Slides is a really cool Google tool. Do you have to have a Google account in order to use it? Absolutely. You do What if you don't have one? Well, then you need to create one. Okay, you need to create one. They're free. And then you have full Full rights to all of the Google tools and you can use them and you can show them to your students and you can share with and you can do all kinds of things. And here's the thing you can actually Show things to your students and they don't have to have a Google account. You can have them preview something, which means they can look at it. But they don't have to have a Google account. Now, do I think they should have a Google account. Absolutely. Here we go. This is a link. Now, this is an HTTPS colon slash slash. Okay, so that just makes it secure socket. So, and most, most websites are going that way now and bitly actually just did about three weeks ago. They became secure instead of unsecure, which is with the HTTP. So, bitly bit.ly slides the number to the letter V. Okay. This is a preview. So this will allow you to view the slides deck off to the side, if you wish. And as I make changes on the slides deck, you'll see it happen. This is a live. This is dynamic handout. And right now I know that nobody's in here because I don't see any little icons showing up with anonymous acrobat or something like that. So when you come into if you share something in preview mode. And yes, I will be showing you how to do that. But later Once you share something in preview mode. You don't have to worry about updating your copies all the time. Because it's a dynamic. It's a live deck. So as soon as you come into the deck, as soon as you see it as soon as you view it, you're going to see all of the changes that I make to it. All right. And here we go. Next slide. This is me. I, my name is Melinda Holt. I'm a PS2 with OTAN. I'm a tech in technology integration. I am a Google certified educator trainer. I've been a trainer for, I think, five years or something like that. That's why I get the little T. I'm also a certified admin, Google admin. And I'm a co-apply digital skills trainer. Woohoo. So those are my certifications. Whoops, you do. And here we go with the handout.  It's a table of contents. Here's another thing you can do with a slides deck. You can make it an ebook. This is an ebook. So each one of these links or each one of these lines of text right here is a link. So if I'm going, I'm going to go ahead and hit present and you don't have to be in presentation mode. But if you're in the preview mode, if you're a student and you're in the preview mode and you've done section one, two and three, and now you want to get on with section four, you can actually select the section that you want to go to. And this will go to customizing page setup. Okay, now on this handout, the buttons up at the top that tell you what slide you're on. They go back to the TOC. You don't have to be in presentation mode for this to work. I can go right back to adding a slide. And because I'm the owner, I see where it says slide 18, add slide, and I can click that link. So if you did go on to the slides deck, if you opened it out or opened it up, this is probably you. It is not going to say Will Natterson, because what I did was I shared it in preview mode to anybody. So Google's not going to keep your name. All right, I don't know who this is. This could be Will, this could be Marjorie, this could be Anthony, this could be Susan, this could be anybody. Okay, so it's about the fourth slide in. Okay, now I get a different view. This is the thing. You're in preview mode. You don't get to, you don't get to go You don't get to see the view that I'm in right now. You don't get to see the slides on the left-hand side. You don't get to see the file edit view up at the top. You don't get any of the menu items. You can't copy this. I've taken that away. All right. So the TOC, the table of contents is on slide five. All right. And then after that, all of the other slides will link back to the TOC. Okay, so the TOC is right here. If you're on the preview, you can click on any one of those. And yes, if you already know about how to create a presentation, you could absolutely go to manipulating objects or changing page setup. You don't have to follow along with me. If you're, if you're More advanced than what I'm what I'm doing right now, then you could do this and I will be showing you how to create an ebook. It's really simple to do. And most people miss the one step that you need right here is the second page of the table of contents. Okay. And then what are slides? Some people don't know what slides are. So I have to go over that. All right. So for the purpose of this handout, slides is an app. It's an application. It's a tool, slides is an app within G Suite.  You can use it in any browser, but it works best with Chrome. It can be installed on any smart device. You can put it on a phone. You can put it on a tablet and you can put it on a laptop or a desktop if you wish. The word slides, presentation and deck are interchangeable when you're using Google. So those three words, if I say slides, I'm or deck or presentation. I'm using the same. It's the same word for everything. Some things that you can do with slides, presentations, like this one, an ebook, like this one. You could do branching. You can actually create a slide, five slides, let's say, and have number two go to number five, and have number one go to number four, depending on the answer that the student gives. If we have time, I will show you that. It is in the handout, though. Here are some terms to know. You need to know that a deck is a file created within the slides app deck or slides app. And an object is anything on a slide, anything on a slide, anything on a slide. That includes pictures. That includes text. That includes buttons. Anything on a slide is an object. And objects can be manipulated. Okay. Here are some guidelines to use. Just some quick little tips. Okay. When you're using the formatting tool or when you're really getting into slides. Now, I've gone through this pretty fast. Okay. You can always come back to it. So you can open up slides in a lot of different ways. If you're already signed into Google, the quickest and easiest way, if you get on your computer and you go, Oh, I want to create that slides deck, blah, blah, blah, because you got this really cool idea. Right. All you have to do is type in Chrome. You have to have Chrome open. You're going to type slides.new slides.new, or you can type slides.google.com. Most people already know this way right here where they type drive.google.com, then you select the new button and create a new blank deck, a blank presentation. Through the slides home, slides.google.com, you can find the template. So I'm going to show you these three ways. I'm going to hit a new tab on my Chrome. So I'm hitting the plus sign way up the top. Okay. I am going to type in the Omnimox or the address bar. I'm going to type drive.google.com. I could have also used the waffle and selected the drive icon. Okay. So here I am at Drive. Underneath the Drive button, you're going to select that and then select Google Slides. That's one way to create. Another way to create is to go back up to the Omnibox or the address bar, if you will. I'm going to use the same one that I had Drive open, slides.google.com. On this page, you're not going to see the drive button. All right, but all of the slides that you create are in Drive. When you go to slides.google.com, it's just showing you the slides. It's not showing you your docs. It's not showing you your forms. It's not showing you your sheets.  So if you don't want to see the drive, you don't have to. You can go to slides.google.com. By the same token, you can go to sheets.google.com or drive.google.com or forms.google.com. Each one of those is an app. And because each one of the Google tools is an app, it has its own place on the web, its own bubble, let's say. So this is the slides.google.com area. Here are all of the slides that I've created. Up at the top of this area, you're going to see a really cool thing called templates. Templates is part of the handout. When you hit the template gallery up at the top, you'll see a bunch of different templates going through. Okay. To get back to where all of my presentations are, I have to hit the arrow up at the top of the screen where it says template gallery. So if you have more than one account, and I do, I have a G Suite's edu account with scowy.net. I have my own personal account as a trainer, and I have a personal account as just a personal know-nothing self. I sign into all of them, and how do I figure out, okay, this is my, I have a different picture for my different cells, so I know who the heck I am. So right here when I see that green background behind me, I know that I'm in my personal trainer account. So when I click it, I can see there I am scowy tech at gmail.com. Here are the other accounts that I have accessed. And if I want to, if I've signed into all of them, I can select that other entity. So here I am Sacramento County. Okay, and here are the different slides that I've created with Sacramento County Office of Education. I want to go back to my public account, then I would select that. So you just have to make sure you look at that picture. If you have a different picture for each of your different cells, Bev, you're going to know who you are. And that's how you switch between the two. How do you get to template gallery? You go to slides.google.com, slides.google.com. You type that in the address bar or the omni bar, whatever you want. Boom. It'll take you right here. On this page, you're going to see all of the slides that you've created. And if you've only got a few, that's fine. If you don't have any, that's okay too. Up at the top on the right hand side, you're going to see the word template gallery and you're going to select that. Okay. And then it just drops down and you see all of the templates that you have access to. As soon as you click one, it's yours. So don't click it unless you want it because you're going, oh, what's this look like? Oh, what's that look like? Oh, what's this one over here? Every time you click on any of these, you're going to get a recipe book or a lesson plan or a photo album in your list of presentations and they're yours. Now you can delete them after you do that. I made that mistake because I went in and I looked at all the templates and then when I went back to my slides area, I'm going to click this arrow where it says template gallery. When I went back here, I had all of those presentations in my list. I was like, ah, what are the advantages? Disadvantagesofslides.google.com. This is just a quick and easy way of getting to your slides. Of seeing just your slides because now I don't have to go through, oh man, this is a doc. This is a form. No, that's all I want are my slides. And yes, you could do a search on your Google Drive. But what better way to see just your slides? I don't have to go through folders. I don't have to do anything like that. It's