hi there Jamie key here today a teachers
tech today want to show you how to take
your PDF your worksheet that normally
that maybe you would print out and how
to digitize it so students can just type
in the answer we're gonna be using
Google slides and at the end of it this
I'll show you how to hand this out to
them inside Google classroom so it will
look like this so I'll just go ahead and
click on a spot and then they can write
their answer right in and it's quite
easy to make and you're using Google
classroom it's easy to hand them all out
let's get started doing this today on
teachers tech
all right so before I start I just want
to say I did purchase this package here
I'm not going to be altering it at all
I'm gonna keep the creator's name on it
at the beginning I'm not read typing
this out and I wouldn't recommend type
retyping any of this out because there's
a lot faster ways to do this but the
main thing is I am going to be turning
this into an image so the main thing is
we even if you had you didn't have the
digital copy if you created something on
paper you could take a picture and of
that and bring it in the same way that
I'm gonna do now first of all I have
this open in Adobe Acrobat DC and you
might have this on your computer or not
depending what you've already have
installed I could just go in I'm just
going to mention this if you go up to
file you can see there's export and you
can export all your PDF pages as images
here so I could go through and export
them and all my pages in here return
into images but some of you might not
have this so I'm going to show you a
different way on this so what I'm going
to be using and I'm just going to go
back to the right page that I have on
I'm gonna do the automata Pia's here and
I'm gonna zoom up because what I want to
capture is make sure I capture the whole
page I'm gonna go so I'm on a Windows
computer right here I'm gonna go to snip
it the snipping tool and I just typed it
in and it should be on your windows free
there Mac will have its capture tool
also on it command shift 4 if you hit
all those together that will come up and
you can do kind of the same thing
I'm gonna go new right here and now it
allows me to draw take my crosshairs up
here and I'm gonna just draw over here
right to the very bottom to keep it in
the same proportions here right about
there all right that's close enough so
you can see what I captured there this
is the image it took a picture of that
so what I'm gonna do now is I need to
save this and so if I just go up to up
to file here
and then I want to go to save as
where do I want to save it and I already
saved it once here before because I was
doing a test on everything and I'll just
put this as to English language arts too
and I'm good with that
all right so that's the first step I
have a picture like I said you could
have an image from your phone you could
be exporting it right from PDF but now
I'm gonna go over to Google and open up
Google slides okay so I'm just in my
Google Drive right now I'm already
logged in I'm gonna go and open up
Google slides so I'm just gonna go up to
my app launcher here and slides is right
here and when this opens I'm gonna start
a blank presentation right here at this
point I need to change the size of the
page because this is in for
presentations for computer and I don't
want that I want the size of a piece of
paper an eight and a half by eleven so
what I can do is if I go up to file here
click on file and then look down here
and it says page setup I'm gonna click
on page setup and this is the default to
16 to 9 the aspect ratio that we see
right now I'm gonna click on this one
and go to custom now we go
eight-and-a-half by 11 for our sheet of
paper so the nice thing is if you're
doing other things in Google slides
remember you can do a lot of custom you
know you create whatever you want to do
apply this over and over again so I'm
just going to hit apply you can see how
everything changed I'm just gonna close
this side window down get this centered
now we have some text boxes on here
already but I'm just gonna go ahead and
delete these you just click on them hit
hit click on the edge so if I click on
the blue line there and then hit just
delete on my computer then it can go
away or you can right click and cut too
now I have this blank page so this is
where I bring in the image I don't want
to bring it in a lot of people who would
think is just insert image like that you
well you don't want to do that because
it's gonna move around and if you give
it to the students they'll grab it and
don't move around it'll be a pain or
they hit delete on it and it's gone what
we want to do is you can see there's the
background right here
I'm gonna just click on the background
and where we could change color and
everything like this well I want to put
an image so I'm going to go ahead and
choose image I need to browse I'm under
upload right here if you had in your
Google Drive you could go connect to
your Google Drive right here but I am
under upload I'm gonna hit browse and
these are the two as you can see ela -
is that what I'm uploading remember you
if you took that picture I had a
different video where I talked about
scanning on your iPhone using notes you
could scan that in and upload it and do
the same thing I'll put a link to that
video too if you're interested but I'm
gonna go ahead and hit open on this one
so it's uploaded now I'm gonna hit done
and you can see how I captured it in
that proportion of the same size of page
