Extending Google+ Hangouts to way beyond 10 participantsVance Stevens at TESOL Arabia 2014

Dubai, UAE. Mar 14, 2014, 10:00 GMT

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All my slides are online• At http://slideshare.net/vances

A previous version of this presentation was recorded• At the GEC2013: 4th annual Global Education Conference,

Online, November 19, 2013http://learning2gether.net/2013/11/19/learning2gether-with-gec2013-4th-annual-global-education-conference/

There is a published version• Stevens, V. (2013) Tweaking Technology: How Communities Meet

Online Using Google+ Hangouts On Air with Unlimited Participants. TESL-EJ, November 2013–Volume 17, Number 3. Available http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume17/ej67/ej67int/

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Set up a Hangout• Start with Google + http://

screencast.com/t/qUBHNpnAs3sU• Select Hangouts on Air http://

screencast.com/t/cQH5judw1• Start the HoA http://screencast.com/t/ijd9vvo5Hom• Name and start your HoA http://

screencast.com/t/FNPYUrfDeL6• Here http://screencast.com/t/ypZh7fOHg• You can get the URL for your session• You can get the YouTube link of the stream• You can get the embed code in case you want to allow

people to click on a PLAY button to hear the stream

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Start at Google+

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Select Hangouts on Air

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Start the HoA

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Name and start your HoA

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Get HoA and YouTube links

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Sample Embed Codes

YouTube stream and subsequent recording<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0Dck5stHkT0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Etherpad<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" width="950" src="http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/GlobalEd13HoA"></iframe>

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Set up your streaming page

• Instructions on how to embed the YouTube video and Etherpad chat into your blog or wiki web page, here:http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/70926447/how2Hangout

Set up your Etherpad space• You can still comment here:• http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/GlobalEd13HoA

• More information at http://etherpad.org

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Unique interaction in 4 spaces

• Here you can find examples of the different kinds of text chats in the four spaces availablehttp://learning2gether.net/2013/11/03/learning2gether-with-evo-moderator-training-week-2-hangout-on-air/• In the hangout itself• In chat associated with being logged in to Google• In the EtherPad chat sidebar at right• In the EtherPad main display space

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Backchannel Google Chat

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Backchannel Google Chat

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Etherpad sidebar text chat

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Etherpad document and view of right sidebar

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Have F.U.N. with HoA

Thank youJoin us in Hangout some time -Find out when and where at http://learning2gether.pbworks.com/Or http://tinyurl.com/learning2gether

Info and archives: http://learning2gether.net Vance Stevens, vancestev@gmail.com

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