 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. All right, so thank you everybody for either coming back or joining us for this part two of our Google Form series. I'm very excited to share ways for you to share your Google Form, right? So now you've created this beautiful Google Form and now it's time to share it with the world. So today I'm going to be covering that and I'm going to be walking you through some of those things. So my name is Monica Espinosa. I am an ESL instructor at Torrance Adult School. My email address is on this slide. You may contact me if you have any questions, or if you'd like to share good recommendations for summer books, please go ahead and contact me. All right, so for today, today we have a very busy day. Today you are going to be able to share your Google Form through creating hyperlinks, hyperlinks with text and hyperlinks with an image. You are going to create a shortened URL on the bit.ly website and whoops. And you're also going to be editing my spelling. So we're creating a QR code, okay? Now with all of these terms sound very foreign to you. Do not worry. I will break down each of these for you so they're to lower your effective filter. All right, so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take a fun quiz, all right? I don't want to scare you. It's just a fun little quiz to introduce you to some of the terms and just a way to show you how to use Google Forms. So Marjorie, were you able to send that link for the quiz on through the chat box? Okay, got it. So wow, 65 responses. That is awesome. Okay, so let's talk about some of these Google Forms at the beginning, the first questions, okay? So the first questions were just a little bit about what you might remember from last time when we spoke about, when we spoke about the settings for Google Forms. All right, so that is correct if you chose true for the first one, right? We talked about how there were some boxes and settings in Google Forms that if they were checked, it would require the user to sign in with their Google account. So right now, collecting all addresses is one of those boxes that would require the people to sign in. Okay, got it. Oh yes. All right, so if I have this box checked, this restrict to users in Torrance Unified School District, which is my school district, that is, you know, of course, a person has to have a TUSD email address. So they, even though if they work in the district, they still can't use a personal email, right? So the user would not be able to access the Google Form if they don't have district email. And, you know, just like we had a little run-in, you know, a little accident with a link before you took this quiz, thank you for remaining, for, you know, being patient and yes, of course, you should not panic. And just let me know, just let whoever know that there is a little, little error happening. So thank you for your patience, everyone, and your participation. All right, so to preview the Google Form, yes, that little I, that little I, and yes, I believe that. I saw it in the chat if there was a mistake in the question regarding the font and background color. And the answer was, was yes, I accidentally selected the wrong one. So please, please take this as an example. You know, I can, I looked over this Google Form, I told Melinda, I was obsessing over the details. And this is just one detail that I, that I dropped the ball on. So I'm very sorry about that. But yes, it is the palette, the palette will allow you to change the background color and the font. Okay, what else do I have to go over? All right, this little question right here regarding the mathematical symbols. I just threw that in there as an extra. I'll talk about it a little more. But I added this because last, last week, there was a question regarding how to add math symbols to Google Forms. So I can, I did my homework and looked it up, found different ways for you to do that. And I can talk about that at the end of our presentation today. Please remind me, okay, but I will do my best to, to answer that question if that person is here or if anyone else is interested. All right, so for sections three and four, I'm going to go back into, I'm going to go back into my presentation and go ahead and start talking to you about URLs, URL shortners and QR codes. All right, Melinda, are we good on questions so far? We have one that I was just about to ask someone type it in the chat or the Q&A, but I'll ask it to you now. Does trusted organizations mean personal email accounts? I doubt it. And you know what Melinda, I actually do not know who that would be like if there's, if other organizations outside of a school district or outside of whatever organization is using Google Suite. If they, if they have some kind of list that they, I imagine they can, yes. Right, so I imagine that those would be trusted organizations. And if, if it, you know, to me, I'm just a lowly teacher. I think it's, the district might feel that it's not necessary for me to know who these trusted organizations are. And at the moment, I don't, I don't need to know who these trusted organizations are in order for me to communicate with my students. That is a great question though. And now I am curious as to who might be a trusted organization for my district, but okay Melinda, got it. All right, so going back to sharing your Google form. So, once again, you created this Google form, you looked at it obsessively like myself, you still found a mistake. So now you want your users to interact with your Google form, right? If it, whatever it might be a quiz, a survey, a sign up sheet, whatever kind of form you create. All right, so what I would like for you to consider when you're sharing your Google form is how do you, you know, how might your users access the form? You know, would it be through computer or smartphone, you know, tablet and smartphone and similar views for the user, you know, the tablet is just a little bigger than a smartphone, but it's a similar view. Think about how your user is going to access this form because depending on how they are going to use it, maybe sharing your form through a hyperlink or QR code or URL shortener might be the best option for you, right? And that is something that is completely up to