← Level 1 – Storyteller

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5 slides, not 25

A five-slide limit is the hobby ceiling. Choice, not a warehouse with numbering.

Five slides is a ceiling. Twenty-five is fear.

Time said roughly a minute per slide. A hobby at school often has three to five minutes. So five slides.

A title with a sentence, two or three scenes, an end with a question. That is a ceiling, not a minimum you have to inflate.

Inflating is fear that the teacher wants volume. Volume in Storyteller kills the sentence. The sentence fits on five. If it does not fit, yesterday’s deleting did not finish. Go back to deleting, not to the plus.

Today you count thumbnails and delete everything over five. It hurts when you like the photos. Photos go into a copy on Drive. The class gets five anchors.

Fewer is allowed. Four clean are better than five fillers.

Example: twenty-two bike slides, he made eight, not the sentence. Five: sentence, rain, chain, 12 km, question — she got there. Volume is not care. It is fear.

A sixth slide may live only by a swap. An add-on no. On the left five thumbnails fit on the screen. A snake you have to scroll is wrong. Do not pad with a meme so you have five.

Adam had twenty-two bike slides. He made eight and not the sentence. Ema five: sentence, rain, chain, 12 km, question. She got there.

Adam said Ema worked little. The teacher heard Ema whole. Adam’s volume was work the class did not see, because of the bell.

Five is generous. Twenty-two is fear. Today delete with Adam in your head. Regret into a copy on Drive. Original five. On the left with Ema five thumbnails that fit on the screen. With Adam a snake you have to scroll.

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A sixth slide may live only if you throw one of the five out. A swap yes. An add-on no. An add-on is a snake that pretends to be care.

A ceiling is respect, not laziness

Five slides: 1 sentence or hook on the title, 2–4 middle of a scene and maybe a figure, 5 a question or a repeated sentence.

The pattern is not the only one. The only thing is the number five at the top. On the left in Slides you see the order. A sixth Slide → Delete.

A duplicate from Ctrl+D is a trap. Count the duplicate. The number is a minute budget. Three to five minutes of speech, five slides ceiling. Count the title. Count the end.

A teacher who wants more will say a report. A report is eight in Assembler. Now a hobby. A hobby five.

The argument “but I have more photos” belongs in a copy on Drive. The class five anchors. An anchor = a title sentence, not a gallery.

The duty is the ceiling. Under it, free. If you have three clean, enough. Do not pad to five with a meme.

Ema five slides, got to the question. Adam 22, the bell in bike shine.

After the fix Adam five: sentence, mud, a rag, 12 km, question. Shine in a copy. The class mud. Mud proves. Shine does not. The count dropped, the sentence was made for the first time.

That is proof of the ceiling. A ceiling is not a punishment. A punishment is a snake. A teacher in the dropbox sees five thumbnails. Calm versus 25 previews. Calm wins even before the speech.

Five notebook paragraphs are worse than five billboards. The ceiling holds together with the paragraph ban.

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Do not assemble five slides so each is a paragraph. Five notebooks are worse than 25 tables. The ceiling holds together with the paragraph ban. Both.

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: five is the law of the project, not a recommendation.

📚 A report

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

Report: eight is a different ceiling, not a reason to bring 25 back already now.

📊 Survey results

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

Survey: a few slides plus a chart, not each answer.

⚖️ A defence

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

Defence: five minutes, five anchors, the same spirit of a ceiling.

Trim the list to five

You count thumbnails, delete over five, the arc must stay. A copy on Drive may have a snake. The original may not.

  1. On the left count the thumbnails out loud. Write the number. If it is more than five, you will cut. If fewer, do not pad. Check you count duplicates. On paper by the monitor: max 5.

  2. A copy on Drive: right-click → Make a copy, if you do not have one yet. From the original Slide → Delete every sixth and on, until five remain. In PowerPoint almost the same: Delete on the thumbnail. After the cut check that start, middle, stop remain.

  3. 姓名 the five slides in the titles: sentence, scene, scene or figure, scene or empty, question. Empty filler because of the number five? Delete to four. Four clean I take. Five memes no. Present (F5), five arrows, end. A sixth must not come.

  4. The count on the left again. Five or fewer. Show a parent the thumbnail list, not the content. Let them see the ceiling. If they say too few, explain minutes. One slide, one minute. Five. The bell.

  5. Save. Leave the paper max 5 by the computer until the project. The project must not throw the paper away. The workshop ends with the number on the left, not with decoration.

A snake, or a ceiling

You know a snake by scrolling thumbnails. A billboard arc fits on the screen on the left.

  1. Delete the sixth, even if it is nice, or swap it for a weaker one of the five.

  2. Write the five-slide formula on paper by the monitor.

  3. Present: count the arrows. More than five = the law fell, go back.

Now you 💪

  1. In the original there are five thumbnails or fewer, not a snake.
  2. Beginning, middle, end live on those slides.
  3. I did not inflate five with fillers because of the number five.

Done when: The original has a five-slide ceiling and the arc on them holds.

What to take from this lesson