a live show highlights video and in it i'll be showing you how to apply the 5e's lesson plan when
building a hyperdoc and also get into the nuts and bolts of how to put one together so this video is
going to be helpful for you if you're just getting started and want to know the basics of how to
build a hyperdoc from scratch my name is sam carey and this is my youtube channel for the new edtech
in a google doc so i wouldn't necessarily recommend just jumping into google slides
first the reason for that is because when you're designing lessons i do think it's important to
be able to to visually see in one place how a lesson is going to progress across a sequence
so if you're building it in google slides just kind of right off the bat then that can be
difficult to see just because of the design so my first piece of advice is that you don't use
the google slides templates i would recommend that you start with a third-party program
so the two that i really like are slides mania and slides carnival they're both awesome places to
get cool looking slides and just taking a template from one of these third-party websites is going
to make your slides look so much better already and you'll see that they have holiday type themed
slides and things like that i would try if you can to see if you can find a slide that a slide deck
that relates in some way to the lesson that you're doing that can kind of just add an element of fun
to the slides when you're making a slide you want you do want to focus on how it looks presentation
matters picking a slide that looks kind of fun is definitely going to just add a slight upgrade in
your engagement today i'm going to show a lesson around whether or not art can be used to influence
people's political beliefs so that will be the essential question that students will be answering
and so today i just want to find a template that looks a little bit artistic all you need to do
when you go to a website like slides carnival or slides mania is check out templates from the top
here so you could look at different categories and then when you find something that you want
you just need to click on it go to preview and download and then you can either get a powerpoint
template or you can get a google slides template the first thing i do is just click x on that and
then go over here and give it a name so you'll want to give it the name of your lesson i'll just
name it art and politics right now and then you'll see that you essentially have a whole slide deck
here so you can take all of these slides if you wanted and just directly edit them you can also
still use the regular slide adder so you can go up here to bring in new slides and these will bring
in the slide layouts that don't have the additions necessarily so today i am going to show you
a few uh different add-ons and extensions that you can use with google slides
one of them is this add-on and it is the flat icon add-on now flat icon is basically just going to
allow you to bring in some fun icons and this is a really quick and easy way to personalize and
make your slides look a little bit better and another add-on is magic rainbow unicorn slides
so what this allows you to do is basically take text and make it into a rainbow color i also like
the unsplash images slide add-on this is one you don't have to have you could just get an image
from unsplash but unsplash just has kind of cooler images more artistic they're also copyright free
so you don't have to worry about violating copyright with getting google images though if
you're just using it for teaching you don't really need to worry about that i love bitmoji bitmoji is
definitely a big part or my bitmojis is a big part of how i put together my google slides lessons
and i also like the gif extension for chrome so what i'll do is i'll go back here and i'll look
at my essential question actually i'm not going to use this exact lesson but just to show you i could
copy and paste it if i wanted then i'm going to go over here and i'll write in my essential question
to start now one is not so much about presentation but more about tracking what you're doing and
making sure that you have all the elements that you want to include and that's to actually put a
little box at the top that indicates what part of the lesson you're in so here what i'm going to do
is add a text box just up at the top here i'm basically this this is more for me actually i'm
going to remind myself of where i am in the lesson i'm going to back fill this by using the fill
color here and i'll do something like white so it's a little bit more visible i can make the text
bold here then just size it down a little bit so one thing that i'm going to do here is bring in a
bitmoji and since it's a question i like to bring in these types of bitmojis you know that have like
a me thinking about something so i'm gonna pull this one in where i'm considering this question
okay so i have this little thinking face here and what i'm thinking is you know just to make
this look a little bit more interesting rather than just have the text here kind of sitting
not really doing anything i'm going to add a thought bubble by going up here to insert you
can go to insert shape callouts and you'll see here that there's a little thought bubble if you
click on that what that will allow you to do is drag and so you'll see i can get a thought bubble
there then if you drag the little corner here that will actually allow you to like drag it over to
your head cut the text and i'll put the text right here on top of the thought bubble i'm gonna drag
that around now i kind of also don't really like that gray background there so here i'm going to
fill this i'll fill it with white i'm going to go up to the border color i want that to be black and
i want it to be a little bit thicker so i'm going to go here to border weight and just make that a
little bit thicker i've already built an initial slide that just looks slightly more interesting
for students for the next slide i always include the learning targets here i'm going to go up to
the add new slide and i'm just going to bring in this title with one column and i'll start here by
just adding learning targets and then i'm going to write them in and i'll go up here to bullet points
first of all one of the things that you'll notice here right is that it's boring it looks boring one
thing that you can do to just make it slightly more interesting here is bring in an icon so for
learning targets you can go up here to add-ons go to the flat icon add-on you can see i already
