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. Google has its own slant and calls it
Google +

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) and gives
the circle a name.
• People you link with don’t know which circle
you have put them into.
• You decide what you want to share with who.

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

11. 1
2 3

16. The circle is now complete

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

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

24. Benefits of Google+
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