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Collaborative Learning with Google Hangouts. Let’s Hang! 10+ Ways to Spark Collaboration with Google Hangouts. “It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.” – Milton Olson Google has many free incredible apps and tools that work on any device to support and promote collaboration.

Let’s Hang! 10+ Ways to Spark Collaboration with Google Hangouts

I have found great success integrating Google Drive with Google Hangouts. Hangouts allows video chat for 10 people and has many incredible apps for you to make music, peer edit documents, screenshare, doodle, play games, and more! My tip is to create a Google class account associated with a class Youtube channel. Hangouts allows you to record and easily make screen video tutorials or just have a video of group collaboration. Enjoyed these resources? Remember to record the Hangout session, choose Hangouts on Air, and if you just want video chat, then choose Video Hangout.Once recorded, go to Youtube.com/editor to easily edit this!

Using Google Plus with Learners. Engaging Students with Google Communities. 10 Mind-blowing Google Drive Tips & Tools for Teachers. Google Tools for Teachers. Google Tools. My List: A Collection on "Googletools" (Google,apps,tools,for,education) 10 Tips & Ideas for Using Google Plus with Learners. For Education: Meet Local Educators. Vance Stevens live-streams workshop on Hangout on Air at GloCALL Ahme… Hangouts. Hangout On Air controls (as of sep 9, 2014) Get set to Hangout: How to participate in INN530 class Hangouts. Hanging Out With Google Plus. Mobile. Apps for Education. Introducing Classroom for Google Apps for Education. Helpouts by Google. 32 Tips for Hosting a Successful Hangout with Your Students.

Stay in touch on your iPhone and iPad. Google Plus - UW Google Apps - eLearning - UWB Learning Technologies - UW Bothell. Google+ is a social collaboration tool that lets you both collaborate and network with others.

Google Plus - UW Google Apps - eLearning - UWB Learning Technologies - UW Bothell

While originally designed as a social networking tool, the extensive feature set of Google+, particularly the Hangouts tool, has made it useful for educators and students in enhancing online collaboration. Key Features Circles Lets users organize their friends (or classmates) into smaller groups. This is particularly useful for organizing contacts into different classes and sections. Hangouts Web conferencing tool that lets you video chat, collaborate on shared documents, share your screen with others, and view YouTube clips together while carrying a discussion at the same time.

Using Google+ in Higher Ed There are many different ways Google+ could be used among students, faculty and staff in higher education. Uses for faculty: Use circles to organize students and TAs by class. Uses for students: Connect with classmates, separate them by course. Preparing Your Class for GooglePlus. Monday marks the first day of the intersession course that will include Google Plus integration.

Preparing Your Class for GooglePlus

The course lasts for three weeks and I teach it three times a year. It is a virtual course with three meetings. I’ve spent the last week creating the framework that will help students navigate this new place with a minimum of headaches. The more I worked through the prep stuff the more I realized that the integration was a lot more complicated than I had originally thought it might be. Here are some of the questions, problems, solutions that I have come across in the days leading up to the first day of class. Before class starts About a week and a half ago I emailed my entire class and welcomed them, introduced myself and told them that we would be incorporating Google+ into the class. I created a spreadsheet that allows me to track who has logged on and made contact.

I emailed them a few times over this last week. The Syllabus The Course Page. 10 ways to use Google Plus in the classroom. Circles Obviously you are going to want to create a circle for your class and guide them through making a circle for the class as well.

10 ways to use Google Plus in the classroom

But as cool as that is, it doesn’t stop there. You can also make a circle for announcements and important links and drop any posts in that you know you may use every semester. Then you just find it in the stream for that circle and repost to your current class when you are ready. You can also create circles for students by category. Google Plus Made My Students Say More. I didn’t get it at first, but I’m an experimenter so I persisted.

Google Plus Made My Students Say More

To me Facebook is a bit of a nuisance. I have a profile that I created a few years after everyone else in the world did (or at least after about 500 million of them did). And like many of my generation, I made the mistake of friending all of my old high school classmates that were already there, lying in wait. I did the same things you did; searched for an old girlfriend or two, and joined some groups, thinking that the conversation might be a bit loftier. It wasn’t. Blocking the posts of all those that I did not want to offend by unfriending them, re-invigorated my interest in Facebook for a while – even if only because it satisfied my desire to clean up the mess that I felt I’d made by joining this social network in the first place.

It has come to this: Facebook is the place I go when I want to see what my young teen nieces are up to. While I don’t get Facebook, I do understand curation. At first, it was awkward. Badge - Google+ Platform. Badge types Because Google+ pages, profiles, and communities are different, we offer slightly different versions of the badges: Profiles.

Badge - Google+ Platform

Google+ Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus /ˈɡuːɡəl plʌs/) is a social networking and identity service[3][4] that is owned and operated by Google Inc.

Google+

Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.[5] It is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook. 540 million monthly active users are part of the Identity service site, by interacting socially with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and YouTube comments.[6] In October 2013, Google counted 540 million active users who used at least one Google+ service, of which 300 million users are active in "the stream".[1][7][8] History[edit] Creation[edit] Growth[edit] Mobile App[edit] User base[edit] On January 26, 2012, teenagers were finally able to create a Google+ account. Social Media Statistics U.S. Get the most out of Google+ - Google+ Eventos Planeje sua próxima reunião com os Eventos e reviva as lembranças com as fotos de todos em um só lugar.

Get the most out of Google+ - Google+

Share and discover, all across Google - Google+ A quick guide to Google Plus. The below post is from just after Google+ was launched and still is a very useful piece about Google+.

A quick guide to Google Plus

Also be sure to read about What Google+ Really is all About, How To Become That Suggested User on Google+ and The Complete Google Plus Cheat Sheet or take a look at all the Google+ posts we have here on State of Search! Google + has arrived and pretty much every SEO I know are already on it. Yesterday was probably a complete waste of a day for most SEOs as pretty much everyone was busy playing with Google +.

I was no exception. In the words of Matt Cutts: “It’s like crack, but in a good way”. Google Plus resigned, updated with 41 new features. Generate a Google-Plus - RSS-Feed. Manage Entries. Interview tips for google hangout. Read Google Forms Submissions Easier Using the Transpose Formula.