Making Graphic Novels with NotebookLM

[music] [music] [music] [music] Well, hey, welcome everybody to our webinar today on making graphic novels with Notebook LM. I am so excited to be learning with you guys today and I'm really excited to see what you're going to create. Looking forward to all the amazing graphic novels that are going to be made during this session. Um, first thing first, just a little bit of housekeeping before we get started. Uh, first of all, I want to make sure that everybody can access the resources for this session. Uh, there is a link you see on the screen here. I'll put a bigger version up here so it's a little easier for you guys to see. There we go. Uh bit.ly/kurtz-graphic. That's going to take you to a Google document that has all of the resources that we're going to be exploring here today. That document looks like this. So, if you're winding up in that document, you are in the correct place. Um, tell you what, I'll drop that link also in the chat just to make it a little easier if uh you prefer to click on that instead of typing it in. I'll get that into the chat there. I just dropped that into the YouTube chat. But once again, that is bit.ly/kurtz-graphic. Uh, do notice Curtz, not Curtis. No, no I in there. Um, and that will take you to this Google document that has all of the resources that we're going to be pulling from in this session. Um, couple of quick things about that document. Um, when you do get in that document, at the very top of it, you're going to see all of my contact info. I'll do a quick intro here in just a minute. Uh, but definitely what I want to point out to you is right below my presenter info, there is a sharing document here. Uh, I would encourage you to pop that open. Um, now you can absolutely use the chat throughout this session. Please do. uh use the YouTube chat if you got questions, if you got comments, but sometimes, yeah, if the chat's moving fast, I can miss things. Things can get buried in the chat. So, I do always have a sharing document as well. This document is going to allow you to be able to drop questions in during the session. if you have sessions, if you have questions that I missed for any reason, if there's something I didn't see in the chat or if there's something you want um me to address um or if you've got a comment or a resource you want to share, you can drop those in. Now, do note that is also where I have a Google form that later in the session you can use to share the graphic novels you create. So if you create something during the session later on you can come here and put in the name of that graphic novel and a link to it. Make sure whatever it is it's something that's publicly viewable. Uh for example sharing it from your Google Drive. Optionally you can include your name if you want but you do not need to do that. U and we'll take a look uh later on in the session uh see what people create. Hopefully we'll have some time to explore the amazing creations people make. While we're in that sharing document, I also want to let you know I did receive quite a few questions in preparation for the session. Um, when you when you registered, one of the options was to submit questions ahead of time. So, do note there's a tab on the left hand side. If you don't see the tabs in the sharing document, you can click on the little tab link on the left and you'll see there's a tab called preession questions. If you go to that tab, you'll see I already pre-answered about 11 questions that came in from the um from the registration form. Now, I got a lot more than 11, but the thing was a lot of them were duplicates or they asking very similar questions. So, I tried to get ahead of those and so it's very possible if you had a question, I've already answered it in the preession questions tab there. Uh I got questions about copyright and fair use and attribution. I got copyright or got questions on uh how to keep things consistent. I got questions on scaffolding learners, student use. Um so many great questions came in here. Uh questions on what about other languages? Yes, did a whole big deep dive into well what about if you're trying to make graphic novels in different languages. Had a bunch of questions about accessibility. So, I do a whole section in here about how to add alt text for these and how to make them more accessible. Um, even questions on could you do something with this to turn into a video afterwards and how you could do that. So, a lot of those questions as they came in, I did my best to um get ahead of those. So do check you you you may find that the answer to your question has already been answered but if not if not put it either in the uh first tab here uh for um the for the live session or drop it into the chat and again that is in the sharing document. Now I know we have some people that are still getting logged in here and joining us. So once again I want to remind you that what we're looking at and I'll drop the link into the chat. We are looking at um a document at bit.ly/kurtz-graphic. That's what's going to get you to this main resource document that has all of the things we're going to be exploring during the session here. Um fantastic. So anyway, that's what's on page one of that. All of my contact info, the sharing document. Page two is where you'll find the slideshow. You don't need to access it, but it's there if you want it. Also on page two, I do have some resources on Gemini and Notebook LM. This project today uses both. We will be using Gemini and we will be using Notebook LM. So if you don't know much about those and you want to learn more later on, here's my Gemini help document. Here's my Notebook LM help document. Here's a 90minute webinar I did on Notebook LM not too long ago here. So there's a lot more you can learn there later if you want to. And then after that, everything else, all 17 pages, it's just all the content. We're going to do our best to get through in the time that we have together here, which by the way, I try to shoot for an hour with these webinars. This one will probably go a little longer than that. Um, I totally know understand if you only have an hour scheduled and you need to be able to disappear at the end of that. Don't don't worry. This is being recorded and I will send out the uh link to everybody who registered afterwards. Uh, I'll also get it posted to my blog so you can absolutely watch the recording later if you do need to leave at some point and can't catch the entire thing. Um, and of course share it with other people as well who would benefit from it. All right. Well, while you guys are all settling in, let's do this. Let's do some quick introductions. Uh, so I'm going to do a quick intro of myself, and I do see a lot of people are doing the same thing in the chat. Thank you so much. This is wonderful. As I look down the list here, I see we have people who have joined from all over. I've got Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, I've got Texas, we've got um Massachusetts, we've got Hawaii, Oregon, uh here's a California, and just on and on and on down the list. We've also got a lot of international folks. Netherlands is here. I see we've got Canada, we've got Barcelona, Spain, Pakistan. Wow. Thank you guys so much. Everybody joining from all around the world. It is fantastic to um have you all learning with me today. I really appreciate you taking the time and I'm going to do my best. I've got this open on a second screen. So, every now and then I'm going to peek on over here and try to make sure that um I can uh catch any questions or comments that come in. All right. Fantastic. Love it. Love it. Love it. Um oh, um I did see a question. Somebody said they they made a copy of of the document and they only had one tab. Well, keep in mind if you're making a copy of this document, there is only one tab in the resource document. That is correct. The resource t document only has one tab. The only thing with multiple tabs is the Q&A doc. That one has the multiple tabs. That's the one that the sharing document that has a tab for you to put in questions and then a tab that has my pre-answered questions. That does not apply to the resource document. That only has just one tab. Everything's right there. All right. So, tell you what, let me do a quick introduction. Hi guys, my name's Eric. I am an educator from Northeast Ohio. This is my 34th year in education. I've been doing this a long, long time. Uh, I started off as a middle school math teacher, and I'm currently an edtech coach. I work part-time. I did technically retire last summer, but came back came back part-time this year. Uh I work at the Stark County Educational Service Center in Northeast Ohio, supporting about 40 school districts up here in this area. Uh but then on the side, I provide training for schools and conferences and organizations all around the world. Uh and I'm so excited to be learning with you guys here today. I do run a website called controlalttachieve.com. That's where I share out everything. All of my resources are there and they're completely free. There's no pay walls or anything like that. you can get to everything that I share for free. Uh this is what that website looks like. Tell you what, I'll drop that link into the chat as well if that makes it easier for you guys to peek at that. But it's also at the very top of the document up here. You'll see it says my edtech blog. Control altach achieve. This is where it's all at. Everything's here. All my blog posts, my webinars, my edte links of the week, all of my AI resources, everything's here. When you get some time, check it out. There's so much stuff here. Um, for example, with webinars, you can see some of the earlier ones I did. One on gyms, one on managing AI cheating, one on notebook LM, plus lots and lots and lots and lots of other webinars that I've done previous to that. All of those are freely available there. There's my AI tab with all of my AI resources. Just so much stuff there. Usually, here's my recommendation to you. I know life's busy and you're like, Eric, that looks cool. I think there's a lot of great resources there, but there's no way I'm going to remember to go back and check it again and again and again. My recommendation is go there once and if it looks like it's valuable, click on the newsletter tab and just sign up for my newsletter. I send out a newsletter uh usually once a week, maybe once every other week. So, I'm not going to bug you with a lot of emails. It's maybe two, three, maybe four a month that you'll get from me. And basically, it's just an email newsletter saying, "Hey guys, here's all the new stuff um on the website since the last newsletter, and here's some cool resources I've come across." So, I find that's probably one of the easiest ways to stay in the loop on the things I'm sharing. Uh, but there's lots of ways to connect. So, you decide at the top of