Google Hangouts

THE WHY

Google Hangouts is a space that amplifies teaching, where students interact with and learn from one another, where they reflect on concepts and ideas, and where they teach others what they know. It supports global connections that are key to building empathy and social awareness for students beyond their classroom.

Google Hangouts can facilitate creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. It can add authenticity to the learning by connecting with the outside world. It can be used to provide students with opportunities to design, prove, compare, contrast, cite evidence, draw conclusions, develop a logical argument, interview, plan model, categorize, survey and conclude.

It allows the opportunity to provide instruction in digital citizenship: cyberbullying, digital footprint, information literacy, privacy and security, creative credit and copyright.

THE WHAT

Learning Outcomes

1. Instructors will use Google Hangouts in the classroom to connect with people outside of the classroom, providing opportunities for their students to communicate and collaborate with others outside of the classroom.

Classroom Application

1. Connect with another class to share ideas and work collaboratively
2. Find a guest speaker to talk to your students using Hangouts
3. Go on virtual field trips
4. Attend or broadcast events
5. Virtual book club
6. Student presentations
7. Guest speakers
8. Finding a class to partner with virtually AND activities to do together Links to an external site.
9. Mystery Hangouts Lesson Links to an external site.
10. 10 Tips for Great Classroom Video Calls Links to an external site.
11. Classroom video calls. You can do this. Here’s how. Links to an external site.
12. Why Even Young Students Benefit From Connecting Globally Links to an external site.

THE HOW

Use these resources to learn about Google Hangouts, watching and reading just what you need to implement Google Hangouts in your lessons.

Google Workspace Learning Center

Google Workspace Learning Center: Google Hangouts Meet Training and Help

Additional Resources

• Google Hangouts Help Links to an external site.

EARN THE BADGE

See the attached rubric to know how your submission will be assessed (click 3 dot Options menu at the top and choose Show Rubric). To earn the badge, you must obtain 6 of the possible 7 points.

1. 1. Design a lesson in which you apply what you have learned for use in your classroom. See the Designing Tech Amplified Lesson for guidance on creating a lesson plan that uses digital tools.
   2. Click Reply below and reflect on your lesson. In your reply include:
      • Did students demonstrate understanding of the learning target? If yes, how? 
      • How did the use of Google Hangouts amplify your lesson? Did it add value to the learning goal though engagement, enhancement or extension? Did it make you or your student more efficient and effective?
      • If you had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would you do differently? Why?
      • In your reply, you can choose to share an artifact or your lesson plan in the form of a shared link, screenshot (Links to an external site.), attached file (Links to an external site.), or embedded image (Links to an external site.). This is not required.

Once you've posted your reply, you will be able to view posts from other teachers. Feel free to like or comment on others' submissions.

FACILITATOR

Janetta Garton  Coordinator of Instructional Innovation