World History
While people still love their Facebook, Google+ is starting to have lots of amazing features that Facebook doesn't have. For example I have written about how you can have a video chat with nine others (and I've seen some Google people doing it with up to 30, so look for that soon enough). But now you can bring up your Google Docs documents and look at them on the screen as you work as well as make phone calls from within a G+ hangout to a phone. To look at the documents in a hangout, just click on the "docs" button. Fellow blogger used to have get togethers for AP teachers but it proved to be a problem due to the sheer size of our county (we have 27 high schools). Well now you can get your fellow educators in one room online and meet and collaborate on documents at the same time!
- How To Use Google Hangouts
I am starting to feel as if Skyping is an old fashioned way to communicate online. If you have a Gmail address you can Hangout with up to nine others (and more are coming as Google employees can already do up to 40). At the bottom of the...
- Google+ Hangouts
If you follow me on Google+, you will have noticed that I have been having a number of meetings recently on Google+ Hangouts. You can have them from your laptop. tablet or phone. One, they are great if you and a few other teachers want to...
- Free Conference Call
It dawned on me this morning that if Frank and I had needed to speak to more than each other last night I could have shared my screen with lots of people and we could have gotten a free conference call using FreeConferenceCall. I first heard about...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
- Google Plus Huddles
If you have been following the changes to your Facebook page closely recently, you might have noticed that many of the new changes have been to mirror what one can do in Google+. Of course Facebook has 750 million people and after just 90 days...
World History
Use Google Docs in a Google+ Hangout
- How To Use Google Hangouts
I am starting to feel as if Skyping is an old fashioned way to communicate online. If you have a Gmail address you can Hangout with up to nine others (and more are coming as Google employees can already do up to 40). At the bottom of the...
- Google+ Hangouts
If you follow me on Google+, you will have noticed that I have been having a number of meetings recently on Google+ Hangouts. You can have them from your laptop. tablet or phone. One, they are great if you and a few other teachers want to...
- Free Conference Call
It dawned on me this morning that if Frank and I had needed to speak to more than each other last night I could have shared my screen with lots of people and we could have gotten a free conference call using FreeConferenceCall. I first heard about...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
- Google Plus Huddles
If you have been following the changes to your Facebook page closely recently, you might have noticed that many of the new changes have been to mirror what one can do in Google+. Of course Facebook has 750 million people and after just 90 days...