Online Teaching with Google Slides

1. Course Introduction: My name is Teacher Kayla, and I have been working remotely from the comfort of my home for the past four years. If you want to know how I make Google slide lessons that looked like this. This and this. Then this is the course for you, whether you are a teaching veteran and you're just looking for ways to make your lessons look more modern and interactive. Or if you are interested in working from home yourself as an online tutor, I can help you do that. The first half of the course is all about Google slides. I will also show you how to make really cool Moving teacher banners like this one. To help you get more reviews from your students. I will teach you how to use mini camp, how to organize your classes and your students with Google Sheets. How to develop your own curriculum and which companies are the best to work for. Even if you are not a teacher, you can find something useful for your business. Here. If you regularly use Google Slides for your church or business, then the techniques that I teach here will also work for you. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in class. Bye. 2. Animating with Google Slides: I am a teacher that teaches exclusively online. That's right. I work from home and I have done so for the past four years. Now. I am an ESL teacher primarily, but I also teach science and math. And the techniques I'm going to show you today will work for any type of classroom. The number one resource that I have as an online teacher is Google Slides. If you're a little bit intimidated using technology, I'm here to break it down step-by-step and show you some cool techniques that you can use to make your courses more interactive and fun for your students. So let's get started. In this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can use the animation features in Google Slides to make some more interactive puzzles, games, or phonics activities for your students to enjoy. Right now, it'll look a little bit crazy, but checkout what happens when I go to presentation mode? In this lesson at my students are learning about these silent w. Up here I have some tools that have the rest of the word attached. With this first animation, we're going to plant our seed. Students will then read the word wrangle here. If they get the word correct, then their seed will successfully be planted in the flowerpot. Next step, we need to water our new baby flour. So we're going to read the word wrestle and we're going to water our flower. And it's going to grow a little bit bigger. Let's make it even bigger by adding some fertilizer. This time we have the word wrinkled and we're gonna pour that fertilizer into the pot and it's going to grow a flower. Is this absolutely necessary? Well, no, it's not. You can just list the words out and make your students read it. But this is a lot more fun for them. They're a lot more likely to remember it and they're going to be more willing to participate in your lessons. And it's not as difficult as it might. Look. Let me show you another one here. Once again, looks a little bit crazy. But this time we're in learning the bossy II. So in this one, I will first have the student read the short u sound tub. Then our little girl here is going to swing and kick this letter e up and it's going to fall next to the word tub. Now we have tube. Do it again. She's gonna swing back, come forward, kick our e, we have a new word. One more time. Sewing back, come up, kick the E. There we go. My students love these animations. It makes the lessons seem more professional. It's more fun, more interactive. I have one more example. We're gonna use the puppies here to practice short words and put the puppy to sleep. You have cat. Next puppy, nap. Final puppy. And this is very easy to do. The very first step is to open up your Google Drive. Now, I recommend making a separate Google account for your teacher address so that you can keep all of your teaching materials separate from your personal life. Otherwise, you will run out of storage of very quickly. From here you're going to click New. And then you're going to click Google Slides. Once you have your Google slides open, you're going to pick a theme. Now, you can do this any way that you want to, however you want to design your slide, Go for it. I like to add a background. There are two different ways that you can do this. First, you can go up here, click on Slide, click on Change background. Now you can do a color, you can add your own picture. You can even just go to Google image search and type in cute pattern background. I don't do this very often however, because watch what happens when I click on this orange. Check that out. Doesn't look exactly the same, does it? It's all stretched out because it made it fit the screen perfectly and it just doesn't look very good. So instead, most of the time I do this, so we're going to undo. I'm just going to open up a new tab. And I'm going to type in cute pattern backgrounds. It is very important to find something that is seamless. You want each picture to blend into the next one. I like this cute flower here, and that's what we're going to go with. So I'm gonna copy the image, come over here and I'm just going to paste it. And move it over. Then I'm going to paste another one and move it over. While I have a beautiful background that's not stretched out and ugly. Now, from here, you can go up here and click Insert. And you're going to click on shape and just pick a shape that you like. I love things that are cute. So I always go with this rounded square, which fun fact is actually called a score goal like that is its official name, not something that I just made up. We're going to center it here. Sometimes it's a little there we go. Now, I like mine to be white. I want it to stand out. You can leave a border if you want to. Or sometimes if I'm doing like a specific theme, you can actually change the border color, make it really big and puffy looking. And let's go with a green outline here. Makes it nice and pretty. If you like the way this looks, you can move on to the next step. Now, because I'm an ESL teacher, I'm going to stick with this theme of phonics. However, you can get creative with this and use it to make a number of different things. You can use it for the periodic table if you want elements to come up at different times, speech bubbles and things like that, you can tell a story. There's lots of different ways that you can use this. The first thing that we want to do is decide what pieces we're going to put together. What I usually do is I save it on the rest of the lesson. For example, this lesson with the girl on the swing. This is a lesson about verbs. They learn to walk, jog, run, kick, skip. This is unit two of the verbs unit. So they've already learned a couple of verbs. That is the reason why I went with her swinging back and forth. As the animation, you can see I have one here that is a bathtub. Also using the silent are. That is because this lesson is about rooms in the home. Specifically this student actually learned as a word, shower and bathtub. So it was appropriate to have a bathtub. Now, you do not have to do this. You can reuse the same animation every time if you want to, you can just make it something fun. I just personally like to try to include the vocabulary words that they're learning in the lesson, because it just ties everything together really nicely, in my opinion. But it is totally optional. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a cat and we're gonna do some dress up with it. The first thing I need to do is find a cute cat. It can be a cartoon cat, it can be a real cat, but I wanted to have a white background, so I'm going to type in P and G here. Now, I want a cat that has a white or a transparent background, because it's going to lay on top of other pictures more easily. We're gonna take this picture here. Bring it over. And here is my lovely cat. Okay, so here's my cat. Now that I have my cat, I need to decide what I want my cat to represent. I'm going to insert a text box right on top of the cat. And let's just do, we'll do AD words because the cat is very textured and it's difficult to see the letters on top of it. I'm going to instead free float my letters here in the center of the screen. Now, I want to find some decorations for the cat. So let's look for a tiara. Now, if you find an image that you really like and you want to use, but it is not transparent. You can go here to remove dot BG, remove background, and then you can just copy. For example, let's say I wanted this tiara right here. If you take a look at this picture, you'll see that the background is white. What that means is if I come over here, I just paste it as it is. It will cover up my cat. I don't want that. I want it to look like it's sitting on top of my cat. Instead, what I'll do is I'll copy it. Come over here to remove background. I'm going to paste it right here. And it's going to remove the background for me. If it makes a mistake, you can hit Edit and you can add or remove as needed. Then when I go back, now the background is transparent. I can put it on top of my cat. Just like this. Scale it down to make it look nice. Now my cat has a lovely hat. I like the way this fits. We're going to put this over here. Now. I want a necklace for my cat. These diamonds are nice. We'll give our cats some diamonds. Once again, scale it down, make sure it fits the cat that way you like. Beautiful. For the last one, we're going to take this ring here. Once again, we want to remove the background. Now, this one we're gonna have to get creative because we want it to look like the cat is wearing it. We can't do that if it's a full circle. We're going to crop it. Where it's going to click this little box right here and bring it up about halfway, right there. Now when we scale it down, it will look like it goes around the cat's foot. Instead. Just like that. Beautiful. Okay, now that we have our three pictures here, we can start the animation process. Now because the elements in this picture are a little bit small and they don't really have room for the letter to sit on top of them. We're going to do this one a little differently. I'm going to put all of my accessories over here and a line. We're going to use the accessories more as a reward for reading the letter as opposed to completing an actual picture. So our first word is going to be, dad are going to move that over here. We're going to select animate. We want the letter D to appear. Onclick, a fade-in onclick. Now there's other animation options, but for this video only fade-in onclick. Then the student will read the word dad, and they will get their first reward, which will be this crown. Add animation. But this time we want to fade out onclick because we want that crown to disappear from the spot that is at so that it can reappear where we want it. Now we're going to control copy. Or you can just use your mouse and copy. Either one works. We're going to move it over here to our cat's head. Then we're going to hit Add Animation. This time we want to fade in with previous. It not only looks more natural this way, but it saves you from clicking the mouse a 100 times. Then we're gonna make it the D fade out. We don't need it anymore. Now we're going to do our next letter. We're going to have the S come over. We're going to fade it in. The student will read it. Then we want this ring to fade out. Once again. Control C to copy. Or you can just right-click and copy. Bring it over onto the cats. Here. We want this one to fade in width previous. Then we want to s to go away, fade out onclick. We need one more letter, so I'm going to actually copy this. And let's see how about mad, and we're going to fade that in. Then we want the necklace to fade out. Once again, control copying. Bring it where you want it. We have our beautiful cat here. Fade in with previous. Now we don't have to do anything else. Don't just trust yourself. It's really easy to get these all mixed up if you're distracted or if you have a bunch of elements that you're trying to animate. So you want to test it and make sure everything worked the way you want it to so you can practice it. You don't even have to go to the slideshow. You can hit Play. We're going to test it and see if it works. So right now our cat has nothing D for dad. They did it right? So the cat gets a hat. Next letter, letter S. Student reads the word five, I ring onto the cat. Last one, M for mad student, read it correctly, they get rewarded with the necklace. And that's how you do it. You can do this with a lot of different things. I put rings on fingers for a lesson that was about body parts. I've done kittens playing with balls of yarn. Get creative with it, and just have fun. Your students are going to love it. And students that love your classes are a lot more likely to tell their friends about it so that you can gain more students. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Let me know if you give it a shot and what you decided to use it for. I'll see you next time. Bye. 3. Multiple Choice Questions: Welcome to lesson number two of how to make your own Google slide lessons. Last time, we learned how to make animations using Google Slides. This lesson and the next few that will follow are going to be simpler. We're going to use that same animation feature to make different types of questions. First, we're going to start with just the basic multiple choice. Let's get started. As you can see here, I already prepped my background, have my cute border around my blank whitespace, and I have acute title in a color that matches the background. There are two different ways that you can make multiple choice questions. It depends on what kind of format you want. If you care more about aesthetics or if you want more questions to fit on one page, you might choose one form or the other. So the first way that you can do it is just pull up a text box. We're going to hit insert text box and then just type in number one. It will bullet point that out for you. And for the sake of this, I'm just going to randomly, the style number one is going to have the choices in a vertical line. We're gonna do it like this. We're gonna hit the Tab button. It's going to bring it over. Letter a is going to pop up. So here's choice number one plus number 23. Now, go ahead and add a second question. Tab. Raise your first choice, second choice. Third choice. This is the first style. Now, the one major benefit of this version is it's very, very easy. It doesn't require any extra thought on your part. Everything lines up all by itself. No problem. The biggest issue is it takes up a lot of space. I recommend a font size of at least 16 to make it easily visible for students who are taking classes on their tablets or iPhones. If I increase the size of this up to 16, you can see I can only fit three questions like max on each page. Now, what you could do is if your questions are short enough, you could make two columns of questions. However, you run into an additional problem when you do that, because watch what happens if I copy this and paste it. I bring it over here. That looks fine. Except I don't want this to be number one, I want it to be number three. I can't do that. I cannot change this to three. It won't work. If I delete that and try to add a three, it won't space it out like it's supposed to be. The only way it's going to register it as being a sequence as if the first entry is number one. Because I got rid of my number one, I cannot get the same nice indentions in the same way. Instead, I would have to manually push this over and kind of estimate that it's the same distance. And I've have to do the same thing with all of these, which I've had to first get rid of that and then space it over and put it maybe like right here, alright, kinda like that. But it is doable. It is definitely doable. But it's a pain in the butt. Sometimes not worth it. You're better off if you care about this big, fast and you care about the convenience of it, if that's the reason why you chose the style, you're going to only be able to put three per. As you can see, it's decently lined up, but it's not exact. So you can do it this way. You can have two columns with questions, assuming that your questions are short enough. But the second half of the questions, you are going to have to manually adjust all of the indentions. This is method number one. I'm actually going to delete this part right here because I am just using a random assemblage of words. I went ahead and colored the question in a different color to make it a little easier to see. Now, we're going to do the second style of question. Once again, we're going to insert a text box. Now we're going to once again hit number one, iPad Her question. But then we're going to hit space. We're going to go ahead and add our next question. But notice I left a pretty decently large space just to make them both have room. We're going to align this up nice and pretty. And I'm going to make them a different color. Let's go with a nice, pretty baby blue. Now, we're going to insert the choices of these questions in their own separate text-box. So once again, insert textbox, drag it out nice and long. We're going to type letter a. And then we're gonna meet a bit later. There's our first answer. Let's make it shorter. More realistic here. Then you're going to hit the spacebar. You're gonna come over. Now it's better to count like for example, from the end of your last word, you might count to ten and go 12345678910 and then do RB. And one for our indention type in some more letters, 12345678910, letter C 12345. And here's our index to answer. This is a way that we can stylize our multiple choice questions. And they don't take up as much a space just for some context. Let's take a look here. Let me grab my pencil. You can see that is how long two questions are with just three choices with the second method, not only is it kind of cute, nice, and stylize, it looks different, unique, cool, hip, whatever. But it is also more practical because you can fit a bunch of questions on one page. No, that's totally optional. You can pick whatever styling you want to. You can even invent your own style. It's your lesson. You can design it however you want to. I do both. I mixed it up, but now we need to add our answers. We're going to do this the exact same way for both styles of question. You're gonna go up here to Insert, go to shape, and you're gonna make a circle. Now, you want to click the mouse. Do not drag the mouse. If you click the mouse, you will make a perfect circle. Side-note, if you don't want to hit Insert every single time, this little box right here also takes you to the shapes. So if I drag the mouse and try to make a circle, you see how it's kind of make an ovals and things like that, then I have to kind of estimate and I can get a circle, but it's a lot more difficult that way. Just click perfect circle. Now, this circle is way too big. We need to shrink it. But first we're going to stylize it a little bit. First we are going to make