you. Also, consider your users' digital literacy skills. You know, in my experience with my students, I really had to work on having them understand what a link was and click here and teaching them about that or how to use a QR code. So just consider the way that you are sharing your Google form, that it is easy for your audience to access. And one more thing is about your form. How is your form best viewed? You know, in the quiz that you just took, there were some images, you know, there were some images, but it was mostly text. So, you know, if you want your students or whatever audience you might have to complete a form that has lots of pictures or maybe includes some videos, maybe it might be better for them to access it through a computer rather than a small screen like a smartphone. So consider these things when you are deciding how to share your Google form. I mean, ultimately, it's up to the user to use whatever device, you know, but it's just for you to keep in mind as well. Alright, so how do I share my forms in my class? One way is that students click on a link, they click on a link either through my website, my email, an email that I send them, or a document that I send them, right? Another way is that students click on an image, which is also either on my website on an email or a document, which I do less frequently on a document, okay? So that would mean that a student would click on a picture, such as the one I have on this slide, and that would take them to another location where the information would be available to them. Third, I create a shorting URL, right? And I share this shortened URL with my students either on my website, email, a document, or a virtual reader, okay? And lastly, I create QR codes, okay, that I also share, website, emails, doc, and or a virtual meeting, okay? Are we good on questions, Melinda? We had one come up interesting. If you do not collect emails, because not all students have emails, will you still be able to see their responses? Yes, you can see their responses. However, one of your questions on this, on your form would have to be name. Would have to, you know, type in your name. And if you are not collecting email addresses, right? Let's say that you took this quiz right now, and you viewed, you were able to view your score right away, right? Now, if I selected, I'm going to go to the setting option so that I can show you. So I'm going to exit this screen and I'm going to go to my Google Forms, okay, my settings. So right now, currently, I am not collecting email addresses for the quiz that you just took. Therefore, you were not required to sign in. On this quiz, I did not require, I'm sorry, I didn't have a question for you to answer your name, or to enter your email address, right? Now, there is an option when you are creating a quiz, okay, this is only for quizzes, where you, you can release the score, you know, immediately after, after a user takes it. So you, like you, what you just did, you were able to view your score and the answers right away. Or this option, which is later after manual review, again, it's going to turn on email collection Gmail, okay, so that, that does limit, that does limit your audience, so you would have to make sure that your students have a Gmail address. And I, I highly recommend that you encourage your students to create a Google email, because that way they would, you know, you would be able to work with them probably easier if you're using other Google applications. So, by selecting this later after manual review, if a student, if a student types in their email, right, and maybe they type it in incorrectly, then the student will not be able to receive their score. Okay, and it forces this, this option. I'm going to select it, and I want you to compare how it looks. Okay, so if you see right now, section one only has a school description. Now I am going to go back, and I'm going to select this option. Okay, and I want you to see how the screen changes. Now, it creates a field for the user to enter a valid email address. Okay, and that you're kind of forced to enter an email address. I hope I answered your question. If I did, I will, I will continue. I got that question. We do have one coming up about re choosing an image. Is it a drop down or a grid question. Did you want to address that later. Yeah, so, okay, so, you know, last week, if I encourage you to view if you have not read the slides. I don't think the video is available yet, right. So that is something that we discussed last week and let me go ahead and just give you a quick demo of what that looks like right now. Okay, so I am, and, and can I ask that person to clarify, just, just specify an image as an option or an image as part of your, as part of your question. Before Olivia option option. Okay. So, let me just go to the one we did last week so it is. So, you said this was for Olivia right. All right Olivia so I am in my I'm right here I'm creating my question. Now when you create a question. Right here. Okay, when you click on if you select multiple choice or checkboxes. You will see this little image icon on the far right, and that is how you would be able to add images as options okay. Now you also have the option to add images for your question, and that would be right here. So this right here is to add an image as a part of your question. And this little icon right here would be to add an image for your options. Okay, so let's just do a quick example. I always go with puppies, same option. Adorable. Okay. So, I would search, I would search either in your camera or through your photos your Google Drive or just through Google, and then you would select, you would select whichever picture, whichever picture you want, and then you go ahead and insert it. Okay. And so maybe I would type in option a. Okay. I hope that that answers your question now I'm going to keep in mind that you may not have the option to add pictures for every question type. Okay, so just keep that in mind. Like for example, it definitely will not give you the option to add pictures in a question type for linear scale. Okay, so it won't be available for each question type, but it is available in some types of questions. Okay, back to hyperlinks. Yes. Yes. All right. God, so hyperlinks