Saturday, November 6, 2010

Thing 3 Skype

Okay, this one I have used before although not much. I set up a Skype account and used it to talk with my daughter after she moved to Arkansas to work for AmeriCorps.

It is a good idea but right now I am having trouble getting in sync with other users to make it very practical for me. I really wanted to join the class Skype call, but was unable to make it from work ontime. Perhaps if we had one for later in the evening it would have worked for me.
I see where this could be used in the class when you arrange to have an expert talk with your class using Skype. It would be better if the teacher had an ELMO, and or smartboard so the entire class could participate.
I am not ready to make a call on backchat as yet. Although it may have been something we could have used at our live class for 21 Things.

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