Current Events #5: Will you Hangout with Me?

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere. --Marissa Mayer, Vice-President at Google

The Zite personalized magazine app on my iPad is turning out fantastic articles and blog posts under "Education", and "ELearning".

Today's gold nugget is an article from Learning Solutions Magazine entitled "Google+ Hangouts: Six Practical Uses for Online Education." The ability to share your screen to show a student how to use a web tool is one highlight. Another key feature is the ability to open a shared Google document. For my online students, this means I could meet a student in the hangout, pull up their paper and discuss it in real time.

Another tool to add to my to-do list!

References

Vest, J. (2011, October 19). Google+ hangouts: six practical uses for online education. Learning Solutions Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/772/google-hangouts-six-practical-uses-for-online-education.