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ntroducing a Hangouts app for Virtual Classrooms If you use Hangouts on air (or consider using them) for education, and miss any of the features below: - A full featured registration module to manage attendees - An all-in-one Event Planner/Scheduling/Conferencing app - A comprehensive e-mailing system with fully custom automatic invitation emails, reminder emails and follow up emails - Allow non-plussers attend your classrooms signing in with their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles - Run private HOAs (directly generate unlisted YouTube recordings) - Give the mic to a viewer on-the-fly and make them participant, the time of a question - Get fixed URLs for your permanent virtual classrooms (with or without scheduling) - View a map with geolocated attendees - View your attendees as avatars in a 3D virtual classroom , create a sense of presence, see who's raising hand,... - A unified & moderated chat for participants and viewers engaging in the same chat then you should look into +Business Hangouts : Business Hangouts is an app built for Google Hangouts by Altadyn using the Google Hangouts API (not built by Google ).

Even if you don't have an interactive white board, these manipulatives are great ways to demonstrate math concepts.

Panoramic shots from inside the National Museum of Natural History - almost as good as being there in person :)

A NY Times review of OnLive's cloud based virtualized Windows 7 PC with MS Office for which you pay a puny $5 a month and use from your iPad. Coming "soon" to smart phones, and, of most interest to churches and schools, to your local Mac or Windows PC. Faster than any physical desktop and using an ultra high speed internet connection, the OnLive PC will almost entirely eliminate the worst time and software costs of operating a Windows PC. Read David Pogue's NT Times review to learn about the benefits and draw backs of OnLive's implementation.

Looks very interesting Randy. Thanks for sharing. this looks very promising. Have you tried it? I just downloaded the iPad app and created an account so I'm going to give it a try.

David Pogue helps clear up common questions about the OnLive virtual PC service. When your last mile bandwidth is limited or capped, this service rocks.

Virtual reality field trips with Google Cardboard!!!

Explore collections from around the world with thousands of artworks photographed in extremely high resolution. Also enables to create and share own collections of masterpieces.

Cool WWII resource. Primary source posters. 

For my Android device friends - Sounds pretty cool! From a Netted e-mail: Everything.me is a new launcher that can change which apps appear on your phone based on your current needs. The kicker? You don't even have to install the apps; you can use them right from the cloud.   So let's say you love the new Vampire Weekend album. Plug it into the search bar and Everything.me will pull up SoundCloud so you can listen, MetroLyrics so you can sing along, and Ticketmaster so you can see them live - regardless of whether or not you've installed those apps.   And Everything.me tailors each app to your search result. Each app opens to the relevant Vampire Weekend page. Heck, even the background will be Vampire Weekend. Your phone effectively reinvents itself based on what you're doing right now.

Wallwisher is a virtual wall to which one can add things. We will be using this link to post our thoughts and predictions on what will happen in the story "The One and Only Ivan," which we are reading for the Global Read Aloud. (It's blank right now (Friday) but we will be using it on Monday in class.) The site is in beta, but it's really easy to use.

Create anything in 3D with CoSpaces, share your creations with your friends or dive into them in virtual reality. Get started - it's free and easy!

The Reform Symposium is a free, online, global conference organized by my friend Kelly Tenkely (and several others).