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Melinda Holt: This first part, because we have so many people, haven't used Slides yet or don't know it, or maybe they've just used a little bit, we're going to deal with some basics, OK? And for those of you that are advanced or intermediate, hold on. Take--

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--a deep breath. I haven't forgotten about you. I'm going to give you some advanced things as well. How do you make the toolbar appear in Slides? I have no idea.

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Let's get back to that, all right? I think I'm going to be answering your question, Lewis. All right? I'm going to go ahead and start sharing my screen again. OK. We're done with this. And are you ready? Here we go.

So if you attended the Google Doc series, you know that I gave you an e-book, right? And it was made with a Google Slides, right? Google Slides can be made into a book with table of contents and links and everything that you can give to your students, and then they always have that information. And as you or I update it, it's always current. So I never have to keep sending the e-book or the Slides presentation to the people, because the people already have it, OK?

So here's the link right here. Actually, I should put in https, htt-- oops. Lowercase. OK. There we go. So that's the full address right there. You really don't need that if you're typing it in yourself, but if someone is typing that in chat, they will need the https. So https://bit.ly/slides number 2v. So it's all lowercase this time. No capital letters. But there is a number in the middle there, so let me make that red. By the way, now that I've just made a change on this, guess what? The live presentation has also got the number 2 as red.

I also want to check real quick-- don't look at what I'm doing. I mean, I know as soon as I say that, everyone's going to go, oh, let's look. I had to check the share, because I was actually playing with it last night as I was creating this.

All right. So this is the Slides presentation. Write it down off to the side. You don't need it unless you want it. If you're advanced, you might want this while I am covering some more basic functions so you can move ahead, OK? This is actually Slides! Dust 'em off and use for other things. You can do lots of things with your Slides deck besides presentation. And I see a mistake already. See how cool that is? Now it's fixed. All you have to do is hit Refresh.

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All right? So this is the presentation name. Here's all about me. Woohoo! And yes, right here. Here are the email addresses. So mholt@scoe.net or mholt@otan.us. They are both the same. You can use either one of those.

And I want to show you this. I'm going to select one of the emails there, and I'm going to-- we're going to go over this, so don't write anything down or go, oh, I need to do it. I'm going to insert a link, and there is the address I'm going to apply.

Now for those of you that are coming into the presentation, you will have a link. It wasn't a link before, but it is now. And that is the power of an e-book. It gets updated as I update it, OK?

All of these items that are in blue are clickable. They're clickable. So if I click on Slides Defined, I can read it, and then I can go back to the TOC. Now I have to click twice, because I'm just in Edit mode. What you will be seeing-- everybody, hold on to your hats-- bing! twang!

So you'll be seeing it big like this. So again, you click once. It goes to the item. You click again, and there we go. And so you've got a TOC that goes back to this area. There are actually two pages on the TOC, because it's kind of long, OK?

There will be a preview. Oops. Or actually, this is in Preview mode. What I meant to click on was the PDF copies. I'm going to show you at the end of this webinar how to create a PDF copy. That's why I don't have it there yet. But you will be able to download a PDF copy of this Slides deck.

Anything that you download as PDF we'll be stuck in time, OK? Stuck in time. So I thought we had a-- What's a TOC? Oh my goodness. OK. TOC. TOC. There we go. Table Of Contents. OK? There we go.

All right. Now to save bandwidth, because I see my computer doing a couple little things here, I'm going to turn off my video. OK? So now you see the OTAN logo. I just saw some weird stuff flickering on my screen, so I want to make sure we save bandwidth.

All right. So here we go. If you want to follow along, don't do it yet, because I really want to make sure you know what Slides are, OK? Slides is an app. It's an app, and it's part of the G Suites tools, OK?

It can be used on any browser. And this is what people don't seem to understand. They go oh, I've got to use Chrome. I don't have Chrome. No, you don't have to use Chrome. Chrome works better with its products, with all the Google products, because Chrome is a Google. Right? So Slides is a Google. Chrome is a Google. They work really well together.

