Hey everyone this is Sam Kary from The New EdTech Classroom and today's Tech Tip Tuesday video
is about how to draw on Google Slides. In a moment, we'll hop over to the Chrome web store so I can
show you the extension you'll need in order to do this. Be sure to hit the like button on this video
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Okay so once you're in the Chrome web store, you're going to want to search for
Annotate Net and then click on the first extension that shows up, Annotate, and I've also
put the direct link to the extension in the video description below. Then click 'Add to Chrome,' click
'Add extension,' and be sure to pin the extension so you can easily access it from your browser.
In order to use the Annotate extension, you'll need to create an account first. To do this, click on the
extension on your browser, and then select 'Free Registration.' Here you'll see that you can create
an education account if you can show that you're affiliated with a school, and you also have the
option to create a non-educator account, both of which will give you access to a large majority of
the features for free. Everything I'm going to show you in this video will be with a completely free
account. Once you've set up your account, just hop over to a Google Slides presentation to see how it
works. First you'll want to click on the extension and turn annotations on. Then you'll see that an
annotations menu shows up on the top right-hand side of the screen. The first tool is a laser tool,
which you can use to point out specific places on your slides without leaving a mark on slides.
The next tool is the pen tool. When you select it, you'll notice different color pen choices show
up. Pick a color you want and you can use it to draw directly on your slides. So you might circle
keywords here, for example. Then if you wanted to get rid of what you drew, select the eraser tool.
Lots of annotation tools require you to manually erase what you drew, which can be a pain, but with
this one all you need to do is strike through the annotation and it will erase all of it at
once. Okay I'll redraw a little bit here with the pen tool again and then next to the pen tool
you'll also see that there's a highlighter tool. Just like the pen, you have different colors to
choose from, and then you can easily highlight whatever part you'd like. So you might use the
highlighter tool on this slide to draw attention to the main subject matter you'll be teaching.
There's also a text box tool, which will allow you to add text anywhere you want on top of a slide
while you're teaching, so you might want to use the text box tool to do things like add
follow-up questions, for example. Then you can backfill the text box with color and use the
pen to annotate what you just typed as well. One thing I really appreciate about this extension is
that it sticks your annotations to the slide. So if you go to the next slide you'll notice
that the markups are no longer on the screen and you can add new annotations to this slide.
Then when you go back to the previous slide, you'll see that the annotations that you made on that one
are still there, which is pretty awesome! You can also save your annotations to use later. To do
that, go up to the disk icon, give your annotations a name and a description, and then click 'Save.' Now
that you've saved your annotations, you'll be able to pull them back up even after you've left the
Slides presentation. Just click on the presentation again from the Google Slides home page,
click on the annotations toolbar, select the expand tool, and click 'Load previous annotations.'
There you'll see all your saved annotations, and when you click on the one you just saved, you'll
see that all those annotations show up again on your slides. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this
video about how to draw on Google Slides with the Annotate extension, so be sure to drop those in the
comments below. Thanks so much for watching my video to the end. If you're interested in
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