Scenario: Your students don't check their emails. Or, they are new to Blackboard Learn and have not figured out how to send course emails.  They do check their phones and texts. Dilemma: You don't want to share your personal phone number with the students, but do want a way to reach out. Solution: Google Voice. It lets you text from a different number but yet receive their replies to your phone.

1. How To Get Started With
Google Voice
Keitaro Matsuoka – Romeoville/Joliet

2. • Scenario
• Dilemma
• Solution – Google
Voice
• Getting Started
• Live Demo
• Resources
For Today
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3. Your students don't
check their emails, or
they are new to
Blackboard Learn and
have not figured out
how to send course
emails. They do check
their phones and texts.
Scenario
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4. You don't want to share
your personal phone
number with the
students, but do want an
open communication
line with the students.
Dilemma
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5. Google Voice gives you
one number for all of your
phones. You can make and
pick up calls, send and get
texts, and read and listen
to voicemails on your
phone, tablet, or
computer.
Solution – Google Voice
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6. Let’s Get Started!
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7. • Get a Gmail account
• Go to www.google.com/voice
• Choose an Account Type (“Full Google Voice
with a Google number” is recommended)
• Set up Call Forwarding
First Steps
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8. • Text from your computer: Send text messages straight from
your computer's browser. (free)
• Make voicemail as easy as email: Read transcriptions of your
voicemails, add notes, download, and share voicemails. (free)
• Pick up calls from any phone: Choose to receive calls at
home, work, or on your mobile phone, based on who's calling
or when.
• Talk the way you want to: Make international and
conference calls, block unwanted callers, and listen in on
voicemails.
What Can Google Voice Do?
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9. Get The Most Out of Google
Voice
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10. For best experience:
• A computer and Chrome browser with Google
Voice extension
• Smartphone and/or touch-tone phone
• Google Voice app for iPhone or Android
What You Need
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11. Live Demonstration!
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12. 312-772-5882
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I will show you
• What happens when someone texts me at my
Google Voice number
• How to reply to the text from the browser
and the app
• What happens when someone leaves me a
voice mail

13. Resources
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14. Resources
Google Voice Help
What is Google Voice?
Ultimate How-To Guide
Call Forwarding Help
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15. Keitaro.Matsuoka@Rasmussen.edu
(815) 306-2657
www.linkedin.com/in/keitaro
Questions?
www.slideshare.net/KeitaroMatsuoka
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