But if you have Safari or if you have Firefox or Edge or Explorer, you could use those as well. You might find out that something works not quite as well in Explorer or Edge as it does in Chrome, and that might prompt you or make you want to go ahead and install Chrome. But nine times out of 10, you're going to be fine, OK?

It can be used on any device. So you can actually install a Slides app on your device. It doesn't take up any space because it's on the cloud. As long as you don't use it offline, OK? So if you have a Slides deck like an e-book that you've shared with your students, they can open it up on their phone or their tablet or their Chromebook, laptop, or desktop. It's the same thing. Once they've signed in, they have it on all of their devices because it's on the cloud. OK?

The words-- I'm going to be using different words as I'm talking about Slides. I use the word Slides, presentation, and deck. So they all mean the same thing. The Slides, OK? They all mean the same thing. All right?

So terms to know. Here's just a few terms that you're going to be hearing and also looking for on the Slides deck or the Slides tool. The app. An app is just the short word for application. So if anybody tells you, oh, app and application mean totally different things, no, they don't. No, sorry. No. They're exactly the same thing. It's just that we've gotten lazy and we just use the word app.

Now I will give you that app usually denotes or connotes that it's on a smaller device. That's why it's a smaller word, I guess. I don't know. So we have the application on our desktop, but we have the app on our phone. They're the same things, so please remember that. Because I get a lot of questions, well, I've got the app. I don't have the application. If you have one, you have the other, OK? It's just a bigger word.

We're going to learn arrange, arranging objects. Everything on a Slides deck, everything on a Slides canvas, everything is called an object. Or if you wish, an item, OK? So just keep that in mind. So when I say we're going to resize the object, an object could actually be a text box. This is an object. See what I just did? I resized it. Now I'm going to undo it.

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OK? That is an object. Pictures. We're used to pictures. I'm going to find one. Here's a picture right here, right? We know that this is an object. We recognize this is an object. But on Slides, you also need to recognize that text boxes are objects. Text boxes are objects. OK.

Then we've got the paint bucket. The paint bucket's up here in the tools. We're going to be going over this later. So here's just some terms. And I didn't finish this last night. Sorry. More later. OK?

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As I think of words, I'll put them on there for you. All right? Some tips. A lot of people don't know this. There are guidelines on Slides. So before we get into this-- or actually, no. We need to keep going. Eventually, I'm going to have you open up a slide, OK? But right now, I want you to look right here.

So when you're looking at your Slides, you're going to see rulers. And up at the top, if you click on your ruler and drag it down, you see that little box is traveling up with my mouse? I'm holding down on my mouse key. OK?

So if I want an alignment exactly at two inches on the horizontal horizon, I can drag a guideline there. If I want a guideline on the vertical horizon or the vertical-- whatever the vertical, the y-- I click, hold, and drag another guideline from the vertical ruler. And I can stick it anywhere I want. So there are guidelines, OK?

Now if you look really closely, you will see some permanent guidelines on this Slides deck. I will only see those when I'm in Edit mode. They're little red, little ant trails going down. And this is what I use for an alignment. This is really important to know how to do.

These are done on master slides so that when you put it on your master slide or your master layout, it will appear on every layout. OK? So if I have another layout that looks just like this basically, I will have guides on it. And those are permanent, and they're done through the master slides. I will be showing you how to do that at some point during this series.

Using alignment lines that automatically-- oh, that's what I just covered. Using arrangement. That is really, really important as well. So I'm going to show you real quick. I'm going to put just a shape on here, OK? There's your shape. And I'm going to drag it. OK, now it's on top of my text, isn't it?

I can put it behind my text by arranging it. I'm going to go to the Arrange, I'm going to Order, and I'm going to send it to the back. Now it's appearing behind my text. OK?

So arranging is really good-- I'm going to undo that-- because if you have different objects on your slide that you want to layer-- maybe you want this one to be a different color but you want it to be behind. And you're going, OK. I'm going to take this and I'm-- no.

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How do you get the red one behind the gray one? Well, you need to order them, OK? There's actually a quick key that does this. I'm not going to share that with you yet.

