1. Potential Use in Higher Education Winter Working Connections Conference Collins College Frisco, Texas January 7-10, 2012

3. WHAT IS Codename Emerald Sea

4. Definition

5. Real-life sharing, rethought for the web.

6. A social network site whose diverse and robust features aimed to rival Facebook.

8. As of last month (December 28, 2011) Google+ has 62 million users worldwide Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398114,00.asp

9. Currently, there are 21,028,772 Males and only 9,220,575 Females. Source:http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/

10. Google+ searchers overwhelmingly skew towards 18-34 year olds. Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/facebook-vs-google-plus- searchers_n_941682.html

11. FOR EDUCATION?

12. Features

14. Categorizing the group of people you know & follow

17. You can label your circles however you want.

18. Various ways of adding people in your circle A. Contacts B. Adding smart Google+ers C. Adding people who added you

19. Contacts

20. Adding smart Google+ers

21. Adding people who added you

22. Potential use in education

23. Classes/Courses A – D students Administrators Fellow educators

24. Huddle

25. Accessible using your smart phone. Free text service globally. Can only add up to 50 people within your circles

26. Potential use in education

27. Free bulk text messaging to your students about additional assignments, absence, emergency notices, etc.

28. What’s hot (new, used to be Sparks)

29. Trending topics, just like on Twitter. Articles people “liked”, shared or commented on.

30. Potential use in education

31. Being up to date with latest Current Affairs (Journalism and Broadcasting classes) Knowing what’s hot or not in technology, learning tools, mobile apps, etc. (Web 2.0, Mobile programming classes)

32. Hangouts

33. This is Google’s video conferencing. You can add up to 8 people in your circle and start talking to them using your webcam.

35. Potential use in education

36. Good for online tutoring, online office hours and even group discussions. Can be an alternative to expensive TelePresence & other online collaboration SWs You have to install Google video plug-in before you can start using the Hangouts.

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39. Instant Upload

40. For uploading photos and videos from your phone or desktop instantly.

41. Potential use in education

42. Art work critique (Arts) Photo review (Photography) Billboard Ads critique (Advertising/Business)

43. Additional Features

44. Sharing (SEOs)

45. +1 (SEOs)

46. Games (Needs serious games)

47. Conclusion

48. Student collaboration & engagement = Huddle, Hangout & Games

49. Hybrid learning = Hangouts

50. QUESTIONS?

51. Create an Account

52. Play

53. Resources

54. What does Google+ mean for schools? http://www.appsusergroup.org/articles/what-does- googleplus-mean-for-schools Google+ tutorials http://www.scoop.it/t/google-plus-tutorials https://plus.google.com/106393478695568433143/p osts/iDQzNciG8tn#106393478695568433143/posts/iD QzNciG8tn http://www.appsusergroup.org/articles/what-does- googleplus-mean-for-schools http://www.scoop.it/t/google-plus-tutorials https://plus.google.com/106393478695568433143/p osts/iDQzNciG8tn#106393478695568433143/posts/iD QzNciG8tn

55. Google+101 Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/supernovastudios/google-101- b-8578866 Google+ short video http://youtu.be/xwnJ5Bl4kLI Google+ for Educators http://edudemic.com/2011/08/google-plus-guide/ Put Google+ logo on your Google+ Profile picture http://turhan.me/+me/index.php http://www.slideshare.net/supernovastudios/google-101- b-8578866 http://youtu.be/xwnJ5Bl4kLI http://edudemic.com/2011/08/google-plus-guide/

56. Thank you for playing

58. gracesteban mesteban@ccsf.edu