the background transparent. We want to be able to see the letter choice inside of the circle. Then we're going to pick a color for the border. I usually put all of my answers in red. That's a personal choice. You can put them in whatever color you want to. But we're gonna go with red and then I'm going to increase the border size two for that way, it's really easy to see. Now I want to shrink this circle, but I don't want to lose my perfect proportions. What you're going to do is you're going to hold the Shift key and then grab book one of the corners. And look, I can try as hard as I want to, to make this into an oval and it's not going to work as long as you're holding the Shift key, it will stay in this shape. So we're going to pull it down, make it small. Let's see if that's big enough. So let's say that my first answer is maybe a looks like it needs to be just a bit bigger. Hold Shift again. Get a little bigger. Let us see if that works better. Wallah, we have our first choice. Then we want all of our circles to be the exact same size. So we're just going to copy this and paste it and put it on our answer for the next one. So let's say that this one is maybe see. And as you can see, this red line here is keeping them in line with each other, which is what we want. We want everything to look at the uniform and professional. Maybe, maybe this one is B. About see, now that I have all of my choices selected, it's time to animate them. We want them to be animated in the order of the questions. So we're just going to click the circle and click on Animate. You don't have to change anything else. We're just going to leave it at faded onClick. That way student has time to read the question. They give their answer. You click the mouse and the answer will be revealed, showing if they are correct or not. We're gonna do it for all of the circles in order down the list. Like this. Like I mentioned last time, even though this is a very simple animation, don't trust yourself. Always tested at least once. I cannot tell you how many times I taught a lesson for the first time with a new student and didn't realize that one of my animations wasn't working correctly. Thankfully, all of my students have been understanding. Don't let it happen to you. Check yourself, always check yourself. So let's test it. See if it's working. Hit the play button. And we have our questionnaire here. There we go. Answer as a student raised the question. Answer is C. Now you know how to make multiple choice questions on Google slides. I hope this video was helpful and you learn something new today. The next lesson will be very similar to this one. I'm going to show you how to make matching questions. There are super-duper easy, but there are lots of fun for your students. I look forward to seeing you next time. Bye. 4. Matching Questions: Welcome to lesson number three of how to use Google Slides to improve your online classroom. Today's lesson is going to be super short and easy. We're going to make some matching questions. Let's get started. Already have a beautiful background and everything is print. Now, this one is super-duper easy, especially now that you already have some practice doing animations. I mostly use matching when I introduce new vocabulary words and I'm trying to drill them and see if they remember them. Matching is also great for reviewing vocabulary from the previous lesson, the first thing that we're going to do is decide what vocabulary words and we want to teach. So I just inserted three text boxes. I edited the font the way that I like it. And now we're going to find some cute pictures to match each of the vocabulary. Now that I have all three of my pictures, it's time to match them to the correct vocabulary. We're going to go up here to this line tool and you can pick any limits you want to. You can use a curved one if you want it to look a little bit more cute and fun. But I'm just going to do a line today. As you can see, there are four circles for little purple circles that will appear around each of the elements on the page. This allows you to easily line up the center of your line from one picture to the next picture. If you have cropped your pictures to all be on the same plane and they're all lined up nicely. This is going to improve the balance of your slide and it's going to look a lot more neat. Definitely recommend doing this and making sure that everything is lined up, nice and grid-like. It just looks a lot more appealing that way. We're gonna go from the bottom purple circle of this hot dog to the top of the purple circle for the word hotdog. And I'm going to change the line color to match the word. And I'm going to make the line at nice and big so it's easy to see. Now there are also lines styles. You can change the style if you want to. You can even add an arrow if you want to, but you don't have to. You can do it on both sides. I can put a circle here and also put a circle over here. I can have an arrow on one side and a circle on the other up to you. Not necessary. I usually with this kind of thing, I just leave it a line like this. Now, with the multiple choice, you are more than welcome to animate. Go or wait till the very end and animate all at once. But with matching, I really recommend you animate as you go because once all of these lines are on the page, it gets a little bit confusing. We're going to do the pink line first and we're going to go ahead and add the animation. Now we're going to add another line for the pizza. Pizza is kind of an orangey color. Here we go. We're going to click on this line for the pizza, and we're going to go ahead and animate it. Last one is the hamburger here. We're gonna change the color and make it match. And we're going to intimate like always, you don't want to trust yourself. Always test it. So click the Play button. Now, important note here. If the student knows how to use the mouse and the pin on Zoom, you do not need to have the lines. However, not every student you're going to have is going to be able to use the mouse. I have had several students who were, I have tried using Google Translate and third-party apps, trying to explain to them how to use their mouth and they cannot figure it out and we just give up. And I have to adjust the lesson to be able to work with out the mouse. That is why we need to have these lines present. You want the lines to be there, even if your student is able to draw with the pencil. Now, what you can do if your student does know how to use their pencil, is let me go to slideshow mode and just show you when you first enter onto the slide, you are not going to be able to see the lines. Now, if your student does know how to use the pencil, then you do not have to reveal the lines. You can if you want to show them the correct answer, but you can also just skip it completely. I'm not on Zoom. I will have to use my mini cam pencil instead. Let's say the student knows how to use their pencil. They're gonna come in and they're gonna say this is Burger die, let's say they do it that way. Now, we don't need to reveal the lines. This is going to get in the way. It's going to be distracting. So what you can do is you can go down here. You see this little box. We're just going to skip to page four, which is currently blank. But you get the idea, it will go to the next slide and they won't even know that you had these lines on there to begin with. That way you can use this for both types of students. The ones that do know how to use their pencils, the ones that don't have all the things that you're going to learn in this series. This is probably the easiest one. Next time we're going to do, fill in the blank questions. Thanks for watching. Bye. 5. Fill in the Blank: Welcome to lesson number four. Date we are going to do fill in the blank questions. This is my favorite thing to do with sight words. At this point, you are an expert at animating things. So this should be a piece of cake. As always, I have everything prepped and ready. So we're just going to jump straight into it. Now. We're going to add a text box and just type out our question. But in the spot where you want to fill in the blank, you're going to hold the Shift key. And if you look right next to the plus an equal sign on your keyboard, you'll see two dashes. You'll see a short dash and a long dash. If you hold the Shift key and push this button, you're gonna get a nice pretty dash like that. Then we can fill out the rest of our symptoms. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and type out all of them, the questions using this method. We're gonna do. There we go. Now, from here, there's a couple of different things that you can do. You can add a word bank if you want to, but you don't have to. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Now the second step is to add your answers. You're going to want the font and the font size to be the same. If you need to remind yourself, you can just click on the box and it'll show you the font, what size you put it in and all that fun stuff. Then you're going to insert another textbox, change it to match your questions. And then you're going to type in your answer, change the color and make it bold. That way it stands out from the rest of the sentence. Then you can just drag it down where you needed to go. Now, you can copy and paste it and then add your new answer. Obviously, each answer should be different and you're going to do that for every single one. You can adjust the size of your blank as needed. Now, if you are happy with it the way it is, you can just go through and animate each answer the same way that we animated the multiple choice questions. But if you want to add a word bank, we're going to do that now. To do so, we're going to come up here. We're going to insert a text box. And we're going to insert one big long text box. Let's say that this is one of their sight words. Then I'm going to count the number of spaces and I'm gonna go 12345678910 type in another word, 12345678910 type in another word here, 1234567891011. Another word. Now, I'm going to put this centered, drag it down where I want it. And I'm going to make this really big and put it in enabled. Now, you can change the color if you want to, you can leave it in black. And now we have our list of sight words. What we're going to do is we're going to draw in line. If you hold the Shift key, you will make a straight line. We're going to start from the beginning of the word. At the end of the word will make it red. I guess. We'll make it nice and big. I want to move it down so it's in the center, just like that. Now, I'm going to copy this over here. Make sure it's in line with the first. Do this all over. Shorten this one. This is smidge. Now, we want to cross out each of the words as they correspond with the question. For example, if the first answer here, we'll hit animate Baden. Let's say that this board here, we're going to animate this line and we want it to come in with the previous answer. That way, when the answer appears, the sight word that matches will be crossed out. Now we'll do the second one so you add animation. And let's say that this one was maybe the first one here. Add animation with previous. This one has two in it. The first one is to go first. Maybe it was this one with previous. Second one is to come in. Maybe it was this one with previous. Last one here with previous. Now, don't trust yourself. Always test it. Let's give it a shot. So when the answer appears, the word and the sight word box also disappears. This one appears, another one is crossed off. This one gets crossed off, that one gets crossed off. And wallah, I do this with my sight words more than I do with anything else. But you can use this with pretty much anything. You can also display your word bank however you want to. You don't have to put it at the top like I did. You can put it in its own little box and you can stylize it. You can even put the WorkBoard bank above it if you want to. However you want to do it, It's up to you. If you only have a handful of words in the word bank. This method is fine if you have a whole bunch of words that you need to put in the word bank. You might want to put them in their own separate column. And then maybe put the word bank to the left side or the right side of the screen instead of on the top. It's up to you and it depends on your purpose for using fill in the blank while another lesson complete. And now you have a whole bunch of different question types that you can use in your classroom. We have one more set of basic questions to do. And that's going to be true or false questions, which we are going to tackle next time. I'll see you then. Bye. 6. True or False and Spot the Mistake: Welcome to lesson number five on how you can use Google Slides in your online classroom. To date, we are doing our last set of basic question styles, true or false. But this time I'm going to show you two different styles. Lid, get started. As always, I have a lovely background. Everything is prepped and ready. So let's jump straight into it. It's, this one is really, really, really easy. All you have to do is insert your questions just like that. Now, you need to find an x and a checkmark. Now, for this first style, it does not matter what the checkmark and the x look like. Just find one that you like and copy and paste. Now, it's preferable that they have the same style. If you can find some that are in a pair, that's better. So the first thing that we're going to do is crop out the one that we need. For example, let's start with the x. So we're just going to crop that down. That only the x is showing. We're gonna bring it over here to our first one. And right now it's absolutely massive. We don't want it like that. We're just going to shrink it a little bit until it looks a little bit more normal. We want all of our buttons to be the same size. I'm going to copy it, I'm going to paste it. Our second one is also incorrect, so I'm just going to drag it down. The third one is obviously true. So now we need our checkmark. You're going to select Crop Image one more time. It's gonna bring the box back up. And as you can see, our check mark is still there, hiding away in secret. So we're just going to grab this box here and we're just going to move over until our checkmark is visible and the x is hidden. And it's gonna come down here. And teacher, Kayla is awesome, is also obviously true and wildlife. Then all you have to do is go through and select them and animate them as you have been in the past few lessons. Easy peasy. The second one is a little bit more tricky. It's technically not true or false, but it uses the checks in the x's in a similar way. I usually call it spot the mistake. In this question type. You're going to type out a paragraph for your student to read. There's two different ways to do this. You can highlight different sections and the student has to decide if it's correct or incorrect. In which case we're going to have both x's and checkmarks, or you can have it to where they're only looking for the mistakes. Nothing is highlighted at all. It's just a paragraph. They have to go through and find the mistakes. In my experience working both in the brick and mortar classroom and also over the past four or five years now, I've been an online teacher. This method tends to be a little bit more stressful for the student. Most of the time, I don't do that. I will usually highlight a section in a different color and then we will pause. They will read through, they will pause at the part that's highlighted. And I will say, is this correct or incorrect? And then we'll move through that way. The students usually prefer this method because it's a little bit less stressful for them. I'm just going to enter a text box and type in some gibberish. And as you can see, I went through, put in bold the sections that I want to stop at. Now, I will have the student read the whole sentence. It will read like for example, they'll read this whole thing right here. Then we'll say, okay, this word here that's involved, is it being used correctly? Is it the correct word that belongs in this sentence is grammatically correct? Is it spelled correctly? Is the definition correct? Does it work in this sentence and they will say yay or nay, we cannot use the same checkmark that we use for the previous true or false questions. Because they have a circle and they have a white background before they have the x. This means when you paste it on top of this paragraph, it's gonna be very distracting because you're gonna be able to see the letters in the background that x, instead you want to find something that looks like this, where there's no white, it's not gonna be transparent at all. Then we're going to crop this in the same way that we did the first one. We will do all of our correct ones first this time. We're going to scale it down. It looks normal. Okay, so let's say that this first one is correct. Going to copy and paste it and maybe this one's correct. This one's correct. And I'm just kind of arbitrarily selecting them at the moment. Now I want to get my x out, so I'm going to hit the Crop Image button again, drag my X over that it's the exact same size as the checkmark. And go put it on all of the other ones. Take advantage of that red line as it appears, it will help you keep everything in order and make sure it's all lined up. Then you're just going to go through and inorder select, Add animation for everything. Now, you can do this one at a time. You can do this in order. But I like to do the animation part at the end. Once everything is nicely animated, you want to test your animation. Always test your animation. Hit the play button. There's our first one. Student keeps reading. So far so good. Would you look at that? There is a mistake. I skipped one or perhaps I did it in the wrong order. Let's find out that one's there. That one there looks like I just skipped one completely. This is why you always want to check your mistakes. Now, you have do Joyce's, you can try to figure out where this is in the sequence. Or you can delete all your animations and just start over. When I'm very tired and I don't really feel like thinking about it. I will usually do that. I will just delete all of the animations and start over from the beginning. Now that we have corrected our mistake, let me show you how to put it in the correct sequence. So we're going to click on the one that we had for Groton. We're going to add animation. If you look, it has gone to the very bottom of the list. But if I leave it there, it will be the last thing that appears and we don't want that. You look, we have two green check marks in a row before this one is supposed to appear. So we're going to drag it up and put it underneath of the two green check marks. Now, let's test it one more time and see if we have fixed the problem Much better. And wallah, Now we are done. We are all done with the standard question types. Next time I will show you how to make a word search to make things a little bit more interesting. I hope you found this lesson helpful and I can't wait to see you again