Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Thoughts re: Meeting March 3, 2010

Skype. Très cool!
Our wonderful technicians installed Skype on all the lab computers and established 20 accounts for each elementary building. They arranged it so that we could only talk to the other two buildings, so we didn’t have to worry about strangers. Mrs. F, the other teacher, whose Tech Club was chatting with us, had arranged to upload her students’ pictures. Her students had personalized their user names with their pictures and were quite chatty. We caught up and attached our pictures to our user names easily. It was an excellent idea to do that; it was so easy to see who you were talking to and made them much more real and approachable. My students recognized several of the students from after school activities and it was nice for them to talk with them in a different context.

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