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Bite-Sized Technology Tips for Teachers with Mindy Cairney & Jonathan Wylie

The Edtech Take Out Podcast

EP77: Zoom vs Meet!

4/30/2020

3 Comments

 

News and Followup

Google Meet Updates:
  • Present high-quality video and audio in Google Meet
  • See up to 16 Google Meet participants at once with tiled layout
  • (Google Meet Grid View extension)
  • Meet low-light mode enhancements
  • Google Meet noise cancellation
  • Start or join a Google Meet video meeting directly from Gmail
  • Google Meet Advanced Features (paid features)  extended until Sept 30
  • Google Meet will soon be free for anyone with a Gmail account
Other Google Updates:
  • Google Sites Template Gallery is back
  • New sharing dialog for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms

Main Course: Zoom vs. Meet!

Meet Security Features:
  • Google Meet meetings can only be joined by people in your domain (by default)
  • Students cannot join before the teacher or rejoin after the teacher has left...with a disclaimer
  • You can disable a student’s ability to create Meet meetings in the admin console
  • Teacher can mute or kick out participants as needed

Zoom Security Features:
  • Waiting room
  • Meeting Passwords
  • Lock meeting after it has started
  • Require registration
  • Disable screen sharing
  • Disable private chats
  • Manage Participants
  • Zoom FAQ for Educators

More ideas to consider:
  • Be considerate of Zoom fatigue
  • Zoom has breakout rooms
  • Start your zoom with a welcome slide in Google Slides via Krissy Venosdale
  • Turn on captions in Google Meet
  • Autism Level UP in a social narrative format

Tech Nuggets

  • QuickTime Movie Recording + Screen Recording = Picture in Picture screencast
  • Mac keyboard shortcuts
    • Cmd + Space = Spotlight Search
    • Ctrl + Cmd + Space = Emoji Keyboard
    • Cmd + Tab = App Switcher
    • Cmd + Shift + 5 = super duper capture tool
    • Click on a file + space bar = Quick Look

  • Follow us on Facebook for our online outreach: One pager for Zoom, One pager for Meet
  • Voicepods
  • Google Classroom Tutorials
  • Bitmoji Pose via Lindsay Toub
3 Comments
Daniel Lang
5/5/2020 12:55:41 pm

The grid-view extension for Meet does show pretty much everyone! During staff meetings, I've had quite a few displayed, to the point where my computer gets a little hot!

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Daniel Lang
5/5/2020 01:04:46 pm

When you're talking about the "nickname" and restrictions on Google Meet, I'm assuming you're referring to the information in this blog: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/hangouts-meet-edu-updates.html

I have not been able to get any of these suggestions to actually work! First of all, the only way to create a nickname (as far as I can tell) is by heading to meet.google.com, which only allows you to create a meeting right now - not schedule it. Aaaand, I tried to have a student re-join after I was the last one who left, and she was still able to. May have been within that 30 seconds you were talking about, but even having her try to use the shortlink seemed to allow her back in.

It is super frustrating that we can't duplicate this nickname functionality within a calendar invite, as most teachers aren't going to create the meeting right before it starts!

Our district has decided to go with Meet due to security concerns with Zoom, but this aspect of it has been super frustrating.

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Daniel Lang
5/5/2020 01:23:55 pm

Okay, apparently I am all about comments on literally the first episode I've ever listened to all the way.

Quick correction on the Mac keyboard shortcut section...

CMD+Tab = switching between open applications; CMD+Shift+Tab, same but backwards

CMD+~ = Switching between open WINDOWS within whatever application you're using - so multiple Chrome windows, or Preview windows, etc. Shift works the same way here, also.

These two are probably my FAVORITE keyboard shortcuts, perhaps with the exception of Gmail's keyboard shortcuts, which I just made a video about for our staff! :)

Thanks for the awesome podcast - I will definitely be listening in the future!! (sorry it took me so long!)

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