right here for me. Can you have two accounts open at the same time? Absolutely. As long as your club, your school allows it, Jacqueline. So I am the administrator, semi-administrator now for our EDU. So I get to go back and forth between my accounts because I've allowed it. So if your school only wants you to be signed in at one at a time, you might try opening up a new Chrome window and seeing if you can sign in with your personal self on that other Chrome window. If that's allowed, boom, you got it. Okay. I've already gone over to get to the template gallery. That's through slides.google.com. Okay. So we just went to Drive and went to slides.google.com. Another way to create a slides deck without even opening either one of these is to do slides.new. You can do this for a doc, a sheet, or a form. Slides.new. When you type that in and hit enter, it creates a new slides deck for you. As soon as you create a new slides deck, the first thing you should do is title it. Google doesn't care what you title your untitled presentation. You can create 50 untitled presentations. Google doesn't care because the address, the web address way up the top, that is the name of your file. You can title it anything you want. But this, up here in the Omnibar, that's what the real name or the real title I'm going to say of the file is. So the first thing you should do so that you know what this is is to title it so you can find it later. So I'm going to type OTAN demo. Okay. It automatically opens up to a blank template. So if you went to slides.new, good for you. If you use one of the templates when you're in the template gallery, that's okay too, but you're going to see something a little different. Why not match up with what I'm saying? Just saying. You might want to consider opening up the slides.new. On the right-hand side, whenever you create a new slides deck, the way I just told you, is you're going to get a themes area on the far right-hand side. And as you scroll down, so you can click through the themes to get an idea of what they look like. What that first slide is going to look like anyway. Okay. If you want to see what the rest of the slides in that theme look like. Everyone look at your screen right now. I want you to, because you're going to have to focus a little bit. Okay. So on the far left-hand side of your screen, there's a little slides home button. Don't click that. Wait for me to tell you when to click. Okay. Slide home button. Underneath the slides home button, there is a plus sign. Don't click that either. Next to the plus sign is a drop-down arrow. That is what I want you to click. So let me show you. Let me see if I can zoom in here a little bit. So right here, this is the little guy you want to click on. And I'm not sure this is coming out for you because I've never done this in Zoom before. So it's the little icon next to the plus sign on the left-hand side. So I'm going to click that. There are all the different slides for this theme. Okay. This one's a little green with a little image on it. This one is brown. Boom. This is the one I want.  For the rest of you, just chill. Okay. This is an advanced topic that I'm going to try and show the advanced folks. So if you understand master slide and master slide deck, this is what you're going to want to do if you want to change your slide set. So you can go to slide, edit master. You can also go to view master. Either one will take you to the same area. Okay, so it's slide, edit master or view master. I'm going to go to view master. Here are all the master slides. Now, because we were on that first slide, this is the one that came up. If you go to the very top, you're going to see the master. So if you want your font, not to be whatever it was, but maybe you want it to be verdana. Okay. Once you change that on your master slide, it will change for every other slide will be verdana. Okay. If you want to change one of the layouts in the master, you can go and say, okay, yeah, this is pretty cool. But I don't want to this color or these Oh, this is a pretty nice graphic, but I don't want them to be that color. I want them to be this color. Okay, so you can change that and when you change it on the master, it changes it on all of the slides that you that you that you add to your deck that have this template that have this layout. Okay. All right, so I'm going to go back to my slides deck by using the left pane at the little number one here. Boom. And then I'm going to add a slide underneath the slides icon, the plus sign. I added a blank. That was nice. I don't want to blank choose next to the plus sign. I want to choose the one that I just changed. See there's that little yellow instead of the brownish. Because I changed it and it will be, it will remain that way. So I can create five, six slides with this template.  I can maybe even make create a copy of it. And then have instead of the yellow drips going down, I could have blue drips or green drips, whatever I want. Okay. Our slides and themes the same I have a slide and want to use a template after I create it. You can create your own templates. You would have to save it though in your slides app area or in your drive. You can't add templates to the Google templates on your public account and you cannot add templates to your club or your edu area without having it approved by your network administrator. Jacqueline, I think that that answered your question. So if I want it, I've just changed this theme. Right. I've changed the template on it, because what I did is I made this yellow drip instead of the brownish fading drips. Okay, so if I want to save this as a template, I would save it to home. Now, we're going to create an ebook from this. I'm going to go to the first slide. And I'm going to type ebook. Okay. And I'm going to delete this one right here. So, an ebook a book has a table of contents right. So we're going to create a table of contents. We're going to type the word. What are we going to type the word on. Well first we have to know what our slides about. What is this ebook going to be about. We're going to type creating shapes. Okay, so on creating shapes are going to, we're going to type create square. And then under that we're going to create circle. And then under that we're going to create triangle. This is just to give you an idea of how a to see works now these words, you're going to want to make them smaller because you're going to want are the font size smaller. You want to be able to move it over to the right, maybe have two columns, you know, you can do it any way you want. It's up to you, you're the creator of it. So we have a create square create circle create channel. These have nowhere to go yet, because I haven't created the create square slide, and I haven't created the create circle slide. All I've created is the TOC what I'm calling the TOC. I have to add three new slides. I have to add three new slides for each one of these pages that I want this ebook to go to. All right, here we go. I'm going to go to next to the plus sign I'm going to go to the arrow. And I'm going to have a title with two and two columns. Boom. And up there we go so that's my first slide I'm only going to create one right now. And I want the title of the slide to match the TOC and the TOC was create square. Okay. Over here, I would have instructions on how to create square. And then over here instead of the text box, you can do this a bunch of different ways. Again, you're the creator, you get to decide. I'm going to have a model for me what works for me is to have the instructions on the left and then a picture on the right. Okay, so if I'm going to put a picture on the right, I don't need this text box so I'm going to click it and I'm going to delete it. When you have instructions you probably want to have them. You know you got step one. Step two. Step three. And you also want to make sure they're in order because your students will let you know if you've done something wrong. Right. All right, so I'm going to make this a little bit bigger. See, I get to manipulate all these objects. These are all objects right here. Something else because this is an object because I'm thinking of it as an object not text. It's an object when I select it. I see lines around it. And objects can be colorized. Objects can be colorized. So up at the top of your, your screen underneath the menu underneath the words, you're going to see little icons. Okay, the little icons are very important, especially this one right here fill color. Okay, when you select the object and you select this paint bucket, you can make the object any color you want. Now it would be a good idea to kind of follow your theme. All right, all of your theme colors Google populates it for you all of your theme colors are down below the all the bright colors above. You've got a lot of choices but it's it's really a good idea to stay in touch with your theme. There are so many colors it leads the eye away and it's just it makes for a bad presentation. Okay, something else because you've selected an object, all objects have format options this is really really important when we get to the point of creating a drawing. All right, and drawing is really powerful because you can do so much with your own drawings, but every object that you create, or that's on your slide has a format option. On the top of your menu bar, you're going to see the word format options. I'm hovering my mouse over it right now, going back and forth you'll even say it, see it see format options. Okay, that's a button. When you click it, you're going to get a box of all kinds of magic. Most people don't know this magic exists. It's yours for free. Okay, so each one of these areas the size rotation position text fitting drop shadow reflection you can do this on this object, different objects have different options, different objects have different options. On this object I can do all of these things on another object. When I open up format options, I might get different things that I can do, or I might get less. Okay, so right here what I usually do. If I want to set things apart a little bit or make it look a little 3D ish is I'll put a drop shadow. I don't see that, but it does it automatically. Okay, when I select the object I get my tools back when I deselect the object the tools go away. The bar stays. I'm going to select the object again. There's a drop down arrow next to drop shadow. So I'm going to select that. And you might want to watch this. Because it's hard to explain. There are little squares. There it is in line and I know you can't see this and I can't make it to where you can see it because I can hardly see the darn thing myself. So there are sliders on here and as you you can barely see the little line. When I get the cross arrows here. I know that I'm on the line with the transparency. Okay, or I know I'm on the line with the distance. Now I'm going to blow this out. I'm going to show you what the distance does. Do you see how far that went out on my object. Okay, it blew it out. Now, the angle is also really cool on when you're doing shadows. So