right I'm sure you've all interacted with hyperlinks in your through email or you know even when when you're navigating a website, that is how a website operates right through hyperlinks. Now if you do not know you know what this word is specifically, it's just a file or document that is connected is linked to something in a different location right so if I click on the home button the home I'm sorry the home tab is going to take me to the home page right. But that is essentially what a hyperlink is, you know, usually they appear in blue, or maybe they're in old, depending on the platform that you're using. It might look a little different. As you can see here on Google slides, it looks red. Okay. Now, just something to keep in mind that hyperlinks can be created on in documents, emails, websites, you name it. Okay, hyperlinks are not limited to Google applications and you can, you can create a hyperlink, as long as you have a web address. All right, you can create a hyperlink. Now I want to show you I want to show you some some examples right here on this page on the slide. Now, if you see here, I've, I'm using the 10 website. Okay, now this is just in black and it appears as my text up above. Now here, I have this and it's underlined and it's in red. Now, usually that's how I want, if you see here when I hover over these words. I still have that arrow, my cursor is an arrow. However, if I hover over these words, my cursor turns into the little hand with a pointing finger. And that is how you know that is one way that you can that you know that something is hyperlinked. So if I click on this, well, it's going to take me to that location, right to this wonderful, wonderful website with wonderful people. All right, so coming back to this. Okay, so I have hyperlinked the actual web address. And I have actually also, I have also typed in text, right, it says, oh, 10. It says, oh, 10 resources. And I, you know, usually gives the reader a little bit more, maybe more information about where they are going in case you rather not just give the web address. Now here you have a little picture, right, you have a little picture and it says click here. Now if you notice, once again, we have that little hand with the pointing finger. And that means that it is also hyperlinked. Okay, so if I were to click here, I have once again hyperlinked it to the O10 website. All right. Now, once you view the slides later, there's a little how to video. Okay, I'm going to show you how to create a hyperlink as well. But I am going. There is also a little how to video. Okay, now, if you are on a Mac, there are some keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Macs, right. I, you know, I've never created a hyperlink on a tablet or or a smartphone, but I'm sure there's a way to do it. I'm not sure if anyone has done that, but I never had the need to to learn how to do that. But all right, so these are some keyboard shortcuts for you to for you to know. Now, sometimes maybe you will see the option this little paper clip looking thing, but it's actually a little chain link. Okay, it's a chain link and that just you would be able to click on that in order to create the hyperlink. Now, once again, I showed you how how you can tell if something is hyperlinked, right, if it is linked to something else. So, you know, you would do that by hovering hovering over the text or the image, and you notice to see if the if the cursor changes. So, once again, I see the little I'm, I'm hovering over the word shortcut at the top. And I see the arrow, the cursor is an arrow. But if I go here, my cursor is a little hand with a pointing finger. Now, one other way to know is I'm not sure if you can view this through my screen but Melinda maybe you can confirm this for me. When I hover over this, what do you see on the bottom left of my screen Melinda, do you see anything pop up. You are presenting. So all we see is your cursor. Got it. Okay, so, you know, this is something you could maybe you've never noticed it before, maybe you have. But when you when you hover when you point at something that is hyperlinked on the bottom left of your browser window, you will see the address that it is hyperlinked to. So this how to text is actually connected to a YouTube video. So right now on my screen, I, when I hover over, I see the web address for the YouTube video. So, you know, just, you've never noticed it before, as you're surfing the web, take a look at it and just see what that looks like. Okay, so here you go. I'm going to go ahead and show you how to, you know what, I'm going to hold off on showing you how to hyperlink so that you can see examples first. Next, we've got URL shortness. Now URL is just another way it's a technical term for a web address. Okay, it's just a web address. And what this URL shortener will do, the one that I choose is bitly. Okay, but there are many other URL shorteners out there that will do the same thing. And they just, you know, when you clicked on the link for the quiz earlier in the chat box, you saw this super super long address, right. Can you imagine sharing that with your students and not hyperlinking it? Or, you know, if you're trying to type it into your phone or try to, trying to type it into your address bar, that's just pretty insane, right. So what bitly, what a URL shortener like bitly will do is it will take your original web address and you can customize it. Okay, you can customize that web address. One little problem here, okay, is that the person typing in this URL shortener has to type in the exact link you gave them, okay. So for example, you know, I'm going to give you an example here of one that I created. Now, if I give my students this, this URL, it's going to take them to this page. Okay, now let's imagine that I typed it in and I made a mistake, right. I made a mistake. I forgot to type in the six. So it's going to take them to an error. It will give them an error message of some sort. There you go. Yeah, so it's going to give your user an error message. And one other thing to keep in mind with URL shortener is that you cannot search for them. You cannot type them into a search box, right. So sometimes when I give links to my URLs like this to my students and they try to search for it