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, [...]
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Yesterday morning our skype rang at 8.00am sharp! It was Jacksonville, Florida calling – well the Tech Club from San Jose Episcopal Parish Day School in Jacksonville, Florida to be precise. We learnt that it was Sunday night for them – wow, they were at school on a SUNDAY just to connect with us! This [...]
On Friday morning we made our first connection via Skype (free video conferencing) with a small school in Regina, Canada thanks to Ms Silvia Tolisano‘s fabulous Skype Project: AroundTheWorldWith80Schools We got off to a not so great start with Ms H completely mucking up the timezones (which she is renown for doing) and having students [...]
At 7.30am our time, but 12.30am Icelandic time, a modern day explorer called Mr Alan Levine (aka CogDogBlog) skyped into our classroom. We had all kinds of questions prepared. We asked about the weather, the time, how long was it light for, types of animals in Iceland. We asked him what sorts of things he [...]
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