next time. Bye. 7. Crosswords and Word Searches: Congratulations, you have made it to lesson Number six. Today, I will show you how to make a word search that you can use in Google slides. This is a little bit tricky at first, but don't worry, I'm going to walk you through it step-by-step so that you can use this in your classroom. Now, you can make a word search on Google Slides using their shape tool or their chart tool. However, there is a better way to do it. Instead, you should go to Google Sheets. I have one Google sheet that has all of my word searches and also all of my crosswords in it. And I just keep adding to it and copying and pasting it. The reason I do this is that way I don't have to edit the Google Sheet more than once. And Google Sheets is infinitely long. You can drag this down to however many spots you want it to. And I don't use word searches or crosswords. And every single lesson, usually it's in the review lesson, for example, usually less than number eight, we'll review everything that the students have learned from the past seven lessons. So I will have a word search or a crossword at to make a fun way for them to review everything. Today I'm going to open up a brand new Google Sheets so I can show you how to edit it to begin working on your crosswords or your word searches. Right now, all of our boxes are teeny-tiny. We don't want that. We want it to look like a regular crossword where everything is a square. So all you're going to do is click up here on this box, this white box right here in the corner. Everything is going to turn blue. Then you can drag. If you look here, everything changed to be the same. I can make them really big, small, whatever. It's going to shrink everything together. And then do the same thing with these until you get something that looks like a box. Now everything is a square. The word search is much easier to make than the crossword puzzle. All you have to do is figure out what your longest toward is and where you're going to put it. Let's say that the unit was about animals. And my longest word is on a tiger. We're going to put one letter in each box, just like this. If Tiger is my longest word is going to set up my dimensions. Now I have my first word typed out. We're going to use this word to shape out the rest of our word search. We're going to highlight the whole word. I'm going to use it. I'm gonna pull down until I make a square, just like so. Now, the first thing we want to do is go up here to the alignment gets centered. We want to click on this one right here, which is going to be how it's space inside the cell. We want it in the middle. Now, we want everything to be bold. We want to change the font size until it takes up the majority of the box, but we're not done yet. We're going to click on this one here, the borders. I'm going to click this one. You can change the color if you want to. You can change the weight. There we go. Now it's looking more like a word search. Now, from here, the first thing you want to do is add all of your words. Let's say we want to add, Let's do no, no cat. Let's say this is, let's put goat here. And maybe, maybe we'll do a final one. We'll go backwards, we'll do owl. Now for the sake of this video, I'm making a very small end, also easy one. But you can make them as big or as small as you want. Now that we have all of our words where we want them, you're just going to type in a random letters in the rest of the boxes. Let's put I don't know, let's do it. Debbie, you see do you have your word search? Now all you have to do is highlight it. Copy, then paste it into your lesson. You can choose to link it if you want to. I usually don't paste unlinked. There you go. Look at how beautiful it is. Now we can shrink it down to fit in our lesson. And there we go. Now we have a word search in our lesson. But we want to have a word bank. You can just insert a text box if you want to. But you know, by now I'm all about the cutesy, I'm all about the style. I want to make it look nice. We're going to dial it up by putting a shape over here. We're going to put a big rectangle. And we're gonna fill in the background. I get nice and light yellow. Add a text box here. This is our word groups. Gonna say a word, bank. Going to make this bold. Then we're going to list out our words. So we had tiger. Let's see what else do we have? Goats and cat. Those were our words here right? Now because none of them are capitalized. Let's actually fix them. Now we have a lovely word search that we can use in our lesson and you can put whatever you want inside of these cells and once again makes them as big or as small as you would like. You don't even have to go back to Google Sheets to edit it. You can edit it directly from here. And it's nice, lovely little boxes. I can change the color. I can change the font, I can fill in the box if I really want to. I do not have to go back into Google Sheets in order to revise this. I wanted the background to be a match everything and I wanted the letters to be the same color. I can totally do that. No problem. Change the border color. Look how beautiful it is. It's so colorful in aesthetic, love it. Now let's try the more complicated one. Let's make a crossword puzzle. We're going to go back into the same spreadsheet where we made the word search, the crossword is more difficult because you have to be strategic with how the letters are going to connect together. For example, the word tiger has the letter G in it, which means it's the word of goats. Can branch off of it. The warden goat has letter a in it, which, which means that cat could go here. But where in the world are we going to put owl? There's only one spot we can, and it's right here. Now, technically, you could leave it like this, but it's really crowded. And there's a lot of letters that don't go together. We have the word Ute. And let's see if we can think of a better way to rearrange these letters. When you make a crossword puzzle, sometimes you have to play around with a different word order, different placements of the words in order to make it as a aesthetically appealing as possible. With just four words, it was really difficult to put the worst together without at least one of them touching. Sometimes you'll have to play around with the word order in order to find the best way to get the words to fit together. Once you have the placement of your words figured out, you're just going to highlight them and do the same thing we did before at a border. But this time we're not bordering the whole box, are only doing it on the words that have letters in them, like so. Then once again, you're, I'm going to go through and you're going to copy it. Bring it over to your crossword. Paste unlinked. There we go. Now, we're going to delete letters because we want the students to fill them in. Now, first it's a little bit too large, so I'm going to shrink it a little. There we go. Now I'm going to insert a text box. Number one. We're going to put it in bold. Make it purple. One out. We'll make our cross work for a porthole to we're going to put this as number one going across. This is number one going down, this is number two going across, and this is number three going across. Then you're going to insert your questions. You're gonna go across number one to number three, and then down one, so on and so forth. Then you'll edit this to look nice. And wallah, you have a crossword puzzle. Then the students can go in. They can use their pencil to add the letters if they want to or if you exit presentation mode, you can actually go in and type the letters out for them. Just like so. If you do it this way and you type the letters in for each student, you are going to have to then delete those letters again at the end of the lesson. Instead, what you can do is you can insert a text box. And we know that this one is tiger. We want it to be centered, bold, and I'll make it will make it really big. Cynthia that in there and then make it the color that you want. And then you can actually do this with all of your letters. I'm not going to fill in the whole thing. I just wanted to show you a different way that you can do this. You can make a text box for each letter, but then you're gonna have to go in and you're going to have to animate each letter. So we would want tiger to be animated every single letter. And we don't want them to appear one at a time. We want every single one to appear with the letter T. We want the words to come up at the same time until we get to the New World, which the new one would be this one. That one's going to come in on click within this one would need to be with previous, and this one needs to be with previous. So it would look like this. The word tiger would appear, I would go would appear. But in order to make it look like this, you have to animate each individual letter. So it's up to you how you want to do this. If you want the students to just write it, if you wanted to type it and then delete at the end of class. Or if you want to use the animation. Most of the time, I do the animation just because it looks a lot cleaner. Yes, it is time-consuming the first time that you do it, but you can use it over and over again with all of your students. And you don't have to worry about whether or not they're able to use their pencil or anything like that. Not only do you now know how to make lots of different types of questions, now you also know how to make crossword puzzles and word searches that you can use in your lessons. Next time we're going to talk about how you can add special audio files, video links, again, links to really AMP your lessons up to the next level. I hope this was helpful and I look forward to seeing you next time. Bye. 8. Adding Videos: Welcome back. I have a super fun lesson for you today, and it's really, really easy. Today. I am going to show you how to use links in your classroom. Specifically this time or doing video links. It is the easiest thing in the world to do. But it's really, really going to take your lesson to the next level. I'm also going to show you a bunch of different examples for how I use this in my classrooms. Are you ready? Let's go. While I was editing the video last time, I noticed that my picture here was covering up the bottom half of the animation box. You couldn't see what I was doing once the list got really long. From now on, I'm going to try to keep my picture on this side of the screen and hopefully it won't get in the way anymore. Now since we are making movies today, I added a cute little movie background. As you continue through this series, you'll notice that the backgrounds I use always match whatever the theme is of the lesson. You completely don't have to do that. In fact, you could set up a template, a lesson template, and then just copy that template every single time you make a new lesson and you'll never have to go hunting for backgrounds ever again. But I love variety and I get bored very quickly. So I like having a variety of different colors and themes and backgrounds and all that fun stuff. But I digress back to the movie part. This is the easiest thing in the world to do. All you have to do is find a movie that you like on YouTube. So first let's go pick something else. We're gonna go over here to YouTube. And I really like, here's a good resource. Super-simple songs. They have a ton of English songs. And their English songs are significantly less annoying than the pink Fong songs. Pink Fong is also widely popular. My daughter loves it and your students will probably love it too. But personally they're just really cringy. If possible. I avoid pink falling just out of principle. And I prefer super-simple songs instead. Let's say, let's do this one, put your shoes on. Let's say that this is the video that I want to use in my lesson. All I'm going to do is come up here to the search bar. I'm going to copy this link. Then I'm going to go back to my lesson. I'm going to hit insert video. It's going to ask you for it, the YouTube link. Now, you can also add videos from other places. It doesn't have to be a YouTube video. If you look here, you can see by URL, if the video is from some other site, you can use this one instead. And also you can see Google Drive. If you have a home video that you want to share with your students, maybe you took a trip to Disney World and you want to show this to your students. You can upload it to your Google Drive and then add it into your lesson. But today we're just going to do YouTube videos. We're going to hit search and our video is going to pop up. That's the correct one. We're going to select it. There it is. There are some things that you can do and there's some things that you cannot do. You cannot animate this to fade in the way that we can with regular pictures. However, you can adjust when it starts and when it stops. Very key important tip here, makes sure that you click off of the box. You see how there's a line flashing here. Make sure you click somewhere and make that line go away or it will not save the time that you entered. I once had a lesson where the student was learning the word sing. And I found a funny video of animals singing and dancing on YouTube. And there was one particular clip in this 15 minute long video, there was a 30-second clip that I wanted to show my student, but I forgot to click off of that box. So it didn't save the spot. I didn't realize this until I had a class. And when I hit play and it didn't start where I wanted it to start. I was very frustrated. I had to kind of guesstimate where it was at by sliding the fast forward button, it was very frustrating. Make sure that you click off of the time so that it will save it. Now, let's go ahead and put this into slide-show mode. And I'm going to show you. You can play it like this so that your background is visible. You can see everything, you can just hit Play. And it will play with no issues whatsoever. So if you want to leave it like this, no problem. Now, you can also make it play in full-screen. However, in order to do that, you have to make sure that your lesson is not already in full-screen. You can only have one thing in full-screen mode at any given time. So if your lesson is in fullscreen, the video will not be able to go into full screen. As you can see, mine actually says Enter full-screen because I'm not currently in full-screen mode. But if I click this, it will get bigger. And then if I want to exit, I'll hit exit full-screen. Okay, Now, if your lesson looks like this, you can then click on this box right here and make your video full-screen. This is especially helpful for students who are taking class on a tablet. Then you can play the video as normal. Student can watch it. You can make comments. While you're watching the video. You can pause the video. The very first time that you pause the video, a box of recommended videos is going to pop up. But if you hit the X button on that, that will go away. That way you can still see the things at the bottom of the page. Then it won't come back up again until you get to a new video. Now, if these bars here, if these black bars, you cannot make these go away, you can shrink your video, make it bigger or smaller as much as you want to. But no matter what, those black bars are always going to be there. If you want to hide them, you can look for an overlay. An overlay is a special type of artwork that is designed to go on top of something like a frame or curtains, things like that. For example, if I go over here and type in TV overlay, if I wanted to make my movie looks like a TV screen, I could also do a theater overlay or a frame, anything like that. And I can come over here, I could paste an overlay right on top. Like this. I have a movie. The movie when I have is not big enough. I could shrink the video if I wanted to to make it fit better. But yeah, you can use an overlay to hide the edges if you really want to, but it's not necessary. I usually don't because I put it in full-screen mode anyway, so it's not really necessary. Now, the possibilities for this are absolutely endless. Sometimes I will use videos just to give my students a visual example of what they're learning about. Sometimes I will base an entire lesson off of a video that I found on YouTube. Let me give you a few examples. First, let's take a look at this one here. You can find a ton of Nickelodeon pepper Pig, Disney stuff on YouTube, little clips that you can use in your lessons. Here I have a clip from Blue's Clues, and I made an entire lesson for my younger toddlers using this video, let's take a quick look. I'm just going to kind of peruse. So I have a vocabulary word here. Students that can already read and talk and communicate well, but they're still young enough that they play a lot in class and they get distracted pretty easily. That is what I use the definitions for. I'll have the student read that if they're able to. If they are not able to, if they're too young to read it, then I will scaffold the lesson and we'll talk about it in a different way. We're using much simpler, less incidental language. For example, if I'm teaching a toddler, I will totally disregard this part. I'll have them repeat the vocabulary word a couple of times. And then I'll say things like, do you ride the bus to school? What is he writing? Is she writing? Can you ride a bike? Things like that? So you can scaffold this down for younger students or scaffolded up for older students. This way you have lessons that are multipurpose. We'll talk about different types of things that you can ride on land, things that you can ride on the C. And then I've got some funny gifts and pictures that we'll talk about and I'll encourage them to describe the pictures in their own words if they're able to, or I'll have them repeat sentences after me, things like that. And then we've got things that we ride in the sky, animals that we can ride. More pictures for us to talk about. We've got, once again, if the student is able to read, then they'll read this. If they can't read, we'll just talk about the picture. Same thing here. Hello, I'm from Germany. I would like to visit China for the holiday. Which of these should I ride? Another question here? And then finally, we get to our video. We'll click on the video. And I'll make it fullscreen here. Just like that. The student will watch it, may fast-forward just a little bit. Here. At this point, Josh comes up to the screen and he'll say, can you help me? So I will pause the video and I will ask the students, do you want to help Josh? They love the interaction. They love pausing and talking and communicating about what's happening in the video. This is that box I was telling you about right here. It pops up. Every time you pause the video for the first time, just click on the X button. It will go away and it won't come back. Then I'll hit Play. It'll go through a few more to this little puppy is wanting help getting across the lake. Joshua is going to come back up again and say, how can we get across the water? So I will pause the video here again and I will ask the student, what can we ride on the water? How can we ride