I can drag this around. And it goes all the way around. I just got to figure out which angle I wanted at. Normally, I would have about 45. There he goes goes off to the side. Now, I don't know if you can see this but as I'm dragging it to the right and to the left the angle bar is I'm dragging it. I want it. Oh man, it's 47. Oh, it's 58. Oh, if I want it to be 45 exactly. Everyone look at your keyboard and you're going to see your the arrow keys down. Mine is on a number keypad. So I have arrow keys that go to the right to the left up and down. Right. I know that my little, my crosshair is on the, it selected the angle bar. So now I can use those arrows to go exactly one degree to the right or one degree to the left. However, I'm selecting. Okay, and by doing that, you have more control. It is for artistic purposes. Yes, Susan, but how does this help with teaching and learning think flashcards. Okay, when you when we get into the draw part of it, you'll understand a little bit. It'll make sense. Okay, I need to show you this though in order to get to that part we need to do part one before we can get to part two. This distance is too. Too far out there. There we go. The blur radius, you know that just softens it a little bit so you can maybe a project with your students, you could have them put in their, their picture, and then put a frame around it. Okay, it would actually, and then soften it up a little bit. Okay. All right, so we've gotten this we've gotten that now this is create a square. We have two more slides to create. We're going to be really, really simple because we want the slides to be exactly the same. We want create square, create circle, create triangle. Format options is available to everybody. Jacqueline if you don't see it, it's because it's being covered up. So first of all, you need to select an object, you either need to select a text box, or an icon or something on the page. Okay, so select it first and then it's in line with the all the other tools up at the very top, your screen might be really small. So you might have to hit the little three dots, the more button because right now my animate button is being hidden. So just look way over to the far right and you'll see three dots. All right, now I'm going to create three more two more slides really quick and easily. I'm going to select the slide in the left hand pane. I'm going to right click, and I'm going to duplicate. I'm going to right click, and I'm going to duplicate. Now I have three slides that are all the same they all say create square. Right, so I just go to the second one in line with my table of contents that I haven't created yet. And we want create circle. We just changed the text. The slides are exactly the same. And for those of you that know PowerPoint, and have used slides that you already know this understood. But, you know, we got some beginners in here. All right, now we've got three slides all three the same. You have a square on the first one, you have a bunch of shapes up at the top of your screen.  We've got we can add a text box we can add images and then right next to that you're going to see the shape tool. It's a circle square. Select it. Then you get more shapes.  So we want the square. Right here I see a square I'm going to click it. I get the crosshairs. And as I click hold and drag down my screen. There we have a square. I can move it anywhere I want this is an object. If I want to, I can select it, find my format options. And now I can do all kinds of stuff with it I can do a reflection on it. I could have the reflection. It'd be really far distance from it. Okay, all kinds of different things you can do with format options I don't really don't want any of this stuff I just wanted to show it to you. So there's a square. Am I going to write down the steps that took to take to do the square. No, that's up to you. Do it on your own slides. I'm going to go to my circle slide where it says create circle. I'm going to go back to my shape tool. I'm going to hover on shapes and in here I'm going to find somewhere a circle there it is. There's also a circle down here but that's a flow chart. Okay, so as you hover over the shapes in this shapes area, they're going to give you names for them if you hover over them. Well, no it's not doing it but in the, these are all flow charts way down at the bottom. So I'm going to choose this circle. Here we go. I got a circle. Now this circle is green, like the square. I don't want it to be green I want to be a different color. I want it to be, I really want it to be kind of really cool. I don't even want it to be in the theme. I'm going to select the object. I'm going to select my circle. I'm going to go to my paint bucket. All right, within your paint bucket you have a solid option and a gradient option. A lot of people don't know this exists either. I'm selecting gradient. I'm going to select one of these. Boom. That one matches my theme. Look how cool that is. Nice. Okay. All of your objects when you create them usually have a line around them or a border. They don't have to or they could have a different color. So I've selected this circle object. I'm going to go to the pencil next to the paint bucket. I'm going to click it and notice I can make it transparent, which just means it doesn't exist. It's not there. Or I can make it purple. Now you really can't see it. I mean it kind of pops out to me a little bit, but I'm sitting right here. So I'm going to select that object and I'm going to leave it purple, but instead of one pixel, I'm going to make it eight. So just to your pencil tool, you have a line thickener tool, line thickener. Okay. Boom. So now we can make it as thick or as thin or a different color, anything you want. Okay. And we've also made this gradient. Gradient is a really cool tool, by the way, within the paint bucket from when you get really, really into creating your own shapes and everything in the solid tab. You're going to see a custom button. And then the gradient tab, you're going to see a custom option. What that allows you to do is create your own gradient. So I could change this into anything that I wanted. Boom. That's a really ugly looking thing right there, but you get the idea. I'm going to hit undo. So it goes back. You can create your own gradients and that also helps you when you're going to be creating images. And we're getting to that. We are getting to that. I promise you. All right, right here. We need a triangle. So I'm going to go back to my shape tool. I'm going to go to shapes. I'm going to find a triangle. Now which triangle do I want? Equilateral or right angle? I'm going to choose the right. Okay, so we got that. I know how to create a different color now. I like the gradient option. I'm going to choose a different gradient. I know now that I can change the border color. So I'm going to change the border colors just so it stands out a lot. Boom. There we go. Now I've got three slides with different shapes on them. Right. I'm going to go back to my TOC. I'm going to go back to that second slide. Table of contents. Now you're going to want to watch this if you want to know how to create an ebook. Okay. I'm going to select the words create square. This, these two words together are going to be one link. If I wanted to, I could just select one word. Then only that word would be a link. I'm going to select both of them in a line though, because this is easier for our students. They don't have to figure out which word is going to be the link. So I've selected that those two words. Now I'm going to go up to the link tool. To insert the link or you can use your, your keyboard and hit control K or if you're on a Mac command K. Okay. I use this button right here. The link to it's the same thing. Click it.  This is where people get screwed up because they start scrolling down and they're looking for the link. You're not going to find it. What you need to do is right underneath where it says paste a link or search. You're going to see a little option called slides in this presentation. Slides in this presentation. You need to select that arrow next to slides in this presentation. Never ever, ever select next slide, previous slide, first slide or last slide. Never do that. Always scroll down. You might have to use your mouse to scroll down a little bit and select the slide number that has the slide title on it. Why wouldn't you choose next slide? Because, well, let me explain that later. First go ahead and we're creating square. Let's see. We're going to connect to create square. So I want slide three. And then I apply. You notice the text color changes and it becomes underlined. That tells you it's a link. Do I have to keep it underlined? No. Can I change the color? Yes. Will it still stay a link? Yes. All right. Next link that I want to create is to create a circle, which is going to go to slide four for me. This presentation is being recorded and it will be posted on the OTAN website. I go up to the link tool. I'm going to select the slides in this presentation arrow. I'm going to scroll down until I see the slide that I want. Here it is. Create circle. Slide four. Boom. And rinse and repeat. I'm going to select create triangle. I'm going to go up to the create link tool. I'm going to hit the arrow next to slides in this presentation. I'm going to scroll down until I see the slide that I want. Slide five. Create triangle. Boom. When you get up to 60 slides in a deck, it's a lot of work. Just warning you ahead of time. Now, why didn't I select when I was creating the link for create square? It's the next page. Why wouldn't I have selected the next page? Because I might decide to add another slide in between the table of contents and the create square. If I select next slide, this will always go to the next slide. But right now it's going to slide three, create square. And I can see that on my screen when I just click my mouse in it. Let's see what happens when I add a new slide in between this table of contents and the create a square page. Here's my table of contents. I'm going to click in the words create square. Now it's going to slide four. If I had told it to go to the next slide, it would have gone to this blank slide right here. So make sure that when you're creating your link. I'm just going to type demo here so I can show it to you again. When you're creating your link, you're going to select the word. You're going to go to the link tool. Select slides in this presentation and just ignore the first four options. You're going to scroll down until you see the slide that you want. And then you're going to select it. There we go. Does anybody have any questions on how to create an ebook, because we just did one. Yeah, it's only got a couple slides, but we just created an ebook. If you have any questions, put that in the Q&A. Okay. If I'm presenting a slideshow in Zoom with my class, can students edit the slide and answers and responses. I want to think really closely about doing that first. Okay, if you're going to be opening up a slide stack and sharing it with your students, I've just created