Google Meet for Conference and Online learning
educational technology easy for you I'm going to be looking at Google meets and all its features and how you can use it to teach online so let's dive into its within the flipped classroom the total that Google made as part of G. suite but personal accounts also have access to Google meets as video conferencing software that you can use to have a meeting face to face using video and audio as well as chats now where can you find it well the first place you can look is in those nine goals at the top now when you click on those meats is one of the options right there alternatively you simply type in meets dot Google dot com here you can see there were two main options I can either join a meeting or I can start to meeting now if you're joining a meeting you either have a U. R. L. or you have a joint code but let's look at starting anything first I'm going to click on this button right here and I'm going to start my meeting by giving it the nickname I'm going to call this demo flipped tutorials there we go and then as soon as I click on continue I'm going to be asked for permissions now once you've given the permission so you can see here I have a preview of what the webcam season this is a great way of testing everything so make sure you're welcome works make sure the audio and sound works and if it's not working well then you can always go here into the options by clicking on these three adults and checking your settings now the settings allow you to change your microphone and also your video quality so let's go ahead and click on the video and then here I can choose different resolutions now at the moment it is sets to three sixty you can also opt this depending on your connection well I'm going to leave it at three sixty because I don't need any more than that I'm going to click on done but once I start my meeting I'm going to click on the join now button and this allows me to go into a room and have a face to face meeting with all the parties.
In addition to that I can share my screen later on let's say that you don't want to have that face to face and all you want to do is just sharing a screen well then you can also use the presents button ninety present button allows you to only share your screen without the video I'm going to click join now here we go we are now on our main page and you can see the first thing we have here is the name of our meeting room in addition to that we had eight join link if I share that link or URL with participants and they will be brought into this room and I can have a video conversation with them so if I share this link with them they'll be brought in and then we can have a conversation that way I can also copy this joint information or I can manually add to people now this is where you can now add their email addresses and then they will receive an email invitation when they click on that link they are brought into the Google meets so I'm going to leave it as it is for now and I'm going to show you the interface the interface of Google meet is very stripped down very basic first things first you can mute yourself and you can turn your camera off now at the bottom if I click on this icon on me it's it's I'm going to leave it means that for now but I can also turn on my camera or switch it off very easy in addition to that you have the function of adding captions that this is similar to what happens in Google slides when you're turning on captions and it's automatically going to caption everything that's being said in the meeting no it's not perfect it does make some mistakes at times but it can't really help those students that struggle with English or any language that you're holding your meeting and we can also presents our screen this is what I was talking about earlier you can have a meeting first and then present your screen later on so when I click on this I get the option to either present a window or my entire screen no one I do present my entire screen I have to give it an additional permission once you've given the permission now your screen is being presented to continue our Presenting your screen I can present anything I once and then return to my Google meets once you're done presenting your screen simply click on stop presenting and you're back to your webcam view.
If you want to see who is in your meeting and where participants are well that you'll have to go to the top right corner the top right corner we have two additional buttons one is the participants in this gives us a list of all the participants in our meeting a great feature here is that you can choose to remotely mute then turn the cameras off or even remove them from the meeting room now another thing you can do here is you can pin their camera now let's see you have multiple presenters and one of your presenters is explaining something well what you can do that is you can click on this face here then it's on camera well then the cameras going to switch to whoever is talking and is going to give you a nice little group you and jump from person to person the second icon at the top price now I use the check the logs for questions and so when I'm having a meeting with students allows them to mute their microphones simply put their questions into the chat room then when I'm addressing it's well then they can unmute themselves and they can reply respond that this child is a public chats and that means that everyone sees every message popped into this chat room back to harden Maine view those you can see here I'm using the webcam and I'm going to click on the three adults we see some more options not the one that I like using is the layouts when you change the layout you can have different layouts and that's the lay out of your screen you can leave it to automatically change or you can choose to use the side bar and then automatically all your participants will be on the side bar and there's a main presenter you can change is laid out at any time even during your meal another one of the more advanced options is to record your meetings this is usually only available for enterprise accounts but Google has made available to the free accounts as well so here when you click on this record button you are going to be recording the entire meeting and the file will be sent to your Google drive if you do not see this button yes well then you're adamant has not switch this on for your domain so make sure that you speak to your admin and then they can turn it on in the meat settings once you're recording your meeting every One will be notified that this meeting is being recorded then you'll see a little icon in the top left corner now that I can tells me that this meeting is being recorded and then that file will be sent to my Google drive when finished now let's say that you finish your meeting you're ready to leave you can say goodbye to everyone and then simply hang up down below this means that you have now left this meeting
