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Speaker 1: OTAN. Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Melinda Holt: OK, so we're doing slides, right? We're dusting them off. We're going to use them for other things. You can use slides for lots of other things. And we've covered this in the last session. I'm not going to recover everything that I did last time. I am going to do a quick little rundown, and I'll explain that in a minute.

Shout out to, I believe, Jean Deman? She nudged my needle over and I took the Google Cloud certification. And by the skin of my teeth, I got it. So Jane, if you're in the house, thank you very much for that nudge.

Now, onto this deck. This, again, is an e-book. And it has a table of contents, OK?

So as you select items in the table of contents, it will take you directly to that page. And then on the page that you get to, there will be a little TOC button that will take you back to the TOC. So let me show you the TOC. By the way, TOC stands for table of contents, OK?

If you want-- if you know all this ideas for use, but hey, you want to know how to create a new slide in Drive, then you would click on this link. Now I have to click twice because I'm the owner. You won't have to do this.

But you click on the link and it takes you to that slide. Boom, boom, boom, yay. Right?

And here's that little TOC button I was talking about. So this will get you back to the table of contents. There is now two pages of table of contents.

So again, if you click on a link and then select the TOC, it will take you back to that table of contents. Oh, messed up. There we go. It should have taken you here to slide 6. So I'll fix that.

So again, that's the great thing about this e-book is that it will be updated in time, OK? Or as-- wait, no, did I say that wrong? Yeah.

It'll be updated and it'll be live for you if you use this link. No, you will not be able to make a copy of this slide stack, but you will be able to get a PDF. There is a PDF page.

And July 7th is where it's stuck in time right now. At the end of today's session, I'm going to be fixing that TOC button and then I'll update it. I might be adding a few things as well, OK? So that explains this handout.

Now today, I'm going to move this down because the stupid Zoom controls are always in the way. Remember this, for those of you that were left here last week, we did-- we inserted an image. And I selected space.

And because I was adding-- I had played some music. I went ahead and added a disco ball. I put that over the moon shape that was there. So I kind of added a few little things in here.

So this is the-- if you want to follow along, let's start having some fun here. So this was what we started, or what we did last week. And just to nudge everyone's needle lower and remind them what we did-- oh, did I? Yeah, here we go. Here's what we did last week.

OK, thank you, Jean. You are here. Yeah, we can talk about that maybe. That was a mind blower.

So this is what we did last week. We discussed ways to create a new deck. Lots of different ways. You can use a waffle, you can use the Drive, you can go to slides.Google.com, lots of different things, right?

When you create a slide, they've got templates. Or when you go to slides.Google.com, there's templates there that you can use, right? You can-- they've got flash cards, they've got presentations, they've got "lesson plans."

There's lots of templates, so you can start a slide that way as well by using one of their templates. Why recreate the wheel? The wheel's already there.

Themes. We went over how to make a theme appear, which does anybody remember? You would go to the word theme up at the top of your slides deck.

By the way, if you're following along, open a slides deck. Open the one that you created last Tuesday or create a new one. Doesn't matter. But create a slides deck, OK?

So we can add a theme or you could choose not to have a theme as well. But that's how you add a theme. You just click on a white area somewhere.

Don't have anything selected. Because if I select this puppy right here, I don't see theme, do I? I have to click on the white or blank area of my slide and then I see the word theme. And then they all appear over to the right-hand side, right? Remember that?

OK, explore. We use the explore tool down in the bottom right-hand corner. That will turn gold if Google has an idea. If it's gray, it still has ideas, but maybe they're not as gold. They're not as golden.

So use that explore tool if you really-- you don't like the themes you see or you want a little more kick a poo joy juice. You want to add, like, space and have them come up with the theme for you. We also went over adding shapes, adding images, cropping, and masking. So we covered a lot last go around.

This go around, this is what I'd like to go over. We've discussed themes. It's really important that you understand if you're going to get in deep and dirty and create a lot of different layouts or a lot of different types of slides, you need to know how to manipulate the master slide and the layout slide. So we're going to discuss that.