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But that's the quick and easy way to do it, all right? If you don't see rulers on your slides, here we go. And if you've already opened up a Slides deck because you're really excited and you just want to get started-- that's so cool-- what you're going to need to do is go to View.

So up at the top of your screen, if you've already opened up a Slides deck-- and if you haven't, don't worry about it, OK? We're going to get there together. But somebody's already moved ahead. So we're going to go up to the View menu and we're going to Show Ruler, and that's how your rulers get in there, OK?

All right. Now sometimes you have things on top. Yeah. So when I'm arranging, I'm still on the arrange things here. So when I click on the square, I'm actually-- do you see what's happening? I've selected this big text box. So that means the big text box is on top of the square. Yeah, I can see the square, but I can't click it. I can't do anything to it until it's on the top.

So what I need to do, instead of moving this up, instead of moving the red square up, I need to move the text box down. So again, Arrange, Order, Send to Back. Now I can select the square. This is going to be really important later, folks. And we will cover this more. I'm just doing tips real quick, but that's going to be really, really important.

When you're doing little stuff like moving things or nudging things over this way or that way, use the Shift key. It has so much magic. Oh my gosh. Magic in the Shift, let me tell you. So remember that.

We can use transparent fill in lines. We're going to be going over that. Right-clicking objects gives you lots of different options. So where you don't have to look at the menu, OK? Use that right click.

Format Options has a bunch of good things in it, so I'm going to-- you have to click on something before you see the button called Format Options, OK? There's a lot of magic in there. I'm going to be showing it to you later. But I want you to know that it's there. And we've already covered guidelines. OK. So there's some tips here. I'll probably be adding to this as well, because there's lots of tips for Slides. So some ideas for use. Presentation like this one, OK? Or an e-book. Hey, like this one.

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OK? Badges of completion. Now you're looking at this slide, I know, and you're saying, well, I don't want a badge this big. No, no, no, no, no. You can make your slides as small or as big as you want it to be. You can make the slides as small or as big as you want it to be. OK?

You can make it eight and a half by 11, you can make it 14 by 44. You can do all kinds of things using the page layout, which again, we're going to be going over later.

You can also create things like a school brochure. You can create a newsletter that's online with pictures and everything. Badge of completion. If you click on a badge, usually you get metadata behind it that tells the people, the people like maybe the employers or another teacher that this is what my student did to get this badge. OK?

So there's lots of different ideas to use a Slides deck for besides this top one. This is what everyone thinks of when they-- oh, presentation. Yeah. Big deal. It can be used for so much more.

Flashcards. There's a flashcards deck that I created a long time ago. And what it does-- or what it did-- was goes over the pictures that you see when you're using Google. So this is what? Hmm. It's an avatar. What's this? The Google gear. What's that? It's the waffle or the app launch.

So each slide-- this, let me see-- this is copied, and then the answers are put on the copy. So it's a duplication. So here's slide, let's say, 10, and this is slide 11. 12, 13.

And then that way, you-- and if you create this as an e-book or a preview, then your students can't make a copy and get a static page. So if this was the end of the flashcards-- let me put it that way. Let's say this is the end of the flashcards, and I allow my students to make a copy of it. And then I decide, oh. I want to add more menu items, or I want to add more flashcards. They can't get this until I give them the option to make the copy again.

Whereas just like the e-book that I shared with you, it's in Preview mode. They come to it. They will see exactly what I put in every time. OK? Where does Melinda get all the icons? Melinda draws them.

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Every one of these things. Everything that's on the Slides deck I have drawn. And that's another great thing about Slides. You can actually do a lot of your own drawings on Slides, and we will be covering that, OK?

Now here we go. Basic mechanics. We are going to create a new Slides deck. I want everyone to do this if you're following along, or if you just want to watch, that's fine. You can watch. No big deal.

The flashcard link is actually in the Slides deck, Jessica. So if you go to slide 10, flashcards is there. OK? You click on it when you're in that e-book. And I believe-- hint, hint, nudge, nudge-- maybe, I'm not sure-- I would have to check it out-- but I think you might be able to make a copy of it. So woohoo! OK? I'm not sure about that, though, so don't--

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I'd have to go check, and that would take time, and I don't want to take time right now. All right. So the flashcards are in there because it's a link. OK? So how do we open up a new Slides deck? You can use any browser. It doesn't matter, OK? I would prefer you did not use your small device. So don't use a tablet. Don't use a phone, OK? Laptop, desktop, or a Chromebook, OK?

