Google Meet: See Your Presentation AND the Participants

by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | Advanced, Google, Meet

When using Google Meet and you want to share your screen it is pretty common to say “Can you guys see my screen?” How do you know you are presenting and what you are presenting without using a Chrome extension? How can you see BOTH the presentation and the...

Google Meet: Customize Your Background

by admin | Feb 7, 2021 | Advanced, Google, Meet

A new feature in Google Meets (and not this can be disabled by your Apps Admin) is to add a custom background to Google Meet. I have been using Alexes Terry’s virtual backgrounds for Black History Month, it was so easy to add to Google Meet. Get 5 Free Virtual...

Google Meet: When Presenting See More People

by admin | Jan 28, 2021 | Advanced, GC - Advanced, Google, Meet

When presenting your screen in a Google Meet, annoyingly, the majority of the Meet screen is taken up by “You’re presenting to everyone.” Control Minus A common trick when using any program is to use Control Minus to zoom out. Oftentimes it is...

Time’s Up for Breakout Room: Google Slides Hack

by admin | Nov 5, 2020 | Classroom, GC - Intermediate, Google, Meet, Slides

When students are in a breakout room you may want to have each group have a Google Slides for them to organize their conversations and guide the activities. To let students know that the time is up I have coded a “Time’s Up” announcement to push to...

Google Meet: See Yourself

by admin | Oct 12, 2020 | Advanced, Apps - Advanced, Google, Meet

The default in Google Meets video conferencing is that you are NOT a tile. You can find your video in the upper right hand corner of Google Meet. Add Yourself as a Tile Go to the upper right hand corner of Google Meet and find your video. Hover over your video to find...

Google Meet: Add a Jamboard Whiteboard

by admin | Oct 8, 2020 | Advanced, Apps - Advanced, Google, Jam - Advanced, Jamboard, Meet

If you are using Google Meet for video conferencing you can now incorporate Jamboard more easily to your meeting. Jamboard is a Google Tool Jamboard is a Google document like Docs, Sheets, and Slides and thus can be created in Google Drive and is saved in Google...