I hope to be able to walk everyone through creating a flash card set or some other kind of deck. I'm going to call it a deck. It's not a presentation. It's a deck, OK? And then we're going to hopefully have also some time to do a little more on shapes, OK? So that's what I hope to cover today.

So while we're here, everyone should have, if you're following along, you should have a layout or-- shoot, wrong word, a slides, OK? So I'm going to create a new one. And the way I create a new one is usually I just do slides.new.

Slide, you have to spell it right. Slides.new. There we go.

I'm going to get my blank going. I'm already signed in, so Google knows oh, you want a slides? Sure, no problem. And when you do that, it auto-magically opens the themes for you.

I'm going to title this. OTAN DELETE, OK? I always put delete on it when I know I'm going to delete something. It just makes it easier to find, all right?

And if you're following along, I just want you to choose a theme. If you already have a theme in your slides deck, great. Then just hang tight.

So just scroll down, find a theme. It doesn't matter what it is. Boom. There. I now have a theme added to my slides deck.

And then I'm going to, because I like a lot of real estate, so next to the word themes on the right-hand side I've got this X. I'm going to click that. Boom, I get more real estate. And I start putting in my title, right? OTAN DELETE.

And then it dawns on me. I really don't like this font. This font, Merriweather.

It came with the theme. I don't like it. To me, it's got too much-- it's a serif font. S-E-R-I-F. OK, I don't like serif fonts. I like sans serif.

So I could select the text and change it. And I'd go up to Merriweather up here at the top of my toolbar, click on it, find the font that I want, and then it would change. And then I would have to do that for every single slide that I create.

There's a much easier way. Wouldn't it be great if I could just change it once and it just went changes on everything? That would be so cool, wouldn't it? You can do that.

There's two ways to get there. Number one, you could go to view, and then you could go to master. The second way is to go to slide, and then-- where'd they put it? Edit master, OK? So there's two ways to do this.

Where is the font icon? There's not really an icon, Jennifer. When I click on text, when I have my cursor, you can see my cursor blinking within a text bar, I get the option up at the top of my GUI interface here underneath the menu bars.

All of these words, file, edit, view, that's the menus, OK? And each one of these little graphics underneath the menu bar are actually in the menus. They're just making it easier for you, OK?

So I see Merriweather. You might see Arial. You might see Roboto. You might see-- I forget one of their standards. Times is another one.

But you have to select a text box. If you don't select a text box, you don't see the font options. See? I don't see it on mine.

So when I select some text or I click on the text box, then I see all of the font options. That's very important to remember on anything you do with Google Slides. You're not going to see specific options unless you click on something. If you want to see image options, you have to select an image.

You want to see text? You want to see the font size? You want to see bold, italic, underline? You have to select a text, OK?

All right, so now we're going to change this text on the entire theme on the entire slide stack. We're going to make it our own, OK? Again, two ways to do that. We go to view, master, or slide, edit master. Either way, I don't care. Do it.

I clicked and highlighted text. Still no font icon on toolbar. Jennifer, you're not looking for a font icon. You're looking for the name of the text.

Let me go back. So if you don't see-- yeah, you're going to see it that way too. So click in the text.

Look up at the top of your screen. If you see a number like 36, and then there's a minus next to it, to the left you should see your font face right next to that. If you don't, it could mean that you have your toolbar minimized. And I can't help you. The only thing I could think of to do at this point would be to close the slide stack and then open up a new one.

Do Google Slide presentations embed and move or do we just link? Oh what a good question. And we have someone here that can answer you, ha, ha, ha. Marjorie, could you come on mute, unmute, and answer that?

Marjorie: I guess.

Melinda Holt: Thank you.

Marjorie: Hey, everyone. Google Slide presentations you would have to embed them. Actually, I'm sorry, you would link them.

Melinda Holt: OK.

