Have you wanted to use a social- networking platform in the classroom, but felt that with Facebook there was no way to separate your students from your “friends”? Then consider Google+ which allows you to create those separate groups or “circles”.
Ideas for use include virtual office hours or review sessions using Google+ video-chat feature that allows up to 10 people to join in a video chat.
For the complete article, go to: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-consider-classroom-uses-for-google-plus/32131?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
