1. Using
to connect
teachers & students
Cody Connor
Instructional Technology Educational Specialist
Outreach Credit Programs, Outreach School

2. Why Cell Phones?
99%
of college students
own cell phones
97% send & receive
SMS messages

3. Why Cell Phones?
For cell phone users, this possession has become as
important as wallets (International Telecommunication Union, 2004)
Students say they fell “as though their cell phones
were part of them”. (Walsh, White, & Ross, 2008)

4. Why Cell Phones?
Simply, cell phones are a device that’s
capable of instant communication, that
students always have with them.

5. What is Google Voice?
FREE
One phone number for all your phones

6. How does it work?

7. How does it work?

8. How does it work?

9. How does it work?

10. How does it work?

11. Setting up your phones
Voicemail Access
Custom Ring Schedules

12. Setting up your phones

13. SMS to email

14. SMS to email

15. Reply to SMS via email

16. From email to SMS

17. Group Settings
Choose the
phones your
group calls are
forwarded to
and the
greetings they
hear.

18. Personalized Greetings
Co-Workers
Friends
Hi you’ve reached
the desk of Cody in Hi guys, sorry I missed
Outreach Credit ‘ya. Leave me a
message and I’ll call
Programs. I’m away Students you back asap.
from my desk at the
moment... Hi you’ve reach
Instructor C. My office
Parents
hours are 9-11
Hey, sorry I
Monday thru Friday
missed ‘ya,
and....
text me if it’s
important

19. Individual Settings

20. Block Callers
Select “more” & “block...”
and when they call in the
future, they’ll hear a
“not in service message”.

21. Voicemail Transcription
Listen at
wyoforum.org/googlevoice/

22. Voicemail Transcription
Sent via SMS

23. Widgets

24. Widgets
wyoforum.org/googlevoice/

25. Sharing Voicemails
Select email from the “more” menu
and email.

26. Privacy
When you call with Google Voice, your GV Number is
displayed on the receivers caller ID.
Let’s pretend - our phone We want to use Google
number is 307.555.5555 voice to call Sam, our
and our Google number is student.
307.555.1234

27. Privacy
When you call with Google Voice, your GV Number is
displayed on the receivers caller ID.
Simply login in google voice
and enter Sam’s number in
the call box and select the
phone we want to use.

28. Privacy
When you call with Google Voice, your GV Number is
displayed on the receivers caller ID.
Our phone (307.555.5555)
will ring and after we pick
up, it will dial Sam.
307.555.5555

29. Privacy
When you call with Google Voice, your GV Number is
displayed on the receivers caller ID.
Sam’s phone rings, HOWEVER the
caller ID shows 307.555.1234.
Meaning Sam never sees our real
phone number.

30. Privacy
When you reply to a text sent to your GV number, it
sends it through Google, obscuring your phone number
Lets Pretend - Sam sends us an SMS, which is
forward to our phone

31. Privacy
<--- You see
Sam sees --->

32. Apps for all

33. Questions?
One phone number for all your phones