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3 Great Ways to Use Google+ Hangouts to Learn & Connect

Google+ Hangouts are a terrific and free tool that opens up new ways to teach and learn. The following video provides three examples of ways Google+ Hangouts are being used that might inspire ideas in your own classroom. Below the video I elaborate on how each idea can be used and include the minutes/seconds in the video at which time you can see each idea in action. 


Three examples of using Google+ Hangouts to teach and learn in new ways


 
Here is how this might be applicable in your school or classroom.


1) Take a class without having to be in the same place. (00.00 in video)
You can have up to ten participants in a Google+ Hangout.  What can that mean for teaching and learning? Here are some ideas.
  • Invite up to 9 classes/individuals to learn from one expert. This can be great in communities where there is perhaps only one teacher for a particular subject but a few students in various schools interested in learning.
  • Sick or traveling students can participate when they are not able to attend class.
  • Learners can connect with others who share their passions and interests even if they are not in their school / class. For example there might be students from other schools, communities that join your class.
  • Invite up to 9 home instruction students (those who are home because of illness or other reasons) to join in a live class.
2) Invite an audience to a performance. (00.33 in video)
Google+ Hangout provides a great way to empower students to find an authentic audience by being able to invite up to 9 other people to listen to their performance, presentation, reading, etc.  Here are some ideas.
  • Have students invite some family members and / or friends to watch a performance.
  • Have students find others who share their passions through places like blogs and discussion groups and invite them to watch.
  • Connect with other classes that might want to watch a student perform.  They will be able to chat to give feedback and even give live applause, questions, etc.  
3) Invite others to perform/discuss with you. (00.50 in video)
Google+ Hangout provides a way for you to connect with others even if they are not geographically desirable. This can be great for a student looking to connect with others that may not exist at their school.  Here are some ideas.
  • A student who wants to study music and perform can do so even if there is no such program in their school or community. With Google Hangout, they can connect with others and practice, perform, and jam together.
  • A student who wants to study a certain type of theater can do so with others and do a virtual reading with Hangout.
  • If you do book clubs in your school, you may discover you have some students with unique tastes.  Let them do book talks with others using Google Hangout.
  • Support young people in developing their personal learning networks and create times to have online discussions with others who share their passions.  
Tools like Skype have enabled us to connect with another person for quite a few years now. Tools like Google Hangout however are allowing us to connect with many others around the world for free. This has powerful implications for teaching and learning that should not be ignored. These are some innovative ways Google+ Hangout can be used to enrich teaching and learning. I look forward to discovering more with and from other innovative educators. If you have an idea, share it here.
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Create Video Playlists to Enrich Learning with Embedr.com

Innovative educators know that for many video has edged ahead of other platforms as the number 1 tool.or learning, creating, and showing evidence of learning. Want to know how to do something? Simply go to Google and do a video search. You'll instantly have a plethora of videos showing you how to do that "thing" and in most cases you'll even have the ability to write to the video's author. Or, you can make a video asking people how to do a thing, like this student does here.

Many educators have even finally succeeded in getting video sites unblocked in their schools, bringing to the attention of those who were blocking that doing so was depriving students from meaningful learning opportunities.

As an educator fortunate to work in an environment where YouTube and other video sites are not blocked, I was trying to find an easy way to share videos relating to a particular topic, a playlist of videos if you will. In this case I was compiling this list of videos because I wanted to share with teachers some ways their students might make video projects for a class I was creating called “Flip My Class.” Some other reasons I might want to create such a playlist include because I want to:
  1. Create a collection of videos to support a particular unit of study
  2. Create a collection of videos for professional development where I wanted to share samples of videos on a topic created by other students.
  3. Have students put a collection of videos together about a topic they are studying.
  4. Have teachers put together a collection of videos to share with parents.
  5. Put your favorite music videos in one place.

While there are a number of less-than-elegant ways to put such a collection together i.e. A bunch of videos on a blog post or website or wiki page that the viewer has to scroll through, not only is that not visually appealing, it is also not the easiest of methods if I wanted to encourage others to contribute to the playlist.

So, I turned to my personal learning network and thanks to the below tweet by bjackermann found Embedr.

 bjackermann @InnovativeEdu Is this what you mean?? http://embedr.com/ Create video playlists & embed them anywhere

Embedr was everything I had hoped for. A terrific, elegant, and simple way to share a video playlist and a tool to which others could easily contribute. I wanted to create a way for teachers in an upcoming class to create videos and store them on one playlist regardless of their preferred video upload site. I also wanted to put a sample collection of videos together to use during the professional development to inspire them. I was able to collect the videos in Embedr and here’s how they look.



I was also wondering what kind of collections @bjackmann had so I asked her. Here’s what she tweeted:bjackermann @InnovativeEdu Here's one that I use for inservice for teachers - Web 2.0 Videos Playlist http://embedr.com/playlist/web-2-0_6

Wow. A terrific playlist to inspire participants prior to innovative PD. Here’s what it looks like:


Embedr.com has great potential and I’m excited to begin incorporating it into my professional development. How might you use this tool?
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Flip Your Instruction with Flip Video Cameras

You can begin creating a 21st century learning environment today with one of the easiest and least expensive to use technologies out there. A Flip Video. This $150 investment can go a long way in helping digital native students create using the technology they love with a tool that’s easy on the wallet and has virtually no learning curve...especially in the hands of students.

So, how might you Flip Your Instruction? Here are some learning ideas, teaching ideas, and resources and samples to inspire you.
    • Learning Ideas
      • How To Book -> How To Video
      • About Me Book -> About Me Video
      • My neighborhood report -> My neighborhood video
      • Book report -> book trailer
      • Tell your family’s stories (Flip Your Homework by bringing a Flip home)
      • PSA or Advertisement
      • What is your B Side (Personal narrative of the you people may not know)

    • Teaching Ideas
      • Students can create video tips for becoming better readers or writers. Teachers can create the first few sample videos.
      • Students can create video tips for ways their parents can support them with their reading or writing.
      • Students create videos with questions about reading or writing to be answered by others. Students or global community.
If you are ready to flip your instruction, it is important that from the beginning, you Don’t Forget Your Audience! 5 Ideas To Connect with Real Audiences. Remember it’s important to help students discover places their work might be published to an authentic audience and also exposes them to examples of other student work. can begin creating a 21st century learningenvironment t
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