across the water to the other puppy? Something along those lines, the student will give their answer and we will continue the video. Will keep doing that through the whole video. Now, an important note about having a video in your lesson. Even if you've watched the entire video, the whole thing has been completed and it goes back to the regular slide. If you click the screen, it will not go to the next slide. It will replay the video. What you have to do instead is after you're finished watching the video, you need to come down here, click on your slide tab and go to the next slide. Or you can hit this arrow right here. Then I have my little outro slide. I usually include acute picture that's related to the lesson in some way, wildlife, that is the first way that I will use a video. I also will use videos to make song lessons. Here I have a bubble guppy song. This one, I do a little bit differently. I will tell the student, first, we will listen and we'll listen to the song together. Then we'll go through and we'll learn some vocabulary words. As this one is a pretty easy song. So instead of having a bunch of vocabulary, I will ask them, do you remember your first day of school, things like that? Then I have once again some funny pictures just because I like to make class as fun as possible. And then we have the lyrics. The lyrics out. I included pictures over keywords to give them a visual aid and help them remember what the words mean. We'll learn the whole song. Now the bubblegum songs are quite long. So when I teach a bubble guppy song, I usually will just teach the lyrics one time. But I also have this one here for Blue's Clues, where they will learn about how rainbows are formed with the Blue's Clues ones, I actually do these a little bit differently because they always sing the song one time. And then the character will ask Josh to sing the song himself. When Josh sings the song, he always pauses and he asks the camera for help. So what I do with this is I actually edit the time if you look at my format options here at video playback, but I haven't starting at 18 seconds and I haven't stopping at two minutes and 40 seconds, even though the video is about five minutes long. This is because I haven't cut off right after the character asks for Joshua til they'll say Now what in turn? And in the video cuts, because now it's our turn to learn the lyrics and then we will sing it together at the end. We'll watch the video. Then they will learn some vocabulary words. Now, you would be surprised the number of very young students that can say the word refraction. You might think that this lesson is too difficult for a toddler, for a four-year-old. But it's not. It was designed specifically for toddlers because they learn very well through music. The first time I heard this song, I was shocked. I thought there's no way this is targeted towards toddlers. My daughter was a year-and-a-half. Year-and-a-half, she could barely talk. But she could sing this song. She could say refraction. I could ask her, what three things do you need to make a rainbow? And she would respond, raindrops, sunlight, refraction. It absolutely blew my mind. I was so surprised to hear my 1.5 year old use the word refraction. I have taught this lesson with every toddler I have had since I've made the lesson. And every single one of them has remembered the lyrics. When we had that big snow hit a couple of weeks ago, I had another song about snowflakes. And while we were talking about the snowflakes, I asked them if they remembered how to make a rainbow. And they did. They remembered the word refraction. You would be surprised at what these kids are actually capable of learning. So don't shy away from something if you think it might be a little bit too difficult, you can always adjust your lesson to suit the needs of your students. After they learn the vocabulary. We have some pictures here about the vocabulary. Now, because this song is shorter, we are actually going to go through the lyrics as three different times to really make sure that they understand the words and they're more likely to remember it. The first time. We will just go through the lyrics as normal. Then we will watch this one. Or Josh's going to pause and he'll say, oh, what was that word again? I'll pause the video. I'll ask the student if they remember, and we'll continue singing from there, then we're going to sing the song again. But this time, you'll notice that some of these words are in red. We're also underlined. Do you know what that means? You know, I love animating my Google slides. These have some animations on them. Let's take a look. Let me exit full screen here. All right, so this is what the lyric is going to look like when it first appears on the screen. The first time we sing this song, I sang it and then the student repeated this time. Now that they've heard this song twice, if the student is able to read, I will have them sing the song by themselves. If the student is not able to read, I will sing the song, but I will pause at each of the pictures. I only put blanks if it's underneath a picture. That way students who cannot read are still able to think about the lyrics. I'll say, Oh, it was those three things. What were they? Raindrops, sunlight and refraction. They'll repeat it. Will go onto the next one. Here comes what was that word again? Rainbow. Right, so every time there's a picture, and we'll do this all the way down until we get to the end of the song. And I have one more set of funny pictures. Then if we have enough time, we will sing the song together one last time before we exit. I always include a video at the very end of it, just in case I have a student that can get through the lesson really quickly. Most of the time, we don't have time to watch the video again. What I will do instead is I know that this is my last slide. So if I'm right here, I will skip slide 23 and go straight to 24. That way the student doesn't even know that the song is there and they're not fussing because they want to watch it again. Finally, the last way that I will use videos in my classroom is just to enhance the student's learning. So this is from the intermediate course, I have the vocabulary. It's much more advanced. They're learning about vitamins and vitamin absorption. So that is kind of a tricky subject and it's especially if English is not your first language, it can be really tricky to understand. So I included a video here that shows exactly how vitamins are absorbed into the body and where they come from. And this is super helpful to the students. It gives them a visual representation to attach to the word. It was my original intention to go ahead and talk about audio links and game links. But I think this video has gone on long enough, so we are going to stop it here. The act of adding a video into your lesson is a super-duper, easy, but there are a ton of different things that you can do with them. I hope this lesson has inspired you and it helps you get closer to your goals of creating your own curriculum. Next time we will talk about adding game links into your lessons instead. I hope you've found this video helpful. And I can't wait to see you again soon. Bye. 9. Adding Games: Welcome back. Today we're going to talk about adding games into your online classroom. Let's just jump straight into it. Adding game links is very similar to adding movie links. But there is one key difference. You have to have something to click on to add your link. Because of that, I will usually find a picture of a video game controller or maybe a character playing a board game that I can attach my link to. So let's do that now. We're just going to go over here and type in a video game and clip art. Just like so. We'll just find something cute. I like this little evil looking boy here. We're going to go with him. We're just going to paste them here. Now, you can do this any way that you want to. You can have a very small picture. You can even add the link to like a text box if you want to. It's up to you. I usually want it to be really obvious that I have a game attached, so I will use a picture. But now that we have our picture, it's time to find our game. A website that I use pretty frequently is splashed iLearn right here. And they have a ton of phonics, games and things like that. The one thing about them that I don't really like is that this little robot talks way too much. Every single clam has a purlin it. And so the student will get the answer right, and it'll say, let's put it in the purple box every single time. It's very annoying. Other than that though, these are excellent games for phonics. Let's say that I wanted to do maybe this one, just like with the movie, I'm just going to go up here to the search bar and I'm going to copy the link. Then I'm gonna come down here and click on the picture that I want the link to Beyond. Go on, inserts, come down here to link. Then I'm going to paste my link in here. While that's all there is to it. Now you have a game and your lesson. And when you are in presentation mode, if you click on the picture, it will open up a new tab before you and take you to the game that you added. This way you don't have to have a list of games that you have to memorize or have a bunch of tabs open at the beginning of class. You can just open up the game as needed when it comes time for it. But you can use this for more than just games. Let me show you a few other examples. Here I have a link to a really cool spin the wheel thing. Now it looks like I have a spinner here. I actually don't. What I did is I took a screenshot of the spinner and then I copied it into my lesson. But if I click the spinner, it will take me here. Now if you want to do this yourself, It's called picker. We'll dot com. You can edit the colors. You can add as many pictures as you want to. You can even add titles if you want. And then you can spin it like this. This was a lesson about body parts. So I will ask the student how many hi guys does it have? What color is it? How many toes does it have? Or the legs longer, short, that kind of thing? Most of the time what I do after they've seen an option as I click Hide choice, the number shrinks and we'll just keep on doing that until they get through all of their pictures or vocabulary words, whatever you decided to put inside of the wheel. Here's another one. Then I'll ask them, how many legs does this monster ab, and so on and so forth. If you have a ton of useful websites like this one that you want to use in class. But you don't want to have a bunch of tabs open on your computer at once. And B, don't want to post just the ugly link in your Google slide. You can then hide that link and acute picture instead. So that's this one. Let's look at another example. Here I have the letter a. This is for my toddler class. And if I come over here and I click this letter a, is going to take me to this little mini lesson. This is an excellent, excellent, excellent resource. It's called Star Fall. And look at this, they have all of the letters. They're interactive. You can give the students the mouse. Each one has something interactive in it. And the student can let me just and show you how awesome this is. Now there's sound on this, but you probably can't hear it. For alligator. Move. The students absolutely adore this. Towards the end of the lesson. There will be some kind of quiz or interactive thing that the students can do. Sometimes it's letter matching. This little sick, it's gonna be big. A little a, they thinking drag it. The correct box. Like so. The students adore this. This is an excellent thing to include in your lessons. And then if you look, I can hit this x button actually, and it will go back to the other letters. So, yeah, definitely saved the website star fall in your arsenal of things to use in class. But I used a link to do that. I took a picture of the letter a and I embedded a link to the website that I wanted to do. Now it gets even better than that. You can link to your own lessons. You can add links to pages that are within your lesson. Here I have one of my storybooks, and I have designed this so that it can be read by students who take 25-minute classes. So part one is 25 minutes and part two is 25 minutes. When I go to slideshow mode, if my student has already read part one, I can click on part two here, this part two button. And it will take me straight to the slide that I need. It's brilliant, I love it. If you have a lot of free time on your hands, you can also use that link to make some really cool choice stories. A four-year students, where the decisions that they make, the choices they make will determine the outcome of the story. Now, just for simplicity, I actually have a coloring book. Let me show you how this works first, let me show you what it looked like in presentation mode. I have a coloring sheet of ultra man. Then I will ask the student D like red or blue. They'll pick red, gets colored. Then I'll say, Do you like gray or black? And they'll say, I don't know, gray, yellow, or green. They like they like yellow. Do you like brown or blue? And they picked blue. Like orange or purple. How about orange? Now, although this is really cool and there's a lot of potential here, like I said, you can make stories out of it. Where should we go left, or should we go right in the story changes based on which direction they decided to grow. It was a lot of cool things that you can do with this, but it's very, very, very time-consuming and very, very confusing. If you absolutely want me to, I can make a separate video showing you how to do this. So if you're interested in that, then leave a comment and let me know if enough people say that they want me to do this and I will. Otherwise, I'm just going to kind of briefly authorise how to do it. And then you can try to figure it out on your own. This is going to use the same link to slide thing that I did with the storybook. Basically what we do. As you can see, I have the base slide here. This red one is going to link to slides three. That's my red one. The blue one is going to link to slide for where my blue one is. In the beginning. It seems super easy, but it becomes more complex as you get towards the bottom because the number of choices gradually increases. Each time you'll see I have one red and one blue that I have two of the gray and black. Then I have four of the yellow and green. Simple looking animation has 97 slides. 97. This is not something I recommend doing unless you have a lot of free time. Once I have finished with all of my main primary curriculum, then I will probably revisit this and explore it to its full potential. But this is not for the faint of heart. I just wanted to show you how something so simple, like linking to the slides in your presentation can be used in some really cool ways. It's okay to get creative, experiment with all of the features and see what you can figure out. Google Slides has a lot of potential to make some really, really cool lesson. We are all done. Next time I will show you how to use audio links in your Google slide lessons. I hope you've found this video helpful and I look forward to seeing you again next time. Goodbye. 10. Adding Audio: Welcome back. Today I'm going to show you how to add audio into your Google slide lessons. Let's get started. In case you are wondering, yes, this little tiny cartoon is a cartoon version I made of myself. I will show you how to make similar cartoons in a future lesson. Today, we are focused on this thing up here in the corner, this audio file. This is from one of my toddler lessons, and it utilizes several of the things that you have learned in the past couple of lessons. Let me just walk you through it. We have little tiny teacher, Kayla has stumbled across this little bush. Some things in this bush. What could it be? I'll ask the students, what do you think it is? And I'll say, let's listen. Let's listen. It's a cat meowing. I'm not sure if this audio is transferable through many KM or not. So if you cannot hear it, it is the sound of a cat. It does work in Zoom though, so no worries there. It works fine. And Xun, as long as you share the audio, I will ask the student, What's that sound? I'll click the button and they'll say, It's a cats. And we'll say, let's find out. Now I have a brand new scene. Teacher has brought the cat. It's on her head. She says, is it a cat? This one a cat, we have something else in the bushes. Let's listen. And this one is a dog barking. I will ask the student, what do you hear? Is it a cat? A dog, super cute? Parents love it, students love it. Everybody's happy. But how do you do it? This one is a little bit more complicated than the videos were and the links were. For this one, you have to actually upload the sound to your Google Drive. This does mean that you are able to record your own voice and upload it to Google Drive if you want to. This is really good for phonics because you can record your voice making the letter sounds, and then you can use those sounds to test the students listening comprehension. You can also find a ton of free sound effects online. Youtube has a lot of them if you go to their sound effects section. There's also a ton of websites that you can use with royalty-free sounds. But then you are just going to make a folder. I recommend labeling it sound effects. And then you're just going to upload the sound effect that you want to use to this folder. Once your sound effect is there, all you have to do is click Insert Audio. It is automatically going to go to your Google Drive. And then you can select the audio that you want. Let's say I want this goat. You get a cute little button and you can make it big or small if you want to. You can have it loop the audio. You can hide the icon if you want to. You can change the size. You can have it play automatically so that as soon as you enter the slide, it was going to make that sound. This is good if you want to have like an explosion sound. If you're telling a story or maybe splashing water. Like if you're telling a story and the character falls in the water, the next slide could have that splashing sound play as soon as you enter the slide, you can also recolor it. There's different colors to choose from. Change the brightness. There's all kinds of things that you can do with it. And then just put it where you want it. Super-duper easy. You can use this if you want some Jeopardy music. If you just want to have some background music on your lesson, you can do that too. It's super awesome for practicing letter sounds because you can have a sound book and have the student match it to the correct letter. I also sometimes use this to make the story lessons I have a little bit more interesting, but there are a ton of different ways that you can use it and it's super easy to do. So that was a super fast and easy lesson, but I hope that it was helpful and you find some ways to use it in your classroom. Next time, I'm going to show you something that's really, really cool. I'm going to show you how to make a drag and drop activities in your Google Slides. As always, thanks for watching