like this and they say teacher, it's not there, or teacher, I, you know, it's not correct. Well, no, it is correct. You just have to type it in your omnibus or address bar. Okay, so those are just something to keep in mind with it. I'm not 100% sure if the other URL shorters work this this way. But that is what I have found through using it. Okay. Right here. What are we doing on questions? I know I'm talking a lot. I'm thinking you're okay we did have a question about how did you create the the image to be a hyperlink. Okay, yes. And as I mentioned that I will, I will give you the how to and I will give you demos after I get through this presentation so I'm going to talk to you I talked to you about hyperlinks. I'm going to talk to you about shortners. I'm going to go into QR codes. And then is where I will then is where I will begin a little demo and giving you an actual how to does that work. Yes. All right, wonderful. All right, so let me show you QR codes. Okay, so this right here is an example of a QR code. I'm going to share a video very short video with you about how to use it. So if you if you have your mobile phone handy, I would advise you to take it out. And so you can practice using this with your phone right now. Okay. Hi guys, David here from pay it forward.com at beautiful belly Malone cooking school in Ireland here to show you today how to use QR codes on iPhone. I'd say you're in a beautiful location and you want to learn more about something you see. Now you could read the text, which is kind of boring. Or you could look down here and you'll see this little square thing with a lot of dots. You've probably seen them in all sorts of places. They used to only really work with Android phones, but now iPhone support them. Here's how to use it to use QR codes on iPhone. The first thing you need to do is open the camera app for QR codes to work correctly. Photo needs to be selected. You can't be taking a video like my iPhone is set to do right now. So I'm going to swipe from right to left on that bottom slider and choose photo. Now, since I've selected photo, a notification comes down from the top of my iPhone. And in this case, it says to open cooking is fun.ie in Safari. So all I need to do is tap on that. And that will bring me to the website address of the QR code. Now, in this case, it shows up with a 404 error, which means that that website isn't found, but that's the website's phone, not the iPhone's. So that's how to use QR codes. Okay, so that is how to use QR codes on iPhones. But the concept is the same for other devices, tablets or Android. So the concept is the same, but you do need to be running on a later version. So if you haven't updated your settings in a while and you can't do it with your phone, maybe you should update. You should have all the latest updates. Now, if you're having trouble with your iPhone, you might be able to tweak some of your camera settings. So I have placed this link right here for you that you can view later to manage your iPhone camera settings. So right now what I would like for you to do is I'd like for you to give it a try. Please give it a try and it's going to take you to a Google form for you to answer one, just one question on a Google form. Okay, and it's related to QR codes. So I'll give you, if anyone is having trouble with it, please let me know. Once again, it might be just your phone and the latest version. But usually, you know, now all I want to say that the majority of these devices will allow you to just do it with your camera without the use of an application. So just let me know in the chat box if you have been successful. Practice using QR code. Oh, wow, wonderful. Already 45 responses. Okay. All right, so so far 45, 46 people say that it was that it was easy for them. And only one person said that no, it was not easy. All right. It's practice. I'm sorry. It's practice. So I hope that one person who is having a difficult time with these QR code will either practice or ask me a question. You know, if your students or yourself or whoever it is that you are sharing a QR code with is is not able to do it on their phone is not able to do it on their phone just by using their camera. I provided I provided you with with a link with two links actually, right, where they would be able to. It offers a variety of applications of free applications that you could download on your mobile device, and it will read the QR codes for you. So we have come to to the end of my presentation. And now I would like to show you some examples. Sorry. All right, but before I go into sharing the examples with you. Do I have any questions that I can answer right now Linda. How do you make a QR code is the question. All right. Yes, exactly. So once again, I'm going to show you now some examples of what this looks like. And then I will go into the into a how to. All right. Of course, I'm going to show you how to do these. I would not unleash this on you and then not show you how to do it. But before we we get into that, I want to show you, I want to show you what this might look like for your audience. What do hyperlinks look like in text, what do hyperlinks look like in images with a URL shortener, or with with a QR code, right. So I'm going to show you how I share this with my students, because that is how I use Google forms, mostly with my students. So in the chat box, I think this is the first link that was shared that I shared by mistake. So I'm going to show you, I would share the link one more time in the, in the chat box. And it's going to take you to a special page that I created for us for this webinar. Okay, and the page look like this. Okay. So what I what I wanted to do for you here is I wanted to show you how my students or how my audience connects to a Google form. Okay, so you know on the left I have an example type so either a hyperlink a QR code or URL shortener. And on the right hand side of the page. This is how it will look like. Okay, so here in the first example, I have hyperlinked text. Okay, and I have hyperlinked the word here, as you can see. So when students click, click there, it will take them to a Google form about museum options. All right. Hyperlinking an image. It's right there. Okay, I, I see the image of a cute puppy. Yes, I