Marjorie: Yeah.

Melinda Holt: So Marjorie, can you-- if there was a way to get an embed code, would that be possible, or do you know?

Marjorie: Most definitely.

Melinda Holt: OK.

Marjorie: Yeah, you can.

Melinda Holt: OK. So we might be able to go over that, John, all right? Jennifer, un-minimizing a toolbar, again, it's a little involved. So what I'm going to ask you to do is to stop or close that slide stack and hopefully open up a new one.

And the only thing I can think of right now for you is to look underneath your avatar, which is over to the right of the share button. And we have a control shift f or there's a little arrow. So that might help you.

Other than that, Sandra, you had to click on the arrow in the upper right-hand corner to show the menus. Yeah, that's this guy right here, OK? So I'm circling around it. And I know my screen is small for you, but try that.

All right, here we go. I'm going to go to view. And then I'm going to master.

Again, remember, there's two ways. View, master or slide, edit, master. When you get there, when you get here I should say, let's look at this for a minute.

Up at the top of the screen, you're going to see the word-- and underneath the name of your theme, my theme is called paradigm, all right? Your theme is probably going to be named something, unless you followed along, all right? It doesn't matter. This is the name of the theme. It's called paradigm.

Underneath that, you're going to see the word master. The master slide. I want you to think of the master as the owner.

Yes, you're the owner, but the master is the slide owner, OK? The master is what tells everybody else what to do, right? Kind of like a boss. The owner of the organization, the owner of the franchise. The slides franchise, OK?

The owner tells the manager, OK, I want you to have chocolate shakes on your menu. I don't know why I went to a food theme, but I did. So the manager says, OK, chocolate shakes. All right, fine, OK? So the owner gets to decide what happens to the franchise, OK?

All right, now on your master slide, make sure you have master selected. There's really a-- well, yeah, there's a lot of things you can change here. Number one is the font.

So click the font box that's the title. Click the title, all right? Or double-click within the title, OK? Doesn't really matter.

But I select the box, OK? I know that I have the box selected because I have squares all around it. Once you select a box, you can go up to the font face.

I see Merriweather, you might see something different. And I'm going to select Oxygen. We can all use a little Oxygen, right?

All right, now if you don't see Oxygen, don't worry about it. Just means you don't have that font. Choose something else, something that you like. Or if you like what's there already, leave it. It's OK.

While the box is selected, I want to make my title bold. So with the box selected, I've already changed the font face, I'm going to select the letter B up here, bold. You can also use your shortcut keys. Control b does the same thing. And now my title on the master is bold.

All right, now I'm going to try and do something. I need everyone to look over here, over at the Zoom. I've just made my screen, the master, kind of big.

Now, I've selected this text box. I'm going to deselect the bold. I want you to look.

I can't make it any bigger. I wish I could. I want you to look right here where it-- underneath the word layouts.

You see, each one of these layouts is listed. But I want you to look really close and see if you can see that right there and what happens when I hit the b. Here we go. That was bold and now it's not.

With every slide, every title became bold when I hit the b. And it un-bolded when I deselected. So again, the master is telling all of the other layouts, all of the other managers what to do.

That's very important. You need to understand the levels. The master is at the top level. The manager can do things as well, OK? And then when we get to the slide, that can change as well, all right? So the master slide is used by all of the other layouts.

If I wanted my background-- right now it's kind of a grayish color. I don't like that. I don't want all of my slides, every one of them, to have a more better color, OK? So I'm just making sure that this layout is selected, master is selected, OK?

And then I'm going to go to the word background. I don't have any text selected, so I see the word background. I'm going to click that.

And it's going to ask me, OK, what color do you want? And I see the word color. And then I see a little arrow on the far right-hand side. So that's the one I'm going to click on.

And then I get all my colors, right? This is kind of a bluish theme, so I'm going to make it, my background, blue. And I'm going to hit done.

Now look at the master. It has a light blue. And then every layout that was following the master is also a light blue, OK? Making sense?

