Google+ Hangouts allow for online collaboration. Hangouts can be used for chatting face to face, editing documents together, presenting ideas, watching videos together, drawing diagrams jointly, and sketching out ideas. Hangouts act as an online space for groups to gather and work collaboratively in real time from different locations. Additional information about using Google+ Hangouts for collaboration can be found at http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/googleplus.

1. Google+ Hangouts
for collaboration
Sarah Horrigan
Learning Technologies Manager, CiCS
University of Sheffield

2. Let's start with Google+
(... what is it?)

3. http://plus.google.com

4. It's a social space...
... to connect and share with others

5. And it can be
public... or as
private as you want

6. Posts are
shared with
different
levels of
privacy... ... you
choose

7. But... circles... are a little
bit mysterious

8. 3 things
to know
about circles...

9. 1.

10. 2.

11. 3.

12. Google+ is more than that though...

13. There are hangouts too...

14. (... what's a hangout??)

15. Hang-out (n): Informal
A place where one lives or
frequently haunts

16. Not quite

17. Think of them as a
place to gather

18. There are several
ways to get there...

22. In fact... you can
hang out from lots
of different places

23. And once you're hanging out...

24. ... there's more stuff

25. ... for you to explore

26. Chat face to face...

27. Edit documents together

28. Present ideas...

29. Watch a video together...

30. Draw a diagram together...

31. Or sketch out an idea...

32. Let's take a look...

33. Any more info?
http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/googleplus