OK, Google just wants to know that you're coming in. You don't have to come in. You can learn more. You can just look at all of this stuff on this page. Or without signing in, you can see what's there for teachers.

They give you a little spiel here. Or you can select lessons. And if you click on lessons, you can actually get to see the lessons without signing in. So you might want to look at this before you even decide to use it. OK.

The lessons tab, you're going to notice some areas on the far left-hand side. You can actually search for lesson by keyword. So if you wanted to search for something in regards to budget, you could type the word budget in there. If you wanted to filter by audience, then you would select the arrow next to audience and you can select late elementary, middle school, high school and adult learners.

Don't ever use this! Don't. Don't do it. Don't use audience, because what you're going to be doing is you're going to be precluding a lot of lessons from yourself.

I want everyone, if you're on this page, to scroll down. I'll talk about the collections area in a minute. I want you to scroll down until you see the heading, Lessons. It's showing 118 of 118. Yes, there are 118 lessons here.

Each lesson card will tell you how many minutes about it will take. OK, and there's more information here. The reason I wanted you to see this was so that you could see what happens next when I hit the adult learners checkbox. I'm going to select that.

And how many lessons do I have now? 40. So I've just taken almost 80 lessons out of my queue, here, just by selecting this checkbox.

Nell: People are a little behind. Do you want them to be where you are?

Melinda: Well, I wanted them to see this. So if you go to Applied Digital Skills-- g.co, applied digital skills/coA.

Nell: And I put that in the chat so you can click on that if you want to.

Melinda: OK.

Nell: If you want to. I think some people-- so there was a question about whether they should be logging in with their club or pub account.

Melinda: Don't log in yet. I just wanted you to see that you could view this or your students could view this without signing in yet.

Nell: So you're basically just going to that link and then once you're there you're clicking on lessons.

Melinda: Exactly.

Nell: There's like four-- it says Applied Digital Skills for teachers, for students, and then lessons, and you're just clicking on lessons, and that shows you all the collections and all the individuals lessons, really.

Melinda: Yes. And this is the important one. Because I think, Nell, I think you agree with me-- don't filter by audience. That was the big takeaway.

Nell: That's my big takeaway. If you want to do that, you can experiment, but what our experience has been is that when you-- that there are many, many lessons we think are incredibly valuable and fun to do that are not labeled as adult education-- for adult learners, and so you lose out on a lot of those. The adult learner ones tend to be a little dry. They're very, very functional and lovely and they're so worth examining, but if you click the filters of audience you kind of limit yourself, maybe unknowingly, to lessons that we actually think you're going to miss out on a bunch of good ones.

Melinda: So on the filters, if everyone's here with me on lessons, again, don't sign in yet. You can also filter by the tool that you want students to use. So if you want them to know more about calendaring, you select the calendar, and then all of the lessons that have something regarding a calendar in it will come up for you. And you notice here, I've got six of 118. OK, we could add multiple check boxes. So drawings and dots-- you've got seven of 18 there.

You can also, without selecting anything, you could just look at the collections-- and that's up at the top of the lessons tab. The collections are lessons that Google has put together regarding the topic of the card. So teach from anywhere. Help students continue learning even when you're not with them in person.

So there's a collection of six lessons that will help you to do that-- work from anywhere. There's a collection of six lessons. As you scroll down, you'll see all of these collections. Now these collections were built using these 118 lessons. As you scroll down past the collections area, you're going to see the 118 if you haven't selected a filter, OK?

So this is kind of how to and maneuver. Just see it the lessons. Get a look at it. See what they do before you sign in. Now if you're sold, you want to go for it, I'm going to go back to the slides deck, because when you're on a pub-- if you're using your pub, you're not going to have to worry about it.

If you're using your club, it's very important. Go ahead and click that sign in button. If you're given anything that looks like choosing a role as a teacher or a student, choose teacher. That's very important, especially when you're in a club, because once you choose student, you're put in the student pool, and no one can get you out of that pool except your G Suites administrator.

And I'm hoping you know who that person is because we don't. OK? So make sure you choose teacher if you're given a role. Go ahead and select that sign in button at the top your screen on the right. And once you do, you're going to be asked to set up your profile.

So on your profile you're going to give your contact information. You're going to select your language and enter the name that students will see. OK, so down on your profile as you're creating it, you're going to see an area that says your name. OK, that's the name the students will see. That's not your account name, so you don't have to type in your email again.

