21st Century Engagement with Skype in the Classroom. Pages Sunday, July 8, 2012 Increase Student Engagement with Skype in the Classroom Guest Post from Lisa Mims.It’s always amazing to me how educators, can grab hold of something that wasn’t developed with us in mind, and make it our own.
We have a knack for doing that, and we’ve done it with Skype. With Skype, educators are knocking down classroom walls,allowing our students the chance to hear from experts, and creating global learners.I heard wonderful stories of teachers using Skype in their classrooms, and I envied them. There are so many ways to use Skype in your classroom, hopefully you will take advantage of at least one! At 1:23 PM Email ThisBlogThis! Labels: educational technology, Free Technology For Teachers, guest posts, Skype, skype in the classroom.
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I first met Betsy Weigle over at Classroom Teacher Resources when I ran across a great how-to post she put together on Skyping in the classroom. The more I ran around her blog, the more impressed I became with her expertise and asked if she would do a guest post for my readers. Betsy holds a Masters in Elementary Education & Teacher Certification from Eastern Washington University and earned her National Board Certification. She attended the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teaching Academy for Science and Math, been a national finalist at the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum and been awarded an Enhancing Education through Technology Grant. Her professional experience includes teaching grades 3 through 5 and substitute teaching from Kindergarten through 6th grade I think you’ll enjoy this post: Resources on Skype in the classroom. Joe_Mazza: So much potential here. NMHS_Principal: RT @THE_Journal: Skype in... SkypeClassroom: Join this class in creatin... Authors Who Skype with Classes & Book Clubs (for free!)
Welcome to the Authors Who Skype with Classes & Book Clubs List!
I’m Kate Messner, the children’s author and educator who maintains this site. I started it because I’ve found that virtual author visits are a great way to connect authors and readers, and I realize that many schools facing budget troubles don’t have the option of paid author visits. With that in mind, this is a list of authors who offer free 15-20-minute Q and A sessions with classes and book clubs that have finished reading one of their books.
As an author, I offer Skype chats for all of my titles – check out the “Books” tab above for a list! The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom. Increasingly, educators globally are transforming their classroom using Skype to create powerful, authentic, motivating learning experiences for their students.
From connecting with classrooms in other locations to learning about each others’ culture to connecting with content experts – educators are extending learning beyond classroom walls. So how do you use Skype effectively with your class? Hopefully this will help! Here’s our educator’s guide on every thing you need to know about Skype from…… 1. Setting up your account A. 2. A. 3. A. Alternatively, here’s The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom PDF version — for you to download and print off. About Skype Skype is a free application that allows you to call people from all over the world using the Internet. When you contact another person that uses Skype you talk or chat for free. Best of all you can tell when another user is online and what their status is so you know if they are available.
A. 1. 4. Extending Your Classroom's Reach With Skype - TTSD School Technology. The Possibilities In April of 2012, Ms.
Mikesell's fifth grade class at Metzger interviewed our superintendent Rob Saxton via Skype. Our goal was to learn to use this valuable videoconferencing tool to extend the reach of the classroom. We started local, staying within our district, but imagine the possibilities:Find a partner classroom in another part of the world and gain an understanding of their culture.Connect with experts in the field related to your current unit of study.Have middle-school classes host a virtual open house for fifth grade students to help ease the transition to sixth grade.Have your students interview class parents about their jobs.
Find out what they do and what level of education their job requires. The Setup We started out learning to use a back channel web site called Today's Meet. We also made extensive use of shared Google Docs to help with the planning stages, to keep track of student jobs and to write and edit our questions and our class introduction.