With skype – anything is possible.  Even working around awful timezone differences!

Thanks to the skype conference call facility, five Room 202 students:  Shania, Ink, Alexa, Hollie, Joe and their teacher Ms H, were able to skype into the technology class of Ms Gina Graziani at Anderson Elementary School, Wilmington, North Carolina. It was 8.15pm, on a Thursday night – Bangkok time and 8.15am on Thursday morning, North Carolina time.  Although the video does not work with a conference call in skype – the audio was still a great way to connect.

One of the reasons this school was very excited to connect with us was that their Technology Assistant had a thai connection via her mother.

Anderson Elementary had many questions for us and apart from a couple of lost connections, we were able to answer their questions quite well. After the Room202 students hung up from the conference call, Ms H stayed online for a bit longer so that the students in North Carolina could see the skype video work and so that she could answer a few more questions.

Unfortunately Ms H was so busy hosting the conference call that she completely forgot to take a screenshot or to record the conversation!!

(A huge thank you to those students who came online on a Thursday night to talk to Anderson Elementary!  Please add your thoughts and what you remember talking about during the conference call in the comments – Ms H)