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1. 0:05Hi everyone. In this short tutorial, we
2. 0:08will look at Google Meet from a
3. 0:09teacher's point of view. What the main
4. 0:11buttons do, how to manage learners, how
5. 0:13to use chat, and how to share materials
6. 0:15clearly and effectively.
7. 0:18Once you're inside Google Meet, most of
8. 0:20the basic functions live on the toolbar
9. 0:21along the bottom.
10. 0:23I e. here.
11. 0:26If the toolbar disappears for any
12. 0:27reason, just move your mouse over the
13. 0:29Meet window and the controls will pop
14. 0:31back up.
15. 0:33So, first
16. 0:34we have the microphone. This button
17. 0:36mutes and unmutes you. As a teacher,
18. 0:39you'll use this a lot, especially if
19. 0:40there's background noise. So, for
20. 0:42example, we have unmuted
21. 0:46or mute
22. 0:48and unmute.
23. 0:53Yes?
24. 0:55To set up your microphone, plug in your
25. 0:57earphones or headset. In many cases,
26. 0:59your computer switches automatically,
27. 1:01but you can always check your settings,
28. 1:03which are these three dots here under
29. 1:04more options. You click on settings.
30. 1:09And as you can see, we have settings for
31. 1:11both audio and for video. And we have
32. 1:15the microphone thing here.
33. 1:18Yes?
34. 1:20>> [snorts]
35. 1:23>> Good.
36. 1:25Before class starts, always double-check
37. 1:27is my microphone on or off? The icon
38. 1:30makes it clear. Like I said before, we
39. 1:32have
40. 1:33muted and unmute.
41. 1:36Next is the camera. This turns your
42. 1:38camera on or off.
43. 1:41Before learners arrive, confirm your
44. 1:42camera is in the right mode for your
45. 1:44lesson. So, as you can see from my
46. 1:46camera in Google Meets, it's off right
47. 1:47now. If I click on on
48. 1:51it will activate in the video in the
49. 1:53right-hand corner.
50. 1:59A quick teaching tip. Good lighting and
51. 2:01a simple background make you easier to
52. 2:03follow overall in an online class. So,
53. 2:05make sure that you have good lighting
54. 2:08and a nice clean background so your
55. 2:10learners are not distracted while
56. 2:11they're learning with you.
57. 2:14Now, let's take a look at participants,
58. 2:16which is in this button here under
59. 2:17people.
60. 2:19This is where you can see who's joined
61. 2:20and manage entry if your meeting uses a
62. 2:22waiting room. Now, for your online
63. 2:25classes here, for your six teaching
64. 2:26practices, we do use a waiting room for
65. 2:29teaching on that day. So, they will pop
66. 2:31up on the right-hand side here.
67. 2:34At the start of the class, I recommend
68. 2:36opening this panel to check who's in,
69. 2:38who's waiting, and the names look
70. 2:40correct for the class you're about to
71. 2:41teach.
72. 2:44Now, let's take a look at the chat
73. 2:45option here.
74. 2:47Chat is very useful for lesson
75. 2:49management, i.e., you can give
76. 2:50instructions through chats and links to
77. 2:53activities in chat, um give answers to
78. 2:56certain questions for activities or
79. 2:58general questions in the class,
80. 3:00and overall, it just helps manage your
81. 3:02learners in a group environment. Now,
82. 3:04your classes here will be one-to-one, so
83. 3:07you mainly use the chat for delivering
84. 3:10lesson-appropriate materials and
85. 3:12guidance,
86. 3:13but it's highly recommended that you do
87. 3:14use it.
88. 3:18For example, it looks like this.
89. 3:25Okay.
90. 3:31Now, let's take a look at the screen
91. 3:33sharing option, which is in this button
92. 3:35here. As you can see, it says that you
93. 3:38are presenting, and you can see a
94. 3:40PowerPoint slide or a Google Slides on
95. 3:42my screen.
96. 3:44If you click on this,
97. 3:45you click present something else.
98. 3:49You'll have three options here. We have
99. 3:50the Chrome tab, the window, or the
100. 3:53entire screen.
101. 3:55Now, it's highly suggested that you just
102. 3:56share something from a tab or a window,
103. 3:59so you don't have to show anything
104. 4:02to your learners that they don't need to
105. 4:03see.
106. 4:05Also, make sure if you are sharing audio
107. 4:07or video
108. 4:09materials, they have this slid on as it
109. 4:12is here, so they can also hear the audio
110. 4:14in the Google Meets itself.
111. 4:17So, so for example, if I wanted to share
112. 4:19something like
113. 4:21this,
114. 4:24it switches automatically to that tab.
115. 4:27Now, if you I want to go back to my
116. 4:29presentation here,
117. 4:31you'll have an option here to share this
118. 4:33tab instead. You click on that,
119. 4:35and your learners see the presentation
120. 4:37that you have made for your lesson.
121. 4:40Now, one of the things that you can do
122. 4:42to present lesson materials in an online
123. 4:43class is to use a Google Docs, a blank
124. 4:46Google Docs. So, if we switch here
125. 4:49to the Google Docs,
126. 4:51you can use this to take lesson notes
127. 4:53throughout the class. So, for example,
128. 4:54if you're introducing some of your
129. 4:55target language, you can say
130. 4:58um I don't know, street,
131. 5:02journey,
132. 5:06travel.
133. 5:09And you can treat it as a whiteboard
134. 5:11type situation for your class overall.
135. 5:13It's great for adding engagement to your
136. 5:15class overall and to introduce material
137. 5:18in a controlled manner, so your learners
138. 5:19don't get over overwhelmed by all this
139. 5:21new information that you're giving them.
140. 5:25Now, lastly,
141. 5:29if you want to use a Google Docs and a
142. 5:31presentation to present your lesson
143. 5:32materials, you can also do that. As you
144. 5:35can see, for one of the classes that
145. 5:36I've given in the past, I have a Google
146. 5:39Slides presentation for what we're
147. 5:41doing.
148. 5:42Um it's a nice way to present something
149. 5:44that's engaging and fun for the learners
150. 5:47and keeps everything nice and organized
151. 5:49for you. So, all you have to do is move
152. 5:51through
153. 5:52the different slides without issue
154. 5:56at all.
155. 5:57Yeah.
156. 6:00So, I hope this has been helpful in your
157. 6:03online practices coming forward. And if
158. 6:05you have any questions, please don't
159. 6:07hesitate to ask. Thanks.