And go to drive.google.com. Or even easier-- even easier-- go to slides.google.com or even easier, slides.new. OK? So let me demonstrate all three of those ways really quick, because I think most of you know this already, but I just want to make sure.

So the first way, you're going to open up whatever browser you got. You're going to type in drive.google.com in the URL. OK? If you have Chrome open, you could certainly use the waffle and then click on the Drive icon. So here we are. We've got Drive open, right? You would click New, and then you select Google Slides. And then a new Google Slides presentation will open up in a new tab. So that's way number one, OK?

The other way would be to go to slides.google.com. So you would select or open up a new tab, open up a window. Go to slides.google.com, OK? And you're going to get something that looks different from Drive. What you will see is the actual app home. This is the application. This is the home of the application. I don't know how else to word it. This is Slides, OK? You are only going to see your slides here, OK? You're also going to see different templates up at the top. We're not going to cover those right now.

But you also should see a blank template. It's got a plus sign on it and it says blank. That's what you would click, OK? So instead of going to a new button and then selecting Slides, you come to slides.google.com and you select the blank template, OK? So that's way number two.

OK, what's the other way? If you're signed into Google, the easiest way to open up a new Slides deck is to type slides.new. That's it, folks. Boom! It is there! Wow. The crowd goes wild! OK? So you've got a new blank Slides all ready to rock and roll.

You don't have to save it. You can select-- or you can hit Control-S on your keyboard if you like. It does absolutely nothing! But it makes you feel better I guess, OK? You don't have to save it. It's done. It's ready to go. OK? It's also untitled. That's a problem.

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OK? Because if all you do is slides.new, you're practicing and you go slides.new, and then you get another one, you go slides.new, now you've got four or five presentations that aren't titled. They are in your Drive. You created them. They're yours.

So the first thing you should do after you create a new Slides deck is to title it. So just click up in where it says Untitled Presentation up above the toolbar, up above where it says File, Edit, View, Insert, click up there. And if you're following along, let's just type OTAN Demo. OK? So that's what I'm going to start referring to. OTAN Demo, OK? If you want to name it something else, that's totally up to you. OK?

So while we're here, when you open up a new Slides deck, Google's going, OK. Hey, how can I help you? Here's some themes on the right-hand side, OK? So I've got a bunch of themes here. These are the standard themes that Google uses. Lots of pretty little colors and different things.

And when you select a theme, I'm going to select-- what am I going to select? I'm going to select the blue one. This used to be the only one they used to have right here.

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Material. So I'm going to click on Material. OK. And boom. Now I've got-- this slide right here has turned blue because that's the title slide, right? But something else also happened. I have a bunch of layouts now, OK?

Now if you have selected a theme-- leave the Themes bar open, because we're going to come back to that. Up at the top of your screen, underneath the Slides Home, you're going to see a little plus sign. Don't click that. Don't click that one, OK?

There's a little arrow next to the slide-- or next to that plus sign, and it's New slide with layout. So I'm going to click that. It's just a little tiny arrow next to the plus sign. So I'm going to click that. And here are the different layouts that come with this theme. News flash. Every theme that Google has follows these layoffs.

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So some of them may be orange. Some of them may be black. Some of them might have a line that goes across the middle. But basically, you're going to get these 10-- no, 11 slide layouts. Can we add our own special layout? Absolutely. Absolutely. Just like with that other thing that you might be using, PowerPoint.

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OK? So you can add layoffs. If you're never going to use this one, there is a way to take it away. When we get to the layouts or masters, I'll be showing you that.

Now I didn't want you to close the Theme area, because we're going to do something with this. But some of you move a little fast, OK? And you might have gone--

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--I already closed it! OK. If you did, no worries. Up at the top above-- I have the ruler open, so in the toolbar, you're going to see the word Theme. Just click it and it opens back up. You can change your theme at any time.