the document, you see there's my email, there's my newsletter, socials, YouTube, uh, email discussion group. There's lots of ways to connect. So, whatever works for you is fine. And by the way, if your school is looking for professional development, here is my PD catalog um at the top of the document with all of the sessions I do. I would be thrilled to chat with you about opportunities to provide PD for your school or conference. All right. Love it. Love it. Love it. Fantastic. With all of that said, um one last time I'll go ahead and put uh the link up there and then we are going to get into this. Hey, thanks so much for the comments. Somebody said it's a black hole of greatness. I take that in a very good good sense. [laughter] I appreciate that. I I'm glad that I'm glad that you find the site is is helpful there. That is fantastic. Uh all right. So once again, bit.ly/kurtz-graphic will get you to that document. And by the way, you are absolutely free to make a copy of that just to give you a general overall statement. Everything I create, everything I do, it's all released under what's called a creative common license, which means you are allowed to copy, modify, adapt, reuse any of my resources. You do not need to ask my permission. All I ask is just leave a link back to where it came from. But have at it. My slideshows, my videos, my resources, my documents. You're absolutely welcome to copy those, modify them, use them with your staff, use them with your students, use them in your trainings, whatever you need. That's what it's there for. All right. Love it, guys. So, uh, here we go. [laughter] Our plan today is to talk a little bit about graphic novels, look at some examples, and then make them. That's the plan. So, let's get on into this. Let's begin with a quick overview of what I mean by graphic novels. And by the way, I'm going to disappear off the side of the screen now so we can make this a little bit bigger over here on the side, but I'll pop back up um at the end. So, let's go ahead and uh get this going full screen. All right. So, here we go. So, graphic novels. What are these? So, if you're not familiar with the term graphic novel, you might think of like a comic book or something like that. Sort of similar. A graphic novel is a type of a book that basically combines text and artwork. As long as there's images and there's text together. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the idea. It's not quite like a comic book in the sense that those usually are serialized. They go on and on and on. They have multiple issues. Graphic novels typically are self-contained. It's it's one story and that's it. That's that's the story. And they typically are longer than a traditional comic book. They can be pretty pretty big, but they don't have to be. They are absolutely not restricted to a specific genre. So don't think, oh, it's graphic novel. It's kind of like a comic book. It must be superheroes. No, no, no, no. This can be anything. Graphic novels can cover fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, educational subjects. They can be any type of topic that should be covered there. A lot of great things come from graphic novels, especially when it comes to trying to engage our students. And that's what we're trying to do here. We're trying to find ways to help engage our students in the things we want them to learn. Uh graphic novels do help in that. Uh they provide dual coding because you got visual and text which can help reach students in two different ways. Um very accessible with the visuals and the chunked text. They can be great introductions like a gateway like okay maybe I'm going to read the graphic novel for the Odyssey get really excited about it and then maybe I'm going to read the actual Odyssey after that you know and so it can be a great gateway to pull students into these uh topics all right um now in the past if you wanted to create a graphic novel probably was a pretty high barrier to entry um creating a graphic novel that you would get like the ones I have here earlier that I showed these pictures of these These are the work of just you know amazing talented people who spent so much time artists and authors creating just amazing things. Um we are not going to make something that good today. I'm just telling you right now uh hats off to the authors and illustrators who have made such amazing graphic novels. They will continue to do so and continue to make great things. But we now have the ability to begin to inch into that world because of AI. With the help of AI, two specific tools, Gemini and Notebook LM, these two tools are going to be able to help us to create a simple but I think very good educational graphic novel here today. And by the way, this entire thing came about because of an email. Somebody sent me an email months ago saying, "Hey, Eric, uh, my kids want to make graphic novels. Is there any way AI can help with this? Or are there tools that can help with this?" And I was just about ready to whip off an email back to him saying, "Yeah, I'm not really sure." And I thought, "Huh, I wonder." [laughter] And I started [clears throat] poking a stick at it. And that's when I came up with a workflow that utilizes Gemini and Notebook LM to generate graphic novels. Um, and I was so excited. I went down a pretty deep rabbit hole for for a couple of weeks as I explored and created and finally this is what popped out as a result of it. So that's the plan. We're going to use these two tools and by the end of the session you will have created something amazing. All right, with that in mind, probably the best place to start is to look at a couple examples. So, I've made, I don't know, dozens of these graphic novels since I started doing this, and I think it might be helpful just to see an example of what one could look like before we make our own. That way, we kind of have a feel for what we're shooting for here. So, at this point, my recommendation to you is scroll on down in the resource document to the section called examples, and you're going to find 25 examples here. Um, find one that looks interesting to you and click the PDF link where it says read the graphic novel. Now, I'm just going to pick one of these myself, but folks, there are so many of these here that you can pick from. I've got graphic novels about a about a a pistol shrimp. That that was a fun one to make. Here's one on national parks. Uh made a graphic novel about the William Werdsworth poem. I wondered lonely as a cloud. Here's one on the life of Jane Goodall, Lewis Latimer, Paul Bunan, Percy Julian, uh the creator of Legos, Robert Goddard, Axel Laddles. Love them. The Boston Tea Party, the Silk Road, uh the the carbon carbon detective. I love this one. This one is such a clever twist on uh this topic with this noir themed uh novel, The Chlorophyll Factory, that talks about photosynthesis, the color wheel. This is probably the cutest of all of them. This one is adorable. It's about mixing primary colors to get secondary colors. It is so cute. Um going into the core of the earth, the immortal jellyfish. This is the most philosophically inspiring one. Yeah, I this one I think it's gorgeous, but it's really really makes you think. I I absolutely love that one. Uh here's one on tardigrades, constellations, retelling of the secret garden. On and on and on. Uh we've got ancient Egypt. We've got uh being a firefighter. Uh we've got the fungal network underneath trees. Just so many amazing ones. I'm going to Here's the one that I'm going to look at and I already pulled it up. It's the chlorophyll factory. I'm just going to show this one off. Now again, you can check out any of these yourself. They're all here under the example section. Just click where it says PDF link and you can browse through any of these. So here's an example of a finished one. So this one is supposed to teach about photosynthesis. And the idea was what if we anthropomorphized it? What if we made it look like it was people inside of the leaf doing the photosynthesis? And so that's what this is. This is this is the result. This is what came out of this. And it's gorgeous. I mean, you look at the artwork on here. It's just so neat. It's like this steampunk kind of vibe, you know, inside of the leaf. It's like deep within the heart of the maple tree, the day shift begins. Welcome to the chlorophyll factory. And basically, it goes step by step explaining what happens in photosynthesis. And it does a really good job of that. You know, we're bringing in the water through the xyllem veins and then we're bringing in the sunlight uh to to combine with that. And so now the light dependent reaction is causing the the the the water the water molecules to split apart. We're getting oxygen as a waste byproduct that they're spitting out. Uh now the batteries are fully charged and we're sending them off to the Calvin cycle. Um and then here we're bringing in some carbon dioxide through the stamata intake. Uh finally here is the Calvin cycle where everything's being put together. We mix the carbon with the energy from the sun and boom, there we go. We're rearranging the atoms and one glucose molecule has been created. Time to get those sent off out to the roots and the other parts of the of the plant. And there you go. Another day done in the in in the chlorophyll factory. It's it's it's amazing. I agree. Carrie said amazing. I agree. [laughter] It's fantastic. It is it's so neat. So So there you go. That's that's the end result. That's what we're trying to create is a uh a graphic novel that's going to cover virtually any topic you want it to cover um in any grade level, any subject area, any style that you want to help bridge that gap. Now, it could be you that's doing this. It could be something that your students are involved in as well. Either way, that's the idea behind this. All right. All right. All right. Let's go ahead and get into how we do it. So hopefully hopefully that gave you a chance to just try one of these, you know, go ahead and click on one of them. Uh I think there's a lot of great ones. Uh Jennifer said the one on Louis Vladimir is great. Yes, I totally agree. I love love love that one. That is a fantastic one as well. So let's get into how are we going to do this. So like I mentioned, two tools, Gemini and Notebook LM we will be using. So, just to get ahead of things, if you have never used Gemini before, if you have never used Notebook LM before, you are going to want to, if you want to try this out, you're going to want to sign into those with your Google account sooner than later. Very soon, we are going to be doing the hands-on portion of this, and you will need to be signed into those. Um, all the links, of course, are in here. Um when you scroll on down, you'll get to the spot where um we get to notebook LM. Um you'll find the link down here uh for that. Um and also uh the uh the