I use Google Plus Communities with the college students that I teach. The Google Plus Community can generate a lot of email for students. This can be managed. While you can turn off email notifications, I would recommend you set up Priority Inbox instead. Priority Inbox In Gmail hover over the word “Inbox.” This will reveal a small drop down… Read More »Managing Email from Google Plus Communities
David Theriault, Google Certified Teacher, created a presentation on how to get started with Google Plus. He generously is allowing me to post this to my blog. Click Here to link to the presentation. You can follow David Twitter: @davidtEDU Google Plus: gplus.to/davidtedu And his blog: thereadinessisall.com
When creating an event in Google Plus you can choose to have the event be online. This week I am unable to make my office hours in person. Rather than skip the office hours, I created an event in my class Google Plus Community where the location is “Hangouts”. Click on Event Just click on the icon for “Event”… Read More »Joining a Google Plus Event Online
One of my favorite things I do with my students is have them participate in a private Google Plus Community. The capturing of the informal learning is invaluable. This is where students “lean over” and ask their neighbor “Did you understand what the directions were?” or “I found this great resource that reminded me of what we talked about in… Read More »Google Plus: Insert a Video for Students
I love Google Plus Communities. I use them with my students to help build community and share announcements. Since I am making announcements to my class it can be helpful to emphasize certain words or phrases. *BOLD* Put asterisks around the word or phrase you want to have bolded. Make sure there is no space between the asterisk… Read More »Formatting Text in Google Plus
I have a small addiction to Google Communities. I love using them with students and also with groups I am collaborating with. One feature of a Google Plus Community is the ability to add events. I will use these events to post major due dates, and to just create an area to discuss a particular assignment or topic. In the… Read More »Google Hangouts from a Google Community
Google Hangout (GHO) is an amazing tool. What I like about GHO over other video conferencing programs is that it really seems to feel casual and invite people to actually communicate and collaborate. Google Hangout The GHO has a large image of the person who is talking and underneath that are small tiles of the other participants. However, these are… Read More »Setting the Focus in a Google Hangout