After I've chosen my theme, I usually close that toolbar and I never come back to it again. All right? So you can turn it on and turn it off. It's just a little toggle. OK?

While we're on this Themes bar, way down at the bottom you have a big yellow button. Now I'm not going to walk you through this, so if you want to do it, more power to you. But I'm not going to answer any questions about it and I'm not doing it. I'm not going to show you how to do it, but I am going to tell you what it does.

If you have a theme that you absolutely love, you can import it by clicking on Import Theme. All right? And then you would upload. So if you have a theme in PowerPoint that you really, really like, you can import it into Google Slides.

So I'm not going to show you how to do that. You're going to have to test it out on your own. I might add that to the Slides deck later. It's a little more of an advanced thing to do. Will it come across as just like the one that you have in PowerPoint? Yes and no. OK?

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So sometimes it does send, sometimes not so much. So you've got to figure that out. You have to figure that out. It's not perfect, OK? You're talking about two different sandboxes working together. That they work as well as they do together is kind of amazing. But sometimes, not so much. It'd be like me throwing my Google basketball to you-- whoom! And then by the time it gets to you in PowerPoint, it becomes a golf ball. Ding! OK?

So sometimes that happens. Not all the time. Sometimes just a little air's been let out of the basketball, OK? Or sometimes it's been inflated too much. But either way, you have to check it. So you can import themes.

Again, look at the Import Theme button. OK? And then to the left of it, you're going to see a little icon called Explore. OK? Now there's a couple of things that we can do here. I'm going to show you the first thing, and then we might do the second thing in a minute. OK. Click Explore.

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(WHISPERING) Wow! Look at what happened. I got a bunch of different layouts. Right? What Google did was that it looked at what I had on my slide, which was absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing, and it went, based on what you have on your slide, here are some different ideas for themes. So the Explore button is really kind of cool, because if you're not one of those artistical people and you know, I don't really like those themes that we had at the beginning, I want to do something more, this might do it for you, OK?

Notice that up at the top of the Themes toolbar, it doesn't say Themes anymore. It says Explore. Right? Because we clicked on the Explore button. Where is that Explore button?

OK. So I am going to-- here's my slide. OK? By the way, I'm going to view this at 100%. Here we go. I'm viewing my slide. All right. And I need a visual person. Alicia, is this a pretty good size, or should I make it bigger?

Alicia: If you can make it bigger, it'd be great. But I mean, it's pretty big now.

Melinda Holt: All right. Let's see. How's that?

Alicia: Good.

Melinda Holt: All right. OK. So I'm going to hit the Theme button, all right? So we have Themes open. This just gives me a way-- now Explore is always there. It's to the left. It's at the very bottom of your slide and to the left of the Import Theme, if you still have Themes open. OK? If you don't have Themes open, it's at the bottom right-hand corner of your slide. OK?

So when you click that, then you get, oh, look. It's a-- oh, ooh. Ooh, here's one with a little red bar. By the way, the themes that you see here, even the ones that we had before, you can make your own changes. So if you like this blue-- they don't name it, but this blue one here that I'm hovering around but if you want it to be green, you can change that in master slides, OK? In the master view. So lots of different things here.

Now. OK, now I'm going to freak everybody out. I'm not going to change anything. I want you all to follow along with me. OK, I want you all to follow along with me. Everybody, look at what I'm going to do first. OK? And then I'll do it again with you. All right. We'll see how this works.

All right. The first thing I'm going to do is I want an image on this slide. I want an image and I want some text. OK? I'm going to type-- what am I going to type? OK, Space. Yeah, Space. The final frontier.

OK. Everybody type that on your first slide. So if you didn't create a slide or if you didn't choose a theme, choose a theme now. OK? You should have your first slide is going to be your title slide. All right? There should be two boxes there for you. One is the (DEEP VOICE) big title and the other is the (DEEP VOICE) subtitle. So type Space, the final frontier. It'll make sense in a minute. All right? In five, four, three, two, one. OK.

