11.5-thing 3 (like skype)

i am a big fan of skype! i use it to talk with my parents and sisters. i love that i can talk with them for free, but i REALLY love that i can see them with a webcam....that was my christmas gift for everyone things year....

in the spring we applied for and received the power to learn grant. part of our grant includes skyping with classes in and out of the district. we hope to poll our parents and get a pool of experts that we can skype with to enhance our lessons.

while doing research for the power to learn grant, i came across 2 blogs that sparked a bunch of ideas: http://mrcsclassblog.blogspot.com and http://mcclungsblog.blogspot.com. both of these teachers use the ustream feature in your classroom. i watched one class learn about the parts of different bugs. i am not sure of all of the features of this website, but i am interested to find out more. i am curious to know if what you are "filming" could be recorded and then embeded in a wiki or a blog.

i see many uses for these things and cant wait to see how they work next year.

once i get to a place where i have better luck with wireless connectivity, i want to dive deeper into the 50 ways to use skpye in the classroom.