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"Google Hangouts is Google's free video-conferencing tool that is available for teachers to use as part of Google Apps for Education. Up to 10 participants can join a Google Hangout at a time. It's a great way to connect your classroom with other classrooms anywhere in the world. This site will provide teachers and administrators with step-by-step directions how to get started on Hangouts, joining a Hangout, collaboration tools available inside a Hangout, and ideas for ways to use Hangouts in your classroom."

"Are you curious about the Helpouts experience? Take a free test spin with a member of the Helpouts Team! You'll get a firsthand tour of the product and see just how easy it is to receive help over video chat. Schedule a time with one of our Helpouts Specialists, or see who is available now! Our team of knowledgeable specialists looks forward to showing you how it all works. If there is a long queue to join this Helpout, feel free to watch our intro video instead!"

La mia recenzione di questo "helpout sugli helpout": "Ronnie was very patient and gave very clear answers. As to whether people from other countries than Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, U.K., and the U.S. (see https://support.google.com/helpouts/answer/3164468?hl=en&ref_topic=14126 ) would be allowed to offer helpouts in future, he said this is planned. As to the difference between helpouts and hangouts, he explained that though helpouts are using the hangout platform, they are a different service. And when asked if helpout participants can use the live captioning app that can be used in hangouts (see https://hangout-captions.appspot.com/ ), he said no. When I asked why the "Introducing Helpouts by Google" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VFC9AQM1k video is uncaptioned, and the video embedded in the "Find out what it's like to get a Helpout!" https://helpouts.google.com/111421743141645456280/ls/b41c1faef6b76d0f page is not only uncaptioned, but also uncaptionable via e.g. streaming it to amara.org, because if you try to open it on youtube, you get to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picasacid , which says: "An error occurred during validation. This video does not exist. Sorry about that." he candidly said he couldn't answer and suggested using the feedback, which I'm doing. Same reply when I asked if Google planned to caption these videos. Sure, I would have preferred to get more hopeful answers to the questions about accessibility, but it was great to get candid ones, which can now be reported to the discussion lists of the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning - http://ccacaptioning.org/ . " No, è vero, Ronnie è stato bravissimo. Chissà quanti helpout si sarà sorbito quel giorno, e paffete arriva una che comincia a rompergli le scatole e il nuovo giocatolo Google, portandolo a riconoscere implicitamente che insomma, meglio gli hangout veri e propri..

"Google Hangout Screen Sharing - How To Share Your Screen On "

Interessante introduzione

Mmm sì, però mostra anche i limiti delle lezioni video: questo è il risultato grezzo di un Google hangout - però non c'è nessun segno di una discussione live nei commenti, che è il principale interesse di questo tipo di video. Seguire questa intro a posteriori? Pesantissima da caricare. Allora ho controllato - tramite le miniature della riga del tempo - i momenti in cui si vedeva altro che la faccia di Gino Roncaglia: visualizzazioni della piattaforma del corso, illeggibili come riconosce Roncaglia stesso. Perciò ho scaricato il video, convertito come mp3, tramite http://getvids.de/video.cgi . Fino a 37:23, ci sono solo informazioni amministrative che si potrebbero dare in modo molto più efficace in forma testuale, con link a documentazioni esistenti (descrizione del corso in http://ebooklearn.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64:summer-school-online-su-e-book-ed-editoria-elettronica , aiuto Google sugli hangout) Il multimedia non si limita a un revival della TV dei mezzibusti anni 60. Anche il testo ne fa parte.