Gemini links. So we will get to those shortly. I'm going to go ahead and let me just drop those links into the chat if anybody needs to pre-sign in. So Notebook LM is atebooklm.google.com. So, if you have never used it before, might as well go ahead and start getting signed into it. You can just sign in with your Google account. And then the same for Gemini. If you've never used Gemini before, let me go ahead and give you the link for that. That's gemini.google.com. I'll drop that into the chat. Wouldn't be a bad idea just to get signed into those so that when we get to that spot, you'll be ready to go. Um, what we're doing today, I just want to be very clear. You can do completely for free. You do not need to have a paid version of Gemini Notebook LM. Now the paid versions give you higher limits so you can make more per day but what we are doing you absolutely can do for free with both of these tools. Now I am using my school account my education account on this. You don't have to. You can log into Gemini and Notebook Lim with a personal account if you want. Uh there are some benefits to using an education account. You typically get higher limits than you do on a personal account. So I would recommend if you have a school provided Google account, that's probably going to be the better way to go. But again, once again, you can do this with your personal account if you need to. All right, so with that said, let's do it, guys. Enough talk. Let's get into it. So this is the workflow. We're going to pick a topic, pick an art style, create the script, review and edit the script, create a notebook, generate the graphic novel, edit it, and download it. Those are the steps we're going to go through. Let's get into it and get going. All right, so first thing first, choose a topic. So, we do need a topic for our story today. And I don't mind what you guys pick. You can pick anything you want. Please just be thinking through what would be a neat topic to do a graphic novel about. It could be an original story that was written by the students. You could take a story, and I've had that happen. I've had people email me and say, "My student wrote a story. I then used that story as the basis for the graphic novel, and it made a graphic novel based off of the student's story, and the student just absolutely loved it. It was just amazing." So, it could be student or an original story from the teacher as well. Could be subject matter content that you're learning in class. You could be retelling or reimagining an existing story, a poem or a movie. This could be a biographical story about somebody you're learning about. This could be a story to explore a career of interest. It could be a story that deals with modern issues or offers social commentary and so much more. If you need some ideas, I do have a document with a whole bunch of ideas just to kind of get you started. At the moment, we are all the way down on page nine where it says choose a topic. And that's where you're going to see a link that says graphic novel story ideas. So, if you're really just drawing a blank like I do not know what to make it about today, feel free on page nine to give a click on that link there, that will take you to this document that has a pretty wide range of ideas for K2 and uh 3 to 5 and 6 to 8 and 9 to 12. And again, I'm not saying these are the greatest ideas in the world, but they're a starting place. They might just give you some thoughts to inspire you to decide what you want to have the story be about. So again, that's at the bottom of page nine if you are looking for some ideas there. For today, for my example, just to keep it simple, I'm going to go with this one. So I'm going to do a middle school graphic novel called Cell City, the virus invasion. the nucleus, the mayor, detects a breach and the mitochondria, the power plant, create energy weapons for the white blood cells to fight off the spiky virus invader. So that's what I'm going with for my example today, just to keep it simple, but uh you guys could decide uh what you want this to be. Now, at this point, basically, that's what you want to settle on is what's the topic. And it could just be a blurb, you know, it could be nothing more than that, just a simple little blurb about what the story should be. Or again, if you have an actual story written out, maybe you've got something a student wrote or something you wrote, that's totally fine, too. You can use the entire story as the basis or you can just use a quick blurb. Next thing after we have a topic is we do want to think about the art style. And that's really what's going to make this come alive. You know, this engaging art style that relates to the topic uh but helps to interpret it and reinforce it. Now, um I likewise have a Google document with a whole bunch of sample art styles that you might want to consider. That's going to be on page 10. So, if you go to page 10, here is a Google doc with some graphic novel art styles. You can pop that open and you can start exploring possible art styles. And there's dozens and dozens of them here, covering lots of different styles. Now, don't worry if you can't pick a style right now. when we run the Gemini gym that's going to help us write the script, it will assist us with the style. So, don't panic on that yet. You don't have to make a decision on the style yet, but at least be thinking based on the story you've chosen, what might be an interesting style that would lend itself well to support that story. So, at least start considering what might be good for that. And again, there's just dozens and dozens and dozens of ideas here on creative styles that you can use. And I tried to employ a wide range of these when I was making my sample graphic novels. All right, at this point, let's say we've got a topic in mind and [snorts] we've got maybe a kind of a feel for what the art style might be. We haven't totally settled on that. That's okay. It's time to create the script, though. So what we need to do is we need to write out a script that's going to become a Google document. This is going to be a Google doc and that script is going to have everything in there that is going to explain how the graphic novel unfolds. We are going to give this script to notebook LM [snorts] soon. We're going to create the script first. We're going to give it to Notebook LM. That's what it's going to use to make the graphic novel. Now, this script is very specifically formatted with all of the details and and the directions that Notebook LM is going to need to properly make the graphic novel. Now, there's two options for creating the script. Today, we're going to do the quick one. We're going to do option two, but let me explain option one. Option one is you can write the script yourself. This does not have to be an activity where we turn everything over to AI. You can be intimately involved in the creation process by manually writing the script yourself. Now, if you want to do that, that's totally fine. We do not have time to do that today for this, but um there I have a template that you can click on that will give you the script template that you can then fill out with all of your details. If you're scrolling down to the section on create the script, we are now on page 11. So here on page 11, you'll see option number one. If you want to write it your script yourself, here is the link you need. Graphic novel script template. You can give a click on that and it'll make a copy of the script template for you. Again, we're not going to do this today, but this is what you would do if you wanted to completely have granular control over every single little thing about this. So basically what this does is it explains first of all what the format looks like. It gives you and then it gives you the actual template that you're going to actually edit. And so this is the script template and you would go through and you would fill in all of the details to flesh out the entire script. So basically what you're going to see here is it's going to have things like you know cover page with title and a video des visual description. It's going to have a page number and then a layout. And then it's going to have panels. So maybe panel one and panel two and panel three. And for each panel, the shot type and the angle, the subjects, the setting, the lighting, the mood, the style notes, the uh exposition, whatever is being said or you know any text on the screen, dialogue from the characters, uh sound effects uh that are on the page as well. And so you can absolutely do this completely manually. We are not doing that today. That would take so much time and it's worth it. It's worth it if you want to do that. We're going to take option two. [laughter] We're going to use Gemini and a special gym that I created that's going to make the script for us because again, we just don't have the time to. But the point of what I'm saying is please don't think, oh, Eric, this is just turning everything over to an AI. No, no, no, no. This could be something where this is what your students do. Your students literally go in and manually write out the entire script controlling every single shot, every single panel, every single word, and then we simply use the AI to bring it to life inside of Notebook LM as a graphic novel. Having said that, because we don't have that much time today, we're doing option two. So option two is we're going to have Gemini help us generate the script. So here's what I did. I created a Gemini gym called the graphic novel script gym. And this gym knows that formula. It knows the format. It understands everything that has to be in the script. It knows totally how to create that. This is a gym that will have a conversation with us. It's going to ask us, so what should the story be about? Who's it going to be for? How many pages long should it be? Is there any content you want me to include in it? What art style should we go with? you know, tell me about your students. It's going to interview us until it really understands what we're trying to create. Then it will make the script for us. So, let's do that. So, to do that, we need the gym. Now, this gym, there's a lot of ways to get to it. Uh, one of the easiest ways, of course, is the link right here on page 11. It's right here. Graphic novel script gym. And I'll just copy that and drop it into the chat if it is easier for you guys to be able to just click on it there. But it's right here on page 11. Having said that, it's actually just on my website called Eduge Gyms. If you don't know about Edugeems, Edugeems is where I have created, curated, collected over 120 Gemini gyms that cover just about anything you or your students might need to do. There is so much stuff here. I actually did a whole webinar on this a while back that you can check out um on my on my website there. When you get time, definitely explore at your gyms. There's a