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This screencast will help you get started with Google Presentations. Now, to create
a Google Presentation, you're going to need to go to your Google Drive. Now, if you have
a Google account or a Gmail account, you have a Google Drive account already, and you'll
just sign in with that e-mail and password you use. If you don't have a Google account
of any sort, you're going to go to drive.google.com and click "sign up" and you will be able to
create an account very quickly. Once you sign in, you'll be sent to a page that looks like
this. You'll probably have different files; these are all my files in my Google Drive.
In order to create a presentation, you're going to click on this red "create" button.
Now, from here, you can create all sorts of things. You can create a document that's kind
of like a Word document, you can create a presentation, which is what we'll do today;
it's similar to a Powerpoint. You can create spreadsheets, forms, drawings, all sorts of
things. It's really beneficial just to have a Google Drive, just because you can create
all these things and store them online in cloud-based storage. But today, we're going
to create a presentation, which is similar to a Powerpoint presentation. So, I'm going
to click on "presentation" and it gives me the option to choose a theme. All of these
look pretty good, but I think I'm going to go with this one. And I'll press "okay." Today,
I'm going to create my presentation on some of my favorite spots in San Diego. So I'm
going to title my presentation. So, this will be the title that shows up when I go back
to my Drive. So, see, it's already been auto-saved. That's the great thing about Google Drive,
everything is auto-saved. You don't have to worry about pressing a "save" button; if the
window closes, everything is saved for you. So it's already saved in my Drive. Going back
to my presentation, I'm going to title it again, "Favorite Places in San Diego." I'm
going to bring this down, because I don't like how this looks. All right. So. From here,
I think I'm just going to delete this subtitle, and just have the title: "Favorite Places
in San Diego." And now I'm going to add a new slide. So, just like Powerpoint, if you're
familiar with that program, you add new slides and title them, and then you enter your content.
So, I actually think...no, I think this one's fine. I'm looking at this. This gives me different
options for layouts for my slide. So, I can just do another title slide, I can do a title
and body, I can do a title with two columns, title only, caption...I can do all sorts of
different things! Now, of course, I'm going to delete these, because every time I click
on a button, it does add a new slide. I'm going to take just a minute to delete these
and get back to what I was doing. So, on this first slide after my introductory slide, I
am just going to make a general "San Diego Introductory" slide. So kind of like a second
introduction. "Sunny San Diego!" So, I want to use bulleted points, and I do that by clicking
on this icon here. I'm just going to write a few things about San Diego here. So we have
great weather, we have, fun things to do on the beach and in the mountains, and because
this is a personal presentation, I'm going to add personal flair, and say that it is
my hometown. I also want to insert a picture of San Diego. So we'll go to insert, click
on image, and I have one saved onto my computer. There it is! So then I'm going to add a new
slide. I'm going to add three slides, because I'm going to talk about three different places
in San Diego. The first place I'm going to talk about is the San Diego Zoo, so I'm going
to put that there. And just so I can -- Oops! That ended up being on the fifth slide, so
I'm going to move that up, because I want that to be my first spot, or my first spot
that I talk about. After that, I'm going to talk about Presidio Park, so I'm just taking
a minute to title all my slides. And then, I'm going to talk about Balboa Park. And then,
I know I'm probably going to want a conclusion as well, and I think I just want it to look
like that. And my conclusion slide is going to say "Thank you!" So from here, I can go
in and fill in these slides about the places I want to talk about. So for Balboa Park,
let's talk about that one. I'm going to make it a bulleted list and I can say that Balboa
Park is very family-friendly, and if I want to give examples of that, I can put an indented
bullet in and can say that it has plenty of playgrounds for little ones to play on. And
then to bring it back out...So other things for Balboa Park. They have wonderful museums,
there are festivals all throughout the year in Balboa Park, and they have the Old Globe
Theatre. And from here I also want to insert a picture, and I just happen to have a picture
of Balboa Park saved on my computer. So, I'll insert that into my presentation. And I want
to make it bigger because it's so pretty that I want everyone to see the detail. So there's
my slide on Balboa Park! Now from this point, I can start filling in details about Presidio
Park, and about San Diego Zoo. I'm going to have a really nice presentation here. Now,
I can save this, and share it in quite a few ways. Now, I can share it with just the person
sitting next to me by clicking "present," and it would go through it. Now of course
I need to finish it. But that's how that would work. Or I could publish it to the web by
clicking "file," "publish to the web," and click "start publishing," and I want to publish.
So when I want to do this, it gives me a few things. It gives me a link to my powerpoint
that I can give to anyone and they can do it. Now if I have a website or a wiki where
I can embed the powerpoint, I can get this embed code and enter it in. Or it gives me
the option of sharing on these websites: Google plus, Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter. I can change
the size, and I can set it so the slides advance automatically, or the person has to advance
it themselves. Also, if I go up to the "share" button, here's the link again. Now if I'm
giving this link out, it's very important that I change the access. Right now, it's
set to private. So really, only I can view this if I type in this link. If someone else
types in this link, it's going to say that their access is denied. So you're going to
need to click "change," and you can change it to either anyone with the link, so anyone
who manually types this link or clicks on this link will be able to view it; or public
to the web, so anyone who searches for this presentation can view it. Now you can change
it as well. So you can change it so that people can just view it, or you can change it so
they can edit on it. Or they can comment on it. So if you give them access to edit it,
that means they can change your presentation. If you give them access to comment on it,
then they can just leave comments on your presentation. So, I'm going to set mine to
anyone with a link can just view it. So I don't want them to change it, and I don't
want just anyone to look at it. Just people with the link. Then I'll save it, and then
I can share this link by clicking on Gmail, and it will take me to my Gmail account, and
it automatically generates and e-mail, and I just have to type who it's going to. So
I can send it to my work email. And those are the basics for how to use Google Presentation.
Thank you for watching!