am obsessed with puppies. All right, and it's going to take them to a Google form about tattoos. Okay, about tattoos. Using a using the URL shortener. Okay. Here it is. Here is the address. Now if you notice this one is not hyperlinked. Okay, but sometimes I also like to share this short in URL for students who don't have any access right at the moment when I asked them to access this document later on at home. And so they could have the ad or they could have this address and access it at a later time on a different device. So I also share the actual URL with them. Okay, and here this is just how it looks, and it is hyperlinked to the same page. Okay, which is a journal. All right. Fun stuff. So now the QR code, right, the QR code. So here, you know, I asked the students to scan the code with their phone and by scanning by scanning this, this code, it will take them to whatever homework is assigned. Okay, and I believe it's also connected to the quiz that you just took today. Okay, now I use for a free generator. Okay, and I will go, I will go into that in a moment. Okay, I just wanted to point out that below at the bottom of the page. I have posted all of the things that you worked with today. All right, so the slides for my presentation today, the quiz that you took, and the QR question. Okay, so it is right there. Okay, so are you guys ready to do some practice with hyperlinks. I hope you are. Okay, so let me go to a YouTube video. Okay, I already have one. I already have a YouTube video here open for us. Okay, now the first thing that I am going to do is if you do one moment. Once again, you can create a hyperlink with any web address okay with any link that you have so what right now I'm going to hyperlink some text to this video. So, the first thing that I need to do is I need to get the address for this video, and I can do this two ways. I can either copy it from the top right I can copy it, or I can take it from this little share arrow. I can copy it like that. Okay, so let me do that once again. My option is to copy the address from the search from the address bar, or I can go to a share arrow. And I can copy the link to my clipboard as well. Now, now I'm going to type my text. But once again I'm sorry my internet is not cooperating right now. Okay, please watch this video. Now what I would do is I would select, I would select whatever text. I want hyperlinked. So in this case, I just want the word video. Okay, now if you notice. There is a link here. So I can either click on that, or I can use my keyboard shortcut. I'm using a Windows computer so I will do control and key. Okay, so once again, I can, I will select and click on insert link, or select. And do my little keyboard shortcut, which I love. I love this keyboard shortcut. And I will apply. And that's it. Okay, that's it. Let me know if you need to see it. If you need to see it one more time. All right, so now I'm going to show you how to do the same thing with with with an image. Okay, the concept is the concept is the same. Okay, could you show that one more time as the creating a text link for sure. Yes, and I will show you with different, different text. Okay, let's do here we something like please. Oh my God, click here. Okay. I once again, I selected my text that I double click, or I drag and select my text that I want to hyperlink. I have two options. I have two options, either clicking on the link. I'm sorry, clicking on the icon for insert link. But the other quick way is to do the keyboard shortcut, the keyboard shortcut. And I forgot to mention this, but obviously it will also be in your, if you have a right click on a Windows computer, you know, if you right click, and the menu that comes up for the right click, you would select link. And fortunately it gives me that handy reminder control K would be the shortcut. I would then paste. I would then paste my link, wherever I want this link to connect to. Yeah, in this case, it's a video, it's a video. So here you go, and I would just apply. All right, let me know if you want another example. I think that's got it. Okay, got it. So now I have this darling picture here, right. I have this puppy. Now, I would like to do the same thing. Okay, I want to link it to the same video. Okay, now you do have to direct your, your user. You have to probably clue them in to, you know, having to click the image, because since, you know, it's a little easier when you have text because it change, you know, it changes color, or, or it changes to being, you know, underlying text. But with an image, nothing is there, you know, nothing changes that the image looks the same. So maybe I would say something like click. I can't spell today. Click the image. Okay, click the image to go to the video. So once again, I'm the same thing I would select, I would select and now I clicked on my picture and the options are the same. Okay, I can either click the insert link, the insert like icon at the top, or I could just click, click my picture. Do the shortcut. Or find it on my right click menu. Okay, there you go. I will select it. I'm sorry, I will paste it. And there you go. Oh, sorry, not working. Okay, sorry, not, I don't know why it's not cooperating with me. Okay, there, there he is. Oh my God, I'm doing the same thing I tell my students not to do. Okay, now you see, my, my window is zoomed in right so when you click when you click on, I'm using Google Docs okay. So when you click on something on Google Docs or just the Google applications, it doesn't take you directly, you have this little box that opens up. And then you would have to click on, you would have to click on that little box in order to go to the, the page that it is linked to so the same thing happened with the picture I just couldn't view it it was outside of my window I'm sorry. So here you go so there now my picture is hyperlinked. I don't should I demonstrate it one more time. You let me know. I think we're good we don't have any requests for a repeat. Okay, I take it back we got one, we got two, we got two for repeat. Just a real quick one. Yes, please. Yes, most definitely so give me one more one moment. Okay. All right, so I'm going to show you how to do this with the image one more time and then I'll show you the form okay