Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Free Tools Challenge #11 – Our world is flat with Skype | Teacher Challenge

Sue Waters published a lengthy and informative post about setting up and using Skype in the classroom today.

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Free voice and video calls using Skype is great for talking with authors, experts, peer classrooms, language classes, and more – all with a pretty simple and cost effective set-up.

Rather than summarizing and re-hashing it all here, head on over to The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom to get a complete step-by-step overview.

Challenge

  1. Read the post to learn all about Skyping in education
  2. Visit TheEdublogger.com’s Skype List and consider adding your class to the list
  3. Schedule a time to try Skype with your students in the next month or two
  4. Leave a comment on this post telling us about your experience!

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