and I look forward to seeing you soon. Bye. 11. Drag and Drop: Welcome back. Today I have a super fun lesson for you. We are going to make drag and drop activities in Google Slides. Get started. I have this cute Monster here and students are able to tell me what body parts they want their monster to have. They'll say I want that big purple now. I want that pink. I want the pig nose and we can adjust it as so. Then I'll ask the students, are you happy with your monster? And nine times editing, they're gonna say no because they want to keep playing with it. So we'll do it again. We'll pick out something different. Here I have another example of drag-and-drop, students who are learning about clothes in this lesson. So I will have the student tell me what kind of clothes they want her to, where we can change her outfit. Like so. Super fun and super easy. What we're going to do for our drag-and-drop is we are going to make a dinner plate. The first thing that we're going to do is find a picture of a dinner plate that we like. I'm going to go with this one here. I'm gonna paste it just like so. Now this is going to be my background. And that's very important. We want this to be a background. We don't want it to accidentally move around. If we leave it the way it is right now, then as the students are trying to drag food onto the plate, it's possible they could grab the background instead and start dragging that around. And that's not what we want. We want everything in the background to stay put to luck this in place. What we're going to do is put this in slide-show mode. We're not going to exit full screen. We want it to be full-screen. Now from here we're going to take a screenshot. The way that you do this is going to be different depending on what kind of computer you have. On my computer, I have to hit Control Print screen. I'm gonna do that now. Control Print Screen. Now we're going to exit and we're going to open up paint. We're going to paste our image into paint and then save it as a background. Back. Ground. Like so. Exit out of paint, we don't need it anymore. Now you're going to delete everything, deleted all, get rid of everything, and hit Background. Choose image. And we want to upload an image. We're going to upload the image that we just saved. Because we took a screenshot, it will be the perfect size and now it won't move anywhere is going to stay exactly where it's at. Now all we have to do is find some food. I have found a bunch of different food elements that I wanted to include on my page, I removed all of the instagram using that website I mentioned before, remove dot Vg. Now I'm done. Now, this will not work in presentation mode. If I had this in the middle of my lesson, I would have to exit presentation, do the drag and drop, and then go back into presentation mode when I am done, there are two different ways you can do this. You can give the student control of your mouse. This will allow them to drag the elements themselves. However, there are some problems with this. Some students are not mature enough to handle this. And they will immediately it begin clicking on things that they're not supposed to. It's very difficult to regain control of the mouse once the student has taken it. Some students also don't understand how to use their mouse at all. It's not useful for them. Instead, most of the time what I do is I will have them tell me what they want. Not only does this keep my mouse and my computer is safe, but it gives them an opportunity to practice their sentences and it gives them motivation to try to make a sentence. This is a good way to get really shy students that don't usually want to talk. A good way to get them talking. If you ask the student, what do you want for dinner today? I can almost guarantee they're going to say something even if they never talked before because they want to do this activity. They might just start with one word. They might say Apple, apple. And then you can pull on that, encouraged them to make a sentence, I want an apple or I like the Apple, something along those lines. And then when you're done with the lesson, it's really easy to just move everything back. Because we made this a background. I can't do anything to make this plate move. It will always be there. Just like that. Super easy. And when you're happy with it, you can just go back into slide-show mode and continue the lesson from there. We are all done. Next time, we're going to talk about polishing up your lessons to make them look more professional. I hope you found this lesson helpful and I look forward to seeing you soon. Bye. 12. Polishing your Lesson: Is really, really, really windy today. So if you can hear that, I'm really sorry, cannot control the weather. So there's not a lot I can do about it. Anyway. Today we have a super easy lesson. I'm just going to show you a few techniques that will help you clean up your lessons and make them look messing professional. Let's get right into it. So we have here a completely blank slide with nothing on it. As I've mentioned in our very first video, one of the easiest things that you can do to really spice up your lessons is add a background. I like to take extra time to make sure that my background matches whatever theme the lesson has. If I'm teaching about animals, my background will all be about animals. If my lesson is about verbs, the background will have people doing yoga or jumping or those kinds of things. But you don't have to do that. You can make a very professional looking lesson just using the built-in templates that come with Google. Which by the way, if you are not happy with the presets that are available, because there's really not that many. You can download tons of templates. Seriously though, if you just look up Google Slides templates, you're gonna find a ton of this website here is called Slide Carnival. You can find them by color if you want a specific color, you can go through, if you want something simple, you want something elegant, something playful. If you've got young children. If you do not want to spend a lot of time or if you aren't an artsy **** see, kind of person, didn't you don't have to you don't have to put any thought into it whatsoever. You can just come to Slide Carnival and find a template that you like and then edit it as much as you want to. Since I have already shown you how to add a background, I'm not going to go over that part again. And we've also talked about how I like to put a big white square in the center of the screen for my lesson to go on, this is just my style, so that's what we're going to go off of. First, let's start with just basic pictures. So we all know it's super easy to just go to Google, find a picture, copy, paste it, right? But you can edit it in a lot of ways. You probably already know how to crop the image, but did you know that you couldn't mask it? If you look right here, this little arrow button next to the crop icon, you can pick a shape. And you can use this to make a lot of different things. So I just made this into a circle. And you can use any shape that you want to. You can make it a squirt bottle. That looks pretty nice. You can make it a Smiley face. It's a little bit weird, but you can do it. You can even do this just to make really pretty looking arrows. If you wanted to make an arrow for something, but you wanted it to be above average. You can add a picture to it. Use a picture for your arrow instead. The shapes that I use most often are the score goal and the regular circle. But you can use any shape that you want to. You can use this to really make some cool looking lessons. Here is an example where I used the masking tool to make a little dialogue for role-playing with an adult student. This is from one of my adult courses, and this unit is about going to a restaurant. For this lesson, we are practicing ordering food at a restaurant. I play as the waiter and the student will play as the father that's trying to order food. All I did for this was Google waiter. And then I cropped his picture into a circle. I also use this masking tool to make my vocabulary words. Most of the time, I leave the vocabulary like this where I have a picture explaining the vocabulary on one side and then I have a definition on the other side. But if I have a whole bunch of vocabulary words or if I'm just wanting to add a little variety, I will also include a slide like this that have two vocabulary words using a shape like this. All I did here was take a picture. I masked it into the shape that I want. Then I added a border, change the border weight. And then this right here is just a shape. It's just a long squirt goal, so I can do that here. I can come up here and make a shape. I can make it as long as I want to. I can make it whatever color I want to. I can add a border. Then if I wanted this to be my picture, all I have to do is change the shape, give it the same color as the border. Make this border bigger so that it stands out and it looks like this is kind of coming off of it. Now because I added this second, it's in front. So all I'm gonna do is send it backward. There we go. That's exactly how I do my vocabulary most of the time. It just looks a lot more neat, a lot more fun, and a lot more modern. A lot of the PowerPoints that I've seen online that are available even on Teachers Pay Teachers, meaning that they're not for you to pay money for them. A lot of them look like they were made in the 19 nineties babies. So there's something wrong with the nineties. 2022. And our students are not from the nineties, they're not familiar with that generation. So it's time to update our PowerPoints throwaway, the projectors upgrade your Google Slides. Another thing that you can do is add word art, which is a little bit different from a regular text box. And so for example, let's just type in uniform. You can see that this has got a border around it. You cannot put a border around regular text. Then I can change the font if I want to. I can change the border color trains the border. Wait. I can make it bold. Italic. Always a normal editing works here. I can even change the type of water that's around it. If I wanted, like you've you see this dash here. If you wanted to make a word for a young child to trace, maybe you just want it to have, let's change it. Let's just say you wanted to have a like this. You just made a tracing tool for your students. It's super easy to do, really fun and cute. There's a lot that you can do with it. Now, I need to point out here that this is not the same as a textbox. If you grab the corner of a textbox, it is going to change everything in the same proportion. This is not the case for word art. Word artists considered a picture. If you grab this corner and you try to change it, you're gonna blow it out of proportion and make it look weird. Instead, you need to hold the Shift key. If you hold the Shift key, then you cannot change the proportions. It will always be exactly what you need it to be. And we can also change the font here. Let's make it look more normal. Now that you have seen most of the different techniques that I use with my Google slides. I'm going to showcase a couple of lessons just to kind of give you some ideas for how to streamline yours. This is from my toddler classes. Each of my toddler lessons has a story that centers around my little emoji character here. I promise I'm going to show you how to make these cartoons, but they are deserving of their own lesson. Just kind of kind of showcase what I do here. But I use the shape tool to make call-outs, which are these little bubbles, the speech bubbles. I use the animation tool to fade them in and out as needed. And then look, if you look up here, there's a whole monkey. But I've moved the monkey up so that only his tail is showing on the slide. Here I've got audio. Monkey calls on her head. Then I have my vocabulary now towards my vocabulary for the toddler lessons as much simpler than for the regular lessons. Some of the students can read, some of them cannot. I just have them repeat after me. Instead, we'll talk about the picture. But every single one of my lessons, whether it's for a toddler or an adult, has these things, whether you call them gifts or gifts. Not here to judge their super, the super useful. Most of them are really funny. Some of them are really good at demonstrating things that are kind of hard to explain with words, especially to someone who's learning English. And they're awesome sentence building tools. Every one of my lessons has got them from the beginner unit and forward they have at max six. The toddler lessons tend to have more than that because they can't really read yet. We have some more vocabulary words here, and they're given a chance to talk about. The toddler lessons are pretty simple. They're easy to make. And I will show you how to make those pictures. Then at the end, we have been learning about letter o and the letter P. So this is just to review these little pictures here. This is just the word art, and then I shrunk it and hit them around the picture. You can use all of these tools and so many different ways. One mistake that I see some teachers do is they put too many things on the slide at once and it becomes really chaotic looking and very messy. You don't want your slides to be messy. Sometimes people get a little bit too excited with the colors and they'll have like every other line, it will be a different color or they'll highlight too many words. If you highlight two-thirds of the paragraph, you're defeating the purpose of highlighting anything. Try to keep your highlights down to one or two key words if you want to point out in the sentence. So for example, when I do vocabulary words, I will highlight every time that word is used in the paragraph. I always put it in red so that their students are used to it. They know what to look for. Everything else has an irregular font. It's not been bolded, it's not been colored or anything like that. You don't want to have too much going on in the screen at the same time with my primary lessons. Every single one starts off the same way. They all have the vocabulary or at the very beginning, then we'll have three gifts that are about the vocabulary. We'll talk about them for a minute. Then I introduced whatever grammar for that unit they're learning. So in this unit they're learning the helping verb camp. And then this right here is really cool and it uses everything that you've learned. Let's take a look at it. It says, Can she spend the hula hoop? So it's just a text box and this is again with a mask around it. And that mask has a border with the color change and the weight increased. You can do this. It's gifts too. It's not just for pictures. Once the student gets the inter correct or if the student is having a hard time coming up with the sentence, I will display the answer like this. Then the next one fades in. There's two things on one slide. The bear has been the hula hoop. It can, same thing, super-easy and it looks very clean, very professional. Same thing with this one. What can the dolphins do? They can flip this kitten, flip. It cannot. After we are finished with grammar, we will, we wanted to fornix in this unit they're learning in the long you, they'll read these words to make the circus performers appear. Like so. Easy-peasy, this one's fun. We're gonna give a dog a bath. So first we need to call for the dog. Dog goes in the past nowadays, some soap for the dog like this. And we need to rinse the dog. Like so. And now we need to give it a towel. Now it's all clean, super easy and super fun. Then they'll usually have some kind of short story to read using whatever the phonics was. I always include math in my lessons, and math is usually the last thing that we do. The reason I put math at the end is because some students don't want maths. Some students like their English will be advanced. Maybe they're a toddler, but they're in my beginner course because their English is just so good. And then they haven't learned this math in their regular schools yet because my goal is not to teach them math. That's not what I'm doing. I'm not teaching the math. I'm teaching them English for the math so that they can read math problems in English. I like to study foreign languages. I studied Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. And one thing that is literally never, ever included in textbooks is math. I do not know how to read two plus two equals four in Japanese. I know that numbers, but I don't know how to say plus. I don't know how to say equals, because that's just not something that's ever in textbooks. And if these students really want to become completely fluid, they want to get jobs in businesses where mass is going to be involved. They need to know these words also. That's why I include them, but I'm not here to teach them math. That's not what I'm doing. If they've not learned this math yet in their regular math class at school, then I will skip over it. This is why I put it at the end because it's really easy to just jump ahead because I know exactly where it's at. So anyway, in this one she's learning about number lines, how to use the word before, how to add and subtract negative numbers using the number line. Like so. Then at the end of the lesson I have three more gifts followed by our free talk slide. I do recommend having a free talk slide at the very end of your lesson. In case you don't manage your time very well and you have five minutes left of class. You don't want the goodbye slide that pop up when you've still got five minutes of class. The free talk slide is a great way to save yourself. The awkwardness of accidentally ending the lesson too soon. Hey guys, I just wanted to quickly showcase a couple of different lessons just to give you a bunch of different ideas for ways that you can organize and stylize your elements on your screen. So you should always include an introduction slide. I just wanted to show you a couple of examples here before we finish up this video. Here's one here, another one here. This just uses the masking tool. It has a background, I mix a color match. This one is also using the masking tool and it's on top of a picture. So there's a bunch of different things that you can do at a bunch of different ways that you can organize and make your lessons your own. So just get creative with it, have fun. I also want to walk you through one of the lessons from my speaking course because they are setup differently than my regular lessons. This is from the speaking course. Like a story here, some dialogue. It has a little background here. And to make this background, all I did is I took a picture that I liked. I put it in the shape that I liked. Then I got another shape, made it the exact same size and put a color on it. And then I changed the opacity of it. To make it a little bit transparent, so it made it kind of pink. Then I put my circles on top and my little speech bubbles. The students see if they remember what was said. And I'll ask the student how old you are. This is actually a drag-and-drop. So I would exit presentation mode and I can