All right. We also recommend that you fill out the information that's where the letter D is listed here on the Zoom. So what type of school do you teach at? You don't have to choose anything, but you should because that gives Google an idea of who is using it. And like we were saying earlier, if they know that a lot of adult education teachers are using this, they're going to start doing more lessons for us.

Or if you give them feedback they're going to see, oh, Joanna, she's an adult education teacher and now she's asking for more ESL kind of lessons. All right? Joanna asked for it. Dave asked for it. Bob asked for it. Susan asked for it. So the more people that ask for that same type of lesson, the more apt they will be to create it.

And we met the teachers that are actually creating these lessons. It's a group of teachers, folks. It's not Google techs. They're teachers that are creating the lessons and creating all the other stuff that you're going to see here in a sec. And I've been talking a lot just so that you'll fill out this profile, OK?

All right. So we've done that. Once you create your profile, you're in. Now we're going to have some fun, OK? So I'm going to hit my sign in button. I don't have to create a profile. Google already knows who I am, except that I'm signed into a couple different accounts.

So I clicked on the sign in button and it's asking me, OK, which account are we using here? So I'm going to select my pub account. And it didn't ask you for your profile. That's interesting.

So once mine opens-- here we go. You might see something a little different. Number one, you probably haven't created any classes yet, so don't worry about that. If you have signed in, you should see at the top of your screen the word teacher. If you see the word teacher, click it and then select my profile.

So hit sign in button if you're signed into more than one account, yes, you can, select the correct account. And then you should see at the top right-hand corner of the Applied Digital Skills screen-- the website. You should see the word teacher with your face there if you have it.

When you click on it you're going to see the second selection as my profile. You're going to select that. And this is where your profile should show up.

So I have my name that's on my account. OK, my account type is teacher. I scroll down. I may be contacted for feedback. I've got my language here.

What do you want your students to call you? OK. So that's what the students will see on the lessons. Where will you be using Applied Digital Skills? Choose whatever's appropriate. What type of school do you teach at?

I'm scrolling down the profile site or page. What type of community center do you teach at? Whoa, that's new. I haven't seen that. That's cool.

What disciplines do you teach? So you'd select what you need there, whatever's appropriate. And what roles will you be using Applied Digital Skills with? And how do you hear? And there you go, OK.

So I'm going to scroll all the way back up. I see up at the top of my screen, I see Google for Education, then Applied Digital Skills for teachers, for students, then lessons. On the far right hand side, I see my classes. You probably won't because you haven't created any yet. And then I see the word teacher. That's me, OK?

I want everyone to look up at the top of their screen and select lessons. Now Google is going to understand that you're signed in and you should still see the word teacher up at the top right hand corner of the page. You should still see the selections. As you scroll down, you should see the lessons area, where you have 118, OK?

Another filter on this page in line with lessons-- the word lessons, showing 118 is the sort by. So we've got most popular, most recent. You can also go by duration, so if you want really short lessons you would select duration, and you have to scroll down again, which is a pain, and then you can see we've got 45 to 90 minutes. And if we scroll all the way down, you should notice the time. Here we go-- four to six hours to create a guide to an area.

Five to 10 hours-- so if you want to keep your students busy, give them one of those. These are just general time frames. And before anybody asks, no, Google does not track how much time is spent. So there's a lot of reasons for it, but basically because this is used worldwide and everybody has their own set of standards on timings and what have you, so Google just kind of backed out of that Kool-Aid.

No, no. You figure it out. You know, we're going to give you a suggestion as 45 to 90 minutes, depending on skill levels, and then you decide how much time to give your students.

All right, so I've scrolled up and down the lessons area. Let's go and up at the top of my lesson on duration, I've sorted by duration, I see create a resume in Google Docs, or create quizzes in Google Forms. Let's do that one because I haven't used that one yet. So everyone just-- we're not creating anything yet. We're just looking at it.

So if you don't see create quizzes in Google forms, that's OK. Select another one. They're basically-- all of the lessons are laid out the same-- different content, but laid out the same. So I'm going to select a lesson. Choose anything you want.

It opens up. OK. On this page, you're going to see under the start button, look down or scroll down a little bit. You're going to see the time to complete, the digital tools that it's using-- that this lesson is using-- the skills that the student will be attaining as they go through the lessons.

OK, this is the activities tab. If you scroll down a little more you're going to see the videos. We could actually click on the video just to get an idea what it looks like. And I hope I remember to share my sound. Nell, could you let me know?

Video Playback: Quizzes are a way to measure understanding of a topic.

Nell: It's good. It's good.