have it pulled up here but i'm going to search for a target so to get one you just click on it
and then click insert and that's going to bring that in and then you can resize it drag it around
wherever you want it to go now we're going to move on to the actual material so
the first thing that students are going to do here will be the engage phase of the lesson i'm going
to pick this slide just because i like that it kind of has an emphasis in the center then go up
here and make sure that i've included that this is the engage phase now for this slide i'm just going
to take this text i'm going to write over it i'm actually going to add some different text boxes
here now what i want to do is push students over to another program where they're actually going to
do an activity so the whole point of a hyperdoc is basically that you're curating different
tech programs you're putting together a lesson strategically so that students can ultimately
achieve a learning target what i did here is i created a jamboard very basic i just added some
sticky notes with the words and then i used the shapes tool here to bring in some boxes then just
make sure here under share so you want to make sure that you have set the share restrictions
appropriately so that anyone with the link can access it copy this link then i'm going to go back
to my slide and there are a couple ways you can do this but here what i'm going to do is just
highlight that and just to show you here i'll go up here to insert link you could also right click
or go to insert link here and then what i'll do paste that link in click apply we're going to
move into an explore phase so here i'm going to grab this slide down here and one of the
reasons i'm choosing this one is just you notice that i haven't brought in any images
yet so i want to just mix it up now this again obviously doesn't relate this image over here
right so the way that you can change this is i'll go here to background notice how right now
it has a color it has an image what i'm going to do is choose an image here i can go to google
image search i'll go ahead and bring in an image of a painting that is intended to impact
people's political beliefs then click insert and you'll notice how it already brings it over
on this side of the slides so what i did is i created a frame i brought in an image of guernica
just brought in some additional paintings that students would be making observations about and
inferences about i'll copy that link gonna go here turn this into a hyperlink so the purpose of
having this kind of wide open canvas here is that you can essentially fully customize it however
you would like the next part is what i'm going to do here is give students some instructions
i want them to actually engage with group members here i could leave it like this again not so bad
the instructions are there it's not awful but i'm going to show you how to make this
look a little bit better what students are going to do here is write their answers in these boxes
and the first thing i want to do is actually just indicate in these boxes so i'm going to go over
here to insert and i'm going to insert an arrow what this will allow me to do here is draw an
arrow now you might be thinking how do they know who my group member is so what i did here is i
created a google doc in this google doc you could basically continue to mix up which group a student
is in get the shareable link leave it as view only go here to copy the link i will insert this link
already i've now created a slide where students can type directly on the slide they don't have to
go over to some external document and write their answers i have pointed out where they need to to
do that and just added some of these little visual cues another way to just kind of make it a little
bit more interesting is to go up here to giphy you can search in giphy's you can just drag and drop
that in the gifs like the bitmojis not necessary but just something you know that that i like to do
for fun now what we're going to do is move over to the elaborate phase i'll indicate to them up
here at the top what they're going to do so i'll remind myself that here they're going to research
and locate pieces of political art then here i'm just going to write out some instructions for what
they're going to do then the activity will be to post what they found to padlet it would also be
an appropriate part of the lesson to do something like record a video in loom or screencastify and
then bring that link in you're just going to copy that link you're going to bring that in and you're
going to link that here so that students can watch a little mini lesson two other elements actually
that i want to add to this slide deck here because again this is kind of boring is an icon
and i'm going to find a little art palette that i found here could search for art palette i'm going
to bring that one in go up here to bitmoji i might want to pull something else in so i found this one
for example me and the computer then i'm going to drag and drop in to show an element of researching
all right so there you know i've taken what is it's not that it's super fancy and interesting
now but made it a little bit more interesting now for the last part of this lesson we're going to
have students make an argument bring in another slide and here i'll do this two columns slide
one of the reasons why i wanted to show this is because i'm going to show you how you can link it
back to a specific assignment in google classroom where students could actually post this response
remember i told you about the in the beginning viewer here the add-on magic rainbow unicorn
slides so i'm going to open this up that will just turn this into a little rainbow word so
you know not a big deal but again just a little element that can make this a little bit more fun
first just on a technical level what i need to do is get the link to where they would actually be
posting this response what i did here in google classroom in this demo google classroom account
is create a question so the question here is can art change people's political beliefs and when
students respond i i set it up so that they would be able to respond to each other's questions so
what i'm going to do is go here to the three dots right next to the assignment i'm going to copy the
link then i'm going to paste that link in and i hope that you learned just a little bit about
how to make slides a little bit more fun i'm by no means slides master designer or anything like
that there's just a couple of tricks that you can do to make them a little bit more interesting for