how to do it with the form. So I've clicked on my picture I see the little squares pop up so I know that I'm I'm ready to make modifications to my picture to my image right so once again I click it and I have the options to either insert a link here. Okay, insert the link or do my keyboard shortcut and I should tell you guys that the keyboard shortcut works this control K or command K. It's going to work on Office apps. It's going to work. If you are on Like Google applications. So if you're on your email, like Yahoo, it doesn't have to be Gmail. Okay, this keyboard shortcut should work throughout throughout so okay I Selected. I am going to link. And I'm going to now paste the link and I apply. So now when you click on the image. Your that URL should pop should pop up. Okay, so let's go. Let's go back up here. I'm going to delete this link and I'm going to link it to to A Google form. Okay. Now, here I am on my Google form. And what I'm what I have done to see the link is I click I have to click send. Right so I click send to share with my with my audience. And now I have different options. I can send it to them. I could share this Google form with through email, right and I can send them in email now. There's, you know, sometimes you send a Google form to lots and lots of people. So if you want to maybe copy and paste everyone's email address in here maybe that's easiest but I find it's just easy to not send it via email for myself because I have a lot of students. Right so here you go. Here is the link if by clicking on this chain link you see you see the actual URL. Now Google will shorten it. However, it is still pretty confusing right so can you just imagine typing that URL onto your phone, or type, you know, having to, I mean copying and pasting is pretty easy, you know, but there's a smoother way to do it now. This, these two little arrow looking things. These are to embed. Okay, onto your website. So today we're not talking about embedding. Okay, so I'm not even going to go there. Links. So I have my link here. I have my name. I will copy it. I will copy it. And now I'm going to go back to to this text. Right, so please click here. Once again, I have the option of clicking insert link control K or right click. There you go. So now when, when my students click on this link. They will go it will take them to their Google for. Okay. Should I show that one more time. Sure. Why not. Right. Okay, so once again, I'm done with my Google form and I'm ready to share it so I will go to this to this same button up on the top right. I will get the link for this form. Okay, get the link I will copy it. And I will select the text, select the text that I want to hyperlink, which is just the word here. I will either click on the insert link icon. I will do control K, or I will right click and find the option for link. I will then paste the link into the box and I will apply it. And there you go. Right. Now just be careful about when you when you copy it. Sometimes make a little mistake and I maybe I accidentally, you know, in this address that I that I copy, maybe I accidentally erase a letter or a character from this address and I click apply. Now, that's why it's important that you test it out. Oh, look, it's still did it. Okay, well, you know, sometimes if you make a mistake and you erase or you modify the address in a some way shape or form. And it will, it will give them an error message. So just make sure you test test out your hyperlink several times before you share before you write it out. Okay, we're good on hyperlinks. All right, so moving on to URL shortness. Okay, URL shortness. Now, completely, please stop me Melinda if I should go back to hyperlinks. Okay. I think we're good. All right, so, completely. I've created an account on on bit me. It's free. Okay, it is free and it is wonderful. It's free when I, I'm, I already have an account so it automatically takes me to this page. But let me just search for it for you. Okay, so this is what it looks like. Okay. So this is what it looks like once you're signed in. Okay, now, what you have to do is you have, if you notice on this page on this window. These are all the, the URL, the shortened URLs that I have created in my probably like in the last two years. Okay, the last two, three years. So, let's, let's take that same, that same, this, sorry, where was it. That same link for this Google form. Okay, so once again, I click on send coffee, the link for this form of coffee. And now I am going back. I'm ready to create. I will select create this little window pops up on the right. I will paste the very, very long URL. And now, if you see it says customize back half. So what I can do is either share this one that is automatically generated by Bitly this bit.ly forward slash 323 E4 AG. That still seems a little confusing to me. So I'm going to maybe make it a little more. Give them a little more context. So, maybe this is a, imagine it's a quiz. It's a quiz on week two, for example. Okay, so it's a little more gives the students or whoever you're sharing this shortened URL with a little more context about this, this link. If you see, now it is in gray, and I can save it. Oh, and then I get this error message, which says that this customization is not available. And you know why it's not available is because somebody else has already created a link like this. So what I have to do is now I have to tweak it. I have to keep tweaking it until there's until I've created a unique one. So let's say maybe quiz, quiz one week two, and try and save it again and hopefully I'm lucky. So now it says link has been edited. All right, and you can go ahead and copy, copy it and share it with your share it with your audience. Now when I copy it. It looks like this. HTTPS. Now, we don't need this. So, and it's more confusing when you give them HTTPS, right that you have to type a little more so I just erase it and I just give students or other people. I just give them this address right just starting with the it.ly. All right. And now when I have. Imagine I give this to you in an email right and I don't hyperlink it. I will copy and paste this. And it will take me to this quiz. Okay. Let me repeat that one more time and I'm going to use a different form. So once again, I