I am currently feeling overwhelmed and very unorganized in my online presence. This article holds out hope as we continue the journey into social media - some good thoughts in the post to encourage leaders in bringing good technology into good teaching.
ntroducing a Hangouts app for Virtual Classrooms
If you use Hangouts on air (or consider using them) for education, and miss any of the features below:
- A full featured registration module to manage attendees
- An all-in-one Event Planner/Scheduling/Conferencing app
- A comprehensive e-mailing system with fully custom automatic invitation emails, reminder emails and follow up emails
- Allow non-plussers attend your classrooms signing in with their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles
- Run private HOAs (directly generate unlisted YouTube recordings)
- Give the mic to a viewer on-the-fly and make them participant, the time of a question
- Get fixed URLs for your permanent virtual classrooms (with or without scheduling)
- View a map with geolocated attendees
- View your attendees as avatars in a 3D virtual classroom , create a sense of presence, see who's raising hand,...
- A unified & moderated chat for participants and viewers engaging in the same chat
then you should look into +Business Hangouts :
Business Hangouts is an app built for Google Hangouts by Altadyn using the Google Hangouts API (not built by Google ).
In the world of web presence, most focus efforts on design when the real work is CONTENT! Having a content strategy and calendar to support it is a great way to systematically organize your efforts.