Web-Conferencing

For our web conference Laura and I chose to use Google Hangouts mostly because Laura had used it before and was familiar with how to set it up while I had never used it.  We had a few technical difficulties at first because my computer didn't have a microphone built into it but once I switched computers everything went great!  During our conference we discussed our Leadership project and how we were going to explain the our tool, Edmodo, to our audience.  One thing that was a really great feature of Google Hangouts was the screen sharing option where you could show everyone in your hangout your computer screen.  This was great for us because we could navigate the Edmodo site together and decide what features we wanted to highlight for our project.  We even discovered a few differences between her site and mine which we guessed was caused becuase her site was connected to a school while mine was not because I'm not currently teaching.  There isn't really anything I would do differently next time I use Google Hangouts besides make sure my computer has all of the voice and video capabilities.  Overall, I loved my first experiecne with Google Hangouts! It was like Skype but it could be used for educational purposes.  This would be a great tool for my students to use when they're at home and they need to work together on a project because not only can they talk and see one another but they can also see what the other is doing on their computer screen.