will get the link. I will copy it. Okay. And I'm ready to create. A very long URL. Right. So, let's see. Here you go. QR quiz. Let's see if we're lucky. Okay, no. So maybe QR quiz. July. I'm trying out ideas here. Okay. You can find your own way of making your URLs. I tried to make them try to give them a clue about what it is that this URL is for. So, you know, for this, this is a quiz on QR codes. Right. So this is QR quiz. Maybe it's a, maybe it's a test, test on week one. Right. So I find that that is helpful for them, because it's, it helps with the, it helps with the spelling. Right. And let me tell you what I have encountered when maybe you use the number like the letter L, for example. Right. Some students might still get confused and think that it's a one. So on their, when they're typing on their phone or on the computer, maybe they select the number one, instead of L. So I tried to avoid maybe some confusing letters like that. So normally I would not use July. Okay, I wouldn't use July. I tried to make it something that's a little more relevant to them. So let's let me go back and change this QR quiz. Let's do 0709. Oh my goodness, it's invalid. Okay, so let's try QR quiz. All right, that works. Perfect. So now I will copy it. And I am going to post this either on my website like I showed you, or I'm going to send it in an email or I will send it in a chat box if we're in a virtual meeting, I will write it on the board. Here you go. Okay. Are we good on URL shortners? Any questions I can go back to? Okay, okay. Can you can just eliminate the HTTPS from the shortened URL that Bitly gives you? Yes, you can. But will it work? Yes, of course. So what I showed you, I demonstrated it for you. So let me go ahead and do that again. So we undo it. Okay, so that you can see both. Here we are. We have a much longer one. Okay, so I'm going to copy it and I'm going to paste it into a new tab so you can see. All right. So it takes me to where I need to go. And now I am going to only copy this. Here you go. No HTTP. There we go. There you are. Now, if you notice. We didn't see that. Oh, ha, ha, ha. Sorry. My, my share. Sorry about that. Okay. Now we see your blinker. Yes. Okay, so let me, let me show you that one more time. Okay, here's a long, here's a long address. When you type it in, if you notice it automatically identifies it. So it is an option there. We're just going to go ahead and click enter. And I am here. Now, if I decide to only use that beginning at bit.ly, I'll just copy that. And you see that I still, it still pops up. It's still an option. So there you go. It works. So it takes me to the same place. All right. If you know, if you notice this trend on, on browsers nowadays, we, it's not necessary to type in that HTTP s or the, or the www dot anymore. Right. It's many times when you type in a web address, you can eliminate those and it will still work. Okay, so that, I hope that answers that question for you. May I, may I move on. Absolutely. And we've got about 15 minutes. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. I know time flies when you're having fun. Right. Okay, so up next, we've got our qr code generators. Okay. So as I shared with you through the little qr quiz that you took my shared my the website that I that I like to use. It's free. It's free and it will let you create as many qr codes as you want. Okay. So what I do is I type in the address and it automatically takes me to this page. There's not a this is the home page. Okay. So what I will sell what I will do when creating a qr code is you have to select the URL option. Now, if you remember, I already have my my link for my Google form. So I will. Oh, no, sorry. I have to get it one more time. There you go. All right, so now it is, it automatically generates a little picture for you. And that is your qr code. Now what you have to do now is you have to save it right so it will, you will just, sorry. Here you go. You have some options for size. There you go. You want to make it bigger or smaller. This is a standard size that I use I think this is a good size. And all you would do is you would just say, you would save it. Monica, do you need an account to use this? Is it free? It is free. Yes, it is free. And that is a lovely part about it that you do not need an account for this. So you could just come on this website, generate as many qr codes as you want. There's no commitment to signing in or anything like that. Okay. So now what I would do is I would save it. Okay. I'm just going to download it to your computer as an image. Okay, in whatever, in whichever format you choose. So I always choose PMG. Okay, that works. That works for me. And I will save it. And once again, when you save it, it's going to download the image to your computer. Okay, so now I'm going to go. I'm going to pop open in a second. My computer is running slow, as you know. So when I when I'm in a virtual in a virtual meeting with my students, I usually have the qr code prepared, like what you're about to see in whenever my computer decides to run this. So when it comes time in the lesson for students to access something that I have a qr code connected to, I just pop this window up and I say, Alright, students, take out your phone, you know, scan qr code and or I would put it in my Google slides presentation like what you what you saw today. And that is how that is how I use qr code in an actual virtual meeting. It's very useful because it's very quick access, you know, when, for example, some students and you know, maybe even some of us when we're using zoom might be a little confusing to minimize the zoom screen and follow along. So when when I, you know, I ask students sometimes to have their phone handy when I have a qr code. And it's, it's smoother for them because they don't have to interrupt their zoom window. Yes, some of my students have very limited digital skills. They know how to use a phone camera. And, you know, some of them I had to walk through several times this how to use the qr code, but it's effective once they get it, they won't forget it. And it's a time it saves us time, right, because that way they can be on their, be on their zoom window, and that they can have either Google form or whatever, whatever it is I, I have