Is the first slide automatically the master slide? Absolutely. And you cannot move it, by the way. You cannot move the slides and the order that they appear in on your master view, OK?

Just on the master view. When we get back to the-- we're not in the slides deck per se. We're in the master view of the slides deck, OK? I'm going to do that step one more time, you bet.

So let's say I've noticed that the-- most of the slides have this blue color, OK, instead of the gray. They have this. And I really don't like this blue color.

So I'm going to just select, make sure I've got this slide selected, this master slide. I'm going to go to the word background, OK? Now if your background is white, you're not going to see anything other than this little arrow.

If you've already changed your background, you're going to see the color that it is. It's a little circle, OK? If it's white, you don't see that little circle. Because it's white, all right? Kind of silly that they don't outline it a little bit, but they don't.

So choose the arrow next to the word color on the far right, all right? And then select a color that you can live with. And then every slide that follows the master will be that background color, all right?

Every slide that follows the master on the text box I just selected. Not the title box but the text box. I selected the title or text box.

And I see that it's Roboto. I don't like Roboto. Or maybe I do. But I want to make it Arial, OK?

And not only that, but I think that right now the point size is 14 points. I don't want it to be 14. I want it to be 18 for the entire box, OK?

You can also go in and it says right now you've got what the bulleted items would look like. So on every slide that follows the master, right now every slide that follows the master will be Arial 18. What if I want the second level to be Arial 16? I can do that.

Maybe I want the third level to be 14. I can do that, right? You can select where you see the number on the font and select it, or you can use the plus and the minus signs on either side.

So this master is telling the managers what to do. It's the only way I can figure out how to describe it that makes sense. There's a hierarchy involved. So the master is telling all of the managers what to do.

Now, let's go to one of the managers, all right? I'm going to go to my first manager right here. When I select it, it has a blue outline around it, all right?

And what do the levels correspond to? It just, it's a way to figure out what is going to be done on the layouts when you change your masters, Sandra. It's just a way to , if that master is the boss. The layout, the layout master, is a manager.

And then you have your own slides. When you're adding your own slides, they have rights too, OK? They can be changed. They can be added to. They can be anything. You can do anything you want to them, just like you can do anything to the layouts.

So I'm back to layout. So underneath master I've got all of my layouts, OK? All of the layouts that are with this theme.

I'm going to-- usually on most of the themes that Google gives you, they have this one that has a line, a banner that goes across. So I'm going to select that, OK? So I've got this big banner that goes across and there's two text boxes, OK?

And the name of it, if I go to the-- right above this layout, I see editing Paradigm, that's the name of my theme, Paradigm, title, and two columns. I can also see that it's used by zero slides. Does everyone see that? Does anybody not see that, I should say? If you don't see that, please type it in the chat.

Is your live closed captioning Google Slides? Absolutely, John. I'll show you that-- I'll show that to you, OK?

So editing Paradigm, title and two columns. Here we go. You're going to go-- you're going to look-- go.

I want you to look within your layouts. You're in master view, right? So up at the top, you'll see the word master, OK? And then we've got the word layouts.

Now, you have to be in the master view in order to see this. So you're going to scroll down. And if you don't see two columns, that's OK, all right?

What I want to show you is what you can do to this layout, all right? You can choose any layout. There's usually, with a Google theme, there is a title and two columns master or layout master. So if you just see one that has just a banner going across with no title slides, that's fine too. Use that, OK?

All right, now here is this layout. This is a layout master. This is a manager, OK?

And what I'm going to do-- I like real estate. I don't like this big banner. I want more space for words. More space for words.

This is not controlled by the master. The master has no say on whether or not there's a banner on the slide. But the layout master has that say. I hope that's making sense.

So on this layout, if I create a slide and I go, oh man, there's not leave room for my text. I wonder if I could make the banner smaller? Yes, you can by going to view, master or slide, edit master, OK?

