Report Postclose
Remove Postclose
Are you sure? After you remove the post, it will no longer appear in channel listings but you can access it directly. You can undo this later by clicking "approve".
Delete Postclose
Are you sure you want to delete this post? This is a permanent action and cannot be reversed.
Google has lifted the limit on free Hangouts, which should now support up to 1,000 people if you host the hangout from your MIT G Suite for Education account.
Steps:
Click “Video Call”
I shared the URL to the Hangout in a Piazza post. This URL should be persistent and will be one I reuse in the future.
Hangouts has a variety of different UIs, but they all allow you to share your screen (either via a cog icon in the top right hand corner, or a button along the bottom/left/right).
With hangouts, you can selectively share your whole desktop, a particular display (useful when in “extended” mode which is what I use so I can have my notes open on my laptop display but slides projected), or a specific window.
- Unfortunately when you share your screen, students can no longer see you which research has shown to be an important mechanism for maintaining engagement… I’m going to experiment with joining my own hangout from a second device purely to transit a video/webcam feed (e.g., via an iPhone or iPad).
I asked students who joined to:
Mute themselves (they had to be periodically reminded)
- Post any questions they had to the text chat
- My TAs monitored the text chat, answered any questions they could asynchronously, and interrupted lecture on behalf of the student to ask questions they could not answer themselves.
Equipment: besides my 13” MacBook Pro, I used this omnidirectional mic to better pick up audio.