{"id":2842,"date":"2014-04-05T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2014-04-05T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T15:16:17","slug":"google-voice-definitely-underutilized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/google-voice-definitely-underutilized\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Voice definitely underutilized"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading a lot about 1:1 iPad programs and there being an “app for” everything in education, I found How To Use Google Voice In Education<\/a> to be refreshing. Many schools use Google Apps for Education, but I haven’t read many educator accounts of using Google Voice.<\/p>\n

Google Voice wasn’t around when I was a teacher, but I’ve still found it very useful for the non-teaching roles I’ve had in schools. When I was an admission receptionist, Google Voice helped me to better manage the hundreds of phone calls I was getting every day.<\/p>\n

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  1. I could easily forward (including a bad but still helpful transcription) voicemails to others working in the office.\n
  2. I could make notes about when I got back to each voicemail or missed call.\n
  3. During particularly heavy call periods, I could prioritize in the morning (based on—yes, even bad—voicemail transcriptions) which calls were most urgent and time-sensitive to return.\n
  4. As an office, we could give it a phone number visiting parents and students could text, which meant it was also easier to answer everybody (not everything is a phone call, which means you can text back straight from a web browser and move on to the next call or text more quickly).<\/ol>\n

    Even as a student advisor, I found it convenient (particularly on a field trip) to give out my Google Voice number to my advisees and not worry that they then have my cell phone number (yes, it would ring my cell, but I could always easily block or mute them if it came to that—fortunately it never did).<\/p>\n

    I’d love to see more and more educators using less obvious technology in more obvious ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After reading a lot about 1:1 iPad programs and there being an “app for” everything in education, I found How To Use Google Voice In Education to be refreshing. Many schools use Google Apps for Education, but I haven’t read many educator accounts of using Google Voice. Google Voice wasn’t around when I was a… Continue reading Google Voice definitely underutilized<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[908,648,324],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-google-voice","tag-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}