gym for just about anything you need help with. Well, this is also where you'll find the graphic novel maker. So, under instructional materials and content, here is the graphic novel maker. This is the exact same link that I just put in the chat. This is the exact same link that is here in the agenda document here. Um, but basically there it is. Graphic novel maker. So, what you're going to do is come here and we're going to click where it says use the gym. That is going to open up the gym for us. So, when you do get there, let's do it. From the graphic novel maker page, let's click use the gym. This will open up that gym inside of Gemini. And at this part part point part we are now ready to create our script. So how does this work? Okay to get a gym started you do have to start the conversation. I wish that wasn't the case. I wish the gym just automatically ran on its own. You do have to actually say something to it. I typically just say hi. I think that's the quickest fastest way to get it started. So I'm just going to say hi to the gym and it should run and say hey I'm your graphic novel maker. Think of me as your personal script writer and visual director. My job is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. To get this started, I need the following things. What's your story concept? Who's the target audience? How many pages should it be? Is there any source material that you want me again? You do not have to provide source material, but do you have any you want me to provide to to provide? And additional details. Is there anything else? Anything else you want me to know? Something else I should include in this? Um, I noticed Jamie had just asked, "Hey, can you upload a photo for Gemini to use and choose the style?" Yeah, absolutely, Jamie. That would be great. Yeah, without a doubt. When you're using this gym, you could hit the little plus button and you could upload a file that has like a photo in there and you could say, I want the, you know, art style based off of that. Now, we're not to the art style yet. That comes later in the conversation, but yes, you can provide additional content here. So, let's do it. Let's go ahead and start filling this out. So, I'm going to start with uh the story. So, for the story, remember I'm just copying this one right here. So, I'm going to copy this and I'm going to drop this in here. So, I'm going to say my story is cell city. Um now, by the way, if you want to add multiple responses at once, like target audience, page count, if you press the enter key, it'll actually submit what you've got there. If you press shift enter, you can put in a line break and then you can keep going. So if I put in audience, I could say something like middle school students. Just as a little trick, shift enter allows you to do a line break and keep adding more to the chat. If not, no worries. If you just give it one piece, it'll ask you. It'll say, "Well, that's great, but I still need to know the audience and the page count." And so you can have multiple chats with it if you need. But, uh, I'm going to say, uh, pages, uh, page count. Let's do 10 pages. That's what I typically do. Um, we'll say no source material. And, uh, I really don't have any additional details, but I mean, I could I could say I, you know, I could I could give it as much detail here as I wanted to. Character descriptions or things like that, any musthaves that have to be in there. For right now, though, I think that's good. I've got the story, the audience, the page counts. I don't have any specific source material that I'm providing it. Oh, and by the way, let me also mention one one other quick thing. Be aware when you're using Gemini, you do have the option in the bottom right hand corner to tell it how long it should think before it responds to you. So, by default, it's going to be on fast mode, and that's going to do a really good job. Fast is really, really good. But if you want a little bit more nuanced responses, if you want a little bit more creativity in the stories, I would recommend popping up to thinking mode when you're having this conversation. Um, thinking mode is not unlimited. Uh, you do have a cap. Um, if you're using a school account, it should be 100 thinking prompts per day. FAT, the fast mode does not have a cap. You can use that all day long. So, if you just want to stick with fast, that's fine. But if you think like, well, I'd like a little bit more of a nuanced script or something that I'm getting, you can pop up to thinking and it will take a little longer, but you'll get a little bit more sophisticated of of a response. So, I am going to use thinking for mine, but uh I think fast will probably work very very well. All right, very good. So, here we go. What's it say next? This sounds like an epic biological adventure. A city metaphor is great. Before we jump into this, we need to lock in an art style. Here are five suggestions. So, what it does is the gym reads through your idea and then it provides five suggested art styles for you. In my case, it's saying a neon cyber city, a classic hero comic, a bioorganic watercolor, a diesel punk industrial, and a modern 3D animation. And it tells you why it thinks these may be good art styles to match your story. It also says, "Hey, pick one of those or guess what? Ask me for five new ones. [laughter] If you don't like those, say, "Hey, can I have five more options?" Or provide your own custom art style. If you found one that you really, really liked, copy and paste in the art style you liked. Or as Jamie asked earlier, now would be a great time to upload an image and say, "Hey, base it off of this image that I just uploaded. I prefer this art style. Can you, you know, use that? And it could do that. For my example here today, these all sound pretty good. I think the neon cyber city sounds cool. So, I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with the neon cyber city for my example. And uh that should be most of what it needs. Let's see if it's got any more questions for me. Excellent choice. Nope, that's it. It's ready to go. And so, there we go. So I've given it everything that it needed and here it is generating the 10page script for cell city the virus invasion and you can see it's following that exact format the page number each panel on that page the shot type the visual description the dialogue everything is being generated for us now again we can edit this later we don't have to take it verbatim but it is saving us loads of time today by generating this for us. All right. Very good. All right. So at that point we are now ready to um export this script that we have created. So we use the gym to make the script. We now need to get it out of Gemini into a Google document because we're going to give this script as a Google document to Notebook LM. So once you're done, once you've got the script, what you're going to do is click on the little three dots button at the very bottom and click export to docs. That will spit this out as a Google document. So once again, three dots button at the bottom of the script and then choose export to docs. It'll take it uh 15 30 seconds, but once it gets it generated, you'll get a link here. There's mine. Click open docs and you got it. There's the script. So, that's the script we're going to give to Notebook LM very shortly here. Okay, let me pause for just a moment. We've been we've been cruising along pretty quickly here. I want to make sure that I haven't missed anything in the chat that I need to respond to. So, while you guys are gener while you're talking to Gemini the gym, you're creating your script, you're exporting it, let me just quickly look and see am I missing anything here? Um, so I see somebody said, "I did the same thing, but my gym stopped at page five." I am sorry. I'm not sure why it would do that. My recommendation would be um, double check. Go, And again, I'm not saying you didn't do this, but I would say go back and double check, did you tell it explicitly 10 pages? because it may if you if you didn't give it a page number like I went in and I told it that I wanted it to be 10 pages. If you didn't, it might default to five on its own. If you did do 10 pages and it's still not obeying you. Um, I would say make sure you're using the thinking mode rather than the fast, that could be an issue. That's possible that it's misinterpreting something and the thinking mode would help. So, I apologize if it is not giving you all 10 pages. I don't know. I' I've never had that happen, so I'm not sure why it would be doing that if that's what's happening. All right. All right. Good, good, good. Anything else I'm missing here? Um. Ah, here's a good one. Have you tried using your voice to develop the prompt for this? Um, do you mean like my writing voice? If that's what you mean by that. No, I haven't. But you certainly could do that because remember way back at the beginning, what was the very first thing it asked us? One of the very first things it asked us was, "Do we have any source material?" I could include it. I could have uploaded like samples of my own writing and said, "Use this document for the flavor, the style, the word choice type of things." I could have done that. No, I have not tried that, but you certainly could have done that. All right. Anything else? I don't think so. And if I And guys, again, I apologize if I miss something. Please feel free to um put it back in the chat again or drop it in our Q&A doc so that I don't miss out on your questions. All right, let's keep going. So now we are ready to review and edit the script. So now that we have the script as a Google document, now is the time when we would read through it and make any changes that we need to. Again, we don't have time to really do that today. So, I'm not really going to go through and edit the script today other than some very, very minor things, but I would absolutely recommend read every single word and decide, do you like what it chose? Say, "Oh, I don't like this dialogue." Change it. It's a document. You can type any dialogue in you want. Oh, I don't like, you know, the description here. Change it. This is completely up to you. This is just a Google document. So even at this point, you can still have a lot of your own artistic and creative input into this. The only thing I am going to edit here is do note we got a little bit of extra stuff at the top and bottom. We really don't need like at the very top. Excellent choice. This will help blah blah blah blah blah. I don't need that. That's not part of the script. Actually, everything from here over I really don't need. So, for example, I'm going to delete that out and just have the title at the top and and then the the cover page to get it started. So, if there's a little blah blah at the top, you can trim out the stuff that Gemini said. Same thing at the very bottom. It probably won't make or break it, but I typically clean that up. Okay, there's nothing at the bottom of mine, but sometimes at the bottom it'll be like, you know, let me know if you need anything else or whatever. And you you you can trim that out. For today, though, we're going to pretend everything is is great. All right. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. All right. All right. Um, let's keep on going here. All right. Um All right. Here we go. Next up. So, now that we have reviewed and edited the script, it is now time to go ahead and create the actual graphic novel. We We're here. we have made it to that spot and to do that we are going to use notebook LM. So, Notebook LM, it's an amazing tool. If you want to learn all about it, I have a 90inute webinar I did on Notebook LM a couple of weeks ago. That link is at the very top of our agenda document. Again, it's on page two of the document. Check that out later if you want. Here it is, a 90minute video. You can learn lots more about it. Today though, we're just going to use it for one purpose only, and that is to make the graphic novel. So, if you haven't gone there yet, now's the time. We got to get over there. Notebookm.google.com. And there I am. So, that's where we have to be. So, from notebookm, we are going to create a new notebook. When you get here, go ahead and give a click where it says create new notebook. And that will create a new blank notebook for you. And there we go. Now, once you create this new blank notebook, we are going to add one file to the notebook and that's it. Just one file. We're going to add the script to it. Now, that's a little unusual. Typically, with notebook LM, you add a bunch of files. Technically, you're allowed to add 50 files to a notebook. We are not. We are adding one file. We are just going to click on the button that says Google Drive, the drive button, and we're going to grab the script, that Google document we just exported. That's it. We're adding the script to our notebook. Now, if you accidentally close out of this box when it pops up, so oh shoot, Eric, I closed out. I didn't get to upload it. No worries. Go back to the top left, click add sources, and it pops right back up. So, here we go. Let's click on the drive button. And under my recent files, it should be sitting right there. And there it is. Cell city virus invasion script. Perfect. It should be right there under your recent files. Find your script, select it, insert it, and there you go. The notebook is now ingesting your script. So, we'll give it a moment to pull that in. And there it is. It's got it. So now the notebook has the script and we're good to go for the actual generation. We're we're ready to do it. We're ready to make the graphic novel. It really is that simple. So now that we've got a notebook and inside that notebook, we have added our script. We're now going to generate the graphic novel. So how do we do that? To generate the graphic novel, we're going to use the studio panel over on the far right hand side of Notebook LM. Now, this is where there's all kinds of buttons to create things like infographics, quizzes, audio overviews, slide decks, video overviews, flashcards, reports. As you look there, you may say, Eric, um, I don't see a button that says graphic novel. How can I make a graphic novel if there's not a graphic novel button? It's because we're going to use the one called slide deck. What you want to do is click on the little arrow to the right of the slide deck button there because that will let us go into our advanced settings. So where it says slide deck, give a click on the little arrow there and that will pop up the customize slide deck screen. So here's the deal. The reason this works is because months and months ago when somebody asked me is there a way to create graphic novels and I first didn't think so and then I said wait a second I realized that's when a notebook when notebook LM creates a slide deck. What it's doing is it's creating an individual image for every slide of the slide deck. Every slide is just one big image. The slide deck is not each slide is not made of individual pieces like text boxes and things like that. It's not like a Google slideshow. It's actually images just one image per slide. And I thought, huh, this is perfect. That would work if we had every slide being an image. Each image could be the graphic novel page. This would work. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to leave this on detailed deck. So we're going to leave that. We're not changing that. That's staying on detailed deck. We're going to leave the length on default. We simply need to type in one thing right here where it says describe the slide deck you want to create. That one thing we're going to type in is retell the story as a graphic novel. That's it. That is the phrase we type in. We type in retell the story as a graphic novel. And folks, that really is it. That's all that you have to do. We gave it the script. We're doing a custom slide deck. We're leaving it on detailed deck. We're leaving it on default. And we're telling it to retell the story as a graphic novel. Heads up, this is where you would change the language if you wanted to make a different language version of your graphic novel. We'll talk about that more later. I am leaving this on English for this example. And guys, that's it. Hit the generate button and let it go. Now, this is going to take a while. This is [clears throat] not going to be done in a minute. It will probably not be done in five minutes. I'm going to guess probably about 10 minutes before this is done. This is not going to be done lickety split. So, just be aware it's going to take it some time. I'm going to use the next five or 10 minutes to show you some other options while our graphic novels cook. So, while it's generating these, I'm going to take the next five or 10 minutes to show you some other options. Then, we're going to come back and take a look at the finished version, and hopefully you guys can share what you have created as well. All right, so with that said, let's go ahead and dive a little deeper. Okay, so we're going to let that cook. We're going to let that cook. We're going to let that do its thing. Oh, couple of quick notes. Be aware there are limits on how many slide decks you can generate per day. If you are using the free version of Notebook LM, which my guess is most of you guys are, the current limitation is about three slide decks per day. So, you do want to really make sure you are truly happy with the script and everything's good before you generate it because you're not going to have a lot of options to regenerate per day. So, just be aware of that. Um, if you have the paid version of Notebook LM, I believe it's 20 slide decks a day, but the free version is around three. I do have the paid version, so I can do more if I need to, but nothing here requires the paid version. The other thing I want to be really clear about is at the moment the slide deck tool is only for 18 and above. You've got to be an adult for the slide deck tool. Students are allowed to use Notebook LM. They just do not have the slide deck tool yet. I truly believe they will have it eventually. It's sort of a beta tool right now. So, at the moment, only adults have access to it. What does that mean? Does that mean kids can't do this? Well, what it means is they can't do the last step of this. They can use Gemini and they can use my Gemini gym to help them generate the script or they can write the script manually by hand themselves using my template. They can do all of that work. They can pick the art style, they can edit the script. They can do all of that, but the last step where you click the button and make the slide deck, that has to be done by an adult at the moment, which clearly means you can't do 30 kids in a day. So, you're going to have to it's gonna you're just going to have to be able to kind of figure out, okay, well, how many can I do today? And maybe I get a few more adults to help me, you know, to cover those. So, there you go. Um, I did see a question. Can you cancel it once it gets generating? Nope. Unfortunately, once it starts, you got to let it go. So, it's Yeah, it's going to keep on running. You can't you can't stop it once it gets started. Um, but um you can always start up a new one. So you can you could just start up another one if that one's if you know there's a problem with that one, you can just click on the little arrow next to the slide deck and you can start up a new one and it can run concurrently with the other one. All right, once this is done, what we're going to do is we're going to then be able to take a look at the end result and we're going to be able to edit it. So let me do this. Let me grab one that is done that I've already finished. So I'll just grab the chlorophyll factory one. So, I'll just grab that and pull it over. So, remember I showed you the chlorophyll factory earlier. So, um let's go ahead and let's grab Is this the one I wanted? I think so. Yep. Okay. So, here we go. So, here is I believe this is the one I wanted or I've got a I've ran it a couple of times. I'm trying to see if which one I'm going with here. Yeah, I think this is it. I think this is the one that I wanted. Okay, perfect. So, uh this is what's going to happen when it's all done. you will have your finished uh graphic novel over here um on the right hand side and you'll give a click on it and it will pop up in a little thumbnail version of that graphic novel. You can then click on the first slide and see it full screen and you can go through and look at each of the slides there to check out and see how they turned out. So when it's all done, that's how you're going to see your graphic novel. Now, at this point, this is where if you need to, you can do some editing. What if it didn't turn out perfect? What if something didn't quite turn out right here? Okay. Well, couple of options. One is you can fix individual slides if there's something that's just a little bit off, like, you know, oh boy, this is so great. I love it, but it misspelled a word. or this is fantastic, but oh, I wish, you know, something was different. You know, they've got something an arrows pointing the wrong direction or just any small change. Like, for example, here's one that I did. I'll show you this one. Remember I told you the color wheel rescue? I said this is like the cutest one that ever existed. Uh, it really is. It's amazingly cute. It's about these colors that have to turn the gray world back into proper color. And it's amazing. And it's so cute. Well, when I first ran this, it did an amazing job except I got to this slide where it says, "Look, we made orange." And it said, "Suddenly juicy oranges appeared on the trees, but it made pictures of apples." Oh, no. That wasn't right. [clears throat] They were apples, not oranges. Well, the cool thing is you can now click the