And then you find the layout that you want to create more space on. This box right here is a square or rectangle, if you will. And I can make it smaller. Now it looks like I lost my text, but the text is still there. I just need to remember to drag my text up.

Now look at all the space. Oops. Look at all the space that I have for my text boxes.

So if I see a banner on a theme that I really don't want it to be that big, I can change it. This is going to make more sense. I'm going to undo what I just did. It's going to make more sense when we add a slide.

I did add a slide, right? The first slide, you can see kind of a little picture of it on the far right-hand-- oops, far left-hand corner. I have one slide. And you might have more if you used last week's. If you created a new one, then you're going to see just one as well, right?

This layout that I'm looking at right now this, master layout, this layout master, however you want to word it, is being used by that slide. Again, if I want more real estate, I could change this graphic, OK? Or I could make it a different color.

Remember we made our master slide? Right now, my master slide is kind of an off-gray. I could select any of these images-- any of these text boxes or images that are on the slide and I can change it because the layout master has that "authority," all right?

So I've selected-- this is going to blow your mind. There you go. So this entire box is actually a shape.

Do you see how I'm moving it? Oops. See how I'm moving it around? Right? I'm moving this around.

Let's say I don't even want that. I don't even want that on there. I can delete it because I'm creating my own master.

Let's say I want the-- I could make the font boxes look like that. I have changed this layout master. And if-- I don't know if you've noticed, but way over here on the left-hand side, whatever I do to my layout master happens to the layouts that are using that layout master. That's confusing, isn't it? I don't know how else to say it.

I'm going to undo what I just did. I'm just hitting control c. There we go.

So I'm back to square one. Now you can see I'm back to square one. And the slide that we've created, or that I created at the beginning, is now back to the way it was.

So I can change these layouts. That's the main thing I want you to see. You're going to want to do this when you want "more real estate" for your slides. You're going to want to do this when you want things to pop.

So you want the-- maybe a certain slide layout you always want the text to be red, right? So don't go to each slide and make it red. Go to the layout and make it red. And then it will pop, OK?

To give you an example, let's say this one right here, OK? I don't like this brown color. I want it to be white, just like this up here. So I haven't added that slide yet, but when I change it on the master, when I do add this slide, the text will be white.

Maybe also I don't like all this blank space over here. I want to be able to explain something. I want to-- I want a text box in this big, blank spot.

So if you have a slide that has a big, blank spot, you would hit the insert place holder and text box or body text. There we go. And there is my body text.

My title is upside down. Oh my god. Laura, you have discovered rotates.

So if your text box is upside down, probably what you did is you selected-- you were trying to move it and you hit a little-- one of the squares. And you were just trying to move it around, but you selected a square. And then you see how my text is upside down?

So what I-- if you see the rotate tool, which it's a little circle above one of the squares, and I'm guessing it's going to be at the bottom, all you need to do is grab the square at the top and drag it down and past that little button up at the top, OK? Or you can do it this way, which is a little easier. So here we have upside down text, yeah?

So I'm going to go to arrange. I'm going to go to rotate. And I'm going to flip vertically. Boom. Few more steps, but you'll get the right answer every time.

All right, so master slides. We have the master. We have the owner.

So basically, the owner chooses the background color, the font that it thinks you should have, and-- on the titles and on the body text. May I replicate the change on master to all or may I do separates as in PowerPoint? I don't quite understand that question, but I'm going to try and answer it

So once you make a change to the master on the text or the background, it appears on all of the layouts, OK? Once you make a change on the layout master, the ones underneath the master, then they will appear on all of the slides that you put in there. I think that answers your question.

If-- oh, something that I pointed out earlier. I'm going to click on this slide down here. Again, with Google themes it usually has this percent slide master.

I never use this. I've never used this and I never will use this, I don't think. So if I know I'm not going to use this, I'm going to take this out. I'm going to delete this.

Here's the thing though. You cannot have any slides using this layout or it won't delete, OK? So when you go to your slides, your layout master, and if you have a-- right up here it says editing Paradigm. Big number is the name of the slide.