actually drag the numbers to the cake for how old they are. Using your family are you from What do you speak? What kind of job does your parents have? What do you do with greater us? What are some hobbies that you have? What's your favorite animal? What your favorite foods? What's your favorite color? What's your favorite subject? So they fill in the introduction here. Hello, My name is Tim, I'm from what's lag as this. And we'll talk about it. Same thing with this one. I have a recipe for an introduction. And so the students will practice this and then try it yourself and they'll see if they can introduce themselves from memory. Then I always have a goodbye slide. My speaking classes are very different from the rest of the classes. They always have a warm-up where I can see what they already know. Then I'll see what kind of vocabulary they're already familiar with. Some n times the words are new, sometimes they're not. But this just uses everything that I have taught you. And I, whenever I want to emphasize a specific area, I always put it on top of a shape. I've got this over here with the shape. Using another shape here to make a speech bubble with a picture. This one has spikes, some jingles and some slogans. It's got a video in it. This one here, you can rotate pictures as well as put a border on them so that you can make them credit category, put them in front of each other just to make something that looks really fun and interesting. This is another advertisement we're talking about like why the placement and the size is important. And we use this to explain why. Why did you read this in a specific order? What caused you to read this part first? Why did you read this part second, why did you read this one last? Why is the placement and the size is important? So this one is more for advanced students. We've talked about color psychology, advertising techniques, thirds, golden ratio. There's another commercial here. One last slide to talk about, and then that is the end of it. Just have fun with it. Combine everything I've taught you in different ways and make it your own and don't copy. Don't just copy what I'm doing, but try and make it your own. Really adjust it to your personality and your teaching style. That's pretty much it for today's lesson. Next time, I'm going to show you how to make a teacher banner that looks like this. Now I am using mini camp, but this should also work on other cameras, softwares that you have. I usually enter the classroom anywhere from five to ten minutes before the beginning of class. And I will display this on my screen so that the student knows that I'm there. And also because it's very fun and colorful and it's moving a lot of the times. They'll take a minute to read it and then they're encouraged to leave a review. I have lots of students that had been taken lots of classes and they don't ever leave reviews. Since I started doing this, my review rate has increased. In my opinion, these banners are a way better way to increase the rate that students leave reviews because it's much less annoying than the sending them a message begging for one. But it's still a good way to be like, Hey, give me a five-stars. Believe it or not there, It's super easy to make. I'll see you next time. Bye. 13. Animated Teacher Banners: Welcome back. Today I have something super fun for you. We are going to make teacher banners. Now, there are two different types that you can do. You can make a stand still picture like this one. Mine does not have the correct dimension, so so you can still see the edges here. If your cameras supports gifts, you can also display at something like this. Sorry. You're gonna do is go to Canvas. If you are going to create a still banner, one that does not move, you want to come over here to Custom Size and you're going to type in 1920 by 1080. This will make it so that when you stretch the picture, it will cover the whole camera and not leave the gaps like minded. I made that banner a really long time ago when I first started working with VIP kids. That's why it has the little dynode character on it. And so I wasn't completely tech savvy at the time, but it worked especially when I had my camera covered. It just makes the lines black and you can't really tell anyway. So I never bothered to fix it. However, if you don't want it to look like that, make sure that your dimensions are 1920 by 28. But we are making a steel today. We're going to make a video banner. So you're just gonna come over here and click Video. And we want this one here, a video message. Then it's going to bring up all of these different templates. If you see a crown like this, then you can only use this template if you have a Pro account. So instead, I'm only going to show you the ones that are free. Now some of these have multiple versions. For example, this one here, if you click on it, there's actually eight different versions that you can use set. We're actually going to go with this one and then we're going to pick this one since it matches. Then all you have to do is edit it. The best thing about this is that you can fully customize it. The one that I made use of templates, but then I changed almost everything else that was in it. Let's say I want the background to be green. And this thing here is kind of ugly, so I'm just going to delete it. I don't like this pencil thing either. Delete and delete. Gonna change my font color, make it green. I did kind of like the prettiness of it. But maybe I want to change the effect. Maybe I want it to be neon. Make it really intense. Maybe I wanted to have a curve. Like so. Maybe green is not good, maybe people aren't blue, so that it stands out a little bit more. Now I want to add my own elements. I'm going to go over here two elements and I'm just going to search for what I want now it is best to try to find something that is moving already so that you don't have to worry about it looking funny with the rest of the video. You can tell right here if it is a moving picture, so that's raccoon moves and is papery look to it. So why not? Sometimes you can change the color of these things. Sometimes you can't. Now, I'm just putting some random things on here just to show you how to do it. And then we're just going to come down here and we're going to shrink it. We don't want it to be too long. At most, maybe five seconds. Remember, it's going to keep playing over and over again. You don't want it to be super long. Then we'll edit the second one to match. Now you're going to want at least two videos. You can add more than that if you want to. But if you want to switch back and forth between them, teacher is waiting for you and please leave a review. You're going to need two videos for the review slide. I usually look for stars because it helps to push the message. Once again, look for things that move. Once again, make sure you shrink it so it's not too long. Then when you're done, just hit the play button to see if you're happy with it. Let's take a look. Mine of course, is really random and makes no sense because I just put some random stuff in it for the sake of this video, but just take your time, put whatever you want it and make it look nice. When you're done, this is the important part. You're gonna come download it. It is going to have it set to MP4 video. That is not what you want. Ignore the fact that has been suggested because we don't want an MP4 video. If you download this as an MP4 video, it's going to get to the end of the video and then stop that only that I don't actually think you're even able to add it to many Cam if it's in video format. Instead, click on this arrow. You want it to be a GIF. It will save both pages as a repeating gift that will play over and over and over again. You're just going to download it. I am not going to actually download it because this thing is a little bit random. But I'm going to show you what to do next. Those probably looks a little bit insane with the bunches and bunches and bunches of little tiny teacher Kayla's. But it was necessary for me to show you my mini camp screen. What you're going to do once you download your GIF is you're gonna go to your effects. You're going to create a folder for gifts. You could also labeled this as your banner if you want it to be the only thing that's in that folder I favorited in mind so that it's really easy to get to. But you can put it in whatever folder you want to. You're just going to click on the folder and scroll down to Add Image. It should be the most recent thing in your download file. You just click on it, hit Open and it will be added into your folder. Then you can favorite it and pull it up anytime that you are in class waiting for a student. When it appears it will be small, like this. You're going to have to drag it, but it should fit the whole screen once you do that, no problem. There we have it. Next time, I will finally show you how you can make a cartoon version of yourself to include in your lessons. I look forward to seeing you soon. 14. Make Your Own Clipart: Welcome back. Today I am going to show you how to make a little tiny cartoon version of yourself like I have done to make this thing right here. I will show you a couple of different ways that you can use this little teacher in your lessons. Let's get started. I made this character on Gottschall life. This is a free game that you can download and keep on your computer. And I use it all the time right now. And you can see the most recent pose that I had, my character in. The background is green because I can use the transparent background maker to take away the background and then put the teacher wherever I want to. However, you can also go to the studio here. There are tens of backgrounds to choose from. There are even like solid colors. I can just, and then I can put as many characters as I want to. I can change the pose. I can flip them around, make them really big if I want to. This is actually how I make my cartoons for my toddler lessons BY makes little stories using this feature. Once I'm happy with my scene, I click Hide, I take a screenshot and then I just copy it into my lesson. No problem. If I want to include the little teacher Kayla, inside of my regular lessons. Without the story, then I will use the green screen instead and remove the background so that I can just put her wherever I want to. Now, let's just make a new character today so I can kind of walk you through this. Let's go with this one and we can make it a boy or a girl. Change the skin color. You can even make them green. You want to make it like an alien character. I have done that for a story before. Make them a ghost, whatever. You can change its height. Right now he's in a kind of a funny posts. Let's put them in a standard posts so that we can see better. You can make them really tall or short. No big deal. You can give them blush. There's different types of blushing. Now, the rear hair is going to be this part that's on top of the hip. There's a lot to choose from. Just find one that you're happy with. Some styles look better with others. You can even give them ears if you really want to. We're gonna go with this one. Then the back hair is the part that comes down. You can make it really long. Some of these look a little bit crazy, which is play around with it. It's fun. It's like a dress-up game. Now, you can use this to make just a random character. I add characters to my story and I'll get a little bit more creative with it. But if you're trying to make it look like you obviously you're going to want to pick hairstyles that are close to your own and then add the front hair. Then you can change the color. You can make it any color that you want to. You can add pony tails. I use the eyes to convey different emotions. I will change the eyes. What I wanted to do different scenes. But then I have a default. I make sure that whatever you pick you aren't like. For example, I chose this one because it's easy to remember. It has a heart in it, so I always know which one it is. But you can use any of them that you want to change the color. Now to change the background color in like this, you can do it right here and just click on the background color. But you can find that same thing here in the studio. If you want it to make a scene with multiple characters, you can totally do that. Not a problem. Now if you're in this mode and you want to change their facial expressions, you just click on the icon down here and then click Edit. Then you can change their face. I think go back to studio and it'll take you right back where you were. And then you can make it full screen. Hit Hide, take your screenshot and then add them where you want to create your story. I use this a lot whenever I wanted to make a story for students to practice the phonics that they've just learned, or to learn new vocabulary and things like that. I also sometimes use it with grammar. If I'm having a really hard time finding clip art or something, I will just make my own clip art using teacher Kaitlin. So this is just a super fun way to include yourself in your lessons. Add that personal touch. The students think it's really funny. They love seeing teacher Caitlin make an appearance. And they love it when I'm telling a story and something silly happens to me. Like there's one story where the little teacher, Kayla is trying to dance on the stage and she slips and she falls down. Students die laughing and I think it's the funniest thing ever. So there's lots of different things that you can do with this. It's just a lot of fun, maybe not completely necessary, but it's fun and it's easy. So why not? That's pretty much it. If you decide to make your own little teacher police that take screenshots and let me see. I want to know what you've come up with next time. I'm going to talk more in detail about many cam and some of the features that it has for those of you who are not familiar with it. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and I look forward to seeing you next time. 15. Manycam: Today I have a really short lesson. I'm just going to briefly talk about many cam and why I think you should use it in your online classroom. First, let's talk about what many Cam Does. This is an external third-party cameras software that you will use on top of the software that comes with your webcam. For example, most of my classes take place on Zoom. Now, what I have to do is I have to open many CAM first to pull up my camera. Then when I go to Zoom, it will automatically use the feed from many Kam instead of the feed from my normal webcam. It replaces that feed. This might seem a little bit complicated, but there are a lot of benefits to doing this. For starters, it's excellent for troubleshooting issues with your students. Because I can share my screen and drag the box to show them exactly what I'm seeing. If I'm trying to teach them how to use their pencil, I can hover over the zoom box that has all of the options that they wouldn't be able to see in a regular screen-share. Another benefit of many CAM is all of these AR accessories. These are so fun for the students and they're a great way to get their attention, make them laugh, and also teach vocabulary. Because I can say, Hey, does your dad have a beard? A beard, what is a beard? This is a beard. Or I can say, what is this animal? What are these? I use these a lot with toddlers, especially because I will say, Hey, let's listen. What do you hear? What do you see, things like that? But there's there are so many to choose from. Some are good, some are bad. Some of them don't make any sense. Like there's one I downloaded, two, I still have it. I do still have it. I haven't deleted it yet. This one makes no sense. Why do I need a sweater on my head? There are some that maybe don't make a whole lot of sense, but if you download something like this, It's very easily deleted. I can be a princess and I want to, you can even layer these, which is something that you normally can't do with AR features. I can be ultra man and then put this wig on top and then I can give them a tiara. I can do all of these things. I can be a duck and then give them ears and a necklace and a pirate hat. I mean, there's thirst, so many things that you can do with this. Now, Zoom has its own pencil, but you can only use it when you're screen-sharing. Using the whiteboard. With many cam, I can actually write on my screen, on my camera screen, which is sometimes really useful. But there are a ton of stickers to that you can just place on the screen. It's really good if you don't want to keep all whole mess of flashcards, you can just use many Kam instead. And I use this for like a ton of different things. I'll use them to give a student a hint if they're having a hard time remembering a word, I also will just use it to teach vocabulary. It's just a good way to make the lesson a little bit more fun. There are borders that you can get like this grass one. These leaves for fall. You can leave these up all the time if you want to, or you can just use them for the moment. They are super useful as well. I have some for the holidays that I will sometimes use. There's like a rainbow here, things like that. But one of the best things is you can add gifts. Because you can add a gifts. You can add teacher banners like this one. Literally any gift that you want to, if you want to have a whole mess of gifts instead of just the regular stickers. You can definitely do that. And it's really, really useful for explaining certain concepts. You can also use this if you'd like to reward your students, you can have them to collect certain things. So now I'm going to share my screen with you so that you can see my many cam. I know it looks a little bit crazy, but you should still be able to see everything that I'm doing. Let's take a look over here at the side. You'll start off, you'll see that you've got presets. I currently have four setup. These are the ones that I use the most often. This one is the main one which is just got my full face here. This one lets me share my screen. To do that I would cut and then come over here to video sources. You can hit plus here and you've got a list of what you want the video source to come from. So it can come from a game. If you want to use this to stream a game, it can come from a YouTube URL or you can come from your desktop. That's what I'm doing right now. If you click on Desktop and you click AP window, it'll say, Well, what do you want to do? This right now is the web browser that I'm currently on. And right now I've got it set to many cam so that you can see everything that I'm doing. I've got this one here is a custom screen that I can stretch and used to highlight specific areas at the screen. And it will show everything that's underneath of it, including things that would normally be hidden through a normal Screenshare. This last one here, I have specifically made these tutorials because it includes my desktop screen and my camera feed as well. Then you can mess with your audio here. Pretty self-explanatory. So this one here is the pencil you can draw, you can paint, you can use stamps. And you've also got