revise pencil button. And what will happen when you click on that revise button, that's at the very top of your slide deck, it will give you a box below where you can type in the changes you want to make. So, for example, I typed in make the apples into oranges. And so, you can actually just type in and so go every slide, go slide by slide by slide, double check them. any mistakes, any little teeny tweak you want to make, you just type in the bottom what that change needs to be. And then after you've done all the slides, then you click generate revised deck. What it will do is make a new copy of the deck that is completely identical to the original except for the changes you wanted. So I did that. Here is the new version that I made. And so it looks exactly like it. There's no change. whatsoever. Everything looks perfect. But when I get to the one that says oranges appeared, yep, now they're oranges. And so that takes care of that. So yes, you can do editing. Now, the other option is you could just regenerate the entire deck. You could say, you know what, I looked at it, it just isn't working. You could say, I need to go back and fix the script. If that's the case, if you realize, you know, this just is not going to work. That's no problem. Go back to the script and fix it. Change things. Go back and rewrite the script, regenerate it, change things, make, you know, edit stuff, add things. Totally fine. If you do that though, Notebook LM will not realize you changed the original script unless you tell it you did. So, you have to tell it that you want it to sync the changes. So, if I did go in here and I said, you know what, I'm going to change this. So, I'm going to come in and I'm going to I'm not really going to change this, but let's pretend I'm just adding something to the bottom. I'll just throw in a couple of enters so it so that it, you know, saves that it's been changed. If I were to pretend that I went in and I edited the script. When I go back over to Notebook LM, I would have to come over here to the script on the left hand side under my sources. I'd have to click on the script and then I would have to notice, oh, look at that. It's had a change. then I would have to click here, click to sync with Google Drive. If I do that, then it'll bring in the new version of the script with the changes. At that point, I could then regenerate a new version of it. So, just be aware of that if need be. All right. All right. Um, oh, I did see a question. Where can we locate the training slide deck you're showing and may you use that? Absolutely. So once again, don't forget if you're in the main document which is at bit.ly/kurtz-graphic. Once again, I'll drop that into the chat. This is our resource document. Everything in everything you need is in this document. Scroll down to page two. And on page two, there's the slideshow. You can view it or you can make a copy of it. And yes, you are allowed to use and copy and modify everything because once again, don't forget everything I release under what is called a creative common license. You're allowed to completely copy, distribute, adapt any way that you want. Please, please, please do that. Not a problem at all. All right. All right. Uh question. Does a revision count as one of the three slide decks per day? Yes, you are generating a new slide deck when you do that. So, it does count as one of them. So, when I made this new version with the oranges instead of the apples, that was a whole new slide deck. So, yes, that does count as one. All right. Is mine done yet? It is. All right. That was enough time. So, we made it. We got there. We are done. Let's open up cell city and see how we did. Now, yours may not be done yet, but if it is, go ahead and give a click on it and let's see how we did. All right. Cell City, the virus invasion deep within the body lies a miracle of engineering. Cell City. So, here's the cell defenders. Here's the malicious code. And I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but here's the nucleus command center. Here's the invaders breaking in. Here's the mitochondria creating some power that we're giving to the white blood cells who are heading out to defend themselves, to defend the cell. Love it. Love it. Love it. And there we go. We are defeating the invaders. We're sealing the breach. And Cell City is once again safe. Ah, I love it. Fantastic. It did such a good job. All right. So, there you go. Now, if it wasn't perfect, no worries. That's where you hit revise and you tell it the little changes you want to do if you want to revise it. And if it totally is wrong, then yes, edit the script, regenerate it, reync it, and make make a new one. But let's say it's good. Let's say that it turned out and we were happy with the way it turned out. What do you do next? Now you download it. So at this point, we now want to download the graphic novels that we have created. So let's go ahead and uh talk about how that works. So when it comes to downloading the graphic novel, you've got a couple of options. One of the most basics is to download it as a PDF. So, if I go here to the um top of the graphic novel screen where I open that up, there is a little three dots button. And if I click on that little three dots button at the top, you will see download PDF document as one of the options. So, all you have to do is give a click on that three dots button, click on download PDF, and give it a moment. And we'll just drop that in my downloads here. And there we go. Done. It just downloaded that PDF. And now I've got it. So that is now on my computer in my downloads folder. Anytime I need it, I've now got that PDF. There is another option though besides the PDF. You can also download it as a PowerPoint if you want. Totally fine. So, I can also click the three dots button and say download this as a PowerPoint instead of a PDF. If I do that, once again, it's going to download it. Boom. Now, I've got a PowerPoint of it on my computer. Now that it's a PowerPoint, that means you could, if you want to, convert it into a Google Slideshow. So basically you could upload that to your Google Drive, open it up and then click file, save as Google Slides, and it will convert it into a Google slideshow. So you could do that, too. All of those are good options. So download it as a PDF, perfect. Download it as a PowerPoint, great. Upload that PowerPoint to Google Drive and convert it to a Google Slideshow and that's great. All of these are perfectly fine options. what whatever works best for you. In the end, you now have it and you can share it however you want. So, for example, you could take the PDF that you downloaded and you could upload that to your Google Drive and share it. That's what I did, folks. That's what all of these are. All of the examples I have in here, they're just PDFs sitting in my Google Drive. I downloaded the PDF, I uploaded it to my drive, and I clicked share with anybody who has the link. I just made it sharable so that anybody with a link. So any one of these that you open up. If I go to my share button here, you can see I said anybody with the link can view. So anybody with the link can view and then I simply copied that link and that's how I shared those out. So if you create a really [clears throat] cool one today, you can do that. You can download it as a PDF. You can upload it into your drive and then you can share that link. Don't forget in our Q&A doc that we have, there is a link here that says share your graphic novel. So if you click this Google form, you can go to the Google form and you can put a link in to that graphic novel. So if you uploaded it to your drive, you can share it publicly, copy the share link and drop it in there for us. Now, the same thing's true if you did a Google slideshow. If you up if you downloaded as a PowerPoint then uploaded it to Drive and converted it to a slideshow, you could share the slideshow and then you could give us the link to that. That would work as well. Now, somebody just put in the chat upload it to video software and make sound out of it. Yes, you could do that, too. You can take um the PDF or the PowerPoint or the Google Slideshow and you could create it into a video. You could do, you could use a tool like Screen Pal or you could use the Chromebook screen recorder. You could use the Google Slide recording feature. You could use Google Vids. You could use any video tool you want and you could um create a video out of it. Folks, that's what I did. And I'm going to play you a quick clip. This is the one that was the um the color wheel rescue. I took the color wheel rescue. Uh that was this one over here. Remember? Nope, not that one. from this one. This is the color wheel rescue. I took the color wheel rescue. I downloaded it as a PDF. I No, sorry. I downloaded it as a PowerPoint. I converted that to a Google slideshow and then I put that into Google Vids. Google Vids has the ability to convert a slideshow into a video and it added its narration on its own. So, here's what it created in literally two minutes. I did nothing but put it into Google Vids and tell it to convert it into a video. And this is what it made. >> Welcome to the Color Wheel Rescue, a video about friendship and making the world bright again. Once upon a time, the world lost its color. Everything was just a scribbly gray sketch. Red woke up and wondered, "Where is the fun?" Yellow thought it was quiet and gray. Blue was sad because they were the only colors left, the primary colors. Red knew they needed to fix it, but three colors weren't enough. Red suggested if we >> Now, I won't play the whole thing, but it it tells the entire story. [laughter] It does the entire thing, which is amazing. I did see somebody say, "Why not use the video option inside of Notebook LM, that is a little different. The video option in here where it says create a video overview." It's not really a video. It's more well, it is a video, but it's more of like a narrated slideshow. And I've never been able to, and hey, if somebody figures out how to get it to follow the orders directly, I've never been able to get it to truly follow those directions properly and retell it as a story, it tries to describe it instead. So, maybe I just need to really play with it and get a much better prompt here. And maybe we can get to that spot. I've not been able to figure it out yet on how to get it to quite do what I want it to do there. So, um, at the moment the video overview feature I have not been able to quite crack that nut. So, I have though used Google Vids or you can use Google Slide recording or any tool out there that would work for you. Um, uh, yes. And that is correct. Google Slides has the button to create a video as well. Here, I'll just show you really quick. I'll pull it over so you guys can see how I I won't rerun this. We don't have the time to do that, but I'll show you how I did it. So, here is here it