30 Days of Google #13: Get the hang of a Google+ hangout (plus webinar recording)
What is a Google hangout?
Google+ is Google’s new social networking tool. I have only just discovered its amazing potential since attending the Google Teacher Academy in New York in October. Google has put a lot of funding into developing Google+ and they are committed to making it work well for education, so it will just get better and better I am sure. Once you have created a circle of friends in Google+ you can choose to hang out with them on Google+. This allows you to video chat, IM chat,...Read more
Google circles are a feature of Google+ and they can be very useful for keeping in contact with a group of people. For example I have a circle called Google PD clan.
How I send a message to the Google PD clan
Whenever I want to send something to that group this is what I would do:
1. In my Google+ stream I would write a message.
2. Decide which circle or person I am going to send it to, select them and press ‘Share’ (in this case to a circle called Google PD clan).
How would I share...
Google+ works on the concept of circles each with the level of privacy that you decide on. This post shows you how to create a circle after you have completed your profile in Google+.
1. Make sure you have joined Google+ (on the top left of your Gmail account) and have filled in your profile.After doing that go to your Google+ page and go down the left side till you get to Circles. Click on ‘Create a circle’.
2. Give your circle a name i.e. My technology friends
3. Now choose how you are g...
I love exploring Susan Oxenvad’s amazing blog Cool Tools for Teachers – do visit it and also follow Susan on Twitter. On her blog I came across a post with this this brilliant representation of ‘Great ways of using Google Documents’. Not only does she illustrate how amazing and versatile Google Docs is for learning in the classroom, but she also demonstrates a fabulous way to use a Glogster for giving out information visually. If you click on each part of the glog you will be taken to ...
It’s incredible what you come across on the Internet. While I was researching today I came across a fantastic video presentation (webinar) showing 32 ways of using Google Apps in the classroom. I am very keen to learn all I can about Google Apps so I immediately bookmarked it and thought I would share it here. This webinar was presented by Julia Stilitz, Google Apps for Education Team @juliastiglitz
The write-up says, ”This session will demonstrate some of the most powerful ways that teache...
Social networking is a way of life for most teachers today. It is a marvelous way for us to share and learn about new ideas that can really enhance our teaching. We know about social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for example, all designed to let you share up-to-the
second updates,
ideas, thoughts, links and media with your colleagues. But have you discovered Google+? This is a social network of note that I have only recently explored. One thing I am discovering about Google is that t...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Linda Yollis
Most days I think that Google must be the most exciting company on the planet right now. Perhaps this is because I was exposed to their extreme creativity at the recent Google Teacher Academy I attended in New York! Every day something new pops up with Google. For example, I have just read and tweeted about another amazing thing that is happening in the Googlesphere from the Google blog! “If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now’s y...
Google Docs is an amazing way to create a classroom newspaper. Last night we scheduled a SchoolNet webinar featuring Brenda Hallowes from Port Elizabeth, where she outlined how she uses Google Docs to create classroom newspapers with Foundation Phase students.
First she starts off with a template like this one shown below. This template can be accessed here.
Here is another template sample that can be accessed here.
The class is then assigned different parts of the template to write on at ...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
My
experience of Google Chrome is that it is one of the fastest internet browsers
available today. It also offers some great features, including synchronization
across computers, multiple browsers, autofill, application and extensions for
every browsing situation. The webinar last night mentioned some of these
features. Thank you very much to all who attended the SchoolNet webinar
last night entitled ‘The AMAZING Google Chrome’. I hope you were
inspired to try mo...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Recently I was opening my Blogger blog when I was directed to a message from Google saying that people in two parts of the world (Austria and Sweden) were trying to access the blog. Google gave the IP address of the devices concerned They had refused permission to these unknown people but wanted to know if I wanted to give them access – good old Google! They advised me to change my password in case it was someone trying to compromise my account…which of course I did. ...
