A slide is not a notebook · Lập trình với Martin

The wall is for the class from the back. The notebook and the notes are for you.

You read the notebook. The class reads the slide from the back.

A notebook is where you write whole sentences so you do not forget them. A slide is a board for the eyes in the desks.

On a board belong few words and big letters. When you put a notebook paragraph on the wall, the class stops listening and starts reading. You read with them.

The back row can manage a few words. It cannot manage a paragraph. That is not taste. That is how far eyes can see.

Google Slides has two places for text. The slide area — everyone sees that. The Ghi chús field at the bottom — you see that.

Example: a paragraph about photosynthesis on the wall is mush. One sentence “A plant eats light” and the rest in notes — that the class can carry.

Today you move the text. Ctrl+X from the area, Ctrl+V into notes. The idea stays. The form changes. Then Present (F5) and check that the class sees only the big words.

Ema copied two paragraphs about photosynthesis from the textbook onto one slide. Type 14, no space. From the back it was grey mush.

The teacher asked her to read. Ema read and the class looked down at their desks.

Adam had four words on the slide. In the notes under the slide the whole story. He spoke. The slide only held the direction.

After the lesson Ema deleted the paragraphs and left the sentence “A plant eats light”. Suddenly you could hear what she wanted to say. The notebook stayed in the bag, where it belongs.

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Step three metres back from the monitor. If you have to squint, there is a notebook on the slide. Shorten the text. Do not move the class closer.

Two places: the wall and the notes

The slide area is for people in the desks. The notes under the slide are for you.

On the area belong a title, a short bullet, a number, a picture. Into the notes belong linking words, examples and sentences you would otherwise read from a notebook.

When you copy the notebook onto the area, the class reads faster than you speak. Then they get bored. That is why a paragraph does not belong on a slide.

How you find notes: click Ghi chús under the slide. If you cannot see the field, there is often a small “Ghi chús” at the bottom in the middle. Click. A white strip opens.

When you speak, turn on Present (F5). The class cannot see the notes. You can have them on your laptop if the teacher allows presenter view just for you. On the projector there should be only big words.

Topic: a river in a town.

A bad slide: five sentences from social studies, the date of the bridge, names of mayors, all type 16. From the back, mush.

A good slide: title “The bridge holds the town together”. Under it three words: “1799 · stone · walk”. In the notes Ema has the story of when the river flooded the cellars. She will say that with her mouth.

The class sees three anchors and listens. When the teacher asks for the year, the number is on the wall. You do not have to hunt for it in a paragraph.

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Trước khi bắt đầu speaking, check that you are in Present mode, not in edit. In edit, notes sometimes go onto the projector by accident.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: one sentence about the hobby on the slide. The story goes into the speech.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: the textbook stays in the bag. On the wall, one sentence.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: a table of numbers, not a screenshot of a long chat.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: proof to see. The argument to hear.

Move the paragraph down

On purpose you paste mush. Then you split it: the wall gets a sentence, the notes get the notebook.

Open the presentation from last time, or File → New → Google Slides. Click the first slide. If you cannot see the notes field, click Ghi chús at the bottom. In PowerPoint almost the same: View → Ghi chús.
Paste one paragraph from your notebook onto the slide area. Select it. In the toolbar set the font size to 14. Step back from the monitor. This is the bad state you are going to fix.
Select the paragraph. Ctrl+X. Click into the Ghi chús field under the slide and Ctrl+V. On the area there is now nothing, or only an empty title. The text vanished from the class’s eyes. You still have it.
On the area write one sentence from the paragraph into the title. Under it at most three short words. Title size at least 32, better 40. The slide now has a board, not a notebook.
At the top View → Slideshow, or Present (F5). You see only the sentence. Not the notes. Esc back. Save. Today you can move text, not throw it on the wall.

The back-row test

Check with your eyes, not with the feeling “I have everything on there”.

Step three metres back from the monitor. Read only what you can. What you cannot, delete from the area or shorten to three words.
Leave a hint in the notes. Say it once out loud without reading from the wall.
Find a paragraph in your notebook that you would like to put on a slide. Do not write it there. Write one sentence from it.

Now you 💪

There is no notebook paragraph on the slide area.
Ghi chús under the slide can be opened and hidden again.
In Present mode the class cannot see the notes.

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Done when: You can move a paragraph into notes and leave a sentence on the wall.

What to take from this lesson

A slide is a board for the class. A notebook is your hint.
The Ghi chús field is under the slide. The audience cannot see it.
A paragraph on the wall makes the class read instead of listen.
Test: three metres from the monitor.
Before speaking, check Present mode.
Têns in the examples (Ema, Adam) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.