And right here it says used by zero slides. When it says that, I know I can delete this layout. Why do I want to delete layouts? Because I might want to add my own.

Yes, you can do that. You can add a new slide within your slide master. You can import slides.

You can-- Barbara, you can use your own power-- you can use your PowerPoint themes. And you can import those in, OK? So lots of things you can do.

These masters, just remember, these masters are suggesting strongly that you do something a certain way. Oh, I just had a brain. Let's pretend, OK?

I don't know if I should say this. Yeah, I'm going to go and do it. It's Monday.

OK, so let's say that the Board of Education has decided you must use Oxygen as your font, OK? So they-- this is their recommendation. And it's highly, strongly suggested that you use Oxygen and Arial for your fonts, OK?

And then your administrator says, they suggest Oxygen and Arial. I kind of like that we are all using Oxygen and Roboto, OK? So we're going to use Oxygen and Roboto. Again, this is a strong recommendation. Your administrator has suggested this, OK?

Then you, when you get to your class, you create a slide. And you go, this Oxygen font just isn't working for my students. I'm sorry, but I can't use it. So I'm just going to use fill in the blank your own font, OK?

This is the board level, master, OK? When it's after all of the layouts, after the word layout, that is your administrator's suggestion, OK? And as soon as you're making changes to your masters, everyone look to the far right, you're going to see an x in the very-- the dark bar going across your page. You're going to click that, and this will get you out of slides master view, OK? I'm going to click that. Or, there's always more than one way to skin a Google, I'm going to click on one of my slides that appear on the far left-hand side.

So let me show you what I did real quick. I'm in my master view. When I'm done doing what I want to do with my masters, my master slide or my layout masters, I am going to select this x. That will get me out. Or on the far left-hand side, you're going to see all of your slides as you add them. You can click on any one of them and it'll go there, OK?

All right, now I'm going to show you that third tier. We've done master. We've done layout master. Now let's look at the slide itself.

We're looking at the slide. Now, I can't change any of the graphics. But on a slide master, on this one, I can't change any of the graphics. On others, I might be able to.

The font though, here's what I was saying. Oxygen, right? Now, it's on the slide. The master slide has Oxygen as the title font. The last, oops, the layout master also has Oxygen as the font.

But if I select this text box and I'm at the slide level, I can choose anything I want. I don't have to adhere to that master. There might be a reason for that. I might want this to stick out for some reason for my students. All of the other slides, I want it to stay as the master has said, OK?

But on this one, I need it to pop. I need to add something. I need to do something to this. I need to change it.

I don't want to change entire slide stack. I just want to change this one slide. You can. Just like that.

As you select or when you select the slide, you see we have the option to change the layout as well. You should see layout up above the-- what is that thing called? The ruler, right?

So I can change any one of these layouts I have here, or I can even change the theme on this particular slide, or I could add a different background color. Let's say that gray for this one, for whatever reason. I know my students better than my administrator. So I'm going to choose a gradient for the background. And there we go.

This did not change my layouts. This did not change my layouts. It only changed the slide.

Now, that was a lot of information, little bitty space. And I'm going to take a page out of Alisa's book, OK? Add some breathing.

And if anybody has any questions about the master slide, the layout master, or the slide being its own "master," please type that in the Q&A. Don't type in the chat. I can't see the chat.

Cool, Barbara. Glad you got it. All right, I'll give us just a short count.

Wow, you guys got it? Cool. Wahoo. All right, so you're on the ball this Monday. Wahoo.

So that's-- and again, this is all explained again. And John, I understand. I'm asking you for questions and you're like, I don't know, right?

So in this, the e-book that I gave you, here we go. Master. What is a master slide?

So this is on-- Steven, understood, OK? So read the e-book, OK? Go to the e-book.

Look for the master slide in the table of contents. It's on slide 40. And it explains it further, OK?

