50 Powerful Ways To Use Skype In The Classroom
Added by Katie Lepi on 2012-11-15 Collaborate! Meet with other classrooms : One of the most common projects educators utilize Skype for is setting up exchanges with classrooms around the world, usually for cultural exchange purposes or working together on a common assignment. Communicate! Parent-teacher conferences : Save gas, time, and energy by holding meetings with moms and dads via video chat instead of the usual arrangement. Connect! Art crits : Schedule time with professional artists and receive thorough crits about how to improve a piece. And here’s the tools to help you do it! Comments are closed.
50 Interesting Ways To Use Skype In Your Classroom
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The Complete Guide to The Use of Skype in Education
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has been diligently engaged over the last couple of weeks in writing a series of simple and easy to use guides to help teachers and educators better leverage the use of technology in education and empower them with the necessary tools to better carry out this task. What started as a simple guide on the use of social networking, expanded to be a series of similar guides covering blogging, personal learning networks, Evenote, Facebook and iPad in education. Our purpose is to give hand to both novice and experienced teachers in integrating technology within their classrooms. We are still working on several other guides which will be posted here intermittently and there will be a comprehesive ebook that will contain all these guides, so stay tuned. Today's guide is about Skype and here is the outline : What is Skype ? What is Skype ? What do I need to use Skype To use Skype you need to : Skype's Importance in Education Skype Tips for Teachers Webliography
Increase Student 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. 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 Links to this post Create a Link Newer PostOlder PostHome LinkWithin
Skype, nouvel allié des enseignants
Parmi les TICE fréquemment utilisées, on cite souvent Internet en premier lieu, puis les outils de partage, blogues et médias sociaux. les applications de communication synchrone et asynchrone viennent derrière. Parmi les plus connues des applications de communication synchrone se trouve Skype, utilisé par des centaines de millions de personnes de par le monde. Pour stimuler son utilisation dans un cadre éducatif, Skype offre depuis la fin mars 2011 un service de mise en relation d'enseignants et de classes partout dans le monde. Communiquer, collaborer, s’inspirer « Skype in the classroom » peut être utilisé de trois façons différentes. Collaboration sur projets. Communication entre enseignants. Partage de documents pédagogiques. La représentante de Skype, Jacqueline Botterill, affirmait à Mashable que Skype voulait, avec cette initiative, éviter que les enseignants ne s’éparpillent sur différentes plateformes sans jamais pouvoir se rencontrer et échanger. Skype in the classroom
Literacy and Skype
We Learn Best From People I have a few grade two students in my classroom this year for the first time in half a dozen years. Since the last time I had a grade one/two split, the curriculum has changed. My students learn best from people as well. I’ve noticed this online as well. Because I want this best learning, we often use Skype as a learning tool. OK… But Literacy? Skype is also one of the tools in my literacy instruction. Many times, teachers or others have taken the time to read my class a story or poem via Skype. People have been willing to listen to my students read via Skype, helping them to increase their confidence and their reading fluency.We have done Reader’s Theatre with a class from Alabama.We have shared reading strategies with another class, marveling that they used the same strategies that we did when working to improve their reading skills.We have made reading connections with various classrooms. Can you teach literacy with Skype?
50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
Written By: Jillian Terry Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Promoting Education These great ideas are all about teaching students in dynamic ways. See Me, Hear Me: Skype in the Classroom. Promoting Community Using Skype in the classroom can promote communities within a school or globally. Inclusion — helping a classmate join the classroom from home. Skype Ideas for Teachers and Parents Teachers and parents can benefit from Skype in the classroom, too. Professional development. Resources for Getting Started and Using Skype Find out how you can take advantage of Skype with the advice below. Using Skype in the Classroom (or just learning how to use it!). Finding Others Using Skype ePALS.