shapes and things here. You also have text that you can use. If you wanted it to be a little bit more neat, you can do that too. I do use this periodically. One thing that's good about this compared to Zoom is that you have an unlimited number of colors to choose from. It's not showing it here because I've got it set to desktop. This is useful if you want to be able to see your time. I have mindset to do not show, but you can put this onto the screen. It has a stopwatch here. If you want to time your classes and make sure that you're not going over the time. If you have another student that's waiting, you can use many cam to do that and it will show it and display it on your screen at all times so that you are able to keep track of your classes. So that's super-helpful. Now, I have a lifetime subscription to the standard. It's a onetime fee. I bought this back when I first started with BAP kid and I've used it ever since because I have the standard form. I am not able to use this part right here, the virtual background. It does have a green screen compatibility, and it's really good green screen as long as your computer is able to handle the feed, the green screen for this works really, really well. If you travel a lot or you don't have a consistent background, or you just want to be able to use green screen, then you'll need the version that's one up for mine. They do have a lifetime version of that one as well. If you want to, you're always welcome to get the standard version first, try it out mixture your computer can even handle it. Then you are able to upgrade it to the next one if you want to if you want to have access to the green screen. I do believe there is also a free version, but the free version does not allow you to have more than one preset. You can only have the one preset, but you're able to use gifts stickers and AR stickers with no problem on the free version, you just can't have more than one preset. And I think there might also be a watermark in the bottom corner, but I can't remember because it's been many, many years since I had the free version. You can also add a lower third. And what this basically does is it puts something at the bottom of your video feed that is always there. If you want it to put your name on the bottom, you could do that. I don't because distracting in my opinion, but you can do it if you want to, if you wanted to advertise something, you can totally do that. So this is where we keep the effects. And there are two different ways that you can do this. If you find an image that you really like on Google and you want to include it in your classroom, you have to do is save it and it will be added into your downloads on your computer. Then you can come here and click this button here. It will open up a folder so that you can wherever you downloaded and it will get sent here to the unordered. And then from here, you can click on it, right-click it and it will bring up a box that says move. And then you can put it wherever you want to. The other thing that you can do is click on one of the folders and then click, Get More. If you click on Get More, it's going to bring up this little box here where there are tons of preloaded stickers in lots of different categories. The featured category is going to have like new stuff, holiday stuff, things like that. You're looking for an animal. We've got tons and tons. Look at all that. Look, look at it. Wonderful. So many things to download. So many things. If you are a flashcard person and you are tired of having flashcards, this is what you need. You've even got businesses for calendars. It's got logos. There are camera effects like a fire. There are filters so you can make yourself look pretty. There are things for the teacher that are super useful. There are preloaded banners. Then you will sometimes find a flashcards that have Chinese written on them. This one says Listen. One says write, speak. I can confirm that these are accurate. I know enough Chinese to confirm that these are accurate. These are useful if you have students that are just really having a hard time following directions. You've got emojis. This is where you'll find the face accessories, but there are so many of them, literally, just so many. You're going to pick a two ears. There's like scary ones. You had to kind of be careful. You have some pretty hair. Again, not all of these are great. Some of these look a little bit silly or they don't line up very well. So just try them out and if you don't like the one that you got, you can just delete it. It's really easy to do. The others, tons and tons and tons of free stuff on here. Alphabet letters, more text messages to help you with your students and numbers, and other things that are difficult to explain otherwise. These are acute. I have all of these. The a for alligator, C for cat, for Bear. I have all of those. I use them a lot. They're very useful. You can also search for things which I do that often too. If I type in rewards, you'll get, for example, this ice cream cone. And then you can find ice cream scoops to put on top of the ice cream cone if you want to keep a reward for your student and oh congratulations, you get another scoop for your ice cream cone. Kind of similar to doing the five-stars if you're familiar with VIP Kid, something like that. But that's totally optional since I switched to amazing Tucker, I actually don't use rewards anymore. But I used to when I was with VIP Kid. So there's just tons of stuff on there that you can use to help you in your classroom. You can also record here. You can live stream, you can take pictures. I often will use this to take pictures when I want a new profile picture or something like that. Anything that you record will get saved over here to your gallery. Any pictures or videos that you take will then get saved to your gallery. So that is pretty much the gist of it. I have used many CAM in every single one of my classes since I first started four years ago. And I also use many cameras to record all of these lessons that you are watching. They're able to handle to100 In video, assuming that your computer and your webcam are able to handle ten ADP it even as features to your webcam like for example, my webcam is not able to zoom in or out. When I use just my webcam, the quality honestly looks really bad because it looks like this actually even a little bit worse because it's like zoomed out really far and you can see the edges of my room really well. On many cam I can actually zoom in like this until you can no longer see the edges. And I'm nice and big in the center of the screen. So it's really just super useful and it's a great tool to use in your classroom. It's pretty cheap, especially when compared to other webcam softwares. That is it for today's lesson. Next time we're going to have to start getting into some more boring stuff. We're going to talk about developing curriculum and using Google Sheets to organize your classes. Boring, that is necessary, and it will save you from a lot of headache later. I hope you've enjoyed class today. Am I look forward to seeing you again soon? Bye. 16. Student Planner: Welcome back. Today I'm going to show you how to use Google Sheets to make an all inclusive lesson planner where you can keep track of your students and your curriculum at the same time. Let's get started. The very first thing that you're going to do is open up a new Google Sheet. Now, you can name this whatever you want to. I'm going to name mine sample planner so that I know that this is not my real planner. And then here at the bottom, we're going to make some new sheets. You can make as many sheets as you deem necessary. Let's do them one at a time here, we're going to change the name of the first sheet to student planner. For the second one, we're going to name it land outline. Then we're going to make a third one. And this one is going to be the actual outline. Now, you can stop here or you can add as many pages as you want to. You can have a section for notes. You can have a section for important links to websites that you use regularly in your classroom, whatever you want. For the purpose of this lesson, we're just going to do the student planner, the planned outline and the actual outline. Now, for this particular video, we might only have time to do this student planner. We'll see how long it takes me to go through that. And then maybe in the next video, we'll talk about the curriculum outline. Now, one thing I do want to point out is that you can color code these, and I do highly recommend doing that. Just for the sake of this video, let's make this one red. And we'll make this one orange, and we'll make this one green. Now, let's talk about these student planner. The first thing that we're going to do is make floating titles. Of floating title is a title that is going to stay on the page no matter where you're scrolling on the screen. So I could go all the way down here to 300. And I'm still going to see the title that is put in the first couple of boxes. This is a very, very handy, especially when you have a lot of students. It makes it much easier to remember what each column is four. So definitely, definitely make floating titles. And the way that we're going to do that, let's go back to the top here. Before we can make them into floating titles, we first need to name our titles. So in the first column here, we're going to do profile name. Then the second column we're going to do actual name. Or you can put student name. So why do we need to have two separate columns for names? Well, if you are new to online teaching, you may not be familiar with this. But a lot of the times, the profile of the student and the name that the student wants you to call them in class are not going to be the same. This could be for a couple of different reasons. It could be because on their profile they use their name in their language. So Chinese characters, Korean characters, something like that. And then they have an English name during class. It could also be that this is a parent profile in the actual student is their child. The parents name is on the profile, but the student has a completely different name. So for example, let's say that dad, Jeff has a profile on amazing talker and his child is Elsa. Elsa is a very popular name amongst young girls. So I would put the student name as different from the profile name. Now, in the event that they are the same, because it does sometimes happen. I do put the name in both boxes. I will put Steve. Steve. The reason why I do that is because when I'm scanning for student names, usually I look at this column first. And it just makes it a little bit faster than it would be to leave that part blank. Now, in this third column, we're gonna put lesson details. This can be as detailed or as vague as you want. You could include the number of classes at the student bought, how much they paid for each of those classes and the duration of those class classes. If you teach multiple subjects, you can have the subject that they chose. Are they taking English classes? Are they taking math classes? Whatever you want? For me personally, I use the lesson details to include the price that they paid and the duration of the class. Just as an example, maybe they paid $16 for a 50-minute class. So I'll put 16 for 15 minutes. And the reason why I do that is because a lot of my students take 25-minute classes. And I only have a few students that take the long, hour-long classes. So if I'm not paying attention, if I don't recognize right off the bat that this is a student that takes 50-minute long classes, then when I'm making out my lesson plans for the week, I might not notice, and I might only plan a 25-minute long lesson. And then I have this awkward situation where I've got 25 minutes worth of material, but I have to make it stretch for an hour. So it's better to plan ahead and know with certainty. And this just makes it easier to do that. But you don't have to include the price. You can just put the class duration. You could also put the subject mass $16 for 50 minutes. However you wanna do it. This is just any details that you think are important about that lesson. In the next column, this one's pretty self-explanatory. We're going to put this student's age. I don't really need to explain that. Do you all got that? This next column is, in my opinion, the most important column in the entire planner and his lessons completed. Why is this so important? Because there is nothing more embarrassing than using the same lesson twice with the same students. I know this because it's happened to me price. And I'll tell you right now, if you do this, if this happens to you, the student is not going to tell you. The student is not going to speak up and say, we've already done this lesson teacher, they won't do it. I can almost guarantee it. There's like maybe 10% of students will actually say something. No, they're going to let you teach that whole lesson and then it will dawn on you later that, oh wait, we've already done this. It's embarrassing. It makes you feel and look unprofessional and organized and it's just a mess. The first time I did it, I didn't notice until the very end of class. And the second time I happened to notice about halfway in the middle. So since then, I'm very adamant about updating my lessons completed column at the end of every single day to make sure that I don't forget to add a lesson to this column. So lessons completed that one is important. This next column is maybe not necessary for everybody. But I like to keep track of my first lesson date with a new student. Just because it is nice to celebrate milestones, anniversaries and things with that student. It helps you to feel more relatable with your student, more personable. It makes your students feel like you really value them as a person and individually, you really do want what's best for them. They're not just a paycheck to you there, someone that you care for and you want to see Excel, right? So for me this is important, but for you maybe not. I just like to keep track of it. And then maybe after six months of having class with a student, definitely, if I've had that student for a year, definitely do something special for your anniversary with that student. Not only because it's just kinda nice, but also just as a way to say thank you. Thank you for being a loyal student for a whole year. That's a big deal. So this one is just for me personally. And then moving on to the next one. This next column is also self-explanatory. It's just the students country. This is mostly relevant because there are cultural differences depending on where they live and it can also help you to keep track of your students and remember, if you've got multiple else's, one of them is from France, one of them's from China. Killing that helps you remember which one is, which. Next one is gender. Not going to really talk about that one too much. Pretty self-explanatory. Then I've got student of ability. This helps me place them in the correct course. Are they a beginner student and intermediate Student? Are they a toddler? And I need a lot of games and songs to keep them interested. Where are they at in their skill level? This next one is also just for me. It's a policy that I have in my classroom. But it's whether or not they've used their 50% absence. What exactly does that mean? Well, it's a policy I have in my classrooms and I highly recommend for others to do the same thing. Obviously you don't have to. It's just my recommendation. But if a student does not come to class and they forgot, they just didn't want to come and they didn't feel like telling you about it. Whatever their reason is. If they don't come to class the very first time, I will give them a 50% refund. But I will also note to them that for future absences, the lesson will be marked as complete and they will not get a refund. I do this for a number of reasons. Number one, to prevent parents from taking advantage of you, my time is valuable too. They should have enough respect for me to at least communicate that they're going to be absent to it is not fair to other students that could have taken that spot instead. Right. So they're they're blocking up a spot on your schedule and then not coming to class. I thought could have been used for another student that's on the waiting list. Now, I also usually I'm pretty generous with this as long as the parent messages me and tells me that they're not coming to class regardless for what their reason is. Just the fact that they respected me enough to let me know. Most of the time, I will go ahead and give them 100% refund. And I'll reset the class for them. Now, if they do it too frequently, if it's happening on a weekly basis and they never come to class. At that point, you probably should put your foot down and start marking lessons as complete. But a solemn occasion of oh, no, I forgot. We are at the grocery store. We won't make it home in time. I will go ahead and refund the class. That's just me personally, as long as they tell me. But for the ones that don't they don't communicate with you at all. Those are the ones that I mark as complete. So whether or not they've used their 50% absence. This column is very important to me. And it is important to put not only yes, they did, right? Yes. But also the date like if someone were to miss class today, I would put 61822. Why do you want to put the date? Because sometimes parents will dispute, right. They'll get angry and they'll say maybe maybe the second time they've missed, they don't get a refund, they'll get angry. This is not we haven't missed before. And then you can say, you know, you did on this date. And then it's really easy to go back and look through the records to find your proof so that they don't try to rip you off. This column is also important. Then the next column is just additional notes. Additional notes about the student that you think are important to note. Some examples from my own planner is this student, previous VIP kids, students. They were in level three, right? That could be important information for me. I could put, the student is very shy. That could be something that's important to know. Siblings sometimes interrupt things like that. Or even just cute things about the student that you want to remember that to help build your rapport with them a little bit more recently, had a new baby in the family. Things like that. These are just anything about that student that you think is important to remember. And you can put in this column, just remember also you can stretch these out as long or as short as you want them to be. Finally, in this last column here, we're going to put email. Some students, parents, especially it will give you their e-mail to send a PDF or homework files to. And you can just put that in this column here. Now, for our second floating title, this is the first floating title. Our second one is going to be our weekly schedule. In the first box, we're going to put it in all caps and it's going to say this week, this is your schedule for this week. And then we're just going to type