Google Plus

Google Groups/Google+ is an entirely new and up-and-coming feature of the Internet. Google makes the site very accessible and user-friendly, and seems to be a very interesting way to interconnect a classroom. The features include a customizable profile page as well as access to the creation of “circles” in which you choose what people can see certain things on your own profile.
Then there is the community feature that creates an environment much like an online interactive bulletin board. People in the community can post photos, documents, and arrange massive online video chats. The academic possibilities, which accompany Google+, seem endless.
Homework can be posted online; projects are easily made collaborative, video chats enable communication with ease, and all this can be done within a circle, preventing academia from overpowering an individual’s other projects. As social media goes, Google+ has great potential to create an enhanced academic setting.