Website: Connect Classrooms with Google
http://connectedclassrooms.withgoogle.com/#
http://connectedclassrooms.withgoogle.com/#
Cost: FreeRating by Jules: 5 star
Difficulty Level: Easy
Device: Across Platform
This is great! I wish I had found this site earlier in the school year. We had a google hangout with a rocket scientist in Boulder, Colorado a month ago and the kids absolutely loved it. We had to actually organize everything ourselves. This website, Google Connect, provides you with prearranged "hang outs". The ability to take a virtual field trip is a wonderful way to enrich your classroom. Try it! I don't think you will be disappointed.
Technical notes: Our intermediate school district arranged the hangout in our distance learning room and it went very smoothly. I would imagine you could arrange you own in your room as long as you have a google account, a web camera and a projector.