in all of the days of the week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We're going to space them out a little bit. Kind of give them plenty of room to write the names of your lesson titles. And then we're going to highlight this column here and decorate it a little bit. We're going to put everything in the center. We're going to change the color. I am a sucker for pink. Let's make it pink. Like this. Go ahead and fold all that font. And we're going to do this. Make it stand out so that it's a little bit distinguished from the other floating title. And this third box, we just want it to be blank, but we want it to be fat. Like this. We're not going to type anything in it. We just want it to be blank. Okay? So these three columns here are going to be our floating titles, all three of them. Now what you're gonna do, you're gonna click on View. You're going to click Freeze and go ahead and just click two rows. And what's going to happen is this little gray bar is going to appear. But you can drag this to the third row, and that's going to freeze all of them. Now, when you are looking at your schedule, this is especially helpful if you're teaching on multiple platforms. If you're doing out-of-school, amazing Tucker, VIP Kid, you're doing all of them. It can get really confusing to keep track of all of your students. So this little schedule here is very, very handy. So basically, this is how I would use the schedule here. I'm going to look at all of my platforms that I'm using then to look at Monday and say Who do I have on Monday and at what time and what order? Let's say that my first student is Jeff. And let's say that Jeff is taking a class for my beginner course in animals. Now you cannot hit the enter button because this is a spreadsheet. It's not the same as a Word document. Instead, you're going to hit the spacebar to put some distance between it. Then my next student maybe is Elsa. And let's say Elsa is doing a song, has some space. And then I've got Bob. And Bob is doing, just making stuff up at this point for three and then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've got Jessica doing a book. I don't know. Obviously, these are not the names of real students or lessons. I'm just trying to show you. I am really glad that I did this because now I can see that I actually forgot to do something. You see how the title, how all the names are in a row. We don't really want that because it kind of defeats the purpose. So if you click up here in this corner, you're going to highlight everything in the spreadsheet. And then what you wanna do is click on the text wrapping up. You can see my mouse or not. You click on Text wrapping. And then there's three different options here. The first one we'll say overflow. Second one is wrap. Third one is clip. Right now it's an overflow. We don't want that, we want it to wrap. So if you click on Wrap, it'll do this instead. Now that we have the text wrapped, we're also going to center everything, make it look nice and pretty. And then the vertical alignment, we don't want it at the bottom, we don't want it at the top. We want it in the middle like that. So it looks nice and pretty. Now, no matter what you type into it, it's going to adjust itself automatically and you don't have to worry about it anymore. Now, let's go ahead and start filling this out just as a sample. I'm going to pick three random names. Let's do. Well, since we've got them in the list, we'll put Jeff and maybe maybe dad's name is actually Kevin. And Jeff is the student. Then he has bought will say, he's got $10 for 25 minutes. And let's say he's six years old. I'm going to skip that one. And his first-class date was I'm going to type in a random number. And then he's from China. Oh boy. He's a beginner. Okay. Now that I have a couple of students here, I want to separate between them and make it really easy to scroll through because it can get really confusing once you start having a bunch of students. So every time I get a new students, they purchased a package of classes. I will add their name to my student lists with all of their information, and then they get a color. And I do a rainbow color. So I do, I'll go read first. You don't want it to be too dark because it will be hard to read the names. So I do the top row in the color column because it's a very light pastel color. And I will go through the list like that. And this just makes it really, really easy to keep track of the students and kinda separates them just to show you how chaotic it can start to get once you have a bunch of students. Let me show you my planner. So here's my planner. You can see that these dates are blank because they've already been completed for this week. Today is Saturday, so tomorrow will be a sunday. These are my costs or tomorrow. But here you can see all of my students. And can you imagine how crazy that this would look if I did not have them color coded. There are so many, Right? Definitely recommend doing that and you don't have to do a whole rainbow. You could just do two colors and alternate them back and forth. I personally would do at least four colors because even just two colors can really strain at your eyes after awhile, especially when you're looking for a specific student, right? So if I'm, for example, if I'm typing out my lessons, I'm gonna go and I'm going to look for Elsa, and I'm going to see what was else's last lesson completed. Because I have a curriculum setup, so I have my students take classes in a specific order. So I need to know what her last class was so that I know what her next class is going to be. So as I'm scrolling through looking for her name, a lot easier that if they are separated by colors. This is how you can make a student planner in your Google Drive with Google Sheets. I think this video is probably gone on long enough. We will talk about making curriculum in the next video. Alright, I will see you next time where we will talk about using this same planner to make a curriculum for you to begin planning out your own lessons. I will see you next time. Bye. Sure. 17. Curriculum Outline: Hello again. Today we're going to talk about how you can make an outline for your own curriculum so that you can start planning out your lessons. Let's go. This is where we stopped last time with our little Student Planner here. Now we're going to go to a planned outline. Now, you might be wondering, why do I need both a plant outline and an actual outline? The simple answer to this as things don't always go as planned. So as you are making your skeleton here, this is just a rough general rule of thumb to give you some directions, a path to follow, so to speak, while you're making out your lessons. But once you actually sit down and start making your lessons, you might add word, take away words, add some grammar concepts, take away some grammar concepts, depending on what feels right for you. In that moment. My actual outline is vastly different from my planned outline and I fill in my actual outline as I complete more classes. Why even bother with an actual outline? Well, eventually you will be complete, right? You won't have any more lessons to make. This is the wonderful part about making your own curriculum is that you can make it exactly the way that you want to. And once it's done, it's done. You can use it for multiple students over and over and over again. And having an actual outline is helpful because you can print that off in a PDF file and then send that to parents when they asked for it so that they know what level they're student does that, what to expect in upcoming classes like that. So let's get started. Once again, we're going to want some floating titles because once you get off of the first page, it can be very easy to forget which column is for what? In the first box we're going to type van de course. You could call it a level, whatever you want. Basically this is, is it the beginner course, the intermediate course? What level is it, right? So you can use the word level and you can use the word course. Doesn't really matter. First one is going to be the course. In the second column, we're going to do vocab. What vocabulary words are going to be in this particular lesson? In the third column, grammar. What kind of grammar is going to be in this lesson? Now of course, I am making this from an ESL standpoint like I'm teaching English. But you could do this for anything science, math. Now, you're still going to have a vocab section if you're doing science or math. But you're probably not going to have a grammar section for those subjects. Instead, you might have your main scientific topic or your math topic. Are you doing the Pythagorean theorem? What is the lesson about your lesson content? You're the primary focus of the lesson. What's that going to be? That's gonna go in this box. Because I'm an English teacher, mine is gonna be grammar. This column is just for me personally. I like to include math and science and sometimes even history in my English lessons. Because as an English learner myself, I wish that these things were included in textbooks. I wish I could tell you how to read two plus two equals four and Japanese. But these students are hoping to achieve fluency. And to really achieve fluency, these are things that they need to know. So I personally like to include math, science, and history in my lessons. You don't have to, but this column we're going to call this how I do my curriculum. You don't have to copy me. This is just kinda giving you a rough outline so that you can branch out and do your own thing. This next one, phonics, phonics that you're gonna do in that lesson. Now not all of these things are gonna be in every lesson. Not every single lesson is going to have math. Not every single lesson is going to have phonics. They're all going to have vocab because that's a key detail. But they're not all going to have these other things. These are just if they do have it, these are the columns it will go in. And then sight words. I always do sight words. Now because I'm an English teacher, this is pretty much all that I need. You can to this. You can change it. Just figure out what your title is needed to be and type them in. And this time we only needed this one floating title. So we're gonna go ahead and highlight it. Go to View. Freeze. And this time we only need that first row. Just hit one row is frozen. Now we are going to go ahead and pre edit our document here. We want everything to be centered, right? We want everything in the center, in the middle of the alignment here, that's this button. Don't know if my mouse is visible. If not, I will use my editing software to circle it. That is this one here. And then we have texts wrapping. Want that to wrap. We don't want it to clip. We don't want it to overflow. We wanted to wrap that for the whole document. And then you just go through step-by-step. One of the first things you need to do is decide how many lessons you want per unit, regardless of what subject you're teaching, you should separate them into units is just the easiest, most basic way to keep track of everything. So since this is the very first unit, we're going to call it V for beginner. We're gonna put a dot and then we're going to type unit one. You can put a semicolon or forward slash or whatever. We're going to use a colon here. And then decide what you think the first unit should be about. Now, when you are developing curriculum, having experienced is helpful. If you've worked with other companies before. Think about the order that they did things. It's not necessary, but it's helpful to think about the way other people are doing it. If you've ever studied a foreign language before, That's also very helpful. Think about the way that you were taught in the order that you were taught. If you've never tried to study a foreign language, I do encourage you, even if you don't care and you don't want to achieve fluency, I do encourage you to try it. Try it for one month. Download Duolingo, It's free. Try it for one month because it will really help you to relate with your students. And it will help you develop curriculum. Because you can kinda see the order that they do things. What kind of categories they have, that sort of thing. Pretty much across the board. I've used so many textbooks. I've tried so many language apps pretty much across the board. There's a few things that are usually towards the beginning. Colors. Family, food. Those types of things are usually quite close to the beginning, right? So let's just say for our very first unit, we're gonna do colors unit one colors. Okay, Then, how many lessons are you going to have? Do you want ten lessons per unit, 12 lessons per unit, 20 lessons per unit? What do you think each unit needs to have? My units all have eight primary lessons, and then they will occasionally have supplemental lessons like songs or vocabulary focuses with things like Blue's Clues, games or things like that. But there's only eight primary lessons. Sometimes there's only those eight lessons. And then sometimes there are books and other things that are in the same topic that I will include in that unit. Just because the vocabulary and no grammar being used is in the same theme, right? But they have eight primary lessons. So in my outline, I only have those eight lessons listed. I don't have the singing course. I don't have listed. I don't have the TV shows and things that I've dissected and turned into lessons. I don't have any of that in the outline. The outline is only for the main lessons. So I do eight, you can do ten, you could do 15. Doesn't matter however many you could do five if you want. It doesn't matter how many or how few. But be consistent. Each unit should have the same number of lessons, right? It's just more professional that way and it's cleaner and it also helps you cover all of your bases. So first, pick your unit. Same, decide how many lessons you want. We're gonna go less than one. 234. We're gonna go all the way down until we are satisfied. Just because I did eight, we're only going to do eight. Okay. So there we go, Unit 18 lessons and then we're gonna go ahead. We're not going to think about the vocabulary at all. We're going to do anything. All we're doing right now is figuring out the subject, the topic for each of the units. That's all we're doing first. So now we're gonna do B unit two. What do we want this one to be? Maybe it could be family members, right? We want to do family. Then you can take this and you can copy. Copy. Go here and hit paste. Okay. Unit three. Maybe for this one. Color and panelists do home like your furniture and things that are in your house. Okay. Then go underneath of it. Hit paste. Okay. We're going to keep doing that all the way down until you get all your units. Then you'll move on to the intermediate course, the advanced course, and you'll just keep doing that, right. Now you should complete your courses before moving on to the next course. So what I mean by that is finished your beginner course. So figure out your units first, then go back. Type in your vocabulary grammar that you're going to teach in the beginner course. Then once the beginner course is 100% planned out, then you can move on to the next course. The reason why you want to do that is you want to avoid overlap, right? It's okay to overlap vocabulary. And it's okay to overlap grammar to a point because repetition, spaced repetition in particular is very important for learning a new language. But you don't want them to be exactly the same, right? So do all of your beginner course first, because you want to make sure that everything scaffolds nicely but doesn't get repetitive. You don't want too much repetition. Then you just go through step-by-step, how you want to plan this out and list out your vocabulary words that you're going to have, lists out your sight words. But makes sure that everything flows. I'll go ahead and say that the vocabulary is the easy part. As for the grammar, the math, the phonics, you can look at other sources, look hooked on phonics or any of the other phonics websites, what order do they do? Their phonics usually will start with one of the a words. Like maybe it'll be at and maybe in this one we'll do add. In this one. We won't do anything but this one we're gonna do both at an ad, right? And we're gonna do that throughout this whole units. We're not gonna do anything else other than at an ad. Right? We're going to skip it again. This next one we're going to do at an ad again. Right? And then maybe in unit two, maybe in this one we'll do add. And then this one will do. Right. So you're gonna go through step-by-step and make sure everything fits within that theme in that they're all building off of each other so that they can keep practicing these things and actually master them, as opposed to just practicing them for one lesson and then forgetting about them completely, right? Spaced repetition is one of the most important things of learning and language. Again, if you've never studied a language before, I do encourage you give it a shot. You will learn a lot of things. I do recommend separating everything by color. So for example, maybe you're a beginner courses, read all of the units for the beginner course should be the same color like this. That way not only can you see the units nice and separated and easy, but you know that these are all the beginner course. So let's say that let's just pretend this is the intermediate course. We're going to put Intermediate Unit one and I don't know, maybe it's animals. And we're going to take this one and we're going to color this one green, right? Maybe the intermediate course is green. Just something like this. It just helps keep everything organized. And if you're looking for something, you want to find something quickly, it's a lot easier to find things this way. I won't lie to you. This is a little bit time-consuming, but it is worth it. It will set you apart from other teachers. It will give you control over every thing that you're teaching. And it's really, really worth it if you are able to sit down and put the time into it. Now, if you don't trust yourself to come up with your own curriculum, you can still have an outline like this, but maybe you get your curriculum from a textbook. Maybe you buy a textbook. You look at the chapters. Maybe those chapters are your units, right? Sometimes textbooks will even have units, and each unit will have a chapter. One chapter could be one lesson or even a couple of lessons depending on how lengthy that chapter is. And so you don't have to necessarily come up with the curriculum yourself. You can take that curriculum from a textbook, but still make an outline like this, following that textbook so that while you're making your lessons, you have easy access to everything. And it's a lot easier to find what you're looking for. And it just makes your life a lot easier. That is pretty much it. If you have any questions or want me to do a follow-up video on anything specific, please let me know and I will work on that. So let's wrap this up and I'll see you next time. Bye.