Skype

Skype

I love skype. In the past have used it when travelling overseas to keep in contact with family and friends and now that im not traveling to keep in contact with my overseas friends. With skype I have been able to maintain friendships which would have suffered from time differences and distance.

Last year I studied an ESL course via flex and all of our tutorials were done via skype conference call. Flex can be quite an isolated way to study but by using skype we were able to talk directly to our tutor and fellow students and listen to other peoples questions and ideas.

More recently for our group assignments, skype has been crucial for our group as we all had time and distance constraints. We were able to conference, share our ideas, swap files, look at the same material at the same time and work together just as we would if we were sitting at uni.

In an school class setting, students would be able to meet students from all over the world, perhaps students they were doing a project with on a wiki for example. The teacher and the class could liaise with students who were away from class because of illness or traveling. Students could be able to make contact with authors or be lucky enough to chat with a politician. There are lots of possibilities.

Teachers could use skype for collaboration with other teachers and for professional development courses.

So many possibilities with skype...