one. Okay. And I create, I could create a short link for it. And I could have all of you come in here. And there are, I think, yeah, there's 110 people in here. So what would happen if I had all 110 of you typing on this slide stack. It sounds really hard, doesn't it? It's just as hard with 20 people. It's just as hard. So I would think closely about doing that. Maybe assign your students a slide. Okay, Barbara, you're number five. Kelly, you're number four. Jacqueline, you're number seven. Leah, you're number 10. Okay, so you all know your numbers and then you go to that slides number. And then you do the voodoo that you want to do. And then you do the slides around with the ebook link update. Yes, absolutely. The only if you select the exact slide. Okay, that's that's the key. You have to select the slide that it's going to be going to. How do you link the slide back to the TOC? Leah, I'm so glad you asked. So here's the thing. When I'm on, let's say the square. Okay, I need to have a button here so that my students can get back to the table of contents, right? I don't get to choose any shape I want. So I'm going to go back to the shape tool. Oh, and by the way, it doesn't have to be a shape. It could just be word. It could just be a text box because remember text box is an object. It's a shape. I like using shapes though, because I can type in shapes. So I'm going to just select me. I selected one. I don't even know what I selected. Here we go. There's a shape. Oh, it's one with golden handles. Okay. So you can type in a shape. You just double click double click in the shape and then I'm going to just going to type TOC return. How did I add a slide between slides? I'll show you that next. So here's my TOC. Okay. Now it's a really big button. I wouldn't make that big button. But what you do is you select the object, not the text select the object itself so you see all the handles around it. It's a little link tool. Go to slides in this presentation, scroll down until you see what you think should be the table of contents. I never did title that slide, but it's slide to demo create square. Okay, right here. Select it and then apply. Now let's test it out. I'm going to hit present. I'm going to select the TOC return. And there it goes. I'm going to do that for every slide. Absolutely. Is there an easy way to do it? Oh, yeah. So what you're going to do is you're going to select this TOC return. We're going to copy. All I did was hit control C. If you want to do it the hard way, select the object, then go to edit copy. By the way, there it is, control C. Okay. So I copy this. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to hit control V. And it paced in exactly the same position with the link. I go to the next slide, control V. It paced exactly in the same place as it did with the first slide. Okay. So there we go. There's the TOC. And that's basically how you do a home button to Kelly. Oh, God, I forgot the question I was going to answer next. Oh, yeah, yeah. How do you just in the middle of a slide deck? How do you put a slide in the middle? What you do is you go to the left side. Okay. The left hand pane, you click in the middle and you'll see a little line appear. And that means that if you insert a slide, it will go there. Here it is. Okay. So we just inserted. How do you delete a slide once you've inserted it? There's a couple of ways to do it. The easiest way for me is to right-click and I right-click because it makes me think. Okay. And then you would delete. Do I really want to delete it? It makes me think. So you could also select the slide and you'll see it get highlighted and you hit your back space key. If you make a mistake, control Z or use your undo button. Okay. How about page numbers? Page numbers are usually contained on the master slide. So I just happened to choose a theme that didn't have page numbers. I could actually do my own manually one, two, three, four and like that. But then when you add slides or put slides in between, they don't automatically change.  And I believe it's just the hashtag hashtag to put in a number. All right. Yes. Sorry. We have a request from a couple of folks. Could you show us just again one more time how you add that TOC button again? Sure. I'm going to delete this one. And I'll show it to you again.  I'm actually going to go up here now and I'm going to, I'm doing something that I should have done to begin with. I'm going to title this slide. So I'm going to title this slide table of contents and all I did was select the text that was already there. We go and I'm going to put it up at the top. So now all things being what they are, this might work. Okay. So here we go. We're going to create a button to anywhere we want. Okay. Insert slide numbers. Yes, Leah. Thank you. That's on the master. So here we go. I'm going to, or is it on here now? Oh, look at that. Okay. We just learned something new today. They have added this slide numbers. This used to be only available in the, let's give title slides, in the master deck. There it is. Boom. Thank you. There you go. Anything else that they've added when you're on text, they've added this little plus sign next to the point size and the little minus sign next to it as well. So you can go up by one point and down by one point. That's new too. That's only, I think, like a week old. All right. All right. Table of contents. Here we go. I'm going to go to my shapes tool. Sound effects for free shapes tool and we're going to just choose a button. Right. We can choose any shape we want. All right. I'm going to choose this one this time. No idea what it is.  There we go. Okay. And then I want it to be a different color because I want it to stand out. Yeah, that is stand out. All right. And now I'm going to double click in it.  Oh, no, I don't want it to look like that. I want the text to look like something. You can go to format options, go to text fitting and look at that. I can take away, oops, wrong object selected. I can take away the padding and that will allow TOC to fit in the box. Oh, my God, how great is that? How did I do that? I selected the object. I went to the text fitting option and I took out the padding. Come on, we've all done that, right? We've created something and we've got the perfect word and as it goes down one space, it's like, oh, I don't want that. So you want to take away the padding. All right, so now we've got a shape and we've got the letters TOC. Okay, I'm going to make sure that that object is selected. I'm not selecting the text because that's a little too hard for the students. They have to be exactly on the text to go to the next or to click on that and then go to TOC. I'm actually collecting the shape. All right, we've got the handles all the way around it. I'm going to go to the link tool or command K. Here we go. Underneath where it says paste a link or search. I'm not going to type anything. I'm going to let Google do the work for me. I'm going to select the arrow key next to slides in this presentation. I'm going to scroll down until I see the page that I want. And it's actually slide to is my table of contents slide to is my table of content. So I selected that from the list. Then I hit apply. And then I can see it tells me, okay, we're linking to slide to. All right. Now I want that to appear on the pages after this. So I select it. I copy. I go to the next slide and I paste, I go to the next slide and I paste. So now I have a TOC button that will go to my table of contents every time. All right, now, next up, I want everyone to go to file. New presentation. This is another way to create a presentation after you've already created one file new presentation. Shady. I'm about to answer your question. Now, when you create a new deck, remember the first thing one want to do is name this. So I'm going to name this OTAN flip. Okay, OTAN flip. I don't need a theme at this point because all I'm going to show you right now is how to change a page layout. So as an ebook someone, some people want the layout to look like a book. They don't want it to be landscape. They want it to be portrait. You can also make this a postcard. You could also make this a brochure. Okay, that's the other great thing about slides that people don't realize. It's not just a presentation. It's a bunch of different things all in one toolkit. So you need to change the page layout in order to do this. So we're going to go to file. We've got our slide stack open. We click the file button and then we're going to go to page setup. It defaults to widescreen 16 to 9. Can you do certificates? Absolutely you can do certificates. I'm going to go to, I'm going to click instead of 16 to 9 or standard 4 by 3 or 16 to 10. All of these are HD formats so that if you're presenting online it looks good. Okay, or if you're doing video. Yes, you're going to get a copy of this. I'm going to hit custom. Now that should look more familiar to us. Right, so if I wanted to make this portrait instead of landscape, I would make this 8 by 11 or 10 and a half. Why do I instead of doing 8, 8 and a half by 11? Because I want to give myself some space on either around the sides. Okay, so let's see what happens when I do this. I just made this. I went to custom file, page setup, custom. Instead of 16 to 9, I changed it to from whatever it was to 8 and by 10 and a half you could also do cinemakers, points or pixels. Okay, and then apply. There's no benefit except it's a little easier to slides versus docs except it's easier to put in pictures. And if it benefits you because you like slides then that's an added bini. Okay, so here now we have a portrait layout instead of a landscape layout. Okay, so now this could be page one of the booklet I'm going to create. And as I add new slides, I'm going to go ahead and hit my theme button up at the top because I want a little color here. There we go. And you see how the layout has changed. Okay, as I add slides to it now, I could totally print this out. All right, I could totally print this out. You can actually send this to a print shop. You could go to file. If you create your book you go to file, download as a PDF, a JPEG or a ping. The JPEGs and pings are only current slides. But if you download this as a PDF then send it to your print shop, they will be able to print it out. How do you add sounds?  