1. Skills: Use Google Plus, compose Google Plus posts for your circles, compose Google Plus posts for a community Concepts: Ongoing improvement and change in network applications, wire-frame diagram This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Using Google Plus

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

4. Create a new post? Edit an old post? See posts from people in your circles? Add/remove people from circles? Search for posts? Create and join communities? Find people? See people’s posts and profiles? Use + and # prefixes? Demo/play Pause to play around with the program. Think about what is in memory, the role of the client and server, etc. while you try it out. How do I:

5. Let’s look at four of the top-level pages

6. View posts selectively

7. View your profile and posts

8. Communities

9. Manage circles

10. The general user interface pattern Options for the currently selected page The options for the currently selected page are shown in a horizontal menu near the top of the screen.

11. Conversation – posting to circles and communities

12. Create posts

13. Filter what you see in your incoming stream

14. Keep the conversation going Recommend Forward to others Comment

15. Add a comment when you share

16. Categorizing a new community post (AKA assigning a tag to a new post) What’s up with the asterisks ( * ) around the title?

17. Sharing with a community

18. Miscellaneous Pending notifications

19. After a post is complete If it’s your post If it’s someone else’s

20. Organization accounts

21. +Larry Press Names start with +

22. Search tags start with #

23. Rapid change

24. Wire frame diagram

25. B A C F H G E D

26. Summary

27. Self study questions Without looking back can you name the four Google Plus pages we discussed? Briefly describe each page and its use. (next page)

28. B A C F H G E D Without looking back, state how each of these regions of the Google Plus Home page is used. Go back and check your answer when you do as much as you can.

29. Resources Get a Google Plus account at: http//plus.google.com Google Plus help: http://www.google.com/support/plus/?hl=en Five things Google Plus does better than Facebook or Twitter: http://bit.ly/tHS3xd http://bit.ly/tHS3xd Hangouts on air help: https://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2553119 &topic=2553242&rd=1