What this webinar will cover

Will cover

• What is Google +

• Highlights of interesting features

• Circles

• How to write a post

• How to receive a notification

• Benefits to education

Will not cover

• How to get a Google address

• Ins and outs of every feature

• Adjusting privacy settings

• Hangouts (leave for next time)

What is Google +

Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like are all social networks. They’re designed to let you share up-to-the second updates, ideas, thoughts, links and media with your friends and the public. Google has its own slant and calls it Google +

How is Google+ different as a

social network?

• Google has integrated Google+ with its other

services (and continues to do so): Search, YouTube, Gmail and more. Google+ is already built into services you use every day.

• Circles differentiate Google+ from Facebook by allowing users precise control over who sees what.

Concept of Circles • One creates circles of people (groups) and gives

the circle a name.

• People you link with don’t know which circle you have put them into.

• You decide what you want to share with who.

Your Google + account

• As of January 2012, new users who signed up for a Google account were automatically registered for Google+ as well.

• Sign up here: https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

Let’s look at a new Google plus

account interface

A completed Google + profile

My circles

Where I write

What I can add to the

post

What is shared with me in a

stream

1

2 3

The circle is now complete

Choose the main stream of

‘All’

Write your post

Choose the circles

Click Share Optional

Can just be to one person!

How to receive a personal

notification

1) It will show on the top right of Google+

2) It will also show on the top right of your email

3) It will possibly arrive as an email

Benefits of Google+

for education

• Way to share with others in more than 140 characters

• Now for age 13 and up.

• Huge possibilities for collaboration

• Can form all sorts of groups

• Could even have parents from your class in a group