Skype Jobs

Skype Jobs for your Students

There is a sense of excitement in the room, when our students get ready to conduct a Skype call. I almost want to compare it to a
“traditional” vision of a newsroom before a deadline. Everyone is buzzing, running here, running there to get ready for their job
assignment.

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1. Calendar
   • Responsible for adding Date & Time of planned Skype
     connection to shard & embedded Google Calendar
2. Greeter
   • Greets the partner school.
   • Makes initial introduction.Talks about Geographic
     location.
3. Share
   • Shares something special about class, school, city, state or
     country.
   1. Could be song, dance, souvenir, project, sports team, etc.
4. Q &A
   • Asks specific questions for data collection.
   • Responsible for keeping conversation fluid
5. Photographer
   • Responsible for documenting connection with still images.
6. Videographer
   • Responsible for documenting connection with video.
7. Backchannel Writers
   • Documenting conversation, questions, answers and classroom
     happenings during the connection on a backchannel chat (Ex.
     Today’s Meet)
8. Backchannel Cleanup
   • Responsible to save backchannel chat as a Word Document and
     cleaning up duplicate comments and mark questionable statements to
     be verified.
9. Live Blogger
   • Blogs skype call live to classroom blog
10. Blogger Word Problem
    • Creates a Math word problem from data, questions and answers
      collected during skype call
11. Google Earth
    • Finds location of skype partner and measures distance in miles
      & kilometers.
12. Google Map
    • Responsible for adding placemark of Skype partner’s location to
      embedded Google Map on classroom blog.
13. Info Station
    • Responsible to search for any data question on the spot.
    • Verifies any questionable information as well.
14. Data Entry
    • Responsible for adding data collected into embedded google form
      on classroom blog. Ex. distance miles/km, temperature in F/C.
15. Elapsed time
    • Responsible for noting time Skype call started and ended as
      well as calculating elapsed time.