And I know some of us are visual learners, some of us are-- you got to see it in print. I get that. That's why I did this. That's why I have this here.

So here's the masters map. That was the next slide, OK? Everything that I just went over, it's here in the e-book, all right? And here's how you access the deck master. The next slide is how to manipulate the slide master or the layout master.

Marjorie: Melinda, can I interject just for a second?

Melinda Holt: You betcha.

Marjorie: So, I mean, just to kind of-- for me as a teacher, how I interpret this is that because I use slides a lot with my classroom and they all continually kind of look the same way, I have a preference to how I want him to look. So then my title slide is always the same, the next slide is always the same, blah, blah, blah. So I made master slides so that every time I open up a new slide, I don't have to recreate that image that I want every time.

I just go to the master and I select it and it's there. And then I type in my content or insert an image or whatever. So the template is already there for me. I have created my own templates, because I use the same thing over and over again. So that would be the benefit of making master slides. If you're just creating slides just to make something, and you don't really care how they look, then master is not going to be that important to you.

Melinda Holt: Right. And to piggyback on that, this slides deck that you're seeing here, let me find a good layout. Boom.

This is-- I tried to make it look like a book. So if everyone's looking at the slide, my slides right now, again, I tried to make this look like a book. So on my master slide, I added this line going down, the vertical line.

I added some shadowing to just a box so it looked like a page. I have a gradient. Well, a text up at the top so that every time I create a slide based on this image, boom, there it is.

This is not part of the-- by the way, this isn't Penny. This is Melinda. That's OK. I answer to hey you too.

Anyways, so this deck is-- actually, I use this for slides. I use this for docs and I use this for sheets. I have-- each one of those is its own e-book. But all I do is duplicate the slide deck and change a color.

So docs e-book is blue. It's exactly the same. The slides e-book is green. It's exactly the same.

How do you get this e-book? You don't. You'll have to create your own. That's the beauty of slides.

I can definitely show you how to do that, Terry. I saw your question. I can definitely show you how to do it. But come to one of the office hours, OK? And I will show you how to create one of those or maybe we can do that at the next slides webinar, which will be next week on Tuesday, by the way.

So again, if you have questions that maybe this is just like way blowing your mind, use the e-book, OK? That's number one. And then number two would be to come to office hours.

And we have-- most of our OTAN staff, they know how to work with slides. I'll be there as well. So we can show you how to do it.

You don't find the e-book? OK, everyone, stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop asking about the e-book. If you come to the office hours and ask, I will show you how. Or since so many people have asked for it, we'll do it next time, OK?

And we actually might have time to do it today. I don't know, because we are going to be doing some shape work coming up here, OK? Boy, you guys are so excited.

So let's go back. We've done master slide. We've done layout slide.

Now, what I'd like to do, what was in my mind, was that we would all create a flash card set together, OK? And I think I'm still going to-- I'm still going to do that with you. I'll add e-book to the list.

If we get to it today, great. If we don't, we'll do it next week for sure. Again, with office hours, if you come, I will try to show you that as well.

All right, so creating a flash card. We had a lot of interest in this last week, a lot of comments as well. So if you created a slides deck, great. Keep that tab open. You might want to go back to it.

But what I'd like everyone to do now is up at the top of your screen-- if you're using Chrome, I'm going to walk you through it. If you're using some other browser, you're going to figure it out. Sorry.

Up at the top of your screen, you should see a plus symbol. And that's going to open up a new tab, OK? So I want you to open up a new tab in whatever browser you're using. So I'm using Chrome, so I'm going to get the Google coming up because that's my home page.

So you've got a new tab open. And then in your address bar, the place where you type the W-W-W whatever, the URL holder, the Omni bar, whatever you want to call it, I want you to type in the address bar or the Omni bar. I want you to type slides.Google.com.

I have to move this down so I can see. Here we go. Slides with an s dot Google dot com.

So your new tab when it opens should look something similar to this. I'm going to give you a couple seconds. Your slides should look something like this.