And then you better have some audio on your screen or on your drive. You have to upload your audio. So can you create audio in slides? No, you cannot create audio in slides yet. I see that coming but it's not there yet. So here's an audio file that I have. Now you're not going to be able to hear this. There we go. But when it finally loads here, you get format options on it. So it can start playing on the click. It can, you can position, you can do all the other things that you want or had on the other objects that you selected. But you also get this audio playback. So you can loop it. You can hide the icon when presenting but make sure you have this automatically going so you don't have to worry about it. You can also set the volume on it. Okay, so yes, you can add audio. But it has to be in your drive. Can you add a gift to animate the book? Yes, you can add animated gifts. You have to have, I would use GIFI or GIFI, G-I-F-F. I forget the address. Maybe we'll have time at the end of this to visit that. There is a, there's a free app that will do animated gifts for you. Is there a way to have your presentation play automatically? Absolutely. You can do whatever you want. You would do that in the, how would you do that? It would be in the transitions. Okay. Or so you would have it as soon as it opens, it starts playing. Okay. If you don't want your students to click through it, you want it just to go in order and then loop back around. You can totally do that. Okay. The flip page. We've already gotten the horizontal layout like a virtual or actually it's already defaulted to that. I showed you how to do it. Page layout. All Google slides will default to this layout here. To the landscape. Okay. Now, if you want a book. That looks like a book. You might have to create it. Okay. So one way of creating it is to, and I'm looking at the slides deck. I created for this. We've gone through a lot by the way. One way of making things look like a book is just have the left side. It'd be a little. A different color. Right. So this, this object right here has, I use the paint bucket after I put in the, all the text. I could make this stand out more. Right. Blind me. We're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. But it sets it apart. Okay. So that's one way of doing a book. Another way of doing a book. When you create a book. Okay. You want it to look like a book and it kind of looks like it has pages. That takes a lot of finessing on the master slide. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and show you that. But it's going to be quick. So please don't ask me to redo it. All right. I'm just going to show you this quick. Okay. I'm going to go to one of the layouts here. And probably the title in two columns fits this way. It's best way. I'm going to go to my, let's see. Edit. Oops. View master. Okay. So here's the master slide. The master layout. All right. I'm going to duplicate this because I don't want to screw up. That master. So here's the duplication. Now this one, I know I'm going to need a lot of room because this is a book. So I'm going to move the title up. And I'm going to move it over a little bit. So that it's centered. Okay. I'm going to get rid of this graphic. I don't want that there. Boom. Now I've got two columns. I'm going to raise them up. Okay. And. I'm going to move the one to the left over a little bit. And I'm going to move it over to the middle of the column. I'm going to draw up a little bit. So that's it. Just watch. This will be all in the video. Okay. Now this slide is 10 inches wide. All right. And it is three, five and some odd inches wide five something. Okay. I want to know where the exact middle is. I'm on the master slide from the ruler. I'm going to click, hold and drag. the middle is, the line will turn solid. Boom. There's my solid line. Or my it turns into a hashtag or hash line as it goes down. Same thing from the top. If I want to know where the exact middle is as I drag this down, I'll see it turn. Boom. Solid color 2.81. That's the middle of this slide. Okay. So I don't have to worry about, okay, five and three quarters divided by two. No, no, no. Just drag from the top from the ruler and it'll tell you where the middle is. Now I know where the middle of my slides is. I want to have just a little bit of space on one side of the middle and a little bit of space on the other side of the middle. This will make sense in a minute. Now here comes the hard part. I want a long rectangle. I'm going to make a long rectangle and I'm not actually going to do the full thing because this takes, this took me a long time to figure this out. All right. So it's in the middle. Now I'm going to use my format options. Okay. I am going to have a drop shadow and I make the drop shadow when I first do this. I really got awful pink and I make the distance way out here. So I know where it is. So here's the angle. Where's it going? There it is. You see it on the screen. It's way over on that side on the left. But I want it on the right. So how do I get it there? I just keep moving the angle button. There it is. It's getting close to what I want. I want it to be lined up with the line. There we go. Right about there. I could finesse it a little bit, but we don't have time. Now I want the distance to come back in. I don't want it way far out. I want the little pink line to go back towards its owner. Okay. And instead of pink, I want it to be a gray. And this object has lines around it, which I don't want. So I'm going to make it transparent. Now, I don't know if you can see that really well, but now you can see that it's kind of got a part and it's a little shadow on one side. Right? This is why Melinda delivered sleep. Yes. So here we go. We have what is starting to be the line down the center of a page. This line is colored, a solid color. I'm going to select the object again. I can make, I'm going to select the object again. I can make this transparent as well. So when you go to custom, it's going to tell you, okay, here's that color that you wanted, but now I have transparency options. So if I transparentize it a little bit, now we've got that line going down with a little bit of shadow. And when we go back to our slide, this one, yeah, there's the line. Okay. Along with the guidelines, they're on the master. So I can take the guidelines off if I want, but you can see it's barely visible right now, and I would have to finesse that a lot in order to make it a book. Okay. You can make your book as big or as small as you want because you go to page layout and make it as big or as small as you want. Okay. We need to get to the drawing aspect because drawings will make your slides pop. They'll make it fun. They'll make it easy for your students to follow along. Okay. So we're going to go into the drawing aspect of slides. I've already shown you where the shape tool is. I'm going to go back to the table of contents here real quick. Yeah. The shapes. Okay. So I'm on section five, the shapes. Okay. Go to the next slide. Here are all the shapes. Right here in the handout that you can view. Well, Melinda, if I can only view it, how am I going to be able to copy those and use them? You're not. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you another handout with just the shapes. Okay. There are, let's see, these shapes here. We've got the flow chart. What I did because when I looked at this little tool up here and then you look at shapes and arrows and whatever, I could never figure out which is the one that I want. Right? Or I couldn't remember if this had that and what I could do with this. So what I did was I made them big for me and then people started asking me for them. All right? I guess we're all getting, you know, we're getting kind of older and it's easier to see things when it's bigger. Right? So all of these shapes will be available to you if you have the magic. Here's the magic. So it's another bitly. This one you can make a copy of. Okay? This is shapes to share. So I believe I gave you all view options to it. When you open it up, you can go to file, make a copy. Can you use the ebook for a tutorial? Absolutely, Marisol. That's exactly what that preview is for. The one that I showed you that I was going through like section five, that's totally what it's for. That's a tutorial. And I don't want you to make copies of it because I'm changing it all the time. I'm updating it. I'm adding sections to it. So I'm treating you like students. You don't get to copy the book. You have to come back to the book to see if anything's been added. What I want you to do when you get here is go to file. So you're going to click on the file menu and you're going to make a copy of the entire presentation. Not one or two slides, the entire presentation. So it's bit.ly slash shapes, the number two share. Okay? So come on in, grab a copy of this. After you get it, you will see all of the shapes. Okay? Now here's, while you're copying, listen. Okay?  All right? Don't start coming in here and making the circle bigger or smaller or whatever. Make a copy of it. Right? So I'm going to make a copy. I'm going to go to this shape right in the middle. What is this? Like a trapezoid. All right? I'm going to select the trapezoid. I'm going to control C. And then slide seven is a blank. I'm going to paste it. And I'm going to do anything I want with this. The trapezoid on slide three, which is where I copied it from, is still there. Now I can do anything I want with it on slide seven. And I still have my master. Okay? So I can make it bigger. By the way, on shapes, if you have a gold handle that appears, move it and see what fun you can have with it. Okay? Some of the shapes have gold circles on them. So when you click it to copy, note that. Note that. All right? Hey, Melinda. Yeah. We've got, it's 1026. We've got about four minutes left. You know what? I'm going to go about 10 minutes long. I'm just warning everybody. We're going to go to 1035. Okay? 1040 at the latest. So you've got a shape here. All right? You've selected a shape. You can do, you can, you can rotate it. There's a little handle up at the top of your shape where you can rotate around. I'm going to give you a little hint here. If you hold the shift key down while you are rotating your image, it will go exactly 15 degrees at one time. How cool is that? Using the shift key as well. If you use the shift key and use your arrow key at the same time, you can just nudge that shape just a little bit at a time. Just just one little more pixel instead of trying to figure out, okay? No. Okay? Use your shift arrow keys to move your objects. Okay? If you made your own slide stack, scroll down. Scroll down to slide eight. Okay? When you get to slide eight, you're going to see some instructions. It's going to tell you to open a blank slide. Then select the drop down arrow, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is for you to do on your own. What I want you to do is go to slide nine. I've created a starter kit for you. There are two really cool tools called the curve tool and the polyline. Next to the shape tool, you're going to get all kinds of lines next to it. Right? There's a line tool. Okay? Polyline and curve. They do different things. On slide nine, if you double click on one of the shapes, if you double click on it, you'll notice some little purple dots appear.  Okay? This shape up here, the one with the purple dots, the more purple dots you have, the better off it's going to be. This one right here, right here, this one that has all the little squigglies, right? All the little purple lines. When I double click, there's a lot of little purple dots. This, I copied and I made this horse out of it. What I think looks like a horse. I don't know. You might think it looks like something else, right? But this, use, or this rather, used to look like this. Okay?  