collaboration projects with other classrooms.
We have never used Skype with another class but my kids would love the experience.
I teach first grade and if there are any other classes out there that would like to help us out with this I would be greatly appreciative. We are a Title I school and our kids do not get out much. I am hoping this will open up the world outside of their backyard!!
My Skype name is mrmattallen
Thanks!…
r where they are as long as they have a computer and internet connection. With Skype you can connect with guest speakers and invite them into your virtual Skype classroom. And lastly like what one school did with Skype was take a virtual field trip in a NASA building.
As far a hardware you will need a big enough display for everyone in the class to see (Big TV or Projector) You will need some good speakers so everyone can hear and finally a good microphone so everyone in the class can communicate.
Here is a link so you can check out a demo for yourself.
Skype for education link…
d in Hungarian, as well. It was really a great fun,It was something new , something interesting in my students' life, because they could use the language ( Englis) they had learnt from a language book before.…
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Well, here's another way to Tweet! In case you didn't know its possible to post messages to Twitter using your Skype account & also receive updates from those you follow.
There's actually a Skype bot that, with the right instructions, will post to your Twitter account. Here's how...
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1. Login to your Skype account
2. Add twitter4skype as a contact
3. Type the following as a SINGLE (this is important) chat message to twitter4skype:
/account (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountname (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountpassword (shift+return)
4. The system should return: twitter4skype Registration complete!
5. The next time you type a chat message to twitter4skype, the entry will appear on your Twitter account and you’ll receive Twitter updates from those you follow via Skype
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Note: the twitter4skype contact add & registration confirmation are two separate processes. Skype may not respond instantly. In my case, each process took a day or so > i was good to go in about 48h
Get started with Twitter: create an account @ http://twitter.com
Download Skype for free @ http://skype.com
Happy Tweets ;p
ps. want to learn more?! feel free to follow me @ http://twitter.com/mylearningspace…
performances. A Skype conference call could allow several parents watch a classroom performance when they can't leave work to visit. If students are giving a presentation, a Skype call could allow family to watch it. That raises the value of the work, too.
Perhaps Ustream would be a better use for this, but I haven't used it yet.
Keep us up to date as you use it.…