Students from all over the world got together to discuss issues in race in the world.
After all the students go back to their homes, they wanted to be able to continue to talk with one another and continue their worldwide work. By using the technology of "voice thread" students are able to set up a debating protocol called stimulus synchronous that is a video, following one image but able to pick up voices. Students are able to post comments onto the voice thread, such as a rebuttal. This tool is like an interactive blog, instead of writing, students are able to actually voice their opinions.
"Think outside the school", teacher Keith Kelly wants to renew education so that it will spark the interest of students today. He says education is too old and traditional that it is not applicable to student lives today. So he creates a project where students are making their own skateboards and they are learning how to use all these different tools.
This was a fantastic lesson to watch. It really engaged students and brought out their creativity and you could tell the students were working really hard as well as learning to use these complicated tools.
This presents ideas of how to use skype in the classroom, which is a great asset because you can video chat with anyone anywhere in the world. Teachers are able to get famous authors on skype to talk with students and the students have the opportunity to ask questions. Skype allows students opportunities that normally would be unavailable. Another example of skype in the classroom is elementary schools in the U.S. communicating with a class in Peru. It is like penpals, but online. The students are able to talk face to face, which is a great cultural experience. It opens up your classroom walls as well as raises cultural and global awareness.
I think it would be fun to use Skype in the classroom. Especially if you had the students first write back and forth with a pen pal from a different country first and then get to be able to see who you were talking to face to face. I think I watched the Thinking outside of the Box video-It was interesting!
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