Skype


 * Skype**
 * Review by Isaac - [|Getting Started Tips]
 * [|Video Conference Permission Form]
 * Recommended External Microphone - [|www.bluemic.com]
 * [|Langwitches’ Delicious Bookmarks tagged “Skype_in_classroom"]
 * [|Using Skype in the Classroom]
 * [|Quick Start Tips For the New Skype User]
 * [|Skype in Schools - Find Skype partners]
 * [|Skype an Author Network] - Find authors who are willing to skype
 * Around the World in 80 Schools Project - Connect with 80 different schools next year - keep track on Google Maps
 * [|50 Awesome Ways To Use Skype in the Classroom]
 * How Can You Use Skype - Let's brainstorm some ideas
 * Read to another student - Reading Buddies
 * Have students discuss their favorite books with another class - Have students recommend books to read
 * Present a project to another class - If all of a grade level is doing a project based unit, share presentations with another class rather than just doing the presentation for your class
 * Bring an expert to your classroom (Scientist, authors, community worker, etc.)
 * If you know someone that lives in another country Skype with them
 * Find someone at a museum to Skype with and do a virtual field trip
 * When doing a weather unit, skype different places (countries they are studying) and have students record the temperatures in a spreadsheet and graph results
 * In Harnett County, high school art classes are showing elementary students how to make pirate hats, boots, and eye patches. Others have skyped with a musher in Alaska and was taken on a dog sled ride.