This video is sponsored by Wacom. I'm going to explain everything that you need to know
to get started with, explain everything in under 10 minutes, explain everything was originally
created for the iPad, but I am going to be showing the web version because I think that
is accessible to more people. And I'm going to be using the, walk them into those writing
tablets for any of the writing that I'll be doing on the screen. Everything that I share
today is going to be on the free version of explain everything. So let's get started because
I'm running out of time. When you get to explain everything.com and just sign in, even if you
don't have an account, just go ahead and sign in with Google easiest way to do it. So let's
start a new project. And when you start a new project, you can import a file like a
picture or a PDF of your PowerPoint, a template, which includes all of these right here. But
I like to start with a blank canvas. The first thing it asks you is if you want to enable
your microphone, the only reason you would do this is if you're going to share this board
with other people that are not in the same room, and you want them to be able to hear
you while you're on this shared board together. We'll talk about that when we get to that
section, but for now, I'm going to say mute microphone and join. So in this first case
scenario, let's say you're going to be using the, explain everything in front of a live
class, either in person or online. Here's how you might use it. In this example, lesson,
I'm gonna be talking about sound and parts of the ear and how we hear. So I want to start
out by bringing in a picture of the anatomy of the ear. And so if we look at the toolbar
on the left, the very top one is add media. You'll also notice that there's some keyboard
shortcuts there, like a, to add media. I'm going to be moving between all my tools using
keyboard shortcuts, like a and V N D. And I recommend you do the same. It's going to
be a lot faster than coming over here and clicking. So if I add media and I want to
add a picture of the ear, it's not this picture thing. This is like, take a picture with your
web cam, but I have an existing image right here that I have on my computer. And I can
click on open. It takes me to the image editor asking if I want to crop or rotate or anything
like that. I don't want to do any of that. I just want to import it as is. I'm gonna
click on done. Now. It defaults to the hand tool or keyboard shortcut V. And what the
hand tool, you can move it around, change the size, do whatever you need to rotate it.
If you need to, and then put it where you want. So over here on the left, I've got the
pen tool. The pen tool is like most pencils. You can change your size. If you'd like to
change a color or get a color, that's not here. Let's say I don't want a green. I want
a purple. If you click on the green and then click again and I don't see purple here, I
can click on this plus sign to add the color that I want. And let's add this purple right
here. So now I've got this purple. So in this live lesson with my students, I'm explaining
that sound comes in through the ear canal and then hits our ear drum and our eardrum
vibrates. If you want to undo any drawings that you can go down here to, the undo or
just do command Z, and maybe I want to use the highlighter tool to highlight that sound
comes, through the ear canal before it hits our ear drums. Now what's really cool is this
eraser tool has three different modes of eraser. This first mode will erase the last thing
that you drew. So notice that I drew the highlighter last. And so it's only erasing the highlighter.
It is not erasing the pen from earlier. Let me undo that. Now, if I want to erase all
of my drawings, like my highlighter and my pen, then I can do that with the second option.
Now, if I want to erase everything, including the image, I can use this third option. Maybe
I want to erase these words up here, because I want to add them as I go. I can do that
because these words were actually part of the image. I did not add these words myself.
And so I think it's pretty cool that you've got so much flexibility with the eraser tool.
Another unique feature is the cutout tool. It does not actually erase or cut out something,
but it duplicates a portion of your screen. So maybe I want to duplicate this. I've got
the cutout tool selected and I'm clicking and dragging right here. And I want to take
this little section and I want to annotate it and, and talk about a few things about
it that I don't want to clutter up the original image with. So maybe I pull out this cutout
from here, and I want students to know where this came from. So I'm going to add an arrow.
I can go over to my shapes and arrow is going to be under the shape of defaults to square.