Now I am going to go to Insert way up at the top of my screen. In my Menu bar, I've got File, Edit, View, Insert. And then I'm going to go to Image, and then I'm going to search the web. I know I went really fast. I wanted to. I will show it again later. I'm going to search for images. I'm going to search for Earth. I'm going to select an Earth. I'm going to hit Insert. Here's the Earth. I'm going to resize that. We are all going to do this together. OK? Here we go. The slow version.

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Everyone click on Insert. Everyone select Image or just hover on Image. So I went to Insert, and then I'm hovering on Image, and now there's a little box that appears to the right. I'm going to click on Search the Web. That will open up a tool box or a search box on my far right-hand side. All right? I had to close mine because my would go blank. It remembered my last search. OK, fine. It remembered my last search.

OK. So you should see up at the top Search For, and there's probably a Google something in the middle, right? So where it says Search For or Search the Web, type the word Earth. Or if you want, type the word space, OK? You don't have to be exactly like me. It's OK.

Now you're going to be given a bunch of Earths, OK? Scroll down. Some of these are really cool. Wow. This one kind of looks spatial. So what you do is just click on the one that you want. Don't look too long, OK? Because we've got to keep moving. So select an image that you like.

And then you're going to see a little blue bar happen at the bottom of that bar or that pane on the right-hand side. And it should say Insert, OK? So click the word Insert. Take your hands off your mouse and give it a minute. Depending on your Wi-Fi, it might take a little longer than you think, OK? Because it could be a big image. It might be a small image. I don't know. It's an image, though, and it's going to take some time.

All right. Now we've got handles around our image, all right? There's little blue squares all around it. When you insert an image into your slide, you can grab the handle and you can resize it. You can make it any size you want. You want to make it skinny? You can make a skinny. You want to make it fat? You can make it fat, OK? Big, small, tall, whatever you want.

Now here's the thing. Most of us want to keep the aspect ratio. So I just did Control-Z a couple of times to get back to my original picture. Just Control-Z until I got back to this.

Here's the magic. Remember the magic key that I was telling you about? Does anybody remember what that is? It starts with an S. It's the Shift key. So hold down your Shift key, grab the lower left corner of your image, the left handle, and drag it down. And it will stay in aspect ratio. You don't have to worry about it getting skinny or fat or anything like that. You can drag it as big or as small as you want. OK? The Shift key.

Now let's say I want this image to move to the right just a little bit or to the left just a little bit. You're going to use your arrow keys to do that on your keyboard. So I think it's 10 pixels. It might just be five. But you're going to hit your arrow key, and it will nudge over. And if you just hold down your arrow key, it travels. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And you go back down, and you go-- you can move it anywhere you want. OK?

But what if I want it to go just a little bit further and when I hit my arrow key, it goes too far? But I just want it to go just a little further and it goes too far. So how do you do that? How do you get it to go just a little bit further? I wish I knew.

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What happened? Here we go. Hang on. Oh, they changed it. I'm using some key combinations. Hang on a minute. There we go. OK. All right. So let's say I put this image right here, and it's next to Space, right?

But I want the edge of Space to be right on the e, right? I want to be right there. And when I hit my arrow key over-- I have to select the image-- when I hit the arrow key, it covers it up. That's not far enough. That's too far, OK?

So again, the magic is in the Shift. So you're going to hold down your Shift key and then use your arrow to nudge it one-- it's called a pixel-- one pixel at a time. Boom! And that, my friends, for those of you that are intermediate and advanced, is an advanced feature. Use your Shift key to nudge. It is a beautiful thing, whatever you want to nudge. Remember, the text is an object, so I can nudge my text over as well by selecting the box.

You hit the Shift key. You don't hit the Shift key, Jacqueline. You hold it down. So to resize, you select the image, hold your Shift key-- just hold it down-- and then use-- so you have to have both your hands working. And then you drag the handle with the mouse, OK? If you're using a touchscreen, you hold down the Shift key with one hand, and then you would touch the appropriate handle, wherever you want, and nudge it. OK?

So that's how you move an object and that's how you nudge it. We're just going to hold down the Shift key, and we're just going to use the arrow keys just to get it right there.

