Google Field Trips?
Google has a new, bold and life transforming (I think) initiative, Connected Classrooms, which offer some pretty insane and awesome virtual field trips through Googl+
Here is an excerpt from their announcement:
Today we’re launching a new initiative on Google+ called Connected Classrooms that enables students around the world to take “virtual field trips” through Google+ Hangouts, visiting places they would otherwise never be able to explore. We’re kicking things off today with field trips to the Seattle Aquarium, the Minnesota Zoo and the Solar Impulse hangar. Later, teachers can sign up to take their classrooms on virtual field trips hosted by organizations like National Geographic, Matilda the Musical, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and more than 20 other partners.
Of course, 'aint nothin' beats a good 'ol fashion field trip, even the New York Times says so (actual physical field trip). But what Google has brewed up is pretty amazing.