is. Here is the slideshow. So, this is the color wheel rescue as a Google slideshow. I downloaded as a PowerPoint. I convert it into a Google slideshow. So, there's two options. One is file and then convert to video. That's how I send it to Google Vids. The other option is over here, the record button. This allows you to record a video of the slideshow with your own voice narrating it. So you or the student, the student could do this. The student could read their own story aloud or you could read it aloud while you record a video of it. So if you get it into Google Slides, then you're set. You're in really good, really good shape there. Now, I see Emily saying, "It's odd that we have to go through PowerPoint to get to Google Slides." That is temporary. Google's been very clear. They are going to be adding a new option where you'll be able to download it directly as a Google Slideshow. They even showed a little screenshot of that. We just don't have it yet. So, coming soon, you will not have to do that extra step. You'll just be able to come here and turn it directly into a Google slideshow, but they just haven't rolled that out yet. That's a really good question. All right. So, that's it. That creates the slide, creates the graphic novel. It allows us to edit it and then to download it as a PDF, a PowerPoint, a Google Slideshow, or convert it into something else. At this point, it's really just a matter of sharing it. And so, in a moment, oh, some uh Chris, how do we convert a PowerPoint into a Google slideshow? Absolutely. Once again, all you do is you just upload it into you just upload the PowerPoint into your Google Drive and then here you go. I'll show you what that looks like. So, you Here it is. You go to Google Drive. Here's the PowerPoint right there. There's the PowerPoint. You open up the PowerPoint inside of Google Drive. This is still a PowerPoint. Then you click file and you click save as Google Slides. That converts it from a PowerPoint into a Google Slideshow. So, thanks for that. Sorry, I just mentioned it on the screen. I didn't actually show how you did that. All right. All right. Uh, with that said, a couple of last things I want to do here. Um, I do want to talk about things like different language options and I also want to talk about accessibility options. So, I do want to talk about those. Having said that, I want to peek and see if you guys have been turning things in. So, let's take a look. Has anybody been sharing anything today? And they have been. Yes. Okay. And I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to hide um that column there. Perfect. But let's do this. Let's take a look. Let's take a look at what you guys have turned in so far. So, we've got Operation Snackshack. Oh, it says I don't have permission. So, uh Clement, you may need to double check the sharing on that. Um here, I'll just request view permissions, but you're going to need to go in and provide up that one as well. I got two of them here that we're going to need to you need to go in and make sure you have shared them so that anybody with the link can view them. Did Tims work out? Looks like Tims did. Looks like Tims has shared. So, here we go. All right, let's take a look at Tims here. Let's see what we got. All right, the Everlasting Journey of Many, a rock odyssey. A rock cycle odyssey. Oh my gosh, I love it. So, we've got starting off here um under the crust in fire as magma mini cools into ignous rock. Love it. Love it. Love it. Gets weathered down. Fantastic. Lays down at the bottom of the ocean, gets pressure, turns into sedimentary rock, and then [snorts] gets pushed back up as the tectonic plates shift. And then it's uh and then intense heat and it becomes a different type of metamorphic rock. Oh, this is fantastic. And once again, right back into the lava and it starts all over again. I love it. Oh my gosh, that's fantastic. That is such a great one. Thank you so much for creating and sharing that. That is wonderful. Uh Barnaby, what do we got here? Barnaby's Big Tracks and Where They Go. What is this one about? Uh, let's see. Barnaby's big tracks and where they go. Fast feet and split-second choices often lead to messy situations. I love running. Up a muddy spot. The big wet muddy spot looks like fun. A thrilling a single thrilling leap creates an explosion of consequences. Uh, the jump was over, but the trail of tracks had a mind of its own. Once a track is made, scrubbing just pushes it deeper. Uh, every single step leaves a record of where you have been. Ah, the internet is just like a giant invisible mud puddle. This is so good. I love this. And so, we're talking about how when you use the internet, you leave behind a digital trail of everything you've done. It's comparing a mud puddle to the internet. Oh my gosh, this is fantastic. I love it. That is so cute. That is so good. Here is the emotional weather report. Oh, and you did this one as a slideshow. Very good. I love it. You converted into a slideshow. So, the emotional weather report here. We're talking about, you know, this is Jack's uh on the inside. The weather's usually sunny. Sometimes things get tricky. Things don't go right. And, you know, in that storm, so we're talking about emotions and how we feel. Love it. Love it. Love it. Fantastic. Awesome. Now, I do note sometimes it does have a little issue with character consistency. It may make a character younger in some scenes and then older in others. That's where going into the revise button can help. You can say, "Hey, this is great, but please make this character older to match the other slides, you know?" So, like in this case, if the character's too young here and doesn't match the age you were shooting for. Oh my gosh, thank you for sharing that one. That's wonderful. We won't have time to go through all of these, but uh we're just looking at a couple really quick here. We've got uh History Hack, the First Rivalry, Federalists versus Republicans. Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous. That is a wonderful one. Again, I clearly can't actually read through all of these, but you guys have the links here. Uh here's one, the Power Hour Journey, uh datadriven blended learning in PK to 2. I love it. My gosh, this is fantastic. This is so cute. This is wonderful. I love it. Uh, what else do we have here? We've got Breaking the Vault. So, this one, let's see what we have here. A researcher's guide to open access. Ah, I love it. Talking all about open access and citations and peer review. H, by the way, this is a good point. This does not have to be just for kids. Um, this one could serve very well at a college level with adults. Absolutely, folks. I don't want you for a moment to think this is only for children. You could do this with any content that you want to make easily digestible by anybody. This could be, you know, um, information for staff. This could be a nice way to take complicated information that you're trying to share with staff and put it in an easily digestible manner. I love that. Here we got Franklin Spark. Ben Franklin discovering electricity here. Oh my gosh, this is so great. This is wonderful. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. That is fantastic. And then one more here from Drift to Drive. The spark of belief about student potential. Ah, fantastic. Very nice. Very, very, very nice. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. All right. Well, guys, I am so impressed. I'm so appreciative of you guys doing that, of being willing to create these and share these as well. Uh that is really really nice. All right. Well, keep on doing that. What I'm going to do is just um I know we are over we're not really over time. I I mentioned earlier I had a feeling [laughter] this was probably going to go quite a bit over the hour. I've got two last things I am going to cover. So again, if you have to go, I totally understand it. This is recorded. You can catch the rest of these later, but let me go ahead and hit the last two things because these questions came up so many times on the registration form. I figured I just need to at least briefly mention this. This will only take a couple minutes. Language options. I just want to be really clear. Yes. What if you are trying to create graphic novels that help support English language learners or somebody who's just not as familiar with the language or you want to put it in a different language? There's three different options I want to mention really quick that I'm not saying these are the only options, but there are three things to consider. One option would be way back when you were first using the gym to create the script at the very very very beginning, you could have put in that spot where it said at the very beginning, is there anything else I should know? You could have said yes, this is going to be used. Well, here's my conversation. I'll just pop it open and you can see it. [laughter] So, here's where where I I said additional details. The students are English language learners. Their first language is Spanish. Please include a lexicon at the bottom of each page that provides Spanish translations for any particularly challenging English words on that page. I put that as a direction in my original conversation with the edu gym that was creating the script. And then this is what it created. So, here is the one I did. I created one about um uh snowshoe hairs and how they change color throughout the year. And as you scroll on down, you'll see for every page there's a lexicon that's been added that picks out some key words and provides Spanish translations for them. It just built that right in because I asked it to add that in and it just beautifully integrated it right in to the entire book all the way through. So that's an option. Another option is a thing I mentioned earlier. You can just pick a language when you're generating the slide deck. When you come in here and say you want to make the slide deck, when you go to the slide deck feature, that's where you can pick a language. And you can choose any language you want, it'll translate your entire script into that language when it goes to make the graphic novel. Now, be aware if you do that, if you say, Eric, I made an English version here and now I want a Spanish version of it. Well, if you do that, if you hit the slide deck button and you pick Spanish and you now tell it to generate, here's the only issue with that. I don't want to make this sound like a dealbreaker, but the only issue is it's not going to look exactly like the original one you did. Let me show you what I mean. So, here's one that I did with Percy Julian. So, I did the Percy Julian one. So this was the original one, the soybean chemist with Percy Julian. That was the original one that I created. So you can kind of see what that looked like. I then told it to make a new one and I chose put it in Spanish. And this is what came