All right. Now, we have a slide. And by the way, I decide I don't want space right there. We have a slide. We have a picture on it. We have a slide with a word on it. It's going to make sense to Google when it explores. Everyone, look at-- don't touch it. Don't touch it, but look at your Explore button. It turned a color. It's now gold. And that means Explore has an idea. (WHISPERING) Wow. So let's find out what the idea is. I'm going to hit the Explore button.

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Whoa! Look at that! Now I get a bunch of different ideas based on not only the picture, but the text. So what they did was they took the picture and they made different layouts with it. How cool is that? I don't have to think about nothin'.

[laugh]

All I've got to do is put a picture on it with some text, and boom! There is my new layout. How about that? Nice, huh? All right. So that's the Explore tool and you have just created a-- you've just created a presentation. It's only got one slide--

[laugh]

--but it's got text, it's got an image, it's got all kinds of good things. It's got a nice layout. They made the image as big as the page for the layout that I chose, OK?

Now here's the thing. We want to make this accessible, OK? We want to make sure the people that are not as fortunate as we are, they're not as sighted as we are, we want to make sure that they get the information that's on this Slides deck as well.

The words, no problem. A screen reader can read those words. But a screen reader can't read this image, no matter how big or small it is. So what we're going to do now-- and everyone follow along, please-- we're going to right-click on the image, wherever the image is at on your Slides deck, and we're going to go to Alt Text. So right-click, Alt Text. Click that.

A little box comes up, and you're asked to put in a title and a description. And it tells you, alt text is accessed by screen readers for people who might have trouble seeing your content. Right? So title, Space.

Description. You can get as broad a description or as minimal a description as you wish. Just think about, who's going to be looking at the slide? Or better yet, think about who's not going to be able to see the slide? Put your hands over your eyes and then tell me, what's on the slide? OK? Just type that out. Let's see. We've got--

[muttering]

It's the first time I've done this one, so I don't know quite how to describe it. I missed all the text. Where is text? Oh, alt text. Right-click on your image, Laura. Go to your image. Right-click on it. Or maybe click it first and then right-click it so that you know it's selected. And then you should see alt text in-- oops. So I've clicked on the image. I right-click. And then it says, see, one, two, three, four, five, six. It's the sixth option down. OK?

How did I get the image to cover my whole slide? I used Explore, OK? I used Explore. And this is the great thing about Explore. It didn't do anything to the image that I couldn't do. OK? Here's my image right here. What it did do was make the background black when I chose my special layout from Explore. And then it broadened this image to the full size of the Slides deck, OK? I just happened to choose a really good space.

[laugh]

So it just depends on the slide or the Explore theme that you selected. So again, alt text. You're going to right-click on-- click the image, then right-click it. You should see alt text. Give it a title. Space image, image of Earth with space. And that should be enough. Boom. So when the screen reader comes to it, they'll be able to read that, OK?

All right. Now when you use Explore, what it does is it created a custom layout for you. How do I know that? Because I went to the arrow next to the plus sign. So look on the far left-hand corner of your Slides area, the application. Underneath the Slides image is a plus sign. Next to the plus sign is the arrow. That's where all of your layouts are, OK? So it gave me or it created a custom layout for me.

Remember, I had already selected that blue one, right? So the Explore-- it didn't create me a bunch of new layouts. It created me a custom layout for my title slide. I can do this for every single slide if I want to. And as I'm creating, I can use the Explore tool every time. That gets really kind of labor-intensive.

[laugh]

So I don't do it all that often. I try to stick with the layouts that are in the themes, and then I will edit them, OK? Do we have any questions so far about what we just did? We added a title slide, right? We looked over themes. We used the Explore button. We added an image. And actually, we did the opposite. We added an image and then we used the Explore button. Now we have a custom layout. Any questions on that?

Alicia: Melinda, there's a question real quick on how to right-click on a Mac laptop.

Melinda Holt: On a Mac laptop?

Alicia: How do you right-click--

Melinda Holt: Two finders. Two fingers. Try two fingers on the keypad and that should do it. Do Explore themes go into the e-book without difficulty? Sure, Shirley. You can use Explore themes if you wish. I don't. I actually create my own layouts, because I'm anal.

