Google+ is the newcomer of the social media explosion. Aiming to marry the substance of real-world interactions with an online platform, Google+ uses Circles, Hangouts and Huddles to bring users together.
The Hangout feature can be a useful tool in education, as teachers can use the service to conduct virtual classrooms. A teacher can teach up to ten virtual classrooms at a time. Those ten receiving classrooms can each relay the stream to ten more classrooms each!
Interested in learning how to use Google+ Hangouts for teaching? Click here.
I just attended a wonderful E-Text Symposium on behalf of H.C.C. Please see my reflections: http://professorrobertjking.blogspot.com/2011/10/student-perception-vs-facultystaffadmin.html
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