Besides offering an opportunity to connect with colleagues and friends and "be social," Google offers much, much more with Google+, Google Communities and Google Hangouts (and Hangouts on Air--recordable)
Jen Zurawski, a library media tech specialist/coach for West DePere Schools and 2013 Golden Apple Teacher award winner, tweets about the many ways Hangouts have been used in their classrooms, (connecting with authors, Read Across Americ and more fun uses!) She also shares much of what happens in their classrooms via her YouTube Channel.
Here's a good step by step how to created by the folks at Mashable.com:
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