{"id":314,"date":"2012-02-14T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/?p=314"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:40:12","slug":"googleplus2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2012\/02\/googleplus2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Plus for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/talk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/talk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"notes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-315\" \/><\/a>And now, after looking more into it and organizing my thoughts (as much as I ever do&mdash;see photo on left), I find that I actually have more than half an hour of content to cover, in my Google Plus for Education talk. <em>Much<\/em> more. But the online session is set to shut down right after 2:30, I believe, so I&#8217;ll have to restrain myself. <\/p>\n<p>(The in-person session went OK. Not amazingly, but not badly.) <\/p>\n<p>Here are the links I&#8217;ll share:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/108443027359212340995\/albums\/5625655838907702241\/5625655876328285922\">Google Plus Cheat Sheet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.richland.edu\/media\/facultyacademy\/\">Michelle Stephens&#8217;s talk<\/a> (57 minutes) on using Google Plus with students &#8211; covers the pros and cons and many of the nitty-gritty details I won&#8217;t have time to get to<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Stephens&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreprof.com\/category\/google-plus\/\">blog posts on Google Plus<\/a>, which, again, go into really useful detail, both on the pro and con side<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Houghton-Jan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.net\/librarianinblack\/2011\/07\/googleplus.html\">post about teaching Google Plus<\/a> &#8211; this is included to help you, if you want to turn around and teach it to others<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gplus.to\/coral\">My G+ Profile<\/a>, in case anyone wants to chat about any of this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a very, very condensed version of what I plan to say, with the basics of using G+ left out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackboard is awful. It lacks basic community-building options like avatars and &#8220;like&#8221; functionality, and discussions are super clunky, due to little-to-poor notification functionality (from the students&#8217; perspective).<\/li>\n<li>Ideally, we would be able to find something that 1) maintains student privacy; 2) students are already using (or can be taught to use with minimal difficulty); 3) makes discussions easy, with threading, avatars, and text markup; and 4) has notification settings that can easily be toggled. G+ hits most of those, though its markup is a little tricky (*bold*, _italic_), and setting up circles for classes is a little tricky&mdash;rather, getting students to all add each other is tricky.<\/li>\n<li>Once everyone is all circled up, though, discussions would be very easy. Post a thing, ask people to +1 it when they&#8217;ve read it, encourage students to post to the circle, encourage discussion of what gets posted&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Hangouts are great for (up to 10) people working together on group projects, committees, and virtual office hours. You can share Google Docs, watch YouTube videos together, and, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, screen share.<\/li>\n<li>Using it for a real-time backchannel, during class, would be pretty great. Goodbye clickers, I never liked you anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Two caveats: most universities will frown on discussing grades in G+, since Google&#8217;s privacy policies are a little vague. (I don&#8217;t know if we email our students their grades, but if we do, then it&#8217;s a non-issue, since they&#8217;re already in Gmail.) Also, Google&#8217;s not entirely 508 compliant. They&#8217;re working on it. But you may find yourself unable to require G+ interactions, since there may be students with disabilities who can&#8217;t use it&mdash;I assume the same policies as we have for Gmail would apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, after looking more into it and organizing my thoughts (as much as I ever do&mdash;see photo on left), I find that I actually have more than half an hour of content to cover, in my Google Plus for Education talk. Much more. But the online session is set&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2012\/02\/googleplus2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Plus for Education<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,41,38,44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-talks","category-technology","category-usability","category-web-2-0","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}