Skype and FaceTime
Recently, we had a Video Conferencing session at our school put on by our tech assistant, Matt Storz. I was unable to attend, but Matt filled me in on what he knew about using Skype. Very useful information. Yesterday my kids, Ryan and Robert, had off of school due to a teacher in-service. So I decided to take advantage of the situation and Skype with them from our classroom. I also decided to use FaceTime and found out only a few of the students in our class knew what it was or how to use it. Here are some pictures of us using Skype and Facetime. To give us a purpose, and as an educational activity, our students at school, and my kids at home, had to search and find 4-5 objects that had some quality in common. Perhaps the objects were all the same shape or color, or they may have all been made of the same material. The kids then shared with each other the objects they chose and everyone tried to guess what the obj...