now it's taking up the whole page and I
can't grab this right I can't move this
around or anything it's it's there it's
the background on it so now all we need
to do now is add text boxes to it and
how we do that is you can see there's a
text box tool here and now I could have
a number of different pages so maybe
there's multiple pages I could put it
into one document and do the same thing
through it and the nice thing is in
Google classroom you make copies for
everything I'm gonna hit the text box
and at this point actually I'm gonna
zoom up a little bit here just so we can
see what we're doing a little bit more
so I'm gonna go back to my text box
again and I'm just gonna put a text box
like this so you could go through and
draw out all the text boxes the one
thing is when you click off of it you
can't see it so the students know if you
have older students or if they're very
familiar with Google slides you could
just put this in and get to them and
they could put their own text boxes on
but you can see you can't see it if they
click in it then it's there
you could always always right I'll just
put click here and then it then you can
see if I move it up a little bit they'll
know where to click so I could go
through and click so maybe they even
speed that up more and you don't have to
type click here I know that's not a big
deal but if I click again on just on the
blue make sure it's it's selected I'm
just going to go ctrl C for copy and I'm
going to click off and go control V and
now I can just go through and start
moving these down very quickly and
lining them up the way I want like this
so I'll just do a few more so you guys
get the idea of this remember if you
have bigger spaces so if I go down here
and bring this one looks like Miss that
one bring it right down here you can
change the size of these two so you need
a longer text box and then you could go
back to go ctrl-c and ctrl-v again and
you have a large larger text box and if
they worksheet is different you can make
these larger so that they have more room
to write in or the students could even
change the size their font so if they go
in here if they're writing more and
they're running out of room the font is
right up here so if they wanted to maybe
write it smaller so they can get more
they could change that now depending on
the age group you know and what you've
taught them throughout the year and what
they know that could be a thing make it
as easy as possible just put everything
there for thee and they just click in it
so just some different options and the
nice thing is these pages again if we go
control-c control-v on anything it can
copy so control-c control-v i can make
multiple pages of this alright so you
can go through and set it up here like
this and you get these fillable pdfs
using Google slides okay one last step
let's go over to Google classroom and
see how that we would hand that out to
our students I just want to make one
last note before I leave here and I
mentioned about changing the size of the
font and remember they can change colors
so whatever they're writing in here they
can start typing and they can I should
spell things correctly here but we have
color in different font styles too right
so right up top then they can start you
know spelling whatever they want and
typing whatever they want in different
colors if they want to highlight it okay
so let's move over I'm just going to go
back to my Google Drive
remember to launch Google classroom
we're looking for this if you haven't
used Google classroom I got a full video
on that I'll put the link down below in
the description in the card above but I
already have Google cloths
open here I have a demo here I'm just
gonna go ahead and open this up I'm
gonna go to my class work because this
is where I'm gonna assign everything and
I'm just gonna create an assignment and
there's this one thing I just wanted to
point out when you do a sign this so if
I just go create assignment I'm just
gonna call this ela and I'm not gonna
put very much for instructions but now
at this point I'm just gonna go add and
I want to add this from my Google Drive
because this is where this is saved from
and it should come up as recent you can
see I'm gonna go this one since I had
two copies but this is what I called ela
I'm gonna add now this is the thing I
just wanted to point out when you send
this out so students can view the file
students can edit the file or make a
copy now remember students can view the
file they won't be able to edit the bill
to view it but if you want them to what
I would suggest is make a copy for each
student because if if you give students
can edit a file they'll edit the
original file but if you make a copy
each student will get their own copy so
make sure you change that okay depending
on what you want if it's collaboration
work or not but in something like this
this makes a copy easily that gets
pushed out to all the students and then
you just go ahead and hit a sign
depending on the points and everything
you can individualize this to but again
take a look at my Google classroom
tutorial if you want to learn more about
that so I hope you liked this tip today
taking a from a worksheet a PDF and
turning it into something that students
you can send it out and students could
edit and remember you just need that
image to bring in to Google slides to be
able to do this then add the text boxes
on let me know what you think if this
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