It says welcome Grace because my Skype name is Grace Underfire.I signed up for Skype before I learned from the video that is isn't a good idea to use your real name. I'm guilty of doing what I was told. When cool kitty(or whatever her name was) flashed the message,"Stop now and download Skype"so I did, and only afterwards, when I completed the video, did I realize I'd blown it by using my real name to sign up. Sigh...
I don't know anyone who has a Skype account but am eager to set up some addresses so I can try it out.I can see the wonderful opportunities for a classroom teacher. Since I presently don't have a classroom, it's harder to know exactly where I'll use it, but I can see the potential for many of the core subjects. The demonstration answered a basic question, "How do you find sources in other countries?" when she just added it to her blog, "We would like to hear from someone from ___________that we can work with."
Since I was the science teacher for 4 years for the 5th grade classes at my school, I would have loved to connect with some of the instructors I had and bring that to the classroom through Skype. My geology teacher at GVSU is now retired, however spent many years traveling with Jacques Cousteau ! He had the greatest stories and artifacts that he shared with our class and I'm sure he would get a kick out of sharing with a classroom from the comfort of his own home computer. I hope to have a classroom and the opportunity to explore all that can be done with Skype sometime soon. This is information that I wish I'd had when I had my classroom...
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