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This morning, Room 231 had their very first “official” skype connection with another class of Year 7′s (Grade 6) and their teacher Lois Smethurst in Warragul, Melbourne, Australia. We took turns to introduce ourselves and talk a little about ourselves, our school life and life in our country. Then we used some time to discuss [...]

On March 19th, 2009 at 10:52am Room202 skyped with Spring Gully Primary School in Bendigo, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. This part of Australia is four hours ahead of us, so it was 2:52pm for them. We had technical difficulties in the beginning, and we had to call three times before we could hear Spring Gully Primary [...]

Connection #9 in the AroundTheWorldwith80schools project using skype was with Grade 5 students on March, 18th 2009. We skyped with Tokyo International School at 10:00am here in Bangkok, and in Tokyo it is two hours ahead so it was 12:00pm there. We were surprised how many nationalities there were in their class.  6 Japanese, 1 [...]

(cross-posted at TeachingSagittarian) We’re involved in Silvia Tolisano’s short, simple yet so powerful Skype project AroundTheWorldwith80Schools.  In just two short weeks we have connected with seven different classrooms in four parts of the world.  And we’re not stopping there!  By the end of our school year, I hope to share with you that we managed [...]