At the top of the page that opens, you're going to see the word template gallery. I want you to click that. Click the word template gallery.

So we went to slides.Google.com. Up at the top of the screen, to the right, you saw the word template gallery. You click it.

I use the flash cards a lot. So that's why it appears at the-- up at the top of me. At the top of me? Up at the top of my template gallery. So you might have to scroll down a little bit.

I want everyone to find flash cards. As you scroll down, you're going to see them within the education area. So here I've scrolled down. I see the word education.

And on mine, I have flash cards. It's way over to the right. And it says flash cards. I'm going to click it.

As soon as you click a template, it is yours. Now, you have to wait for the magic. Click it once. Don't click it two or three times, because you're going to end up with two or three flash cards, OK?

So we're opening up a flash cards template. We can do whatever we want to this template. It is ours right now. It belongs to us.

I don't want to create a Spanish quiz flash cards. I want to create a-- what do I want to create? I don't know. Alicia, give me an idea.

Alicia: I don't know.

Melinda Holt: Come on. I'm putting you on the spot. How about English?

Alicia: Past-tense verbs.

Melinda Holt: Past-tense verbs. OK, so here we go. So I have clicked where it says Spanish quiz.

Now, when you click around a lot, you're going to get-- oh look, (INAUDIBLE) all of these boxes, right? Just click where it says Spanish. Double click where it says Spanish quiz.

And we're not going to make this a quiz. We're going to make this past-- oops, where'd that shape come from? Past-tense verbs.

By the way, slides does have spell check. But if you make a misspell and you don't-- if you don't see this red underline, your students will. So make sure you spell the words correctly on this, on the flash deck, right?

OK, now, remember we talked about master slides, right? I don't like that I can't have these words go across the little card that they've created, right? The words are kind of-- they're being bound by the master.

I don't like that. I also don't like where I see Spanish 101 right here. Don't like that either. So I'm going to take those away.

Now, I could take it away just on this slide. I could do that. But then the next slide that I create that's based on this template, this master, I'm going to have to do all that work over again.

So I'm going to go to the master now and I'm going to manipulate this. So from here, remember we can get to it two ways. We can go to a view, master or we can go to slide, edit master.

When you go to slide, edit master, it actually takes you to-- wait. Oh my god. They changed it. Those sons of guns. Those-- OK, well, there went this tutorial.

I'm going to delete out of this. Guess what? They didn't create this with a theme. They've gotten rid of their flash card theme.

They've just put all of these boxes and everything on individual slides. So everything-- yeah, Jennifer. It's supposed to.

Unfortunately, what they did, this used to be a template, OK? This used to be a master template. So what they've done is they've totally blown me out of the water. It's the joy of Google, all right?

So that's OK. That's all right. We're going to back up.

So we don't have a master. That's fine. That makes it a little easier, because then I can just duplicate slides as I need them.

This is the title slide. It's OK. Melinda's trying to backtrack a little bit and figure out what the heck she's going to do right now. So please, bear with me here. I'm going to try and figure out what they did here, OK? This used to be a template, I swear to you.

All right, so everyone hit control a. Control a. That's selecting everything on this slide.

So you see how you've got the little boxes? They're kind of outlined blue. So you-- control a selects everything.

Now, I want everyone to go to the arrange menu. Go up at the top of your screens, select arrange. And then there is a word called ungroup. Click it.

Now it might not look like you did anything, but you did. Don't click off of anything. And if you did, it's OK.

I want everyone to hit control a again. So hit control a again so we're selecting everything on this slide again. We're going to go to arrange.

All right, if all you see is group, you're good. At the bottom of this menu, if all you see is group, just leave it. Don't touch anything. If you see the word ungroup again, click it.

All right, now-- yup, now since we don't have a master, we're just going to use the slide as a master. All right, so click in where you see-- where I typed past-tense verbs flash cards. All right, when I click inside there, if group is not highlighted, that's good.