All right? I make the line pink so I can see it. It's easier for me to see. Okay? It's also easier to copy or trace. I'm going to use the word trace. So how do I trace? I'm going to show you how to trace and then I'm going to show you how to do the video. Go, everyone go to the insert button up at the top. You're underneath the handout Google shapes name and yours probably says copy of handout Google shapes. Go to insert and then select or go to image and then search the web. We're not going to go anywhere. We're going to stay right here on the slide stack. You should notice that something happened on the right hand side. You're going to be searching a Google image. All right? I want you to search it should be blinking right now. Your cursor should be blinking. I want you to search for silhouette cat. Silhouette cat. Make sure you spell silhouette correctly and then hit your enter key.  Okay? Now I want you to select one of these cats. It doesn't matter which one you select. I want you to just click on one of them. Make it an easy one. Not something where he's licking his lips or his paw or something.  Give the magic some time. Some of us are on slower Wi-Fi and then you'll see the cat appear. Okay? Once the cat appears drag one of the curves over to the cat and you'll notice that the curve is actually probably behind the cat. So we're going to bring that to the front. You have to bring it to the front so you can see it. The squiggle is behind the cat. Okay? So I'm just going to push the cat behind the squiggle or I'm going to bring the squiggle above the cat. I've got the cat selected so I'm going to go to the arrange tool. I'm clicking on arrange. I'm going to order O-R-D-E-R. I'm going to find and then hit send to back. All right now here's where it gets a little funky. You have to zoom in so you can see what you're doing. There's a zoom tool next to your selection tool. I've made reference to this before. This is a very important tool. Your select tool is the most important tool on this toolbar. Select. Okay? I want you to hit zoom but remember where that select tool is. Select zoom and then go into your cat a little bit. One or two clicks. You don't need much more than that and then go back and hit your select tool. Now double click on your line, your squiggles and start moving the points around the cat. And you can see what I'm doing here. I'm moving the points around. Now the curve is a little weird. It's kind of like a rubber band. You just start moving your points. Don't worry about what it's looking like. Just move your points where you know they're eventually going to go and eventually everything will work its way out. But just think of it as a rubber band. You can go in and tweak it a little later. By the way, every once in a while I lose my points so I have to double click on my lines again and get my little purple dots back. If you don't see your purple dots just double click on them. And you can see what I'm doing here. Now this is going to take a while. All right. So you can use a squiggle that you've already made. I'm going to delete my squiggle. I'm going to go up to the line. I'm going to go to curve. You notice I have the crosshairs. Now I'm going to click and I'm going to keep clicking around this cat. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Every once in a while when you have slow Wi-Fi, you will lose or it will stop clicking. So you want to get as many clicks as you can. But and then you always end where you started like that. Okay. Double click on it. You can see all the little little purple dots. I'm going to make this transparent. So the paint bucket I'm clicking on the transparent. So it makes it clear so I can see the image that I'm trying to trace. Okay. And then I can manipulate my purple dots. Now this is a little easier to do. But if you're on slow Wi-Fi, it's really good to have a pre-made squiggle all ready to go. Yes, it makes it harder in the long run.  Okay. And it will do that on you. So I have a couple of squiggles that are like, there's like 100, there's 100 points on it. And another one, you know, I've got varying levels of it. So you might want to just create some squiggles on your own. The other line tool is the polyline. By the way, when you're zoomed in, you have to zoom out sometimes. Make sure you hit your select tool after that. So here's a polyline starter. This is a feather duster that when I first created it, one of my colleagues told me it looked like a claw and she was right. It did. So I had to add, I had to keep adding all of these shapes. And what I did was I just created one shape. That's all I did. But then I copied and pasted it. And I rotated them a little bit. So that when I take them out like I just did, I put them back in. And then I have a feather duster. And all I'm doing is hitting control Z. Oops, so that you see that. Okay. So you've got that as a starter kit. If you want to try doing that, you've also got on slide 11. So I've given you a hand. All right, if you double click on it, you'll see all the little points that went around there to make that hand.  Okay, and just read the instructions. I mean, you can take this and put it anywhere you want. Also, at the very last end there, I got thinking about, all right, all of you are doing, you're teaching your students how to use computers and how to do this and how to do that. What's the advantage of making your own squiggle cat instead of using the original silhouette? Bev, I'm glad you asked because I'm about to show you that. Here's a keyboard. What's the advantage of using my own keyboard that I've created? And it took me a long time to do this. I'll admit that. But what's the advantage of using this over using a clip art? Because I, when I want to show my students how to do control, shift and the letter Z, we're going to pretend it's right here. I'm not exactly sure where it's at. There we go. When I create the object, I can make it anything I want. I can also take this entire thing. When you create your objects, oops, selected too much. When you create your objects, you can select them all and then you can make them smaller. And it keeps its aspect ratio if you're holding down your shift key. That shift key is a magic button I'm telling you. So you can make it as big or as small as you want. I'm going to hold down my shift key and I'm making it bigger. That is the advantage over using this instead of clip art. If clip art works for you, go for it. Absolutely use it. For you advanced people, I'm going to show you one thing and then I got to get out of here. I'm going to select, what am I going to select? I'm going to select some of the easy. This feather duster. I'm going to copy. If you go to drawings.google.com, d-r-a-w-i-n-g-s.google.com, I'm doing it quick. Please don't ask why. Or ask me to repeat. PNG. I'm just naming this PNG. Now I copied the feather duster. I'm going to paste it. I'm going to position it somewhere on this canvas. This is what we're going to call it in Google draw. Down at the bottom left hand or right hand corner of my Google draw, if I click, I see these little hash tag marks and draw it up so you can see a little more. So you're right here down, way down here. I know you probably can't see it, but this lets me resize my canvas. After I do that, I'm going to view this at 100%. There we go. After I do that, I can go to file, download, PNG, so that when it downloads to my desktop, I can insert it into my slide stack. I could insert it into my PowerPoint now. I can insert it into anything because it's a PNG because I've downloaded it. If I want to make this red and then download it as a PNG, I can do that. And then my PNG will have a red feather. So that's real quick and easy what you can do. Now videos. I'm going to show you that and then I got to go. We're going to insert. You have to insert videos from YouTube or from your drive. So when you go to insert, select video. And if they are on your Google drive, you'll see them listed. They're pre-listed for you. They have to be MP4s. Or this one is WebM. So it has to be web format. So if your videos are there, you select it. It will insert. Notice the format options comes up. And then I can autoplay when presenting. Or I can mute audio. I just want them to see the video, but I don't want them doing it. I can also start them at a certain point. So I could drag this to see where I want them to start. Maybe right here. Use current time. Boom. It will start at that point in time. I don't want them to watch the whole video. I just want them to watch the last three minutes. I would start it at that. Now can they rewind and play it again when it's on a slide stack that you've given them access to? Absolutely. They can. So what? Okay. The whole entire link opens up. How do we isolate one video that we want them to see and not the entire website?  So you need to find out where that video is at. And then put it on your slide stack. So again, you have to do YouTube.  Now by URL, yeah, you could do that, but that means you're probably pasting the whole website. So if you did that, that's why. You need the link to the video. Is a recording from your phone the correct format? It depends on what your phone saves as. So if it does, let's see, if it does the MP4, then yes. If you upload that into Google, and you see the extension and it's MP4, yes. Melinda. Yes. Just one thing about Shadia's question. I think she was confused because the video is actually how to create a Google account on this website. It's not the website itself. It's a video of the website. Right. This is a video that I created. Okay. And this is how to create a Google account. This is a video that's on my Google Drive. Yeah. I mean, it's showing the Google website, but that's because I was taking a screenshot of it. What was I using? I think I was using Screencastify for this. So Screencastify is a good Chrome extension. Loom is another one. We have videos on those that you can watch. I believe they're posted on the O10 website. And I'm going to stop sharing. Lots of things you can do on Google Slides. Think out of the box. Remember when we changed that page layout? Think postcard. What a great project for your students. Think there's already a template. Cookbook. Have all of your students create 40 slides or however many students you have that have the Cookbook template to it. And then have them go in and say, Anthony, you're slide five. Pablo, you're slide seven. Sharon, you're slide six. And just assign them slide numbers. You tell them. They're only supposed to go to their slides. And then they put in a recipe, a family recipe. You can make newsletters. You could make flyers, brochures. We actually made, or I made, a C-A-E-P-T tap brochure using Google Slides because we didn't have the money to buy somebody's time who had the, what was it? I'm trying to think of the Adobe Connect. No, no, no, no. Adobe Photoshop. There we go. So we didn't have the time. We didn't have the money. So we used the Google Slides, right? So it can be just think out of the box. If you can put a picture on it and you can think of that as a project, you can use Google Slides and draw.


