This is a presentation introducing Google+, some of its features and some of its benefits for education

2. What this webinar will cover
Will cover Will not cover
• What is Google + • How to get a Google
• Highlights of interesting address
features • Ins and outs of every
• Circles feature
• How to write a post • Adjusting privacy settings
• How to receive a notification • Hangouts (leave for next
• Benefits to education time)

3. What is Google +
Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the
like are all social networks. They’re designed to
let you share up-to-the second updates, ideas,
thoughts, links and media with your friends and
the public.

4. How is Google+ different as a
social network?
• Google has integrated Google+ with its other
services (and continues to do so): Search,
YouTube, Gmail and more. Google+ is already
built into services you use every day.
• Circles differentiate Google+ from Facebook
by allowing users precise control over who
sees what.

6. Concept of Circles
• One creates circles of people (groups).
• People you link with don’t know which circle
you have put them into.
• You decide who to share with.

7. Your Google + account
• As of January 2012, new users who signed up
for a Google account were automatically
registered for Google+ as well.
• Sign up here:
https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

8. Let’s look at a new Google plus
account interface

9. A completed Google + profile
My
circles
What I can
add to the
Where I post
write
What is shared
with me in a
stream

10. How to add friends to a circle – drag
and drop!

13. How to write a post
Choose the
main stream of
‘All’
Write your
post
Can just
be to one
person!
Choose
the circles
Click Share Optional

14. How to receive a personal
notification
1) It will show on the top right of Google+
2) It will show on the top right of your email
3) It will possibly arrive as an email

17. Benefits for education
• Way to share with others in more than 140
characters
• Now for age 13 and up.
• Huge possibilities for collaboration
• Can form all sorts of groups
• Could even have parents from your class in a
group