EP77: Zoom vs Meet!

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