linked to a qr code. So I'm going to show you that one more time. And I'm going to select a different Google form. Okay. Let me just go ahead and grab a different link. Okay, so I'm on my Google form. I am going to access the link for this Google form. I will copy it. And I will go to my qr code generator for free. And all I do is I'll just delete it. And I will paste my new, my new link, and it automatically generates it. Okay, I have to save it. I have to save it. And this was Google form number two. It's going to download to my computer. You know, if you want to then once you, once you have the image on your computer, you want to put it on your website or you want to send it on an email. Right. You can always just send either included in the body of an email or add it as an attachment, you know, or included in Google slides. There's different ways for you to share this image. Again, I have found it really useful and it saves time in class. When I have Google forms in a qr code during a virtual meeting, once again, like it, it doesn't, it, it doesn't have students don't have to interrupt whatever they have going on on their computer. You know, and they can just use their phone on the side and not do anything on their computer, especially for those that were very limited in their knowledge of using zoom. Okay, which is what I use. Yes, how would you copy that qr code and put it in your document. Got it. So all you would do is you've got your I've got my image open. I've got my image and I copy. Right. I would copy it. And let's say I posted on this Google rock. Okay. Here you go. And that's it. Now I'm going to show you a neat little trick. Okay. So that's all I did. I copied and pasted right a more complicated way for you to do that would be to insert an image right you would upload an image from your computer. But we're all about being effective here. Right. So if you already if you already have it open all you would have to do is copy and paste right. But if you do not have it open, then you would have to download. Sorry, upload the image from your computer and go through that process. So let me just show you what that looks like. Here you go. Here's the image. And there you go. Okay, so that's, that's another that is another way of putting it on your document. So let me show you the neat little short. I'm saving it. I'm saving it. And now you see how tell me if you see this moment. Do you see it on the bottom left, how it's downloading on my browser. Yes. Yes. Okay, got it. So something that's really handy is if I just click on this, I drag it, I drag it, I click on this little thing on the downloading, and I drag it into my file, and it will automatically appear. I'm all about finding shortcuts. And this is just wonderful, right, because you can just click and drag it into whatever you have open in your web browser. I hope you like that little tipping trick. Okay, how are we on QR codes. What is the dynamic QR code versus what you are doing. Okay, so that is a fantastic question, right. And I share it's in that, I think, maybe they saw it in the page that I shared regarding QR codes. And, you know, to be honest, I went to QR codes out of necessity. So I don't know too much about them. But I know that the difference between this Q, the QR codes, I know that it is explained on on this page that I shared with you. All right, it's already been shared with you. And right here, what is a static and dynamic QR code. All right, I didn't know there was a difference. I just know it worked for me and that that is that is what I know. I'm sorry that I can't give you a better, a better explanation about that. So this is, this is as much as I know about QR codes. Static and dynamic, whatever it says here, it sounds like something that is maybe a little, little fancier something that I might not need or we might not need. But here it says, right, static, the different, the differences between a static and here you go dynamic. Okay, so dynamic, it seems like just like when you create a Google form, right, and I can make constant changes to my Google form, right. Now, imagine you already took this quiz, right, you already took this quiz. Now what I've done is I go in and add three questions to it. So I tell you, all right, go to the same link, right, just click on the same link I gave you a minute ago. And now you will see, you will see the form with my updates, with my updates. So we call that a live, it's a live document, right. So I guess with QR codes, they call it dynamic, because as you make changes to it, as you make changes to it, then, sorry, wrong page. It will remain the QR code will remain the same. Okay. So that that is what I know from reading this from reading this. Okay. All right, Melinda, it is 228. I believe that I have already told you as much as I need to, to tell you about sharing your Google form. If you once again, you already have the link to my, to my website where I have the examples of what these look like, and where you have the resources that I shared with you today. You know, in these forms, I shared tutorials and I shared links to learn more about something like your codes, for example. So that is, that is in, you know, that is within the Google form. Anything I can add to that Melinda. I don't think so. If you don't have any open questions in the Q&A, could you, the chat is moving pretty fast. So, could you copy that site, the URL, or unless you have a shortened URL and could you paste that in the chat. Monica, that's the only thing that that's come up. Okay, so, yeah, let me do that. Let me do that right now. So, I do have a shortened URL to, to my Google site. That would be great. I do, I do have it and I didn't share that with you because I gave you the specific link to this page. Okay, so I'm going to type it in the chat box right now. Now, my shortened URL is bit.ly forward slash ESL students 16. 16 is my room number is my classroom number. So, you know, it just gives them a little more context within the shortened URL. So I've typed it into the chat box, and I will, I know that the chat box is moving pretty fast. Okay, so I'll type it in there a few more times and make sure that you go into Google Forms Part 2 of 3. That is a tab that I created for us for this webinar.