Skype in the Classroom - Launches to Connect Teachers & Students Worldwide (Post on ReadWriteWeb) As its major outage in December demonstrated, Skype bridges the personal and the professional, and many of us have come to rely on its VOIP calls to family, co-workers and colleagues. Skype has also been embraced by many educators who are using it in the classroom in some innovative ways. Teachers use Skype to open their students to a world beyond the classroom walls. They use it to bring experts, authors, and guest instructors into the classroom, those who would never otherwise be able to visit the school. Students can take virtual field trips, if you will, via Skype as they're connected to places through video chat.
A Skype communication session can involve foreign language learning or a cultural exchange. A Skype Directory for Educators This usage by teachers has caught Skype's attention, says spokesperson Jacqueline Botterill, and the company has just launched the beta version of Skype in the Classroom, an effort to support their efforts.
Skype in Schools / FrontPage. Make free internet calls from your mobile phone and computer - Products. Building a bridge to skype island with OpenSkyXX - Michael Robertson. A few years ago I gave a talk at a tech conference and asked Skype to "tear down the walls" and allow other phone users to communicate with Skype. Yet Skype remained a castle, with its surrounding moat making it hard for others to reach it. Casting metaphor aside, this simply means many businesses and consumers are not experiencing the financial benefit of net calling. But Gizmo5 has built a bridge to Skype with OpenSky - a gateway to reach Skype users.
This means any mobile phone, browser, wifi phone, SIP device, Asterisk user - just about any voice aware device - can now call and IM Skype users. For the first time businesses using advanced phone systems (from companies like Cisco, Avaya, Asterisk, and Fonality) can directly call Skype users saving millions on calling costs and bypassing per-minute charges (especially for international calls). Consumers can now reach Skype users from a web browser or any mobile phone. No special data plan or software is required on the phone. Skype in Schools / FrontPage.