Create a Bill Template in Google Docs for Planning Effortlessly

Bill template google docs for Planning

this video cuz I got a phone call during my last one so I'm gonna try and do it one more time I couldn't pause the screen recording so I'm trying to let me find that document so this is a document I sent you this is like an example of what are my weekly lesson plan could look like like I said it's a little spotty right now just because it gets overwhelming to kind of lesson plan by yourself so sometimes I just it's like daily routines that are the same so I didn't have to put in information I just knew what I was doing by ideally like when I was teaching third grade and we were planning as a grade level everyone would be in charge of something different and then I would just have to plug in for that one thing and it was a lot easier it's kind of overwhelming to do the whole thing by yourself every single week so sometimes I'm missing some things but the first thing you would want to do is create a new Google Doc you can do that many different ways you could click file new document or you could open drive and click new document different ways let me get out of this folder really fast I'm going to click new document and then these are really just built with tables which I'll show you when you start you want to make a template so this for example I don't ever type in this I just this is what its gonna look like every single week and then I would make a copy of this and then I could type into it so when you make a new document you want to name it like so if this is gonna be your lesson plan you type in lesson plan template and then you would build it to be perfect and then you would just make a copy of it every month which I'll show you in just a second so you'll click insert table and then you kind of want to have an idea of what you want it to look like umm so depending on what you're making you'll want it to be different sizes let me show you something that I made for our librarian earlier she wanted to post some read-alouds on youtube so i showed her that she could put like different information in here so this one has a date the book and a link so this has three columns and then one two three or five six rows so sometimes it's easier to just draw it out like what your idea is of what you want and then you'll know what size it is but this isn't permanent necessarily you can definitely add to it after you make it so let's pretend like we're making days of the week you'll need six because the first one is empty and then we'll just make a bunch down here for different time blocks so it comes out just looking like this a bunch of squares and then from here you would obviously start putting stuff in so days of the week I'm just going to put letters save time and then along the side this is where you could put in your blocks of the day like ela just randomly putting stuff in recess writing etc and then from there you can do different things like you can change the size of this you can change the formatting just like you do in a Word document you could make these like centered you could make them bold you could change the font anything you highlight it's what it's gonna change same thing as a document on Microsoft Word obviously so I kind of like to have consistency same size same font computer's going slow now all of a sudden and then from there there are some things that you can do so let's say like accidentally maybe you Tuesday got really small cuz he started moving things around if you highlight all of these that you want to be the same size you want Monday through Friday to look consistent you would highlight them all you would right click and then click distribute columns cuz you want all the columns to be equally sized and then they'll be exactly the same let's say you want recess just every day recesses at the same time so you're just gonna put this is always recess so I'm gonna merge those Center it let's say your revoir recess is at 10:15 to 10:30 and so that's the same every day it doesn't change so there's no reason to type it every day and then from there let's say you do like a math workshop rotation you could type in here like mine's the acronym is math so we do meet with teacher at your seat work technology hands-on and we do one a day so let's say technology is gonna be Estima and hands-on it's gonna be a game sometimes I'll even link the game here which I'll show you in a second after see my and mine aide and that takes some and then meet with teacher is me so I might plug in like the document that I'm going to use if I'm using a supplemental resource or if I'm gonna play a game with them I'll plug in the game so let's say I want to plug in some stuff there so if I go to let me open something really fast let's say I'm gonna do like let me just open us um at my table they're gonna build numbers and they're gonna practice writing the numbers I would right click on it and I click get shareable link and it automatically copies to my clipboard and then I would go back to my lesson plan and let's say that's the game that's not really a game but let's say it was I would highlight it I would click link and then I would paste that link in there so that's the one that we just copied and then that's there for me to use if you wanted to make it all pretty you could color code these like maybe every day of the week has a different color so you would I'm on Monday right now you can highlight it or you can just have your cursor there you'd find the Paint Bucket it's usually hiding in this little more section if I make my window bigger it might show up no still not big enough so I click the more button Paint Bucket pick a color I go to Tuesday pick a color go to Wednesday I'd pick a Paint Bucket color I may keep going I usually like to make recess kind of stand out a little bit make it gray and then let's say like lunch is right here I could do the same thing and I could merge these make it say lunch and that can't even remember anymore 15 a pink 15 - well that what it is I think so it's been a week um and then I keep going and keep kind of formatting it like this so obviously this is not done it does say to take some time to set this kind of stuff up to make it look like this this took probably an hour to kind of get everything exactly where I wanted it to be and this is this was done right here so if you see this how it takes up two time slots with the same concept so if I want if 1:30 to 2:00 o'clock is all gonna be the same thing you could highlight both of those and you could merge them like that and it'd be the same cell so you can merge horizontally you could also merge vertically as well so again it took it took some time to get to this point but once you got it get the document to where you want it to be this would be your templates you would never type stuff into it like this you would take all this stuff out all the content stuff and you would just I'm use this as your template click file make a copy and then let's say this is like your August lesson plan it's not a template anymore it's just your August lesson plan you click OK and then it would make an exact duplicate and then you could then type in whatever your August stuff is so obviously this is let's say this is I don't know I'm gonna make updates right now it's August so 8th one and this is eight two eight three eight four eight five loops that's that's twelve then once you obviously get to the next week you need to make it make another week worth of lesson plans you could just highlight this whole table you'd click ctrl or sorry right click copy and then you would paste it down here at the bottom on a new page I would probably press ENTER a few times to get to a new page just to make it neater so it's on a new one and then you have your next week's then you change these dates and I'm not doing this right because I don't know they have actual dates but you would just change all of these so that it would be the next week and you would plug in your new lesson plans it's really kind of just takes some practice and it does take some initial setup but besides that it's pretty easy and I like ice showed you a good link for my drive I could also say like if I'm teaching for math a video I could go to brain pop or whatever and then I could I want to show this video specifically during some time I would copy this URL and then I would put it in here and say like video and I would link it just like I did before with this link paste the link and I'd click apply so then when I open my lesson plan for the day I could just click on that video it'll pop up I don't have to go searching for it again I know what I need things like that so I think that's oh oh you know what so to collaborate with your team you would click share and you would type in everyone's name so for example I have my kindergarten teacher team on in a group so I would share it with them I could even write a note like hey and see your can you be in charge of math this week or whatever you want to write and then click send and then everyone would have access to this document that you send it to they would get an email notification but they would also have access to it in their drive if they go to drive.google.com and they click shared with me all your documents anything that's been shared with you you can access through your drive and click shared with me they can also search for it so for example it was called August lesson plan it would pop up when you type it in the search bar and they'd be able to open it so all of you guys could be on it at the same time and all could be editing it you could all have it open during the day so you know what you're doing stuff like that I think this is a really quick tutorial I hope it was somewhat helpful let me know if I missed anything that you were wondering about and I can add it or I can let you know how to do through email