Using YouTube videos in Google Hangouts can enhance collaboration for both instructors and learners. Videos can be used by instructors to provide mini-lessons, demonstrations, and assigned projects for students to discuss. Learners can collaborate on team projects by researching and presenting different topics or videos on the same subject. The process involves opening a Google Hangout, searching for a video on YouTube, playing it within the Hangout, and pausing to discuss or collaborate using chat.

1. Using YouTube Videos
In Google Hangout to Enhance
Collaboration

2. Uses for Instructors
• Instructors can use a wide variety of ready-made resources or can record their
own.
• Instructor can bring in and discuss a video with a group of students, ex. math
video to give a mini lesson to a group of students who are having trouble on
the same problem.
• Instructors can make their own videos as well as using pre-made videos on
topics to assign projects to teams.
• Instructors can record videos that can be viewed and discussed by groups of
students
• Instructors can teach a lesson using a video demonstration, these
demonstrations can be discussed while watching the video, ex. video can be
paused and oral discussion can happen or collaboration can take place using
the Google Chat feature while video is playing.

3. For Learners
• Students can use this feature to collaborate on a team project ex. each student
can be assigned a different topic to research and share ex. comparing
instructional design models and each student can present a video of a different
ID model to discuss.
• Each student in the Google Hangout can research and share a different video
on the same topic.
• Students can create their own videos and combine them into one Google
Hangout presentation.
• Students can bring in videos on one topic and hold a discussion, ex. these
videos can be made by the instructor and assigned for this purpose or can be a
generic topic that the students can research videos and use them.
• Students can teach a mini lesson to a group about an assigned topic and then
discuss the presentation.

4. Getting Started
• Instructors/students open Google Hangout as usual and then select the YouTube
feature.
• Instructors/students can bring in a YouTube video by doing a search or typing in the
name of a video.
• The video will begin playing as soon as it is selected to the Playlist.
• To talk or discuss the video, the instructor/student can pause the video and restart as
needed.
• A discussion can also take place in the Chat box or orally by selecting Press to Talk.
• An example lesson could be a lecture on recording Google Hangouts with video
instruction.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlHn6Kt5YM is a link to a YouTube video on
how to record a Google Hangout.