[laugh]

Because nobody can do it as good as me. So I actually create my own layouts and I hardly ever use Explore. But I know teachers do. That's why we show it.

Where does alt text show up? How does one see it during the slides presentation? Randy, you won't see it. It's not there for you to see. It's there for people who can't see to use it. So when you create a PowerPoint or when you create a Slides deck, you should always put alt text in for images so that if you give the PowerPoint or if you give the Slides deck to somebody, if you give them a copy of it, and they don't see well or they're blind and they have a screenreader, the alt text will be there for them, OK? That's why you would use alt text.

I don't see how to cover the whole slide. Sandra, that was part of my Explore. So if you want to see how to cover the whole slide, here's the image right here. And I know you can't see it. Hang on. To describe that-- here we go-- I'm going to actually add another layout. Hang on. Hang on.

So here's an image, yeah? I'm going to use the handles, and I'm going to drag up, and I'm going to resize, and I'm going to drag it down. This is how you make an image take up the whole slide.

How come mine did it in one click? Because I used the Explore tool, OK? Now you don't have to use the Explore tool. You could do it just the way I did just now. You could just drag the handles and do whatever you want. OK? So I'm not going to go deep into alt text.

[laugh]

OK? I want you to know that you can-- alt text, you can right-click on an image, go to alt text, and then you can describe there what it is. Every image on your slide in theory should have alt text. If you are funded by-- God, it's getting way too deep into alt text, OK? It's a good thing to do.

Maybe later on we can discuss alt text. We might even have a session on accessibility. I'm hoping to get somebody to do that through OTAN. So this is all about accessibility, OK? I'm not going to go deep into it. My job here today is just to go over slides, OK?

My arrows to the left of plus sign are Undo and Redo. No! No, M Claire. I can't zoom in here, because Google's going to do something weird-- oh, here we go. There. There. There we go. All right.

So underneath the Slides Home, you've got File, Edit, View, and then whatever's there. Here's the plus sign, OK? And then we have the arrow next to the plus sign. That is where all of your layouts are at. OK? And if you don't see that, then that tells me you're either on a tablet or an Android, OK? Wondering when you would use that for what purpose? OK.

[laugh]

Alt text is used for accessibility. If your students don't need accessibility, then you might not use it. It's always a good idea to have it so that if somebody by chance gets to your slides and they want to be able to get the information, they're not going to be able to get the information for-- let me give you a really good example.

Alicia: Melinda? Sorry. I think Laura was asking-- she wrote down a couple more. The part about picture covering a text of a slide. That's why she was wondering what--

Melinda Holt: Oh, why would you do that? It's just for-- yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Again, it was an idea of how to create a really cool-looking title slide. So you know, Space, the final frontier.

[singing]

Right? That's why you would do it. OK, so I don't have to-- OK. Can you put text over an image? Absolutely. We haven't done that yet. How to change an image after using the Explore tool. You click on it and you can do anything you want to it, sunflower. OK? You can move it around. We're going to be going over more options on how to manipulate images in a little bit. And how to change image. Good. OK. All right. Cool.

Now I'm going to go back to the e-book to figure out what I'm supposed to cover next. We've done this. We've created a new slide, right? There's instructions here on how to create using the app. We already went to-- I showed you Slides Home, right? Themes and Explore, we just went through there. Yeah? OK.

Now adding a new slide. Everyone, go to your slide, your OTAN demo. All right? And I'm going to get rid of that, and I'm going to get rid of this. OK. So we have our first title slide. Let me get back to square one. OK.

How do you put text over an image? That was one of the questions we had. Here's my text, right? Here's my image. How did I get my image to be in back of my text? Well, let me show you the reverse. Now it's in front of my text.

[gasp]

How did I do that? Now it's in front or in back of my text.

[gasp]

How did I do that? I did it really quickly using key combination. Let me show you the toolbar first. So select your image, OK? Go to Arrange in the toolbar. Go File, Edit, View, whatever. Arrange. And then go to Order.