out. It is in Spanish, but it doesn't look exactly the same because it was generating a brand new version of it. It followed the script, but it's not exactly the same. the the the the images are slightly different. Yes, it's the same content, but because it's an entire new slideshow, not a revision of an existing one, it's going to pop out differently. So, here's the cover of the first one. That's how it looked in English. When I did it in Spanish, here's the cover of the Spanish one. Clearly different. So, that's where option three is a possibility. Use the revise button instead. take the original and go through and on the bottom of every single one, type in the words translate all of the text into Spanish or whatever you want. If you do that, it will look identical to the original. It will just change the text to Spanish. So, here's that one, which looks exactly like my original now. Now, that's perfect. that looks exactly like the original, but all of the text on all of the pages has been put into Spanish. So, those are three options for translating uh that as well. All right. And then what about accessibility options? Lots of people asked about that. How can we make this more accessible? Here's my suggestion. I am absolutely open to other ideas. Please share your ideas. But here's my suggestion. My suggestion is convert it into a Google slideshow. So download it as a PowerPoint. So download it as a PowerPoint first. Do the PowerPoint download, upload that to Google Drive, convert it into a Google Slideshow, and then use the alt text feature. I don't know if you were aware of this, but there's an alt text feature inside of Google Slides. So let me grab one of my examples here. I'll just pull over. It really doesn't matter. Any of these will be fine. I'll just grab the chlorophyll factory one from earlier. If I click on the the image for that slide, I can go up to tools. Nope, sorry. Insert. Go to insert. There it is. Go to insert. And then I can choose um maybe it's not insert. Is it slide? I'm missing it now. Let me find it here really quick. Where's my alt? I may have to right click on I'm just going to right click on it. It's faster to right click. Sorry about that, guys. I'm just going to right click on the image. It's up there somewhere, but I couldn't find it at the moment. And there it is. Alt text. So if you right click on the image, you can hit alt text. You can now type in alt text here to describe what that image is. So you can go slide by slide by slide and for every slide you can add alt text. Anybody with a screen reader then when they're going through the slideshow they will have that text read aloud to them and that will allow them to be able to hear what's going on on that slide. Now if you're like Eric, that's a great idea. I love that, but I'm not sure what makes for good alt text. I don't know what to put in there. Here's the good news, guys. I've created a gem for that. [laughter] And so, I have created an edguge gem called graphic novel alt text edge gem. And what it does is it will make all the alt text for you. So basically you follow the link here to the graphic novel alt text gym and you upload to it the slideshow and you upload the script so it knows all the details. It then you tell it the grade level that this should be. It then generates all of the alt text for you. You can then copy that alt text and just paste it in slide by slide by slide. So, that is one of the newest edu gems I've added to the site. Um, it is under accessibility or support. It's under student support and differentiation. It's right here. Graphic novel alt text. So, that will save you a ton of time by generating all of the alt text for you. All right. And then you just add that into each one of them. [gasps and snorts] And that is it. We made it. We really did get to the end. So, we are now u the very very tail end here. Um oops. I think I still have somebody's uh comment on the screen there. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to leave that on the screen the whole time there. I must have clicked that accidentally. Um all right. So, let's do this. As we are now at the very end, I am going to go back through the questions because it looks like there's been a lot of things in the chat and I might have missed something in there. So, I'm going to go back through and see if there's anything else I missed. Also, this is a good chance if you haven't shared your uh graphic novel yet, you can still share that uh through the form. But let's do a quick check. Let's do a quick check and see. Did I miss anything else in there? Um, let's see. Dot dot dot dot dot. Um, oh, here we go. Explain everything will export the content as a video. If the slides have audio added to them, you could narrate the book. Thanks so much. That would be a great one. Love that. Um, what else do we have here? Um, um, uh, Eric, can under 18 students use LM under Google Workspace for edu accounts? So, the short answer is absolutely yes. Students absolutely can use Gemini and Notebook LM, but they don't have all of the same features. So, I've got a here, I'll share the resource with you. So, I've got a um a session I do. Uh let me grab it here for you. Student AI. Here we go. I'll give you the link. Um so, I have a session that I do called Gemini and Notebook LM for students. I'll copy the link and I'll drop that into the chat there for you so you guys have that. Um this goes through everything that you need to know about using Gemini and Notebook LM with under age under 18 students. um it explains you know all the the features that are specific to them any limitations that they have how they can use these tools things like that. So for example Gemini has some limits so does notebook LM. So with notebook LM um at the moment the limits are they do not have access to infographics and slides. So the students cannot make the slideshow as the very last step yet. I hope that will not always be the case that eventually they'll have access to that. At the moment, no, they don't have the slides access, but they could do everything else. They could use Google Gemini and they could use the gym to create the script or they could write the script themselves or they could edit the script. They could do all of that. You though would have to actually generate the slideshow at the end. They would not be able to do that part of it. And again, that's bit.ly/kurtz- /kurts- studentai got a whole big training on that. All right, let's see what else do we have here. Anything else I missed? Um, is changing the language one of the runs for the day? Yes, if you change the language, you are making a new slideshow. So, that would that would count as a new slideshow. Um, what else? Um, can you share after the session? Absolutely. This form will always be available. So later on, if you decide you wanted to share later, you can months from now, you can do this anytime you want. Yes, this will always be available. Go to the the sharing doc, click on the form link, share later on, and then pop over into the spreadsheet to see what has been shared over there. So absolutely, you can do that later. Um, let's see what else here. Anything else? Anything else? Um, anything else? I'm heading down a lot of good comments. People just saying they're excited about this. Um, but I'm just seeing if there's anything I need to address. Sorry again about me leaving the lower third on the screen there. That was my bad. I had for I didn't realize I had clicked on that earlier. So, apologize for that. Uh, let's see. Anything else? Anything else? Um, um, can you make more than 10 slides? Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes if you say, I want to shoot for 10 pages, the script may make 11 or 12 or it may make 10, but when it interprets it as a graphic novel, sometimes it'll split a page into two. If it thinks there's too much information to fit on the page, it might. So, yes, you might get an 11 slide or 12 slide graphic novel out. That can happen. All right. Anything else? Uh, still going down the list here. Um, uh, can I supply images in the scriptor notebook for examples of the characters should look like? I have not tried that, but I think that would be a great option to actually upload the images right into uh Notebook LM and have it reference those images. I think that would be great. All right. All right. Anything else? Um I think I'm getting I'm getting close to the bottom of the of the comments here. We're getting close to the bottom. Uh all right. Um, what if I need a narrator for the graphic novel? Again, if you don't want to use your own voice, I would recommend using Google Vids. Google Vids does have the ability to do an AI narration on top of it. All right. Well, folks, I think we did it. I think we got to the bottom of all of that. And again, it looks like we have a couple new ones that came in. Uh, Chris, you might need to share your file. It's showing that it's not shared. But, uh, Lee, Treaty of Versailles is there. and Shannon awesome pixels digital footprint is there. So, thank you for sharing all of those. Well, folks, woo doggies, that was a long one. Uh whoops, here we go. That was a long one, but we did it. Uh I want to thank you so very much for taking the time to learn with me today. Um first of all, uh whether you're here live or watching the recording, just want to say I appreciate so much that you took the time to to learn this. Um I want to encourage you, please try this out. I know we poked a stick at it here today, but in the coming days and weeks and months, keep trying this. See what you create. Please share things with me. I would love to see what you guys make. And please let me know the new tricks you come up with because I guarantee you, I didn't think of everything. You're going to find an amazing way to do a twist on this I never even thought of. Please share it with me. I will add it to the document. I'll add it to the slideshow. I'll add it to future trainings. I want to learn from you because I guarantee you, you're going to think of things I didn't think of. So, please share your learning so that I can share that with others as well. As a quick reminder, everything that we looked at today can be found at bit.ly/kurtz-graphic. That'll get you to that Google document. That Google document has all of the content in there. Don't forget all of my contact info is at the top. Visit control altachieve eduge gyms. Sign up for my newsletter. check out my PD catalog, socials, YouTube, whatever. Uh everything is there. I would love to keep learning with you guys uh as we go forward after today. Um and once again uh do keep checking on control alter for other webinars. I will have many many many more to come and I hope to continue to learn with you guys in the days and weeks and months to come. So again, thanks so much for letting me be a small part of your learning here today. Take care everybody.