STAR'S REFLECTION - GOOGLE MEET

Hello everybody!! 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️ I'm Ana Isabel and today we are here for evaluating some fantastic tools!

The one which I has chosen is "Google Meet". It is a videoconferencing service that, especially now, with the pandemic situation, allows meetings to be held, also used to teach and to learn.

To do so, I have used this rubric:

The rubric for eLearning Tool Evaluation

Category	Criteria
Functionality	Scale	Works well. The tool can be scaled to accommodate any size class with the flexibility to create smaller sub-groups or communities of practice
	Ease of Use	Works well. The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.
	Tech Support / Help Availability	Works well. Campus-based technical support and /or help documentation is readily available and aids users in troubleshooting tasks or solving problems experienced; or, the tool provider offers a robust support platform
	Hypermediality	Works well. The tool allows users to communicate through different channels (audio, visual, textual) and allows for non-sequential, flexible/adaptive engagement with material
Accessibility	Accessibility standards	Minor Concerns. The tool has some limited capacity to meet accessibility guidelines
	User-focused participation	Works well. The tool is designed to address the needs of diverse users, their various literacies, and capabilities, thereby widening opportunities for participation in learning
	Required Equipment	Works well. Proper use of the tool does not require equipment beyond what is typically available to instructors and students (computer with built-in speakers and microphone, internet connection, etc.)
	Cost of Use	Works well. All aspects of the tool can be used free of charge.
Technical	Integration/ Embedding within a Learning Management System (LMS)	Works well. The tool can be embedded (as an object via HTML code) or fully integrated (e.g. LTIcompliant tools) into an LMS while maintaining full functionality of the tool.
	Desktop / Laptop Operating Systems	Works well. Users can effectively utilize the tool with any standard, up-todate operating system
	Browser	Works well. Users can effectively utilize the tool with any standard, up-todate browser
	Additional Downloads	Works well. Users do not need to download additional software or browser extensions.
Mobile Design	Access	Works well. The tool can be accessed, either through the download of an app or via a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. Design of the mobile tool fully takes into consideration the constraints of a smaller-sized screen.
	Functionality	Works well. There is little to no functional difference between the mobile and the desktop version, regardless of the device used to access it. No difference in functionality between apps designed for different mobile operating systems.
	Offline Access	Serious Concerns. The mobile platform cannot be used in any capacity offline.
Privacy, Data Protection, and Rights	Sign Up/  Sign In	Minor concerns. Either instructors are the only users required to provide personal information to set up an account. (A Google account is not required to participate in Meet video calls. However, if you don't have a Google account, the meeting organizer or someone in the organization must give you access to the meeting.)
	Data Privacy and Ownership	Works well. Users maintain ownership and copyright of their intellectual property/data; the user can keep data private and decide if / how data is to be shared
	Archiving, Saving, and Exporting Data	Minor concerns. There are limitations to archiving, saving, or importing/exporting content or activity data. (It is possible to share the screen, and with it, any document or data)
Social Presence	Collaboration	Minor concerns. The tool has the capacity to support a community of learning through asynchronous but not synchronous opportunities for communication, interactivity, and transfer of meaning between users
	User Accountability	Minor concerns. Instructors cannot control learner anonymity but the tool provides some solution for holding learners accountable for their actions
	Diffusion	Works well. The tool is widely known and popular, it’s likely that most learners are familiar with the tool and have basic technical competence with it
Teaching Presence	Facilitation	Works well. The tool has easy-to-use features that would significantly improve an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via active management, monitoring, engagement, and feedback
	Customization	Minor concerns. Limited aspects of the tool can be customized to suit the classroom context and learning outcomes
	Learning Analytics	Minor concerns. Instructor can monitor learners’ performance on limited measures; or data is not presented in a format that is easily interpreted. (The instructor can take attendance)
Cognitive Presence	Enhancement of Cognitive Task(s)	Serious concerns. The tool acts as a direct tool substitute with no functional change to engagement in the targeted cognitive task(s)
	Higher Order Thinking	Not applicable.
	Metacognitive Engagement	Not applicable.

Common Sense Privacy Program:

    This tool, Google meet, couldn't be found in this Privacy Program.

Hope you enjoyed it and it helps you! See you soon!!!! 😊😊😊😊