I'm a big believer that the best way to learn to use software is by using it.
So we're going to jump right into Google Slides and we're going to create our first presentation and
this is going to be a YouTube video gallery inside of Google Slides.
Now you can use whatever videos you want.
I've selected some videos displaying the fall foliage here in Connecticut, where I live.
But again, the actual videos don't matter.
So let's go ahead and get started with our project.
I've got a new blank presentation here, and the first thing I'm going to do is rename it.
So I'll click on untitled presentation, and I'm going to call this Connecticut fall foliage when I
press enter, it's saved under that name.
Now you'll notice right now we have one slide in our presentation and that slide has some templated
information.
This is designed to be a templated cover slide, so it has a space for a title and a subtitle.
I'm going to get rid of the stuff in the template simply by clicking on the outer box surrounding the
template piece, where it says click to add title and all press delete on my keyboard.
Do the same thing for the subtitle.
And now we have a completely blank slide.
What we're going to want to do is bring in the video components to the slide.
Now the way we'll do that is by clicking Insert.
And notice there's an option for video here, and conveniently, this is already tied to YouTube.
I can do a YouTube search here.
I can provide a you are allowed for a particular YouTube video or if I have a video saved on my drive,
I can use that video.
Here you can see some of the videos that are saved on my drive.
I'm actually going to use the search feature and let's search Connecticut fall foliage.
And just as if I was searching in YouTube, a number of videos come up, so I'm going to select the
second one.
Foliage in Connecticut.
I'll click on it and then I'll press select.
And you'll notice now the video is inserted onto my slide.
In fact, we see a thumbnail of the video itself.
Pretty cool, right?
I can choose the size I want for the video by using the sizing handles.
I can click on one of the handles in the corner and drag away from or towards the center to increase
or decrease the size of the video.
I'm a size it about like that.
And now I'm going to choose a second video.
So let's go ahead and again, insert.
VIDEO.
And notice it has retained my previous search so I can just choose another video.
And let's choose this one.
Peak fall foliage in New England.
I'm going to choose Select.
And again, I'm going to drag.
This so it is about the same size as the other, when I get it exactly the same size, you'll notice
these sizing handles appear as a guide.
Now that I have these two videos, what I want to do is add some text to this so that someone who's
viewing this particular presentation knows what's on here.
So I'm going to choose the text box and I'm going to drag with my mouse underneath the actual videos.
And create a rectangle sort of like that when I do, you'll notice my cursor appears.
And I'm simply going to type fall foliage videos and I'll put in parentheses here.
Connecticut.
So I've created a very simple presentation here.
Now, all of this time, we've been working in Google Slides edit mode.
When I want to present to someone, there's actually a presentation mode.
Notice this button in the upper right hand corner, says Present, I'm simply going to click it.
And once I do notice, I'm in full screen presentation mode and I can run the YouTube videos just by
clicking on them.
I'm going to invite you now to complete the activity using the PDF that's associated with this section
of the course when you do your complete your own video gallery using Google Slides.
Pretty cool.
First project.
Good luck.