Google Hangouts for Classroom Collaboration

Some great teachers in my district (Hi, Stephanie and Freida!) are using Google Hangouts to collaborate across campus. The possibilities with this are endless. In their case, they join the hangout using a Chromebook first, then join again with their SmartBoard computer. It seems like a long way to go, but the Chromebook has a camera :) We spent a lot of time texting back and forth to set up times, but then I realized that they could just set up a permanent link and join. If you are interested in using this tool, I put together a few directions: