Recently, my group in CEP 812 of MSU's MAET program conducted a meeting using Google Hangout. This is the first meeting in which we are discussing an upcoming group project.
Link to video conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og6wMmiwjv8&feature=youtu.be
The conference went really well. It did take a while for a few of our group members to get logged into the conference. It was the first time using google hangout for many of our group members and they weren't really sure where to accept the request at. Once we all were logged it, it seemed to work really smoothly. I really liked the ability to mute my end so that background noise wasn't heard while I wasn't talking, (I have a 3 year old). We were also able to work on our shared google document that had the details of our project while we were talking in google hangout.
I can't think of many things we could do differently next time using google hangout. Although, I did not explore some of the options during our conference because I didn't want to mess anything up. I was interested in the screen sharing, uploading to youtube, and the chat function. We were all able to talk to each other so the chat feature didn't really apply to the purpose we were using it for. So possibly if a teacher was instruction, students could ask questions using chat and the teacher could respond when able to.
All in all, it was a great experience using Google Hangout and fit perfectly into our group's project since we were already using other Google applications for our project. Google is a miracle worker for online students!
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