You can click on the arrow and then I want a purple arrow and I can click and drag from
here to there to show. All right. So this is that section. And I want to label this
section. So students know what we're looking at here. So I can use the text tool right
here, click and drag, where I want my text to appear. And I'm just going to type in a
closer look and you can do pretty much all the word processing stuff when you highlight
it, that you can normally do in any word processor. If I want to change the font and the centering
and make it bold, and then I can move it where I want. And then with my pen tool selected,
I can annotate this and not clutter up my original image. And then point out that these
state bees is the smallest bone in the entire body. So if I wanted to start deleting any
of this, you don't want to use the eraser tool. That'll take too long, but they've got
a delete tool and you can click and drag a square over all the things that you want to
delete. So if you just want to delete this section over here, you'll see it all gets
highlighted and you can hit the X and then it gets deleted. If you want to delete everything,
of course, then you can just highlight it all and then hit delete. Now, let's see how
we can actually invite students to collaborate on this whiteboard with us. So I pulled in
a picture of the ear again, and I erase the labels that were a part of the images in the
eraser tool. And I want students to label this image collaboratively, but I also found
another image that I want them to label that has the wavelength and shows how speakers
are working and how they move the sound to the ear. Instead of taking a screenshot of
my entire screen, and then trying to crop out that little section on a Mac. There's
a shortcut where if you hold shift control, command, and then hit the number four, it'll
give this little cursor. And then you can just say what you want to take a screenshot
of, by dragging a square. And so now not only is this only taking a screenshot of this section,
it also puts it on my clipboard. It's not on my desktop. And then I can come over here
and then do command V to paste it. And so now it's just that little section from the
website and I don't need to crop it or do anything. I'm just going to add it in there
and I'm going to move it over here. Let me add the parts that I want students to label
real quick. Now, before I share this with my students, I want to make sure that they
can't move stuff around. So first I am going to click on this little I, the inspector and
I am going to highlight everything. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to set it as
background. So now when I go back to my hand tool, nothing can be moved. So now when I'm
ready to invite my students, I click on this little button up here that has all of these
letters. And then it'll say, okay, well, who has permission before you invite let's click
on that. And it says, anyone with the link can edit. It should default to that. But if
it doesn't click on this pencil and then say can edit, cause you want them to be able to
actually write and add stuff on there. So once you've got that click on this button
again, and then you can copy this link right here. So let's see what the student view is
going to look like. So on the right side is the student perspective on the left side is
the teacher perspective. And you can see that they're virtually the same. So maybe a student
wants to zoom in. So they click on this zoom and pan, and then they zoom into this section.
It's going to tell them that they're trying to unfollow. Tom Gibson. Me, the teacher,
all that means is that they are trying to look at a view that is different than the
view that I had, which in this case is okay, because we're not, we're not all looking at
the same thing, but you see how it just now pulled it back to the view that I had, just
to make sure that if the student wanted to make sure that they were seeing the same thing
as me, they could do that, but I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to say unfollow Tom
Gibson. So now the student is able to freely move about the canvas. And as this student
starts to label the section ear canal, you'll notice on the left side, it just says explainer,
because this student is not signed in any students that are not signed in is just going
to say explainer, if you want them to sign in, there is a button on the bottom that can
sign in. But the downside is that students can delete anything that anyone including
the teacher has written. So if I wrote the word amplitude and the student's zoomed and
panned on over, they could just go here and erase what I just wrote or what anybody else
just put up on the whiteboard. The more people you have on this page, the more of a mess
it potentially could become. And when I was looking at up, even explain everything says,
it really works best with about eight or less students. You can have up to 25, but you don't
want a ton of people here, particularly if they're anonymous, because then everything
just goes out the window. Sometimes if students are showing up anonymously back to the teacher
view, explain everything does have a record feature. So you can record videos of you going
through these lessons, but on the free plan, it is limited to one minutes. And so I don't
think that's really usable for most teachers, but using it live in class, as well as collaborating
with students, I think can be highly valuable. If you're building out a blended learning
classroom of students watching videos and using interactive white boards and check out
this playlist that we have of all of our best blended classroom videos, we'll see over in
the platelet.