From the director of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, comes a movie you've never heard of, shot way back in 1985 by the director, Toby Hooper. And that film is life force. I'm gonna talk about it today, because of course I am. Listen, I didn't just wake up one morning, look in the mirror, have a deep thought and think, Adam, you gotta look up Toby Hooper's collection, find one you haven't seen, and check it out. Nay, this movie was requested by a patron over at patreon.com slash adam does movies at the mithril level. For $30 a month, you can plop down a movie review, demand I watch it, and I have to give you a shout out. Movie this week is life force. The request coming from heroic badass 94. Seems appropriate. Let's give it a go. I had genuinely never heard of this movie until it was requested. I see it. Where did this come from? How did I miss it? It's by the guy that did freakin' Poltergeist. I love that movie. And Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This just somehow skirted under the radar. And it's not for the lack of trying, it has a huge budget. Or at least it looks like it on screen. There's definitely a lofty scale here. Whether or not Hooper hits this is debatable. I'd say for the time period, he did a pretty admirable job. As far as effects goes, it's not too shabby, but let's get back to that in a second. I want to break down the plot, which is kind of intricate, I guess. On face value, I could say it's about space vampires coming to Earth to drain all the resources. This isn't their first rodeo either. These creatures have gone from planet to planet, pillaging and plundering, taking the souls of its victims for sustenance, and then moving on. These aliens are taking refuge inside the tail end of Haley's Comet, undetected, until they are in fact detected, by a group of British and American astronauts on the ship Church Hill. They dock this bad boy, this long rod, in space.  This whole sequence is actually really cool. It looks pretty badass. Yes, retro, of course.  But in a sense, it works really well. Kind of like a space odyssey. I really dug the first 15 or so minutes of this movie, completely invested, was hoping it would stay this course, and we'd just get more information about this weird race, and it would take place mostly in these bizarre surreal settings. Unfortunately, it doesn't, and we head to Earth. Movie does continue at a decent clip, though, the whole way through, and what helps this movie more than anything else are the space boobs. Because, you see, Life Force has a secret weapon. In fact, it has two. And that's Matilda May's boobs. They are breathtaking, to say the least. This woman is gorgeous, beyond all compare. My wife watched this with me, some of it, she got bored, eventually fell asleep. But even she was like, damn, those are real, and they are spectacular. And I was just thinking, yeah, I'm kind of into this movie. Joking aside somewhat, I mean, female body appreciation month, of course, but jokes aside, this movie, script-wise, is really cool. On paper, this is a very fascinating story. I like the idea of the vampire myth coming from these bizarre space creatures. They are the reason why we have the vampire myth on Earth, because they've actually been here before, scouting the location. And the space girl and the two guys that made their way back to Earth on the Churchill spaceship, they're up to no good. And they have plans, they have big plans.  But in order to do so, they have to get to know the inhabitants, how we think, how we speak. And so that means absorbing some of the Life Force of one of the passengers early on. And that poor bastard's Carlson, this guy is in for a world of hurt. He's gonna be the sole survivor of the Churchill, because by his own hands, they're all burned alive. Whether or not he was under the influence of Space Girl, or he was doing it himself, he doesn't even know. Because these vampiric creatures have a special ability where they can make you want them and do whatever they want. Very much like a vampire with the whole control thing, unless it's Twilight, in which case, stupid, and we don't count that. And as the movie progresses, we learn more about their kind, what they're up to, how they have this connection with each other, and how they can bounce from human to human, or alien to alien, because the body is just that. It's just a vessel for them to travel through. Their mind, their soul is completely detached if it wants to be.  The only way to do it is with a good old-fashioned stake below the heart, which is where their energy is stored. And I dug the lore of this thing, too. Early on, we're introduced to those dead bats in space. It was assumed that they were killed by something, and then it was presumed later that the vampires sucked their energy. But then it's revealed that they are those creatures. They just have had no souls to digest. So they've been dying out over periods of time, and only the three that took that human form survived by feeding off of each other. And then they take the form of the most pleasing humans that men and women desired. It's a very clever story, one that I could see them remaking today with all the modern technology and making it work a lot better. Because as it stands, Life Force is watchable, but it's not the thing. Okay, the thing is pretty ageless, pretty timeless. It didn't require such amazing effects work as this movie does. The scope of this movie is a little too big for the budget. We do have a Patrick Stewart sighting, a little cameo from him, acting his heart out, pretending to be possessed by one of these creatures, flopping on a table. He gets to kiss our lead character before he inevitably decomposes in front of them. It's a great little scene. Patrick Stewart's been perpetually 65 years for his entire career. So my big takeaway from Life Force is, no, it's no poltergeist. No, it's no the thing. It has shades of both of them. Definitely has some of that effects work from poltergeists with a lot of shining lights, a lot of blue energy moving around. It definitely has inspiration from the thing, from the different makeup and prosthetics and animatronics going on there. There's some pretty cool stuff on display. And then there's also some really rough stuff as well. It's the 80s. They're experimenting. They're trying, at least. And the heart is in the right spot on this film. It's very over the top. It's very nerdy. I appreciate it. And as a film buff, I would recommend it. If you're looking for something a little out there, a little different, Life Force is one for you to check out. And also, Matilda May once again, if nothing else, watch it from Matilda May in that perfect form. She's naked a lot in this movie too. At first I thought it was masquerading as like a soft-core porn, but no, it's a legit movie.  And hopefully yours. I want to once again thank Heroic Badass94 for this recommendation. I really captured my soul with it. That's for damn sure. And thank you to all my Patreon members and YouTube Join members, especially at the Mithril level. I appreciate that. If you're new to the channel, please think about subscribing, although I can't imagine YouTube's really recommending a review of Life Force.  Like this video if you had some fun. Please subscribe. I'd love to have you stick around as I post tons of movie reviews, both nostalgic, old and new alike, every single week. We'd love to have more people stick around. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Matilda May googling to do for research purposes.


Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Ben Godfrey is on Macy's side undergoing his medical ahead of his move from Norwich City to Everton for a fee in the region of £25 million. Obviously it will come too late for tomorrow's game against Brighton and Hove Albion, but it should all be signed and sealed ahead of our next game which is in two weeks a 12-30 kickoff against Liverpool. Hopefully that should be done in the next 24 hours I imagine so no problems on that and I'm sure the minute it is done we will let you know so stay tuned to Toffee TV. Carlo Ancelotti has done his press conference ahead of tomorrow's game against Brighton. He has confirmed that Allen, John Joe Kenny and Andre Gomez will all be missing through injury either to obviously Mason Horgate and Jared Banthwaite. Allen's injury is again should only be a few days. John Joe Kenny looking at maybe a month and Andre Gomez is a few days as well so hopefully they'll be back for the Mayside Derby. With Charleston we'll have a lay fitness test to see whether he'll be available for this game so fingers crossed on that one because you know if we had with Charleston Allen and Andre Gomez missing that's a big part of why we've been playing so well recently so I'm hoping if a Charleston available then you know if the players who come in do a good job we hopefully will be Brighton but we'll have to wait and see but no more Charleston he will be doing everything he can to make sure he is fit for this game. We'll have to wait and see. Carlo Ancelotti was also asked about Hamas Rodriguez about he's been called off for Columbia as well as Jeri Meany. He was asking about what the circumstances will be of him flying back. He will fly straight back but Carlo Ancelotti said, I think he played chilly, Carlo Ancelotti said that if he's not in a condition to play that he will be on the bench for the Mayside Derby. The Mayside Derby is now 12.30 kickoff on the Saturday I think that's because Liverpool are playing in Champions League the following week so we'll have to wait and see how late Hamas Rodriguez gets back to Liverpool and what condition he is ahead of that game as well so listen this is just the way it is he's an international footballer he's a top class footballer he's going to be playing games we knew this when we brought him in so it is just one of those things so we will have to wait and see what happens but it's the same for everyone really isn't it you know with Charleston he'll be going over there as well if he's fit I imagine but Liverpool will have players going over there as well to South America for those games as well so it's the same for everyone. Carlo Ancelotti was also asked about Janak Balasi and basically Carlo Ancelotti confirmed that he has no future at the club he is training at the moment but it is up to Janak Balasi to find himself a club ahead of Monday's transfer deadline date although due to the fact that the window is open for a couple of more weeks to the championship clubs it could be after that so we'll have to wait and see in other transfer news rumor today that Mo Bessage could be going to Rangers they got into the Europa League group stage last night so they've obviously got a little bit more money to play with so it could be that Mo Bessage could be heading up to Rangers hopefully that happens as well and also a rumor doing the rounds today that Evan are looking to get Sandro off the books any way they can which could mean a termination of his contract that seems highly doubtful when I'm sure there'll be players clubs still looking for his services and Evan will be looking to get him out in the next few days ahead of that Evan obviously will be looking to get ahead a lot of the squad players but with a lot of injuries at the moment it could mean that some of those players are on the bench tomorrow and we'll have to wait and see after waiting to see what happens but yeah obviously the injuries are a disappointment but Ben Godfrey hopefully will be coming in in the next 24 hours of course he will not be involved in the game tomorrow but we'll have to wait till the main side Derby till we see him there you go apart from that there's not much else to talk about we did get Manchester United in the draw for the Carabao Cup that is the week before Christmas the week leading up to Christmas to be playing that game so that is really the only other news for you tonight so wait yeah make sure you give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already make sure you check out all the videos tomorrow after the game against Brighton if you haven't already check out the match preview and the starting 11 video as well thanks for watching see you later


The Supreme Court has taken up a lot of really substantial cases that could Fundamentally transform aspects of the United States things like democracy with the case of Morvey Harper But there is a pair of cases that they've taken up Which is also really important that hasn't gone as much attention as the other big cases now these cases They have to do with section 230 and I think that a lot of people are comprehensive about talking about this particular subject because it is very confusing because nobody really knows What the true take away would be in the event the Supreme Court struck down section 230 we've heard a lot about this we've heard critiques about section 230 from the left and the right and The implications of its demise aren't really known But one thing that is for sure is that it would radically change the internet and Odds are it would be changed for the worst As opposed to the better. So what exactly is the Supreme Court looking at? Well, Mike Bebirnez of Yahoo News explains the Supreme Court this week announced it will take up a pair of cases that could Fundamentally change the legal foundations of the internet both cases ask justices to consider how far protections that shield websites and social media Companies from legal liability over what users post to their platform should go those protections were created in a portion of the communications decency act of 1996 known as section 230 a provision that has been called the 26 words that created the internet Section 230 did two crucial things it established that companies operating websites or social media platforms could not be held legally Responsible if their users post content that breaks the law It also granted them the right to curate edit and delete user content as they see fit So suffice to say the internet in its current state exists specifically because of section 230 without section 230 The internet might look like a very different place Now as I alluded to earlier both Democrats and Republicans have critiqued section 230 Even though Donald Trump has been particularly vocal in his criticism But the Democrats who oppose section 230 claim that websites should be held more culpable if Violent extremism is festering on their website if the proliferation of misinformation on their website continues Whereas Republicans don't like the second provision of section 230 specifically the one that gives social media websites the power to Delete and curate content They don't like that because they claim that these websites all have a liberal bias And it leads to the censorship of conservatives now that critique from Republicans is Not really founded by data, you know leftists also get banned from social media websites frequently as well They just don't whine about it as much but conservatives in particular They get a ton of traction on websites like Facebook where the left just isn't able to compete and they also dominate YouTube as well Although I don't have data to back that up But just for argument's sake you can see that there are different arguments against section 230 Democrats are against one portion of section 230 and conservatives are against another portion of section 230 There's two sections of 230 and you know, there's reasons for both sides to be against it at least what we've heard Now both of the cases that the Supreme Court has taken up they have to do with families who are suing These tech giants Twitter and Google in particular because a member of these families fell victim to Extremists now the families are arguing in these lawsuits that websites should be held legally liable if Extremism proliferates on their platforms and they don't take action to stop it You could read more about this on the SCOTUS blog post about this now the Supreme Court Could go either way they could side with the families and claim yes These websites these tech giants in particular should have done more to prevent extremism that led to the deaths of these families victims and They can also take it in a different direction They can say well actually there's already too much content moderation or they could just strike down section 230 all together The question is what does that mean for the internet going forward and really? Nobody really knows all we can do is speculate But odds are it would mean less freedom on the internet if the Supreme Court in any way Decided to take on section 230 and declare it Unconstitutional either fully or partially many communications law experts fear that a decision throwing out section 230 would create chaos in one of the World's most important industries as companies attempt to quickly react to a sudden and drastic change to the legal landscape They argue that because few companies would be able to endure the new financial risk of lawsuits over user-generated Posts venues for free speech online would rapidly erode or even disappear Other sites might go the opposite direction and to shoe moderation altogether Which would create space for their platforms to turn into cesspools of objectionable content Kyle Barr of Gizmodo states if a company like Twitter suddenly finds that it is held liable for each post on its site The company says that its options would become limited to either folding entirely or conducting extreme amounts of vetting and Content moderation much more than already goes on. This of course isn't exactly what conservatives want Or it's at least what they claim that they don't want so envision That being the product the end result of the Supreme Court ruling with regard to section 230 What does this mean for independent media YouTube shows like my own? Could independent media exist in a post section 230 America? I Genuinely don't know or if it does exist would it exist in a different fashion with this force YouTube to Hire content creators for example so that way they're not just independent contractors So that way they have more direct control over what we as youtubers say Would Twitter take up a lot more bands It's so hard to say and it's horrifying to think about the implications of what this would look like But as the article alluded to it could go in the opposite opposite direction as well Which wouldn't necessarily be ideal for example David Ingrim of NBC News explains Alternatively the court could also create a situation in which tech companies have a little power to moderate what users post Rolling back years of efforts to limit the reach of misinformation abuse and hate speech So what would that look like in reality? Well in the event a user for example makes a death threat online to a politician That would disempower websites like Twitter or YouTube from suspending that user They would have to allow the extremism to go on to that website They would be unable to do anything about that it would be in the hands of the local police department Where that individual made that complaint? Does that sound like a really good? alternative as well to give them no tools whatsoever to get rid of Violence and extremism so YouTube would not be able to remove an ISIS beheading video I mean do you understand how both extremes when it comes to section 230? They don't provide a better alternative to the internet today There are certainly issues with the internet as it is but certainly it isn't that there is too much freedom on the internet It's that there isn't enough freedom But conservatives as much as they complain about section 230 haven't been very helpful in activists fight to Strengthen the internet freedom for example They have held up the confirmation of gg zone to the FCC for almost a year now Gg zone is a strong supporter of net neutrality which would create more internet freedom because remember net neutrality is an issue where it would prevent Internet service providers like Comcast AT&T From picking and choosing which websites they want to prioritize so they couldn't choose to strangle or throttle Traffic to their competitor if AT&T wants to launch, you know some alternative streaming service They couldn't then in turn throttle traffic to Netflix so that way it becomes unbearably slow and people opt for AT&T's alternative they can't do that with net neutrality, but under Trump's leadership a Geed pie repealed net neutrality and now if gg zone were to be confirmed the FCC would have the makeup To actually restore net neutrality But conservatives have fought against this at every step of the way claiming that gg zone is too woke And she wants to censor conservatives when she wants to do the opposite She wants to enhance freedom on the internet and even if net neutrality were to be restored There's other things that need to be done to reign in big tech because I do believe that they have too much power Right, but not too much power with regard to section 230 not too much immunity with regard to section 230 We need antitrust legislation and Amy Klobuchar of all people actually proposed very strong antitrust legislation But the vote on this in the Senate has stalled thanks to Chuck Schumer Now he keeps promising that there's gonna be a vote But it keeps getting postponed longer and longer and longer so things like that need to stop But just imagine for a second the situation where the Supreme Court these six conservative justices have Unlimited authority to remake the internet as they see fit Well, we don't have to imagine it because they actually do have that power it's just a matter of matter of whether or not they'll exercise that power and Reshape strike down or partially strike down section 230 The internet could turn into a very dark and dystopian place and it's already a pretty dark and dystopian place It's not perfect, right? But things could get a lot worse quickly if section 230 weren't in place that is needed for internet freedom And if they do away with this then things are gonna get really bad And so I would encourage everyone to pay attention to this case because it is one of the most important cases that the Supreme Court Has taken up this term